The New York Jets have had a rough season. Barely anything has gone their way all year, and entering Week 18, things can get a whole lot worse.
Facing the Buffalo Bills, there's one thing that the Jets so very desperately want to accomplish, more so than a win. It's simple: the Jets want just one interception.
As Adam Schefter of ESPN shared, if they do not get that one interception, this Jets team will enter the history books as the only team since the interception was officially tracked to go a full season without recording one such play.
Jets on verge of setting unfathomable NFL history
"Since the NFL started recording interceptions in 1933," Schefter writes, "no team ever has finished a season without an interception. The Jets would be the first if they do not get an interception today at Buffalo."
The Jets need an interception in Week 18, badly. Going a full season without recording one interception would be a feat that no team has ever done before in the history of the NFL.
Teams have gone a while between games with an interception, but no team has ever gone as long as the Jets, let alone gone an entire season without recording one.
Their final chance to stop such unfathomable history from being made comes against the Bills. While Josh Allen is a great quarterback, he's been picked off a few times this season.
But, even if it's Mitchell Trubisky, the Jets haven't shown they're capable of forcing interceptions, even against the most struggling quarterbacks.
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Tua Tagovailoa has the second-most interceptions in the NFL this season and was the league leader at various points throughout the year. And the Jets couldn't force an interception against him. Twice.
The Jets and Aaron Glenn, a cornerback now turned head coach, need to get just one interception to not go down in history.
They've broken the record for most consecutive games without an interception, but that's a statistic that could be forgotten in the long-run.
But going a full season without an interception? That's something that would live in NFL history forever. The goal for the Jets in Week 18 likely isn't a win, but just securing the team's first interception to avoid this unfathomable, and likely unbreakable, NFL history.
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