The question was blunt, and it was put before Todd Bowles in the aftermath of a long, miserable day in the Windy City, and it essentially went like this: Have you been given any assurance about your job status beyond this year?
“I don’t talk about my job status,” Bowles said.
The question was, essentially, repeated. And so was the answer.
“I don’t talk about my job status,” he said.
But Bowles does talk about his job status: constantly, consistently, but only in the kind of code that makes him comfortable. That is how we got this gem elsewhere in the postgame press conference following the Jets’ 24-10 loss to the Bears on Sunday:
“I’m very proud of the way they fought and stayed together.