{"id":82873,"date":"2025-12-28T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:35:22","slug":"long-suffering-jets-fans-have-one-giant-plea-to-raiders-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82873\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-suffering Jets fans have one giant plea to Raiders this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since Super Bowl III, long-suffering, still-suffering Jets fans will be asking the cruel football gods for help Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are confident that their team, which currently own Tankathon\u2019s fourth overall pick, will do its part in its latest desperate pursuit of a franchise quarterback with undrafted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/24\/sports\/the-jets-have-one-big-goal-for-brady-cook-as-season-nears-end\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">novice quarterback Brady Cook<\/a> giving them the best chance to lose, facing a Patriots team hellbent on winning the division and the AFC\u2019s No. 1 seed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the long-suffering, still-suffering Jets fan, the drama begins in earnest at 4:05 p.m., when the 2-13 Giants challenge the 2-13 Raiders with all eyes on the prize that would be the first pick of the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the long-suffering, still-suffering Jets fan, the Fernando Mendoza dream all but dies if the Raiders, as desperate as the Jets are for a franchise quarterback, lose to the Giants and wind up with the first pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since Super Bowl III, long-suffering, still-suffering Jets fans will be asking the cruel football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40676,2679,9,2683,11,430,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-82873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-joe-benigno","9":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82873","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=82873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}