Amazon Prime Video's new Jets documentary 'The Home Team' focuses on players' lives off the field

“Oh, my God,” Scottie Conklin said. “We can’t catch a break!”

This was while the wife of then-Jets tight end Tyler Conklin was watching yet another awful loss last season, part of a scene in the new Prime Video series, “The Home Team: NY Jets.” All six episodes premiered on Thursday.

Her sentiments certainly applied to the Jets, who ended up going 5-12, but also for those behind the series, headed by executive producers Sheena Joyce and Don Argott.

Here they were with a team that seemed like an attractive candidate for behind-the-scenes access. Aaron Rodgers was healthy, and all was in place for a year to remember.

Then . . . poof!

“We’re used to telling authentic stories, so we didn’t go into this thinking they were going to have necessarily a Super Bowl year,” Joyce said. “We also didn’t expect the coach [Robert Saleh] to get fired five games into the season.

“But we’re used to seeing where the story goes and rolling with it as documentary filmmakers. I think it was more authentic to be on the side of a losing team.”

Perhaps, but many fans likely will want no part of reliving 2024. That would ignore the point of the project.

Yes, the Jets were a dud on the field. But “The Home Team” looks to show what players and their families go through during a season, for better and worse.

The six featured in the series are Chuck Clark, Conklin, Allen Lazard, C.J. Mosley, Alijah Vera-Tucker and Quinnen Williams, along with their wives or girlfriends and extended families.

Also: babies. Lots of babies.

About a dozen Jets wives and girlfriends were pregnant last season, including those of four of the players featured — one with twins — three of whom give birth during the series.

That might not be every fan’s cup of tea, but it is a reminder not only that players have lives off the field but also of how young these guys are.

Veterans in their late 20s and early 30s on the field are new fathers off the field, worried about everything from car seat installation to where their next NFL contract might be coming from.

After the season finale, most fans were interested in Conklin catching Rodgers’ 500th touchdown pass. The drama on the show was his 50th catch of the season, securing a $250,000 bonus.

Needing one more reception going into that game, Conklin tells his newborn son, Fletcher, “One catch and Fletch goes to college. No catch and he better get a scholarship.”

Adding to the angst was the fact all six players featured got hurt at some point during the season.

“It was great to be a fly on the wall for those moments where these guys are really going through some serious stuff,” Argott said. “People don’t even think about this part of the game.

“They think everybody is a millionaire and all they see is what they see on the field, but these guys go home and they have lives and wives and girlfriends and families. And that part of it is really fascinating to see.”

We observe the players’ families agonize just as other fans do over terrible losses, both watching on television at home and from the stadium. More than one expressed the desire for a stiff drink if she were not pregnant. But in other ways they are not ordinary fans.

When a fan seated behind her in London seemed to celebrate Rodgers going down with an injury against the Vikings, Scottie Conklin turned around and responded with a hail of expletives.

“Every family, every player has different stakes, and you root for that,” Joyce said. “Will Tyler get the catches that he needs to get the bonus? Will Chuck avoid another personal foul so his wife isn’t worried about losing a year’s worth of daycare [after a $20,000 fine]?”

We see families far from home, living in temporary quarters, not sure where they will be the next season, if anywhere. (Conklin now is with the Chargers, Clark is with the Steelers and Mosley retired.)

Argott and Joyce previously produced the film “Kelce,” about Jason Kelce, which chronicled his 2022 season and was a hit for Prime Video in 2023.

“The Home Team” does not figure to approach that level of success. But it provides another angle on the game, one fans rarely see.

“You forget that not every team makes it to the Super Bowl, and not every player is a marquee player,” Joyce said. “What is it like for the families that have to travel [to a new team] every two to three years and what’s it like when your husband is away and you have to deal with kids and pregnancy and all the ups and downs of life?”

A winning season might have been more fun, but would it have been more interesting?

“The expectations were high and they had the star quarterback and they had a good team and everything was kind of teed up for them,” Argott said. “It’s just like anything: Life happens.”