MIAMI, FL—First, the NFL world stopped, and appropriately so, as overwhelming concern for Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin owned the unwanted spotlight. Then, once encouraging progress appeared to be made from a Cincinnati hospital, the NFL world went abuzz with playoff scenarios as crazy as anything anybody’s ever conjured up in their mind.
For a brief and fleeting moment, it allowed the New York Jets fan to dream. For what feels like an instant, the fan who roots for the team with the longest NFL playoff drought (2010 regular season) thought they would have the ability to play for an unprecedented AFC eighth seed in the tournament.