It will be a brisk day in the Meadowlands this afternoon when a semi-hot team in the Seattle Seahawks visit MetLife Stadium to play the Jets, who would like to heat things up over the last six weeks of the season.

The Seahawks have the better record, 6-5 and on a two-game winning streak against teams the Jets have lost to, the 49ers and, last week, the Cardinals. The Jets are 3-8 and have lost seven of their last eight, and are 1-5 in that stretch when a game was decided by one score.

In the Green & White's favor: They are coming off their bye week against a Seattle outfit that last played and won on the East Coast, at Atlanta in Week 7, but for the past month have not journeyed out of the Pacific Time Zone. Will their biological clocks be good to go with a game that starts for them at 10 a.m. PST, and in slightly more blustery conditions than in Seattle, featuring gametime temperatures around 40 degrees with 15-mph winds?

The 'Hawks have a number of former Jets on their roster, led by QB Geno Smith, their second-round pick in the 2013 draft. Smith has resurrected his career as Seattle's starter the past three seasons after post-Jets stops with the Giants and the Chargers. He leads all NFL quarterbacks in most completions/game (25.5) and yards/game (275.9).

Yet Smith's 12 TD passes are in the bottom half among the league's quarterbacks and his 12 interceptions are the most thrown by any QB this season.

Interestingly, Jets QB Aaron Rodgers, who turns 41 on Monday, and Smith have many similar metrics. Rodgers' offense has produced fewer TDs than Smith's (23 to 25) but also fewer turnovers (11 to 14). Both offenses have punted 47 times. That might suggest an even battle, and if the Jets' interception dam breaks against the Seahawks, so much the better for the home team.

For what it's worth, Rodgers' teams, in his 20-year NFL career, are 1-0 over Smith's teams, a 31-24 Jets road loss to the Packers in 2014.

Rodgers and his offense will have the services of RB Breece Hall, who worked through a knee injury the past two weeks and active Sunday. But they will be without C.J. Mosley (neck) one more week and will start Jamien Sherwood again at MLB, and they placed Tyron Smith (neck) on Injured Reserve on Saturday so rookie Olu Fashanu will get his fourth pro start and his second at LT protecting Rodgers' blind side.

Seattle also has on its roster Leonard Williams, the Jets' first-rounder from 2015 starting on its D-line; G Laken Tomlinson, who started all 34 games for the Jets in 2022-23, on its O-line; and K Jason Myers, who drilled five field goals of 55-plus yards in his one successful season as a Jet in 2018.

And of course Pete Carroll's memory lingers on in this game, even though he was the Jets' head coach for only the 1994 season and is no longer the Seahawks' head coach after 14 seasons. That's especially true for Jets interim HC Jeff Ulbrich, who began his NFL coaching career as assistant special teams coach in Carroll's first two Seahawks seasons in 2010-11.

"Pete gave me my first opp out there," Ulbrich said. "He's been a great mentor to me in a lot of ways in my coaching career."

But few are left from Ulbrich's time spent in the shadow of the Space Needle. He and the Jets will attempt to deflate the Seahawks of first-time HC Mike Macdonald and lift up his Jets, who he said are ready for the challenge.

"The energy's been good, the detail's been good, the approach has been amazing, but it's been amazing, I felt, this entire time," Ulbrich said. "The process has been right. The results have not been right. So this is the week."

The Jets' six-player inactive list:

• RB Izzy Abanikanda
• CB Jarrick Bernard-Converse
• LB C.J. Mosley
• OL Max Mitchell
• OL Jake Hanson
• DL Braiden McGregor

And these are the Seahawks' seven inactives:

• QB Jaren Hall
• CB Nehemiah Pritchett
• S AJ Finley
• S Jerrick Reed
• LB Trevis Gipson
• WR Dareke Young
• DE Mike Morris