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The Jets' final eight games are plenty meaningful, just not the way they wanted them to be

Jets head Coach Adam Gase arrives prior to the game against the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium on November 3, 2019 in Miami. Photo Credit: Getty Images/Mark Brown

Normally, when an NFL team is 1-7 and has a new coach and GM and has a “franchise quarterback” in place and has an owner who lives and works in London and has a remaining schedule littered with fellow nonentities, it is reasonable to look ahead and see two months of “meaningless” games.

If only.

That theory works only if one regards the awful record as some sort of glitch, perhaps the result of bad breaks or injuries or supernatural forces such as .