Assessing the biggest overreactions in Week 4's NFL games

Let's open the NFL Week 4 overreactions with a trip back through the mists of time, to a bygone era called…a week and a half ago. Everything was different back then. Gasoline still costs a little more than $3 a gallon in many places. The 1962 Mets still held the Major League Baseball record for most losses in a season. Far fewer people knew about this little pygmy hippopotamus in Thailand. And the Saints offense was on the verge of taking over the NFL.

It was a long time ago, in those sepia-toned days, when Aaron Rodgers and the Jets looked absolutely magnificent in a 24-3 victory Thursday night over the Patriots. The performance was hailed as a long-awaited breakthrough after some poor performances earlier in the season. That was it allegedly would look like – the belated promise of “Put Rodgers in, make a playoff team” in full display as he made pinpoint passes all over the field and looked like his much younger self on the few occasions he took off and ran. Fans cheered as the team went into the mini-bye feeling fantastic about the Jets' short-term future as a true AFC contender.

Well, on Sunday, a rested and confident Jets team lost 10-9 at home to Bo Nix and the Broncos. And now we have to at least consider the possibility that ten days earlier we may have… overreacted. Yes, let's start this week's overreactions – where we'll classify some possible insights as legitimate or irrational – with the Jets.

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Will the Jets make the playoffs?
Is Daniels in the MVP mix?
Will the Chiefs add a WR?
How hot is Pederson's seat?
Should the Rams trade Stafford?

The Jets Despite it are not a playoff team