Buck Showalter became the first Mets manager to win National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday. Now can his Shea Stadium cousin do the same thing?

In the same vein as the Mets, the Jets have never had one of their coaches honored as the NFL Coach of the Year. Robert Saleh has shot to end that streak. The Jets are 6-3 at the midway point of their season, poised to end an 11-year playoff drought and a six-year streak of finishing with a losing record.

There is still plenty of football to be played, but if the Jets finish with a winning record and a playoff berth, Saleh has a very compelling argument.

The Jets have been a wasteland for most of the past decade since the early success under Rex Ryan. Saleh inherited a team that did not know how to win and an organization that constantly felt as if it had a cloud over its collective head.