* I haven’t seen a team that has benefited from more dumb luck than the Jets this season. From having all four teams that they needed to lose in Week 16 go down like the Titanic to facing teams the last two weeks of the regular season that had nothing to play for, I thought I would’ve seen Halley’s Comet fly overhead before this. What the Colts are going to do to the Jets in today’s AFC Championship game will make the Saints-Cards NFC divisional playoff result look like a nail-biter. Peyton Manning will pick apart the lame blitz schemes of the Jets and Reggie Wayne will run real pass routes against the overrated Darrelle “Beavis” Revis.

BO KLEMENKO

Garfield, N.J.

* If the Jets beat the Colts, and I believe they will, this should be a lesson to all those teams (the Bengals and Colts in the final two weeks of this season) who are tempted to play less than 100 percent against a very good defensive team such as the Jets. Tough defensive teams can take a heavy toll on their opponents, and smart coaches don’t want to face teams that play smash-mouth football any more than they have to. In addition, the Jets’ running game, with the front line helping Thomas Jones and Shonn Greene wears down the opponent’s defense, as we just saw in the Jets-Chargers game. The Colts probably already regret pulling Peyton Manning in the last regular-season game, making it easier for the grind-’em-down Jets to make the playoffs.

MICHAEL J. GORMAN

Whitestone

* In writing about the Jets this week, Steve Serby [“Ain’t no stoppin’ Rex’s Super run,” The Post and nypost.com, Jan. 19], quoted Chazz Palminteri from the movie “A Bronx Tale,” in which Palminteri’s character tells a motorcycle gang of toughs: “Now youse can’t leave” after the gang reneged on their promise to behave. Today, another quote from the movie is relevant: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” The Colts decided to waste their talent when they laid down against the Jets a few weeks ago with a shot at an undefeated season. Now the Colts find themselves in a real crap-shoot, in the AFC Championship game. Go Jets! I hope they do to the Colts what Palmintieri did to my character in “A Bronx Tale” during the dice game: “Put ’em in the bathroom!”

DAVE SALERNO

aka Frankie Coffeecake

in “A Bronx Tale”

The Bronx

No-punch Rangers

* Marian Gaborik is just as important to the current Rangers as Bobby Clarke was to Philadelphia’s Broad Street Bullies of the 1970s. If an opponent even looked sideways at the toothless Clarke, he immediately would be on the short end of a three-on-one fight. If an opponent ever touched Clarke, the entire Flyers team would take part in a bench-clearing brawl. It is simply pathetic and disgraceful that the Rangers had no re-Tort for the Flyers after Daniel Carcillo pummeled Gaborik. At that point, it was far more important to protect the only star on the team than to worry about the outcome of the game. Instead, the punchless Rangers, led by coach John Tortorella, lost both the battle and the war.

JEFFREY BUKANTZ

Montville, N.J.

Super jinx?

* A Chinese Basketball Association team has signed Stephon Marbury. Could this signal the end of China’s run as one of the world’s superpowers?

RICHARD SIEGELMAN

Plainview, N.Y.