By Eddie Castro
By no means necessary, Jets and Giants fans would catch themselves looking away from the TV screen when it came to their beloved New York Football teams. Although coming into the 2025-26 NFL campaign, there weren’t many expectations coming into this season, but no one could have expected it would look this bad. Through 12 weeks, both the Jets and the Giants sit in last place in their respective divisions with a combined win-loss record of 4-17.

Coaching, front-office issues, injuries, poor quarterback play, and poor draft decisions that probably go back to my High School days are the many reasons why both teams are where they are today. The Jets and Giants have endured a lot, and unfortunately, it does not appear that things will improve, at least not this year.

For the Giants, things got off to a pretty rocky start with quarterback Russell Wilson. In three starts for the Giants, Wilson was hit just as often as a piñata on a birthday. His ineffectiveness led the organization to make a change at quarterback to rookie Jaxson Dart. In seven starts with Dart under center, the team has shown signs of improvement, and there seems to be quite a connection between Dart and Coach Brian Daboll. Despite that connection still in progress, the front office decided to part ways with Daboll after a fourth-quarter collapse against the Chicago Bears.

Daboll posted a record of 20-40-1in 4 seasons as the Head Coach. He led the team to the playoffs in his first season, but the team has since gone 11-33. Injuries have also decimated the team. Their secondary has taken hits all year long, and the team lost their top offensive playmakers in receiver Malik Nabers and Cam Skattebo to season-ending injuries.

Ironically, the New York Jets are dealing with similar issues to their neighbor, the Giants. The team has continued to struggle for some time, leading to the playoff drought that will now be 16 years if you count this season. The team has struggled to find consistency at the quarterback position. Coach Aaron Glenn has decided to bench Justin Fields (whom the team invested big in this offseason) in favor of Tyrod Taylor for this Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens.

The team’s overall performance is a reflection of a larger pattern of instability, hence why the organization elected to trade top-tier players like Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams a few weeks back.

There’s no other way to put things into perspective. Both organizations have continued to show no signs of progress when it comes to the rebuilding process, leaving fans drowning in their sorrows. Both franchises have not gotten it right with recent draft picks, adding to a quite dysfunctional decade of New York football.

Sports Notes: (Football) police are looking for a suspect who shot Jets player Kris Boyd outside an Asian Fusion restaurant in Manhattan over the weekend. Boyd was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is reportedly in critical but stable condition.

We here at Our Time Press want to send our biggest prayers to Boyd and Boyd’s family, friends, and loved ones during this time. The New York Giants will head to Ford Field to play the Detroit Lions on Sunday. (Basketball) The Knicks battle the Orlando Magic in the third game of a five-game road trip. As we go to press, the team is still seeking its first win of the season away from Madison Square Garden.