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Jets coach Adam Gase on starry thoughts of playoffs: 'We got a long ways to go'

Head coach Adam Gase won't let the Jets flirt with playoff notions as they prepare for Week 13 against the 0-11 Cincinnati Bengals. Credit: Jim McIsaac

Adam Gase can’t stop his players from dreaming about the playoffs. But Gase is treating such talk the way his defense has played the run game: He’s shutting it down.

“We got a long ways to go,” Gase said on a conference call Monday. “I’ve been in this spot quite a few times, as far as with five games left and everybody starts talking about (things) outside of this week. And that’s when the wrong thing happens.