Le’Veon Bell urges patience amid disappointing Jets season

Le’Veon Bell remained with the Jets after Tuesday’s trade deadline, and the slumping running back preached patience for fans as the team takes a disappointing 1-6 mark into this week’s game against winless Miami.

“I need everyone to understand, it takes a process to build a winning program, to build a winning organization. I’m happy as hell to be a New York Jet,” Bell said in a video he tweeted on Tuesday. “I’m happy to be here despite all the trade rumors and talks. I’m here and I’m happy to be here.

“But everybody just has to have a little bit of patience, just a little bit of patience. If it happened overnight, it would be a bunch of teams snapping their fingers and making it happen. But I understand it take a process.”

The $52.5 million running back, who signed as a free agent during the offseason, hasn’t made the expected impact after sitting out last season with Pittsburgh, totaling just 349 rushing yards through seven games, including 23 on just nine carries in Sunday’s loss to Jacksonville.

“I just need all the Jets fans, all the Jets supporters, from my teammates and myself, I need you all to understand … just stick with us, man,” Bell said. “Everything’s gonna happen. This is our first year being all together. We’ve got our first year with our head coach [Adam Gase], first year with our general manager.

“I think Joe Douglas is doing a tremendous job trying to turn this thing around. Just understand we’re going to get this ship sailing in the right direction, but I just need everybody to have some patience, just stick with us. I promise we’re going to get it turned around.”

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