The Jets last played in a postseason game on Jan. 23, 2011, when they lost their second straight AFC Championship Game, this one in Pittsburgh, to fall just short of the Super Bowl.

Afterward, then-head coach Rex Ryan was asked whether he would change anything about the season and responded: “I would change the outcome of this game, and that’s the only thing I would change. We don’t need to apologize to anybody. We’ll be back, you’ll see.”

Who knew how wrong Ryan would be?

Not only have the Jets not been back to the AFC title game, they haven’t even reached the postseason — and they won’t again this season, having officially been eliminated on Sunday.