ARLINGTON, Tex. — Here came the Jets, soaring, striving, believing. The playoffs beckoned, if they could just get there.
“If it all comes together,” Coach Todd Bowles said last week, “we can be very dangerous.”
To the rest of the league, Bowles presumably meant — not to themselves or to the welfare of their fans. Because on Saturday night at AT&T Stadium, the Jets lacked offensive continuity. Their special teams were dreadful. Their drives stalled in a haze of penalties.
They also won, 19-16, against the Dallas Cowboys, to secure their first winning season since 2010, the last time they made the playoffs.