It was a touching tableau on the crowded Lambeau Field sidelines, with Zach Wilson and Aaron Rodgers, heads down, sharing phrases of greeting and reassurance. You might virtually hear Rodgers giving Wilson recommendation about hanging in there, issues will get higher, loads of nice performs and video games nonetheless forward.
Except, in fact, it was Wilson providing Rodgers maybe a little encouragement and type phrases after the Zach Attack Jets, following a few of their script vs. the Dolphins, put collectively one other very good second half to tug away from Rodgers and the Packers, 27-10.
“Yeah, it’s crazy for me because this guy’s been my idol since I was 8 years old,” Wilson mentioned after main the Jets’ advance to 4-2 total, a 3-0 street document, yet one more landing drive earlier than his fourth-quarter TD streak got here to an finish at seven drives, and a 5-3 document for the Jets on the home that Curly Lambeau constructed and Vince Lombardi renovated into the shrine in the center of suburban Wisconsin. “I copied everything, tried to be just like him. As ugly a game as that was, he’s a great guy, someone I’ve always studied through the NFL, somebody to be like.”
But like a latter-day Karate Kid, Wilson, who wears a sweatband like a Ninja warrior at instances, was the bright-faced seito displaying the bearded sensei a few successful strikes. Wilson improved his beginning document this season to 3-0, and he did it with out a super-sharp passing recreation in opposition to Green Bay’s troublesome, extremely ranked secondary. Wilson accomplished simply 10 of 18 passes for 110 yards and no TDs.
Yet he protected the ball to the tune of no giveaways for the second straight recreation, and he nonetheless hit a number of invaluable passes, none extra so than underthrown 41-yard strike to WR Corey Davis that set the stage for Braxton Berrios’ 20-yard end-around and a 10-3 lead halfway via the third quarter that the Jets by no means misplaced.