There’s been plenty of discussion regarding the Green and White over the last week or so. The team with the second overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft dealt the third overall pick in the 2018 draft to the Carolina Panthers. Quarterback Sam Darnold netted the New York Jets a sixth-round selection in April and second and fourth-round picks in 2022.
The franchise has a new head coach in Robert Saleh, who comes over after serving as the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers. He inherits a Herculean task taking over a club that lost its first 13 games in 2020 and finished 2-14. It’s safe to say the new sideline leader and general manager Joe Douglas have their work cut out for them. The Jets gained the fewest total yards and scored the fewest points in the league this past season. The franchise was aggressive during free agency and New York has a total of 10 picks in April’s draft – including three (2nd, 23rd, and 34th) of the top 34 selections.
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Of course, 2020 proved to be quite an unusual year in many regards. But it is worth noting that the Cleveland Browns reached the playoffs for the first time since 2002 and the eventual Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers made it to the postseason for the first time since ’07. So guess which franchise now owns the distinction of the longest current playoff drought in the league? Yes, that would be the Green and White.
Let’s backtrack a bit. Under then-head coach Rex Ryan, the Jets not only reached the playoffs in both 2009 and ’10 but appeared in the AFC Championship Game on both occasions. Neither contest ended well as the club fell at Indianapolis and at Pittsburgh, respectively. Hence since 2011, the club owns a horrid 59-101 record and has posted just one winning season (10-6 in 2015) over that span. And since finishing four games over .500 in ’15, the Jets are a dismal 23-57 the past five seasons.
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So can Saleh and a new-look club pull off what the Browns and Buccaneers did in ’20 in terms of ending their streak of non-playoff appearances? Of course, the NFL is about to embark on a 17-game schedule and each conference now sends seven teams to the postseason. All told, it will be interesting to see what the team’s roster looks like when it’s all said and done.