The Jets spent Wild Card weekend at the same place you did — on the couch.
All the Jets could do was watch the playoffs after losing their final six games and blowing their shot at ending the team’s postseason drought, which is now at 12 years.
It had to be particularly painful for the Jets to watch this weekend as five of the six teams that beat them at the end of the season were playing instead of them, and none of the five played a complete game. It was a reminder that the Jets just needed to win two of those games to have been playing in the playoffs. Instead, they were watching and must have been wondering what could have been.
Start off with Saturday afternoon’s game between the Seahawks and 49ers. Seattle beat the Jets in Week 17 by a score of 23-6. That same Seahawks defense that made the Jets look inept gave up 41 points to the 49ers and their third-string rookie quarterback Brock Purdy in a 41-23 loss. The Jets defense struggled early against the Seahawks and then played pretty well against Geno Smith and Co., but the offensive struggles doomed them. Mike White played the game with five broken ribs, and the injury flared up when he got hit just before halftime.




