Cruel Jets joke is on fans again after revolting loss that shattered season

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.— The Jets are such a cruel joke, it isn’t even funny.And the joke is on their fans yet again.Remember all those Super Bowl dreams that mushroomed when Aaron Rodgers arrived as the so-called savior?Forget them.They lay shattered in pieces on the ground inside Gillette Stadium after Patriots 25, Jets 22.That’s after Jacoby Brissett, pressed into action when Drake Maye left in the first half with a head injury, magically transformed into Jacoby Brady and marched his team into position for Rhamondre Stevenson’s 1-yard TD run with 22 seconds left.“This is a moment of darkness,” interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said.And to think, Rodgers thought he had emerged from the darkness.“Yeah, I’ve been in the darkness,” Rodgers said.

“You’ve got to go in there, make peace with it.”Yet another date that will live in Jets infamy.Rodgers might as well have started singing: “Hello darkness, my old friend, come to talk with you again.”Rodgers, locked in a darkness retreat with a franchise that never sees the light.And may not again for years.Yet another punch to the solar plexus, compliments of your New York Jets.Remember Woody Johnson firing Robert Saleh because he was certain the promotion of Ulbrich was going to light a spark under one of the best rosters the owner had ever seen?Remember all the hullabaloo over Davante Adams’ postgame speech in Pittsburgh and the effect it was about to have on the culture? Adams and Garrett Wilson catching darts from Aaron Rodgers? Are you kidding me? Dare ya to stop us.“If we’re not scoring 30,” Rodgers said, “we’re underachieving.This offense can do that every single week.”Except they’re not scoring 30.

They’re underachieving.They haven’t scored more than 24 all year.Remember how Haason Reddick (26 snaps, two pressures) was going to wreak havoc in his long-awaited Jets debut?The best-laid plans of mice and Woody go awry yet again.A 2-6 disgrace of a football “team” with a gro...