The New York Jets are 3-14, and with how they've played as of late since December, it's hard to believe this team was able to get any wins this season.
While a lot has changed, with the quarterback job falling onto Brady Cook and multiple top players missing time due to injury, the final five games of the season were brutal.
As ESPN's Rich Cimini noted, this five-game stretch, from Week 14 through Week 18, was not just an 0-5 stretch, but it has the case to be the worst five-game stretch in NFL history, as the Jets set a new record for big defeats in this span.
The Jets just had the worst 5-game stretch in NFL history
"History makersL The Jets... Become the first team in NFL history to lose 5 straight games by 23+ points within a single season." Cimini shared.
The Jets in the final five weeks of the season lost every game by at least 23 points, marking the first time in NFL history such a brutal stretch has ever happened.
Aaron Glenn's Jets not only didn't record an interception this season, but they also had arguably the worst 5-game stretch in NFL history, and it came to close the season.
This historic string of games began in Week 14 with a 34-10 blowout loss to the Miami Dolphins (24-point loss). Next week, it was a 48-20 defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars (28-point loss).
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Week 16 saw the Jets lose 29-6 to the New Orleans Saints, a 23-point loss, and the "best" game of this brutal stretch to finish the season.
Against the New England Patriots in Week 17, Drake Maye blew out the Jets in a wild 42-10 defeat, a 32-point loss for the Jets in their worst game of the season by far.
Week 18, against the Buffalo Bills and their backups, saw the Jets lose 35-8, and finish the season with a 27-point loss to kick off 2026.
Not only did the Jets lose each game by at least 23 points, making NFL history, but they lost by a combined 134 points in this span, further cementing the 2025 season as one for the record books for the Jets in all of the wrong ways.
From Week 14 to Week 18 of the 2025 NFL season, the Jets had arguably the worst stretch of five-games for any team in NFL history. No team has ever lost by at least 23 points in five straight games, and their -134 point differential is about as bad as it gets in the NFL.
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