Jets to open season at home against Bills on Monday Night Football

Posted by Josh Alper on May 11, 2023, 8:46 AM EDT
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The Jets won’t have to wait long for their first prime time game in 2023.

The NFL announced on Thursday morning that the Bills will travel to MetLife Stadium to face the Jets on Monday Night Football in Week One. The game will be played on September 11 with an 8:15 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN.

It’s the second nationally televised game that’s been announced for the Jets ahead of the official unveiling of the 2023 schedule on Thursday night. They will also be hosting the Dolphins in the league’s first Black Friday game.

Expectations are that the Jets will be in several other spotlight games this season. That has not been the case in recent years, but the addition of quarterback Aaron Rodgers has changed the landscape for the coming season.

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43 responses to “Jets to open season at home against Bills on Monday Night Football”

  4. This is good news for the Pats as they will not be alone in last place after week 1

  5. We only need one Monday night game the first weekend this year….please NFL, no Monday Night doubleheader with two teams we don’t care about and an announcing crew that doesn’t usually call NFL games.

  8. This will not be the start Aaron Rodgers and the Jets fans are looking for. Bills will be fired up to squash the hype.

  9. Prime Time games usually are awarded to successful teams. Even marquee players on successful teams like Tom Brady complain that the night games disrupt a teams ability to get jnto a normal rhythm. He preferred an uninterrupted series of Sunday 1 pm starts. With the Jets not yet being successful, being awarded these slots just so the country can get a glimpse of AR in a different shade of green, you have to wonder if the prime time games will interfere with the Jets development

  11. Oh boy! this is going to be a great day for the Bills. I see the Bills 45 Jets 21. Welcome to NY A-rod a beatdown is coming.

  12. Well I won’t predict a blowout because both teams will be a little rusty – my score is : Bills 31 Jest’s 17

  13. My Team Makes me Drink says:
    May 11, 2023 at 9:21 am
    Oh boy! this is going to be a great day for the Bills. I see the Bills 45 Jets 21. Welcome to NY A-rod a beatdown is coming.
    ———
    Lol comments like this are ridiculous that throw out scores like teams are going to hit the ground running week 1 yet when week 1 rolls around everyone whines about the level of play because the lack of preseason for starters but hey whatever fits the narrative you want to tell at that exact moment right?

  15. Of COURSE the League gave Aaron Rodger and the Jets a HOME game match-up with a Divisional opponent in week one. Just like what typically happened in Green Bay. They either had a home game DIV opener, or closed out the season AT HOME against their best divisional foe.

    That is stupid. The BILLS should have been the Hosts for this game.

    If not, I hope they scheduled the Jets to CLOSE the season on Sunday night IN BUFFALO.

  17. Sunday Swami says:
    May 11, 2023 at 9:39 am
    My Team Makes me Drink says:
    May 11, 2023 at 9:21 am
    Oh boy! this is going to be a great day for the Bills. I see the Bills 45 Jets 21. Welcome to NY A-rod a beatdown is coming.
    ———
    Lol comments like this are ridiculous that throw out scores like teams are going to hit the ground running week 1 yet when week 1 rolls around everyone whines about the level of play because the lack of preseason for starters but hey whatever fits the narrative you want to tell at that exact moment right?
    —
    The Bills beat the Rams 31-10 in the opening game of last season. JA had almost 300 yards passing with 3 TDs and 2 INTs, plus another TD rushing on 56 yards. They were most certainly firing on all cylinders at the beginning of the season, far more so than they were midway through the season and beyond.

  18. Laugh now for you will cry later. Aaron Rodgers is gonna shove it so far up the league’s rear end this year

  21. Jets 1-1 with no QB vs. Bills in 2022. This year I predict a AROD sweep – GO JETS!!!!

  23. OK Bills go ahead and throttle the Jets but don’t take Rodgers out. We need him to play 65% of the snaps this year so we can get the Jets first round pick next year!

  25. Bills are a good match-up for the Jets. Allen really struggled in game 1 being outplayed by Zach Wilson and the Jets likely would have won in Buffalo absent Mike White getting injured.

    That being said the Bills will be healthy and targeting this game. The young Jets will be acclimating to Rodgers and Hackett plus the pressure of playing on center stage. Hard to believe the Jets can win. On paper the Jets are much more talented but pressure games like this are won by experienced battle tested teams. Got to think the Bills will win this.

  26. And just like that, the AFC East is compelling again. What a great game to open the year. Jets fans must be elated. And Bills fans might want to become accustomed to staying up late.

  27. Get ready for Russell Wilson 2.0 – Older aging HOF QB has down year. Swaps teams to have worst year ever. Watching rogers last year was not the same. He had an awesome rookie wr and the same moron he demanded a trade for. Everyone acting like he’s getting a big WR upgrade. Wilson looks great but so does Watson. And he had Lizard last year and didn’t do anything with him. Grats on your 44 million dollar downgrade from Moore. They took a 2nd round graded pass rusher with no OT on the team who won’t eat his way off the team before the season. Great call! Let’s see how that works out with a 40 year old qb back there.

    I’m not saying it can’t work out but I’m not buying the hype at all. He’s already backing out of committing to training camp. Expecting a dud. Just my opinion though.

  29. “Zach Wilson beat BUF last season…..let that sink in haters”

    The Jets won that game IN SPITE OF WILSON, not because of him. It was the Jets D that won that game by getting 2 picks off of Allen. Give credit where credit is due.
    The Bills B-slapped the Jets in the second game.

  31. This is totally unfair. The whole schedule is designed to cheat the Patriots. Roger Goodell strikes again.

  32. If all the Qb’s in the AFC EAST stays UPRIGHT for the season I can see no chance for any of these teams to win enough games to challenge for the NUMBER ONE SEED, Since I can see these teams just BEATING UP on EACHOTHER, Even the lowly Patriots i can see jumping up and biting a team or Two come Sundays.

  33. It is not the playoffs so the Bills should cruise to any easy victory over old A-aron

  34. Well done NFL. This is a good match-up and great to have two NY teams play on 9/11.

  35. This is going to be fun! Aaron Rodgers will be the Russell Wilson story of 2023-2024 NFL season.

  36. buffalotears says:
    May 11, 2023 at 10:07 am
    Sunday Swami says:
    May 11, 2023 at 9:39 am
    My Team Makes me Drink says:
    May 11, 2023 at 9:21 am
    Oh boy! this is going to be a great day for the Bills. I see the Bills 45 Jets 21. Welcome to NY A-rod a beatdown is coming.
    ———
    Lol comments like this are ridiculous that throw out scores like teams are going to hit the ground running week 1 yet when week 1 rolls around everyone whines about the level of play because the lack of preseason for starters but hey whatever fits the narrative you want to tell at that exact moment right?
    —
    The Bills beat the Rams 31-10 in the opening game of last season. JA had almost 300 yards passing with 3 TDs and 2 INTs, plus another TD rushing on 56 yards. They were most certainly firing on all cylinders at the beginning of the season, far more so than they were midway through the season and beyond
    ——–
    Sooooo because 1 team, 1 time, 1 year against 1 absolutely horrible defense played well(2 picks not firing on all cylinders) now its the norm? Got it homer

  39. I’m not worried about the Jets overall as they are the Jets & will do Jet things….but anytime they can take down the Bills would be fine by me…. Yup, THAT Monday night I’m a Jets fan…OUCH, that hurt to say!!!
    Go Pats!!!

  40. In a perfect world, Rodgers goes from owning the Bears to owning the Bills.

  41. The season is still a few months away and I’m already tired of hearing about the Jets. They won’t be surprising anyone this season, and having Hackett as their OC makes them fairly predictable on offence. If the Jets lose this game — and on paper at least, the Bills are still a much better team — the questions and finger pointing will start right away.

  42. Sunday Swami says:
    Sooooo because 1 team, 1 time, 1 year against 1 absolutely horrible defense played well(2 picks not firing on all cylinders) now its the norm? Got it homer
    —-
    No, you are missing the point. The bills were an objectively better team the first half of the season due to injuries sustained throughout the year, defenses adjusting to them, etc. The bills did in fact hit the ground running at the start of last year, and play progressively deteriorated throughout the year. Your first point that teams don’t hit the ground running to start the year and people whine about the performance is just plain wrong, at least in the bills case.

  43. buffalotears says: May 11, 2023 at 3:08 pm Sunday Swami says: Sooooo because 1 team, 1 time, 1 year against 1 absolutely horrible defense played well(2 picks not firing on all cylinders) now its the norm? Got it homer —- No, you are missing the point. The bills were an objectively better team the first half of the season due to injuries sustained throughout the year, defenses adjusting to them, etc. The bills did in fact hit the ground running at the start of last year, and play progressively deteriorated throughout the year. Your first point that teams don’t hit the ground running to start the year and people whine about the performance is just plain wrong, at least in the bills case ————-‐- Again read what you wrote “people whine about the performance is just plain wrong, at least in the bills case.” So because 1 year they played better at the beginning of the year(again being better than another tine of the year doesn’t equal firing on all cylinders) your trying to say it’s the norm and the Bills should be expected to hit the ground running 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ if the Bills fire on all cylinders for MULTIPLE years in wk 1 then you can say they are the exception to a rule, but after 1 year to cry their the exception to the rule is foolish…and to further prove YES its 1 year your claiming means they will never start slow, the previous season they opened and lost 23 to 16 to the Steelers…yep that’s recency bias and being a homer too

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