The New York Jets appear to be a team on the rise. They have a new head coach in Adam Gase, an ascending second-year quarterback in Sam Darnold, and a new multidimensional offensive star in Le’Veon Bell.
The one thing they don’t have a lot of?
Division championships. Gang Green has won just four of them in their entire franchise history – two in the 60s while playing in the AFL East (1968 and 1969), and two right around the turn of the millennium playing in the current AFC East (1998 and 2002).
Like their fellow AFC East brethren, the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills, the Jets have spent most of the past two decades staring up at the New England Patriots when it comes to the division pecking order.