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The New York Jets keep finding new ways to lose
The New York Jets were home at MetLife Stadium on Sunday to try to turn things around on a lost season. It didn’t happen. Needing only to keep the Indianapolis Colts out of the end zone in the last two minutes of the game to secure a victory, the Jets promptly allowed the Colts to score on a drive where the once very good Jets defense provided only token resistance. The Jets lost to the Indianapolis Colts, 28 -27 to fall to 3-8 on the season.
With the Jets defense joining the offense in ineptitude the last several games, this team has reached new depths of despair. There is nothing this team does well. Nothing. In a season the Jets were supposed to be contenders, the team is now a legitimate contender for the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft.
The Jets won’t make the playoffs this year. They won’t come close. The rest of the year should be devoted to playing whatever young players might have a future with this godforsaken franchise. We’ll see if the Jets have the sense to even get that right.
How did the power rankings feel about this latest Jets travesty? Let’s find out.
25. Jets 3-8 (24)
They are done. What do they do well? Even when they take a lead late, the defense can’t hold it. Will Aaron Rodgers even play next year?
26. New York Jets (3-8)
Last week’s ranking: No. 27
Last week’s result: lost to Indianapolis, 28–27
This week: bye
I have a lot of respect for Sauce Gardner but was taken aback by his comments about not needing a tackling tutorial after the team was demolished by the Cardinals (this, before this defense was stunned by Anthony Richardson on a game-winning drive a few weeks after Richardson was removed from the starting lineup for failing to complete a pass). Jeff Ulbrich has been thrust into a bad situation but that shouldn’t make him out to be a know-nothing. This was a highly accomplished NFL vet who very likely would have been a head coach in 2025 elsewhere if Woody Johnson hadn’t nuked this team in Week 5.
27. New York Jets (3-8)
Week 11 result: Lost to the Colts 28-27
Week 11 ranking: 24
Preseason hot seat: Coach Robert Saleh
Current temperature of hot seat: Burnt
Saleh was fired after a 2-3 start. Team owner Woody Johnson lost patience sooner than anyone could’ve imagined, resulting in the Jets’ first in-season such firing in almost 50 years. The decision has backfired. The Jets are 1-5 under interim coach Jeff Ulbrich, whose defense — without Saleh’s guidance — has fallen off a cliff. The Jets, who allowed only 17 points per game in Weeks 1-5, have surrendered 26 points per...
