Welcome to the beginning of the 2015 postseason, as far as the Jets are concerned.
“The message [in the locker room] is every game is a playoff game,” cornerback Buster Skrine said. “We’ve got to treat it like that.”
The Jets are 5-5 and staring at the possibility of a fifth consecutive season missing the playoffs after losing four of their past five games. The 4-6 Dolphins come to town for an AFC East battle that feels like an elimination game.
Coach Todd Bowles spent this week preaching that his team needed to get back to basics, back to the formula that had them playing so well in the first month of the season.