If there’s one thing we do in this city more often than what takes place in other sports towns, we constantly take the temperature of our teams and athletes. 

Every game, every day, represents a big-picture referendum of sorts — for both the teams and the players. 

Especially quarterbacks. 

With our two NFL teams, one week may be awash with the euphoria of victory and the next week a spiral to hell with no way out. 

Coaches and players who’ve been elsewhere might say they understand it’s different in New York and insist they were prepared for the onslaught of attention and analysis, but it’s impossible for them to fully understand it until they’re actually a part of it. 

Robert Saleh and Zach Wilson, both rookies at their respective crafts, are fully immersed in it right now. 

Saleh, the Jets’ impossibly upbeat head coach, has at times looked overwhelmed and beaten down as the losses have mounted. 

Wilson, the Jets’ latest hope at franchise quarterback, has showed growing pains that undoubtedly have tested his well-fortified confidence. 

Wilson’s every move on the field has been dissected more aggressively than a forensic lab might pore over a crime scene. It’s the price of doing business in this city if you’re the second-overall pick in the draft. 

To Wilson’s credit, even in the wake of some spotty play, he hasn’t blinked. 

“I have a high expectation of myself to do well, of course,’’ Wilson said Thursday. “I understand it’s going to be a challenge being a rookie. I understand that it’s a process, and as long as I’m making growth and heading in the right direction, I can keep working at it. It’s about the process right now rather than the end result. We’re working toward something bigger than just this right now.’’ 

Wilson enters Sunday’s game against the Saints at MetLife Stadium with a 2-6 won-loss record as a starter for the 3-9 Jets. He’s completed 141 of 243 passes (58.0 percent) for 1,539 yards, six TDs, 11 INTs and a 66.2 passer rating. 

More often than not, it hasn’t looked good, but this perhaps should have been expected of a rookie quarterback who’d played all of one full season of college ball at BYU in a conference that doesn’t play a testing schedule against the nation’s top teams. 

As Wilson has tried to progress — in between missing four games with a right knee sprain — he’s surely been scrutinized more than his fellow starting quarterbacks from this draft class. 

Of the four who are starting, the two other than Wilson also have struggled. 

Trevor Lawrence, who was picked No. 1 overall by the Jaguars (one spot before the Jets selected Wilson), has a 2-10 won-loss record, is completing his passes at the same pedestrian clip as Wilson (58.0) and has 9 TDs, 10 INTs and a 72.3 passer rating. 

Justin Fields, taken 11th overall, has numbers that are almost identical to those of Wilson — a 2-6 record, 58.1 percent completion rate, 4 TDs, 8 INTs and a 69.0 rating. 

New England’s Mac Jones, the 15th overall pick, is the outlier. He has a 9-4 record and is completing 70.3 percent of his passes with 16 TDs, 8 INTs and a 97.0 rating. 

Jones, of course, is also the beneficiary of the best coaching staff in football, a staff that has put him in the best position to succeed, which can’t be said of the Jets, Jaguars and Bears for their respective rookies. 

You can bet, though, that the scrutiny of Lawrence in Jacksonville and Fields in Chicago isn’t nearly as intense as it has been for Wilson. 

The hope of the Jets and their fans is that the added pressure that comes with playing in this market eventually makes Wilson a better, tougher player. Only time will tell us whether that proves out as the case. 

“What doesn’t hurt you makes you stronger,’’ Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley said Thursday. “I don’t have any doubt in his mindset. Zach is a very confident person. Zach is a very motivated person. Even with his injury, he didn’t go into a shell, he attacked it, attacked his rehab, he stayed in the film room. We feel like he’s progressed. Lot of respect to him for handling the situation the way he’s handled it.’’ 

Offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur acknowledged the high-intensity scrutiny New York presents, but didn’t sound concerned about Wilson handling the roller coaster. 

“This market challenges a quarterback, but this league does,’’ Lafleur said Thursday. “Quarterbacks are always going to get challenged unless you’re winning Super Bowl after Super Bowl. You’re always going to get critiqued and you can’t worry about it. You’ve just got to worry about yourself, the guys around you, this building. 

“I think Zach’s made of the right stuff.’’ 

He has five more games this season to show that he does.