Why the Davante Adams speech isn't enough to save the NY Jets season

Sunday night was another brutal NY Jets loss under the primetime lights. The Jets fell 37-15 to the Pittsburgh Steelers despite starting the game with a 15-6 lead.

The Jets allowed 31 unanswered points en route to their fourth straight loss. This was another loss, with many inside and outside the organization searching for answers that are currently nowhere to be found.

Despite the NFL season only entering its eighth week, it feels like multiple seasons have already taken place for the Jets. The team has already made a head coaching change, an offensive play caller change, traded for All-Pro wideout Davante Adams, and, oh yeah, Haason Reddick has shown up only seven weeks late, ending his holdout.

The coaching changes have proven to make little to no impact as the team on defense has gotten worse, and the offense has looked about the same. However, while Davante Adams didn't provide much on the field in Sunday's matchup against the Steelers, hauling in just three receptions for 30 yards, he spoke loudly off the field.

After head coach Jeff Ulbrich spoke to the team, Davante Adams stepped up and delivered what Rodgers called one of the 'realest' speeches he has heard during his 20 years.

Adams, who was with the team for less than a week during this speech, called the team out for its lack of energy, effort, and urgency in the loss. Both are things Rodgers and Ulbrich mentioned as problems that they saw in the game.

Will this speech from Davante Adams turn the NY Jets season around?

To put it simply, no. While there are certain cases where all it takes is one game, one play, one speech, one player, etc., to turn a team's season around, the 2024 Jets are not that team. The problems with Gang Green run much deeper than one speech in a locker room inside Acrisure Stadium can fix.

Adams talked a lot about changing the culture that is currently in place. While this sounds great, cultures aren't changed overnight; cultures are built and changed over the years.

New York is currently entrenched in a losing culture that has caused the team to miss the playoffs for 13 straight seasons and is now staring down a 14th season. It's a culture full of justifying losses, excuses, and lack of urgency.

On top of this, Aaron Rodgers isn't the same quarterback he was just a few years ago. While statistically, his numbers remain average to slightly above average, the eye test has been ugly. Rodgers' mobility isn't the same, and his seven interceptions in seven games are alarming.

The future Hall of Famer is also dealing with knee, ankle, and hamstring injuries that are affecting his play. Let's face it, Jets fans: Rodgers has looked like a 40-year-old quarterback coming off a torn Achilles. That's not changing.

Standing at 2-5, it's getting late out early for the 2024 New York Jets. The speech might be 1-0 after Sunday against the 1-6 Patriots but don't expect much more success than that.

The Jets, with an interim head coach who is overwhelmed, are staring down another double-digit loss season that will ultimately end with the team getting January and February off for the 14th year in a row.

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