Darren Mougey was an undrafted free agent quarterback fresh out of San Diego State the last time his new team, the New York Jets, reached the postseason. As Jet fortunes sank for a decade and a half, the now-40-year-old Mougey hung up his cleats and steadily rose through the ranks in the Denver Broncos organization, from a scouting intern to the role of assistant GM beginning in 2022. At just 40 years of age, Mougey will be tasked to deliver something the Jets franchise hasn’t touched since man landed on the moon: a Super Bowl victory.

Gone are high-profile names like Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, and D.J. Reed, replaced with an influx of players full of potential but with limited success in the league – none more identifiable than new QB1, Justin Fields. By Mougey’s and fellow first-year arrival Aaron Glenn’s design, 2025 Jets will be among the youngest rosters in the NFL. On paper, they’re seemingly less likely to win games. Growing pains are surely forthcoming. Yet is it really Same Old Jets with Darren Mougey at the top? The Honorable Judge duo of Dayne O. and Daniel Murphy, hosts of the DayngerZone, pound their gavels and make the call.

Part of a dream draft class in 2022, second-round selection Breece Hall exploded onto the stage for Gang Green and became the team’s top offensive threat within weeks. A midseason ACL tear derailed a Rookie of the Year-winning campaign, and in the wake of that injury, Hall has both tantalized and frustrated fans who placed big bets on his future production. Like for so many of the heralded young Jets core, 2024 was a lost season for Hall; a career high in fumbles, a career low in yards per carry, and the emergence of competition in fellow running backs Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis.

Trade rumors swirled around Hall during April’s NFL Draft, and whispers continue. A committee approach seems likely, based on the word of new head coach Aaron Glenn. Will Hall be allowed once more to become the team’s alpha male on offense, or is he playing out the string on the final year of his rookie contract?

Counselors Richard and Walz argue their points while the Honorable Judge Matt DiPaoli, long-suffering Jets fan and author of the popular Killstanbul and Holliday fiction novels, renders his verdict.

Insanity is:

1. Being a New York Jets fan, and

2. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results

Twice in the last 17 years, the Jets have rolled the dice in acquiring aging quarterbacks from the Green Bay Packers. In New York, Brett Favre showed his dick, while Aaron Rodgers often acted like one. In his third act, Favre was able to jump to Minnesota and lead a team to within one victory of the Super Bowl. Now that he’s landed in Pittsburgh, can similar success be found by Rodgers? And what is it about Hall of Fame quarterbacks coming to this market and suffering brutal injuries and underwhelming seasons? Same Old Jets?, or too small a sample size?

Counselors Richard and Walz litigate the near past, present, and future of Aaron Rodgers while the Honorable Judge Garrett, longtime Steelers fan and conflicted Rodgers hater, rules on the matter.

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