{"id":17212,"date":"2025-10-26T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:32:12","slug":"jets-face-another-psychological-hurdle-in-week-8-vs-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17212\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets face another psychological hurdle in Week 8 vs. Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 It\u2019s been a typical week for the Jets, which is to say it\u2019s been stressful and chaotic, and less about what\u2019s actually in front of them \u2014 Sunday\u2019s game at Cincinnati \u2014 and too much about peripheral nonsense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The week began with team owner <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/21\/sports\/woody-johnsons-gasbagging-is-going-to-get-him-what-he-deserves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woody Johnson publicly throwing starting quarterback<\/a> Justin Fields under the bus and leaving him as roadkill, blaming his struggles for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/23\/sports\/the-jets-quest-to-avoid-0-17-could-end-up-costing-them-in-the-long-run\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team\u2019s 0-7 record<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It continued with head coach Aaron Glenn deciding he was going to keep which quarterback will start \u2014 Fields or backup Tyrod Taylor \u2014 a secret most of the week, before it slipped that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/sports\/justin-fields-to-start-again-for-jets-with-tyrod-taylor-ruled-out-with-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fields would return under center<\/a> with Taylor with a knee issue. Glenn played it this way to create a \u201ccompetitive advantage\u201d \u2014 though it\u2019s highly unlikely Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden lost a millisecond of REM sleep over the big reveal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the prospect of facing Joe Flacco, the Bengals\u2019 ageless wonder at quarterback who spent 2020-22 with the Jets with Johnson all but shoving him out the door as old, over the hill and finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 It\u2019s been a typical week for the Jets, which is to say it\u2019s been stressful and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[429,6768,9,11,430,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-17212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-justin-fields","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}