The Jets enter the 2016 season with high hopes after falling one game short of the playoffs last year and with largely the same the same group of players returning.
It has been a five-year playoff drought for Woody Johnson’s team, which second-year coach Todd Bowles must end. This is the longest stretch the Jets have gone without making the postseason since 1992-97, some of the darkest days in franchise history.
After one of the longest, strangest contract negotiations in memory, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is back to lead the Jets. The 33-year-old signed a one-year, $12 million deal on the eve of training camp, the last piece of the team’s puzzle.