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Jets and Patriots: Same division, two very different levels

Bob Glauber

Bob Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.

In the Jets’ endless search for another Super Bowl championship — an odyssey nearly a half-century long and counting — the Patriots have become the latest symbol of comparison and frustration.

Since Bill Belichick and Tom Brady first won a championship 15 years ago, thus beginning a reign of dominance rarely seen in NFL history, the Jets have had to measure their progress strictly in how it relates to closing the gap with the Patriots.