CHICAGO -- This is defensive end Leonard Williams' fourth season with the New York Jets, and he has yet to experience the postseason -- a good player on bad teams. Once again, they're 3-5 at the midpoint, a repeat of 2016 and 2017. It's an ominous trend, to be sure, but Williams insisted this will have a different outcome.
"To me, it's not the same old Jets," he said after Sunday's 24-10 loss to the Chicago Bears, using the three most dreaded words in the lexicon of any Jets fan. "To me, there's a different feel in the locker room.