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USA Today
4 days ago
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- USA Today
NY Jets Amazon documentary about 2024 season premieres Aug. 21
The New York Jets are receiving the documentary treatment. Debuting Aug. 21, "The Home Team" is a six-part docuseries that will stream on Amazon's Prime Video and follows six Jets players and their partners throughout the 17-week NFL season. The content may not be overly rosy. New York fired its former head coach Robert Saleh five games into the 2024-25 season, which the documentary covers, and the team finished 5-12. Jets defensive lineman Quinnen Williams and offensive lineman Alijah Vera-Tucker are among the players featured. 'From business endeavors to baby showers to family reunions, The Home Team: NY Jets will take viewers inside the professional and personal lives of these diverse, lovable couples, in order to show how family makes football possible,' Amazon said in a news release announcing the series in May. Jets Amazon series release date
New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Prime Video's ‘The Home Team' shows emotional side of being a Jets WAG
This is what you don't see away from the field. Premiering Aug. 21 exclusively on Prime Video, 'The Home Team' follows six current and ex-Jets players and their partners — including Quinnen and Maranda Williams, Alijah and Jessie Vera-Tucker, Allen Lazard and Camila Escribens, Tyler and Scottie Conklin, Chuck and Aysha Clark, and C.J. Mosley and Jamie Reiff — throughout the 2024-25 regular season in the nation's no. 1 media market. The six-part docuseries pulls back the curtain on the emotional journey players and their families' experience in their personal lives over the course of a 17-game NFL season. Advertisement Prime Video's 'The Home Team: NY Jets' is a six-part docuseries that gives fans an authentic peek into the emotional journey players and their families go on over the course of a 17-game NFL season. Prime Video From pregnancies to parenthood, 'The Home Team' begins with the season opener on 'Monday Night Football' against San Francisco 49ers — a 32-19 road setback — and follows the Jets' injury issues and midseason slide before Davante Adams' arrival. Advertisement The series culminates with the season finale at home against Miami and the major changes that loomed after a 5-12 campaign that saw coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas fired midseason. Conklin cashed in a $250 bonus in that Week 18 game and later becomes a dad, Mosley is released, Clark welcomes twins and Lazard quietly prepares for fatherhood. On the field, Vera-Tucker enters the offseason healthy, while Williams begins his recovery with next season in mind. Advertisement The Jets began last season with high aspirations but missed the playoffs with veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He returned after tearing his achilles in the 2023 season opener, and played in 17 games, recording 3,897 passing yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The Jets released Rodgers this offseason and signed Justin Fields to a two-year deal in March worth $40 million, including $30 million guaranteed. Rodgers, meanwhile, signed in June a one-year, $13.6 million contract with the Steelers that includes $10 million guaranteed. Advertisement The Jets and Fields host Rodgers and the Steelers in Week 1. Presented by Prime Video Sports and Skydance Sports, in association with NFL Films, 'The Home Team: NY Jets' is produced by VaynerWATT.
New York Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Jets stars and WAGs' ‘emotional' journeys focus of new Amazon Prime Video docuseries
The Jets will be the stars of a new Prime Video docuseries that was announced Monday ahead of Amazon's upfront presentation to advertisers. The six-part docuseries entitled 'The Home Team: NY Jets' follows six players and their partners during the 2024-25 NFL season. Among the players to be featured will be Quinnen and Maranda Williams and Alijah and Jessie Vera-Tucker and provides 'an authentic peek into the emotional journey these players and their families go on over the course of a 17-week NFL season,' according to Amazon. 'From business endeavors to baby showers to family reunions, The Home Team: NY Jets will take viewers inside the professional and personal lives of these diverse, lovable couples, in order to show how family makes football possible,' the video streamer said in a press release. Prime Video is partnering with Skydance and NFL Films, along with VaynerWATT, to present the docuseries. Quinnen Williams and his wife, Maranda. @thequinnenwilliams/Instagram A premier date was not announced. The behind-the-scenes look could provide Jets fans with a unique look back at what had been a wild season for Gang Green, amid a coaching change, the ongoing drama with then-quarterback Aaron Rodgers and a season that went very differently than expected. The Jets went 5-12 and led to a complete organizational overhaul at the end of the year. Alijah and Jessie Vera-Tucker. @jessieveratucker/Instagram The Jets had previously been featured on HBO's 'Hard Knocks' prior to the 2023 season and the organization has produced its own in-house docuseries, 'One Jets Drive.' Along with the Jets series, Amazon also announced an untitled documentary focused on ex-wide receiver Terrell Owens. That project will focus on Owens' rise as 'one of the most talented, accomplished, and polarizing athletes of America's most popular sport' while looking into 'his role as the preeminent 'prima donna' wide receiver of his era.' Prime Video has had an increasing footprint with sports programming, which has included broadcasting 'Thursday Night Football' and, starting next season, covering the NBA.
