After performing below their expectations on Monday night, the Jets' elder statesman, Aaron Rodgers, acknowledged that as important as he is to the team and to the offense, it's the Green & White's two young stars who make the offense go.

"We were a little bit off on the run game and couldn't get Breece [Hall] going, we couldn't get him space," Rodgers said after the 32-19 loss at San Francisco.

He then tipped his hat to the guy he calls "G," wide receiver Garrett Wilson.

"We just didn't have a lot of opportunities," Rodgers said. "I'm always trying to look for him [Wilson], moving him around in spots. Obviously the offense is around getting him and Breece the ball."

Though a fumble by Hall early in the game led to a 49ers field goal, the Jets trio on offense bounced back on the next series, driving 70 yards in 12 plays before Hall blasted over from 3 yards out. On the drive, Rodgers and Wilson collaborated on 4 pass plays for 46 yards. But after that series, the contributions by Wilson and Hall were limited the rest of the way.

"I didn't play up to my potential today so I feel like as a whole offense we got to be better for our defense and our defense wants to be better for us," said Hall, who carried the ball 16 times for 54 yards (3.4 per carry). His longest run of the game went for 16 yards to go with 5 receptions (on 6 targets) for 39 yards.

"With Aaron, you have to be real attentive with him," Hall said. "Me and him always communicate in the backfield. I always verify with him as far as the protection he wants and the routes I'm going to run out of the backfield.

"He just came up to me today, I told him I was sorry I didn't play as well as I could up to my potential and he just said 'it's going to be a long season bro, I'm not worried about it. You'll be fine' so. ..."

For his part, in the game Wilson finished with 6 catches (on 11 targets) for 60 yards as the offense struggled to sustain drives after that TD in the first quarter. Late in the game, with the Jets desperately trying to get back into it, Wilson caught a pass from Rodgers and appeared to pick up a crucial first down. But the replay showed that he failed to get one foot inbounds. The Jets failed to convert on fourth down.

"When we're rolling I know what that can look like, but we weren't," Wilson said. "Throughout the game we found spurts, but we have to find a way to bottle it and take it to every drive. There's a million ways to skin a cat. It felt good at the time [on the scoring drive], but we have to get back to that.

"We have to stay on the field. We're shooting ourselves in the foot and have to find ways to keep drives rolling. We have to find ways to stack plays, stack drives. I've got to play better personally."

Hall calmly summed up the events of Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season.

"Sixteen teams are 0-1 and 16 teams are 1-0," he said. "I'm not worried because we know this isn't our standard. I know we're all going to come back tomorrow and forget about it and watch the film, take the constructive criticism and get better from it."