The New York Jets may very well have needed a culture change this offseason after enduring yet another losing season in 2018, and it appears that they have achieved that.
New head coach Adam Gase is loving what he is seeing from his players thus far, pointing out their selflessness as a potential precursor to success.
“I think where our locker room is right now where guys are really working hard and trying to focus on creating the best team we can possibly be,” Gase told reporters on Wednesday, according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. “The unselfishness here is outstanding. Guys just — they work. It’s not about them, it’s about the team and I’ve been very impressed with how our players have gone about their business.”
As for how that occurs? Gase says it's all on the players.
“It has a lot to do with players,” Gase said. “You can talk about it all you want but at the end of the day, it’s really a choice the players make. I think the guys that we have, on defense especially I think, those guys are team-first guys and I think it helps when your best players are like that.”
Gase spent the first three years of his NFL head-coaching career as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, going 23-25 with one playoff appearance during that span.
Meanwhile, the Jets are coming off of a season in which they won just four games and have not made the playoffs since the 2010-11 campaign, when they made it all the way to the AFC Championship Game.
As a result of New York's lack of recent success, it fired Todd Bowles as head coach and replaced him with Gase earlier this offseason.
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