ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The opportunity the Jets had been awaiting for a year arrived Sunday, and they seized it as if grasping at a tornado. The game spun away from them, kicking up everything they wanted, everything they craved, until it was gone — all of it.
After losing, 22-17, to the Buffalo Bills — a result that, coupled with Pittsburgh’s victory at Cleveland, eliminated them from playoff contention — the Jets trudged off the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium and through the tunnel that led to their locker room. Once inside, they listened to their coach, Todd Bowles, deliver his final postgame address of the season.