You can see rock bottom now if you are the Jets. It is in sight. It is coming in three more weeks when they are likely to complete this 0-16 season, becoming the third team to ever sink to those depths.

It can’t get any worse, can it?

The truth is as bad as Jets fans might feel about their team right now, optimism is right around the corner. Get ready for a spring and summer of good feelings around the Jets. That is hard to believe after an 0-16 season, but nothing gives fans hopes more than shiny, new things. The Jets are about to have a lot of those.

Start with a coach. Adam Gase will be fired at the end of the season. There is no doubt about that at this point. Jets general manager Joe Douglas and team CEO Christopher Johnson will start their search shortly after the season and it will be a while before we know whether they got it right. That won’t prevent optimism, though.

Gase is one of the most unpopular coaches ever in New York. He will slide into his place alongside Rich Kotite, Ray Handley, Isiah Thomas, Jeff Torborg and Allie Sherman. It won’t take much for his successor to be more popular than Gase and bring hope to a beaten-down fan base.

Giants coach Joe Judge showed how easy it is to win over fans. There was skepticism when he was hired instead of Matt Rhule. Unlike Gase, Judge won the press conference. His vision for the team was clear and he has carried that message into the season. Even when the Giants were losing every week, the fans still bought into Judge because he delivered a clear message and projected leadership.

Gase famously lost the press conference in a rout. While everyone was making jokes about his eyes, it was his lack of vision for the team that should have been the bigger red flag in hindsight. As long as the new Jets coach does not murder a kitten during his introductory press conference, it will go better than Gase’s.

Besides having a new coach, the Jets will have the No. 1 pick unless they find a way to win in these last three weeks. That means months of talk about Clemson star Trevor Lawrence leading up to the draft … and then months of talk about Lawrence through OTAs, training camp and the preseason.

Lawrence’s potential arrival is no guarantee the Jets will suddenly be a contender. Look at the Bengals for evidence that it takes more than a rookie franchise quarterback to turn a team around. But Lawrence will excite Jets fans and provide every fan’s favorite drug: potential.

Douglas can get Lawrence the help he failed to get Sam Darnold. He enters this offseason armed with salary cap space. Unlike last year, he is going to have to spend on some premium free agents this time around. The Jets roster is bereft of talent. Free agency can be fool’s gold, but that does not mean it won’t cause excitement. Every major signing Douglas makes will bring some a jolt of hope with it.

Look around New York sports right now and you will see the cleansing power of change. Judge has Giants fans rooting for an unlikely playoff berth. Steve Cohen has Mets fans believing again. Heck, even Knicks fans are optimistic right now with Leon Rose and Tom Thibodeau in charge.

Much to the disappointment of most Jets fans, the Johnsons are not selling the team, so there will be no football version of Cohen riding to their rescue carrying his checkbook. But the Johnsons have another chance to get this right with Douglas leading the way.

The Jets are closing in on rock bottom as we exit 2020. The forecast for 2021 is much rosier. Optimism is on the way.