The Jets Claim The Title
This year the Buffalo Sabres broke through and became one of, if not the best, NHL team. The Sabres had spent 14 years giving their fans nothing to be excited about. The Sabres playoff drought was old enough that Steve Tisch wouldn’t date it. But that ended, and now the Sabres are in the playoffs. Buffalo fans finally have something else to cheer about that isn’t Josh Allen. Good for them.
They join the ranks of several other teams that have recently ended massive playoff droughts. The Mariners finally broke through in 2022 after 20 years. The Nationals, who had the longest drought ever at 30 years, got through in 2012. The Sacramento Kings were at 16 years and broke through in 2022. The Browns ended their misery in 2020. Droughts don’t last forever. They end. That’s the good news. Eventually, you reach the end of the tunnel.
This leaves the New York Jets with the longest postseason drought in major American sports. Now 15 years.Luckily for the Jets, they still have a ways to go to match some of the historical droughts and the chances the NFL expands to 8 playoff teams to go with 18 games is high in the coming decade. Also good news for the Jets: they still won a playoff game more recently than the Raiders (not since 2002) and the Dolphins (not since 2000, woof). They have a long ways to go to match that.
The Jets also don’t have the longest division win drought, funnily enough. The Browns and Raiders have more recent playoff victories, but only as Wildcards. The Browns haven’t won their division since 1989. Even with the 3 missing seasons, woof.
Let’s be honest with ourselves: that number is probably reaching 16 years without much difficulty. The Jets are not in a good place. Their new coach spent most of last year looking lost, had to replace both his coordinators, and his team had a fire sale midway through 2025. They now own a lot of quality draft capital and one great draft can change everything, but the Jets have already had good drafts during this drought. They are in such a hole that even if they do take a step forward, things look bleak for 2026. All signs point to this current staff getting axed by the end of next season.
Kinda feels odd to include the Nats, given that 22 years of that streak were as the Montreal Expos but anyways… j e s t JEST JEST JEST
Holy shit we got a comic…now it feels real!
Even if we collapse at least we aren’t the jets
Feel sorry for Glenn. Good coach, but like Saleh he has had no chance.
If he were looking for a head coaching position on a competent team, he would have run far away from the Jets.
He has an emotional connection to them because he played for them, he wanted to be a head coach before he retired, and he’s already in his 50’s. I think this is the last thing on his list before he calls it a career.
I’m not sure Glenn is a good coach. Saleh at least had units(D) that were competent a bit, it was all just bad last year.
At best you could say I don’t think he’s ready. It kinda felt they kept him as tank commander for this year and the fact it would be pretty hard to sell a candidate on if the fire a guy after one year. We will see if Glenn does some thing crazy like draft Simpson or something with 2.
It is hard to know for sure when you coach the Jets. He is definitely a good coach, a good head coach is TBD.