'Hard Knocks' finale recap: UFO to Broadway show
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers walks on the field during warm-ups before an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, in East Rutherford, N.J. He’ll become a folk hero if he can lead the Jets to a Super Bowl for the first time since Broadway Joe Namath. Credit: AP/Seth Wenig
Two undrafted rookies making the Jets’ 53-man roster. Aaron Rodgers recalling the time he said he saw a UFO. Solomon Thomas learning how to moonwalk. The season finale of “Hard Knocks” had a little bit of everything as the five-episode show wrapped up. As Jets coach Robert Saleh likes to say, “Now What?”
It’s the Episode 5 recap, that’s what.
Now what?
Week 1. Monday night against the Bills. Let the hard knocks begin.
Joe Manniello, an editor on the sports copy desk, has written the NFL picks column since 2015. Manniello joined Newsday in 2004. He graduated from St. John's.
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