The Jets stand alone.<\/p>\n
With the NHL\u2019s Buffalo Sabres ending a 14-year playoff drought by clinching a postseason berth on Saturday, the NFL\u2019s Jets have the current longest non-playoff streak in North American pro sports at 15 seasons.<\/p>\n
Credit to Rich Cimini of ESPN for flagging the fact that the Sabres\u2019 success has underscored the Jets\u2019 chronic failure. And Cimini notes that Jets coach Aaron Glenn, a member of the 1998 Jets team that came within a game of the Super Bowl, desperately wants to turn things around after a failed first season,<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to leave a legacy, I do,\u201d Glenn said this week. \u201cWhen I\u2019m gone, man, I\u2019m looking at this team being a team that consistently puts themselves in a place to win. . . . Every day. There\u2019s not a day, there\u2019s not an hour, there\u2019s not a minute I don\u2019t think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coaching staff has undergone dramatic overhaul from the staff Glenn hired when he got the job. And if not for a massive buyout, Glenn may have been swept out the door with them.<\/p>\n
Instead, Glenn gets another shot. The league is littered with worst-to-first stories, which serve only to fuel league-wide hope during the months of 0-0.<\/p>\n
Will this be the year the Jets finally get back to the postseason? The door is open, the draft is looming, and anything is possible.<\/p>\n
If it doesn\u2019t happen this year, the Jets will move one step closer to the all-time record drought of 25 seasons without a postseason game. That one is held by the Cardinals, who went from 1949 through 1974 without making it out of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets stand alone. With the NHL\u2019s Buffalo Sabres ending a 14-year playoff drought by clinching a postseason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-565644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}