{"id":1814,"date":"2026-02-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/rebuild-watch-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:00","slug":"rebuild-watch-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/rebuild-watch-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The bottom of the table and what happens next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Jets closed the 2025 season at 3-14 with a differential of -203, the worst mark in the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A club at the bottom of the differential table is rarely one player away. It is usually a line of scrimmage away on both sides of the ball, and that takes two drafts rather than one signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coaches talk about complementary football until it sounds like a slogan. It stops sounding like one when a defence gets off the field on third down and hands the offence the ball at the far forty three times in a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clubs immediately above them are not much better placed, and between them they hold the top of the board going into the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one thing history is clear about: the quickest turnarounds belong to the clubs that fixed the trenches first and went shopping for skill positions second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Jets finished last on differential. What the bottom of the league does next decides the next three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[96,97,93],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-standings-watch","tag-jets","tag-offseason","tag-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}