Neil Best
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
It was the punch line of a laugher, a touchdown play so effortless that it left the Jets all smiles on the sideline and the game all but over on the scoreboard.
And it illustrated where the Jets stand down the stretch of an unlikely season: peaking at the right time and acing what has been a complicated, season-long chemistry experiment.
Of course, there is no such thing as “easy” in the NFL, even a 30-8 rout of the Titans at MetLife Stadium Sunday that kept the Jets in a three-way tie for the two AFC wild-card playoff spots at 8-5.