Just when you think the level of the embarrassment has reached a peak, the Jets find a way to top it.
If you’ve followed this franchise long enough, you probably don’t need any reminders that the Jets own a well-earned Ph.D in embarrassment for their work over the years.
Just when you think the level of the embarrassment has reached a peak, the Jets find a way to top it.
Thursday night, in front of a national TV audience as a stand-alone game at Cleveland Browns Stadium, was one of those nights.
Never mind the final score — Browns 37, Jets 20 — that was far closer than the game actually was as Cleveland put the Jets to sleep in a dominant first half.
Focus on Joe Flacco, the 38-year-old quarterback who played for the Jets the past three seasons and should have been their first phone-a-friend call five minutes after Aaron Rodgers crumpled to the Meadowlands turf clutching his left Achilles tendon in September.
Flacco, as you may have heard, is playing for the Browns now.
He’s been doing pretty well since being called off his couch in South Jersey to help a Cleveland team that lost franchise quarterback Deshaun Watson for the season.
And there he was on Thursday night, carving up a Jets defense that, before this season began, fancied itself in a conversation with the ’85 Bears defense.
Flacco finished 19 of 29 for 309 yards with three TDs and an INT. He threw for 296 of those yards and the three TDs in the first half, after which the Browns led 34-17.
The Jets’ defense had gone 33 consecutive games without allowing a 300-yard passer, dating back to Tom Brady in 2021 when he was playing for Tampa Bay.
