Have to start better, have to finish better.

That’s usually a recipe for failure in the NFL, and those are key reasons why the Jets are 0-3 to start the 2025 season heading into the Monday night clash with the also-winless Dolphins in Miami.

But cornerback Sauce Gardner believes the Jets are “extremely close,” or at least they were in tight losses to the Steelers and the Buccaneers wrapped around a clunker in Week 2 against the Bills.

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“It’s so easy to just look at our record and get down,” Gardner said after practice Friday in Florham Park. “The reality is, we’re a field goal and a stop away from being 2-1.

“In this building, ment

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