The Jets are a team of talented individual players that nevertheless has had more struggles than expected through 10 weeks of the season. And the muted season has had its impact on those individuals, such as Jets third-year tailback Breece Hall.

"The season didn't start off as well as I wanted it to," Hall told reporters after Thursday's practice for his and the Jets' next important get-back-on-track game Sunday at home against the Colts. "I started off OK, but it is what it is. I'm not going to point fingers at anybody else but myself. I'm just trying to keep helping the team any way I can and make the most of the opportunities that I'm getting."

Pass game coordinator Todd Downing, the Jets' offensive play-caller, can feel Hall's pain

"I think Breece is doing well physically," Downing said. "I think emotionally, he's like the rest of us, probably a little bit frustrated with the results of these games. The good thing is we have a bunch of high-character guys that are working to find a way to fix things and Breece is certainly leading that charge."

"Obviously, we're down a little bit," Hall concurred. "But you still want to finish out strong. We've just got to win."

The shame is that the Jets' 3-7 record has put a lid on the excitement that Hall can generate and has produced at times in the first 2½ months of the season. He is the Jets' leader with 554 rushing yards and 912 scrimmage yards and thus remains within striking distance of his first 1,000-yard rushing campaign and a career-best season of 1,600 scrimmage yards.

In fact, Hall's YFS are third in the AFC and ninth in the NFL. And he's still second in the league among RBs with 358 receiving yards, this year trailing not usual leader Christian McCaffrey but rather the Saints' Alvin Kamara at 421 yards.

And his play-making, which includes seven 20-yards-plus plays (three on runs, four on receptions), is also causing Downing and the offense to walk a fine line as they try to get rookie RB Braelon Allen more work.

"There's a delicate balance there and we love what Braelon's doing," Downing said after confirming that "Taking Breece off the field when he's getting going isn't certainly something we're looking for reasons to do, either."

But as all NFL watchers know, emotions and fortunes can turn quickly in the Not For Long. Hall pays tribute to the Colts' defenders, which, he notes, "definitely go for the ball a lot. They've got two good linebackers in Zaire [Franklin] and E.J. [Speed]. They've got a good D-line, a good back end. They're good all over. We've got to come with our A-game."

But Indianapolis also has been creased for big individual RB games by the Texans' Joe Mixon (twice), the Packers' Josh Jacobs and the Jaguars' Tank Bigsby, all in Colts losses. Indy comes to MetLife on Sunday ranked 29th in overall defense, 30th against the rush and 27th in net pass defense.

"Yeah, it's definitely something in the back of your mind," he said of the time that's growing short as the Jets and Colts (4-6) take their understated seasons into November and December. "But we're professionals. We know what we've got to do, the task we have at hand. So we're just going to try to continue to have fun, get better and win."