Well, whatever hope there was has been extinguished. The 2019 New York Jets will not be a miracle team.
After a 22-6 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals that was immediately inserted into dictionaries next to the word “nondescript,” the Jets find themselves back where they’ve been all too often: the middle of nowhere, unable to go forwards and unwilling to go back.
Implicit in the Jets’ dashed hopes for a miracle, of course, is that the hopes were there at all. A lowly 1-7 after a November loss to the Dolphins, the Jets won three in a row, scoring 34 points each game.