For all the smiley-face emojis applied to the coverage of the Jets loss to the Steelers , you started to think they should be pasted on the sides of the helmets the way they used to do that with buckeyes when Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson were lighting things up at Ohio State.

Were there positives, even with a home game the Jets should have won? There were, starting with Fields, who gave Jets fans as much as they could have hoped for in his first start, even if it wasn’t enough in the end.

Still: You know what this game really was, even with a new coach and a new quarterback and a brand new outlook? It was like so many games the Jets lost last season, one after another until they missed the playoffs again. It was just a younger quarterback not making the plays he needed to make th

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