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The Jets will celebrate their "Sweet 16" season at MetLife Stadium — their 16th year of calling the Meadowlands venue their home — and they will get the party started for first-year head coach Aaron Glenn, first-year Jets QB Justin Fields and all the new and returning members of the Green & White with a pair of games against two of the NFL's toughest foes.

AG's tenure as HC will begin Sunday, Sept. 7, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and an intriguing sidebar to the Jets' restart under AG and GM Darren Mougey will be the quarterback storyline. Justin Fields is set to step under center and then run and throw with abandon in his first start as the Jets' QB after spending the first six games last season as the Steelers' starter.

And who will the Pittsburgh signal-caller be? Rumors continue to swirl that Aaron Rodgers, the Jets' QB the previous two seasons, will sign with the Black & Gold. But unless and until that happens, the Steelers QB depth chart contains veterans Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson and sixth-round rookie Will Howard, who like Fields is a product of the dynamic Ohio State program.

The following Sunday, Sept. 14, Buffalo comes calling, and that means all hands on the defensive deck to try to contain NFL MVP Josh Allen and the Bills offense, not to mention sacking the elusive quarterback several times and creating turnovers if possible. The Bills have taken over as the cream of the AFC East with double-digit wins and playoff berths in each of the past six seasons, and Glenn's Jets certainly want to sour their longtime rivals' start to the '25 season.

The Jets will open with two home games for only the second time since 2011. It's a splendid opportunity for the Green & White to fire up the home fans for what lies ahead from there.

After a two-game road trip to the state of Florida, the Jets return for three consecutive home games, the first two against two more formidable foes. First Dallas, this year's "17th opponent" from the NFC East, comes to North Jersey, and QB Dak Prescott is expected to be fully rehabbed and leading the Cowboys into battle on Oct. 5.

The second home match in this group is in name only because the Jets will fly "across the pond" to play in their fourth London game since 2015, this time serving as the host side against Denver at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Broncos will go to London Town with an up-and-coming QB of their own, second-year man Bo Nix, who eked out the second win of his NFL starting career over the Jets by 10-9 at MetLife Stadium in Week 4 last year. Nix improved each week and ultimately guided Denver into the playoffs as the AFC's quintessential dark horse seventh seed.

The Jets will not take their bye week or even an extra day off after London. They'll fly home and get right into their Week 7 preparations to host Carolina at MetLife on Oct. 19. This will be only the Panthers' fourth road game against the Jets and their first in eight years at MetLife, or since a sunny, windy affair in 2017 that the Jets lost, 35-27.

That will make it five home games in the first seven weeks of the season and then, with the Cleveland Browns visiting Nov. 9, six home games in the first nine games. The last time the Jets opened with that much home exposure in their first seven and nine games was 1964, when the Weeb Ewbank Jets were embarking on their first campaign in their new Queens, NY, digs at Shea Stadium.

The Jets' nine-game home slate fractures into two distinct pieces. It's never helpful to think in terms of "stronger" and "weaker" schedules, but it is true that the Jets' first four home foes compiled a 40-28 record (.588 schedule strength) last season and three of the four reached the postseason.

If they can stand firm through those first four games, their last five — against Carolina and Cleveland, followed by Atlanta on Nov. 30, Miami on Dec. 7 and New England led by new HC Mike Vrabel on Dec. 28 — could help provide a productive closing kick, as that quintet combined for a 28-57 record (.491) and no playoff berths last season.

One final note on the home front: Except for London, which will kick off at 9:30 a.m. ET, all of the Jets' home games are set to start at 1 p.m. The only season in which they had more 1 p.m. home kickoffs was 2021, when they had nine. It may be a subliminal message, but perhaps the Green & White biorhythms can settle in and the Aaron Glenn's Jets can lie in the weeds and make some Meadowlands hay in their 16th season of calling MetLife Stadium home.