Jets can now watch Haason Reddick be useless from the opposite sideline

Catalouging all the things that went wrong for the NY Jets in the last two years would require the same amount of work as law school, but one of the more noteworthy and obvious pieces of nonsense was pass rusher Haason Reddick blowing millions of dollars by refusing to sign a long-term contract with the team and sitting out until the middle of the season.

Reddick has signed a one-year deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the thought that he could prove he can still pile up double-digit sacks as a starter. One of his first games as a starter under former Jets head coach Todd Bowles will come against the team with which he got into a back-and-forth contract squabble.

The Jets will get their chance to exact their revenge on Reddick very early in the 2025 season, as they will face off against the Buccaneers in their first road game of the season in Week 3. New York's pair of bookend left tackles in Olu Fashanu and Armand Membou will likely be up to the task of slowing Reddick down. Based on 2024, that might not be so hard.

Jets will face Haason Reddick and Buccaneers in Week 3 matchup

It appears as though no one won the Reddick-for-Bryce Huff swap, even with Philadelphia's ring. The Jets gave up a draft pick for a handful of meaningless games out of Reddick, while the Eagles gave Huff a three-year contract and subsequently demoted him so far down the depth chart that he was essentially deactivated for many big games.

The Eagles have dug themselves out of this whole mess to some degree, but the Jets will enter 2025 with a subpar edge room that is banking on one of the league's worst run defenders in Will McDonald and a young player in Jermaine Johnson II who is returning from an Achilles injury.

Reddick will likely start on a Buccaneers team that is foaming at the mouth to get any sort of production from their pass rushers. Time will tell if Reddick is able to get back on track once taking that bloodsucking shade of Jets green off or if his tenure with New York derailed his career.