The New York Jets won a game on Sunday afternoon, one week after they lost to the woebegone Miami Dolphins in South Beach. Hours after the Jets secured their W, Miami upset a playoff team in Indianapolis.
Thus, the biggest winners of the day were perhaps Jets head coach Adam Gase and his job security.
Sure, triumph came over their equally woeful MetLife Stadium roommates, the New York Giants. But the Jets are nonetheless winners again, able to enjoy the sweet taste of victory after three straight listlessly painful defeats.
Now at 2-7, the Jets aren’t in any new position to make a playoff push, even if quarterback Sam Darnold did hint at the possibility in his postgame availability.