The New York Jets began the 2021-22 regular season with a winless 0-3 record, but that was before the severely hobbled Tennessee Titans made their way to East Rutherford in Week 4. With the Titans short a handful of key players, including superstar wide receivers A.J. Brown and Julio Jones, the Jets managed to pull off an overtime victory at home to officially get on the board in 2021-22.
With the team's Week 5 matchup slated to take place overseas in London, England, it will be the lowly Atlanta Falcons up next for the Jets while New York certainly has a legitimate chance to turn its Week 4 upset over the Titans into a winning streak. Although the Falcons have not lost three games in a row this season, Atlanta still sits at 1-3 themselves with the franchise's lone victory coming over the Jets' MetLife rivals in the New York Giants.
With some momentum under the team's sails as first-year NFL head coach Robert Saleh has officially won a regular season game with “Gang Green,” the Jets could very well come to play in Week 5 against the Falcons.
New York Jets Week 5 Predictions
New York Jets QB Zach Wilson will throw for more than 300 yards vs. Atlanta Falcons
The New York Jets infamously selected former BYU Cougars qurterback Zach Wilson with the No. 2 overall pick in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Although Wilson's professional playing career got off to quite the rocky start, the rookie signal caller has begun to slowly but surely show more and more potential at various points in the season. With a much better performance against the Tennessee Titans in Week 4, Wilson will use that momentum to throw for more than 300 yards against the Atlanta Falcons. In Week 4 against the Titans, the 22-year-old Wilson threw for a single-game career-high 297 yards.
WR Corey Davis will lead New York Jets in receptions, yards and receiving TDs in Week 5
Currently in the midst of his first season as a member of the New York Jets, former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Corey Davis was out for blood on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. After the Titans showed no interest in re-signing him this past offseason, Davis signed a multi-year free agent contract with the Jets before tallying four receptions for 111 yards and a touchdown against his former team. Beginning to pick up some steam with 16 receptions, 257 yards and three scores to his name thus far into 2021-22, a massive game against the Titans could be the spark that Davis needed to really get his inaugural campaign in green and white moving in the right direction. Even with the Jets now being afforded a healthy wide receivers Jamison Crowder, Denzel Mims, Keelan Cole and Braxton Berrios, look for Davis to serve as the team's top target in Week 5 against the Atlanta Falcons.
New York Jets defense will hold Atlanta Falcons to less than three TDs
Obviously, the New York Jets offense hasn't been anything to write home about through the first few weeks of the 2021-22 regular season, something that certainly does not help the team's defense one bit. However, the Jets defense was tenacious, aggressive and all over Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill in Week 4 while compiling sack after sack after sack. If the Jets can bring that same pressure against a less than stellar Atlanta Falcons offense, a group that features an againg and immobile quarterback in Matt Ryan, New York will put itself in pretty solid position to come back across the pond with another victory on the ledger. Despite having an anemic offense at times and winning just one of four games to begin the year, the Jets have yet to allow 30 points to an opponent in 2021-22 while linebacker C.J. Mosley will more than likely be the key to the unit's success against the Falcons.
New York Jets will defeat Atlanta Falcons in Week 5
Don't call it a winning streak! After defeating a shorthanded Tennessee Titans team at home in Week 4, the New York Jets will now win consecutive games by way of a victory over the Atlanta Falcons in London, England come Sunday morning. While strange things often happen as a result of these overseas regular season games in the NFL, the Jets winning back-to-back games en route to a 2-3 start to the season wouldn't even be among the weirdest of occurrences to happen. A little momentum from an overtime victory over a playoff-bound team and an odd game against an unusual NFC opponent could be just what the doctor ordered for the Jets if New York is going to make any sort of noise at all in 2021-22.
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