The Jets are not a good football team. But they have done a good job at keeping themselves in football games and avoiding total embarrassment in 2025. Before Sunday the Jets had gone more than two months since they last lost a game by more than two possessions – and had won five of their last eight games, a stretch that included the franchise altering trades of cornerback Sauce Gardner and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams.

So if Sunday’s 34-10 beatdown at the hands of Miami felt like a big step in the wrong direction, it’s because it was. It doesn’t matter that the Jets were on their third string quarterback, and playing backups all over the field – they suffered their largest margin of defeat this season, on their home field, to a team they suffered an ugly loss to in September.

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