Takeaways from the Jets’ 34-10 loss to the Dolphins on Sunday:
1. The Jets officially were eliminated from the playoffs Sunday, extending their drought to 15 years. It is hard to believe in a league built on parity that the Jets have been this bad for this long. They have been through five different coaches, five different general managers and too many quarterbacks to count.
The drought hangs over the franchise and the weight of it gets heavier and heavier with each passing year. Players, coaches and executives come to the Jets and speak confidently about ending it, and then you can see it beat them down. Aaron Glenn is the latest to try, and we’ll see if he actually can end it at some point. But right now, he’s 0-1 against the drought. The Jets will spend another January on the couch.
2. One thing the Jets have clung to even if they have not been winning has been how they were in every game. They were playing one-score games even if they were coming up short. But Sunday’s loss was reminiscent of some of their early-season games, when they were not even competitive. The Jets fell behind 21-0 before the few fans at the game could finish their first beer. It was a reminder that this team still has a long way to go. Winning three out of their past five games was a nice development for them, but no one should have viewed it as the Jets getting over the hump.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
