FLORHAM PARK White ArDarius Stewart Jerseys , N.J. (AP) ¡ª Hello? Is this thing on?Well, in each of their games this season, the New York Jets have had moments during which their sideline headsets briefly malfunctioned.¡°It¡¯s been three games, and I¡¯m not making excuses, but three times our headsets failed us,¡± offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates said Thursday. ¡°Not throwing anyone under the bus, but the button stopped working. We¡¯ve tried to correct it.¡±Bates stands on the sideline during games while calling plays and sending them through headsets to quarterback Sam Darnold. When the headsets fail, Darnold can¡¯t hear anything from Bates.¡°Obviously, we understand that that can happen anytime,¡± Bates said, ¡°especially in New England.¡±That drew a few chuckles from reporters, of course. The Patriots were accused by some teams ¡ª and, ultimately, cleared ¡ª a few years ago of tampering with headsets at Gillette Stadium.But, it has been an occasional issue over the years for teams in stadiums around the NFL, where they experience interruptions in their headsets. Electrical systems and inclement weather are the most common culprits.The Jets have had to work around those issues at Detroit, at home against Miami and at Cleveland.¡°We¡¯ve come up with a system and we tried that system in Cleveland and we had to call a timeout,¡± Bates said. ¡°So, we are still growing with that. But as far as the communication with Sam, he¡¯s extremely bright, he can spit out the plays.¡°There are certain situations where we have wristbands when the plays are a little bit longer. So ArDarius Stewart Jerseys 2019 , we do that, we do a little bit of both. As far as getting in and out of the huddle, I think it¡¯s been good execution.¡±Bates said the Jets test their headset equipment before every game, but the technology simply fails sometimes.There will be frustrating moments of static radio interference and others when there¡¯s nothing at all on either end.¡°I¡¯ve always said that it¡¯s amazing,¡± Bates said. ¡°I don¡¯t know how to do it, but I guess you can FaceTime people in China, but our headsets go out.¡±Jets coach Todd Bowles acknowledged that there have been technical difficulties this season, but it¡¯s nothing new.¡°I mean, it¡¯s part of the game,¡± he said. ¡°It happens every year. There¡¯s quite a few games that it happens in, so that¡¯s something you have to adjust. That¡¯s why you go over signals all the time, and you kind of move on from there. That¡¯s part of technology. It¡¯s going to be around for a long time, so that¡¯s not a big deal. We just adjust and move on.¡±If one team¡¯s entire headset system goes out for an extended period of time, the other team has its headsets turned off, too, so that neither has an advantage.¡°It¡¯s got to be out consistently,¡± Bowles said. ¡°But if one guy goes out and it sputters, you just move on and you play. You don¡¯t waste timeouts doing that.¡±Aside from the occasional technology-related communication issues, Bates has been mostly happy with the way his rookie quarterback has performed to start his career.Darnold has been solid at times and shaky at others, which is to be expected. He mentioned that he needs to be more decisive with his reads, something with which Bates agreed.¡°We¡¯ve got to go through our progression fast White Darron Lee Jerseys , we¡¯ve got to believe in it and he¡¯s going to continue to do that,¡± Bates said. ¡°Obviously, he¡¯s still young, but when he believes in his progression and he believes in his stroke, good things happen. We are going to continue to work on that. He¡¯s going to work on that this week, he¡¯s going to work on it next week and he¡¯s going to work on it the rest of his career. You can always play faster, no matter what year you are.¡±Darnold began his NFL career by playing three games in 11 days, which is certainly a tough task. He has three touchdown passes and five interceptions, and his 72.0 quarterback rating ranks him 28th in the league.But by no means does Bates think expectations should be lowered for Darnold and the rest of the Jets¡¯ offense because the 21-year-old QB is still feeling his way through things.¡°Absolutely not,¡± Bates said. ¡°Everyone is in the National Football League. This is a professional business, and he would say the same. He expects a lot out of himself and so do we.¡±NOTES: WR Terrelle Pryor was added to the injury report after tweaking his groin during practice. Bowles characterized it as ¡°sore,¡± but wouldn¡¯t elaborate. ¡­ TE Neal Sterling (concussion) and WR Charone Peake (hamstring) didn¡¯t practice. ¡­ OLB Josh Martin was a full participant for the first time since suffering a concussion in the Jets¡¯ third preseason game. ¡­ S Marcus Maye (ankle/foot), CB Buster Skrine (knee) and S Doug Middleton (knee/finger) were limited. To say the Jets , Raiders and Bucs have quit would be hyperbole.To say their fans are ready to quit watching them would be more accurate.There was little to nothing worth mentioning about their performances Sunday in one-sided defeats. In the New York and Tampa Bay areas, much of the chatter will be about removing Todd Bowles and Dirk Koetter as head coaches of their respective outfits. At least Jon Gruden won¡¯t be worrying about job security with a Raiders team he has torn asunder, and he has the job security to rebuild.Bowles got it right at the New Jersey Meadowlands by saying following a 41-10 embarrassment at the hands of the previously-inept-on-offense Buffalo: ¡°We stunk it up as coaches, we stunk it up as players.¡±His team certainly represented what used to be swamp land quite well Sunday.The Jets (3-7, losers of four in a row) were blitzed from the beginning by a quarterback, Matt Barkley, who was unemployed a few days ago, and has been a journeyman for almost his entire NFL stint; this was his 12th game since 2013. They were overrun by LeSean McCoy Darron Lee Jerseys 2019 , which is fine except when you consider he was in a horrendous slump and hadn¡¯t scored all season.Worst, they seemed apathetic and disinterested from the start, a strong indictment of the players and the coaches.¡°They just came in and just straight, flat out, beat us,¡± said Jets receiver Jermaine Kearse, who has had to adjust to lots of losing in New York after lots of winning while he was with the Seahawks. ¡°I wish I could give you an explanation. It¡¯s frustrating for all of us, but they just came in here and straight beat us.¡±Maybe because the Bills were trying a whole lot harder?¡°Nobody¡¯s quit on anybody,¡± Kearse added. ¡°We win together, we lose together and that¡¯s everybody¡¯s mindset right now. We¡¯re all not perfect, we¡¯re out here trying to figure it out and find ways to improve this situation like anybody else. So, I would think that¡¯s far from the truth.¡±The Jets have never fired a coach during the season since the Johnson family bought the franchise in 2000. At least Bowles seems to have that going for him.Koetter is in his third season in charge in Tampa, and he¡¯s supposedly an offensive mastermind. Until being manhandled by Washington, the Bucs were tearing it up when they had the ball. Maybe somebody tore up all the play sheets that worked previously because they scored a mere three points against a team struggling with injuries.Offensive coordinator Todd Monken had been calling plays, but Koetter took over against the Redskins. He wouldn¡¯t explain why, but clearly it was a bogus decision.¡°We weren¡¯t good enough as a team, and that starts with me,¡± Koetter said. ¡°To move the ball like that and come up with three points, you¡¯re just not going to win that way.¡±Tampa (3-6) has the second-longest playoff drought, 10 seasons, and Koetter¡¯s chances of breaking that string are diminishing rapidly.No such worries for Gruden White Jordan Jenkins Jersey , whose return to Oakland has been a fiasco so far. Give him credit for all the high draft picks the Raiders will have in April, and maybe for the high prospects they will carry into Las Vegas when they move in 2020.For now, though, well ¡ª pardon us on this one ¡ª they¡¯ve fallen into a Black Hole.¡°This will be a year that a lot of us will never forget,¡± Gruden said of his 1-8 team that has been outscored 75-9 in the past nine quarters in what has quickly become a lost season. ¡°It¡¯s painful. It¡¯s really hard. It¡¯s painful. It¡¯s going to be hard to sleep again, hard to get up in the morning.¡±When Gruden gets up, he¡¯ll perhaps look at others to get rid of as he retools the roster already missing Khalil Mack, Bruce Irvin and Amari Cooper. He¡¯s got that wildly lucrative 10-year contract, virtual total control of personnel and no qualms about doing pretty much anything.What must hurt fans of these three teams that got hammered Sunday is that the effort from other losing clubs ¡ª Arizona, which tested powerful Kansas City; Cleveland, which stunned Atlanta; and, of course, Buffalo ¡ª was so strong, so admirable. Perhaps the worst sign for a struggling team is when it looks lost, lethargic and lacking skill on the field.In New Jersey and the Tampa and Oakland bay areas, that¡¯s exactly what the fans saw in Week 10.