If anybody’s been betting on the New York Jets at any point since Super Bowl III – when no one had a wager on the 19½-point underdogs – they’d probably do best to keep that frankly bizarre activity to themselves. The truth is that fans of (and bettors on) this franchise since the 1960s have likely been struggling to make a profit off one of the NFL’s most unloved teams…
The Chicago Bears are looking to snap a four-game losing streak against the New York Jets.
The Jets are playing meaningful games in December. They play the Vikings on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears lost 31-10 to the New York Jets on Sunday. The offensive line had some struggles.
NY Jets general manager Joe Douglas expects his team to play meaningful games at the end of the 2022 season. The Jets are 7-4 after 11 games.
The New York Jets are 7-4 and in the final AFC wild card spot. The Vikings are 9-2 and are in contention for a playoff spot as well.
Von Miller is injured and won't play against the Jets on December 11th.
The Jets defense played well in the win over the Bears.
The Chicago Bears lost 31-10 to the New York Jets on Sunday.
Sauce Gardner is a rookie sensation at Jets' defense. He's already leading all AFC cornerbacks in early Pro Bowl voting.
The Minnesota Vikings are looking to win back-to-back games after losing to the Cowboys in Week 11. They take on the New York Jets at home in the 2022 NFL season.
The Minnesota Vikings are 9-2 and the New York Jets are 7-4.
The New York Jets beat the Chicago Bears 31-10. The game reminded me of the Bears' loss to the Buccaneers last year.
The New York Jets travel to Minnesota to take on the Vikings on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears lost to the New York Jets on Sunday. Star quarterback was injured.
The Chicago Bears lost to the New York Jets 31 to 10.
The New York Jets are ranked fourth in scoring defense (17.8 points per game), fifth in total defense and fourth on defensive DVOA.
Von Miller hopes to be back before facing the New York Jets on December 11.
Mike White has been the Jets' quarterback all season.
Von Miller is recovering from a lateral meniscus tear. He hopes to play against the New York Jets in Week 14.
Mike White replaced Zach Wilson as the Jets' starting quarterback last Sunday. Wilson was benched a week ago.
Micah Parsons tops ESPN's rankings. Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner is the only rookie featured on the list.
Mike White threw for 315 yards and 3 touchdowns in the Jets' win over the Chicago Bears.
The Jets are now +3 at home against the Vikings.
Both the Jets and Giants are 7-4 and are in the playoff hunt.
Zonovan Knight is a running back for the New York Jets. He played well on Sunday.
Zonovan Knight went undrafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. He has been on the Jets' practice squad all season.
The Jets are 7-4 and in the AFC playoff hunt.
Last week the New England Patriots beat the Jets, which caused New York to slide down the conference standings.
Jets and Vikings are playing in the NFL's Week 13.
The Chicago Bears lost 31-10 to the New York Jets. It was their fifth straight loss of the season.
The New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings are playing some incredible football. They are both in the top two conferences in their respective conferences.
Garrett Wilson scored on the opening drive to give the Jets an early lead over the Bears.
The Chicago Bears lost 31-10 to the New York Jets on Sunday. The Bears are 3-9 and have five games left.
The New York Jets might have a new quarterback.
Mike White passed for 315 yards and three touchdowns in the Jets' 31-10 victory over the Chicago Bears.
The Jets beat the Bears 31-10 on Sunday.
Mike White made history in the Jets' 31-10 victory over the Chicago Bears.
The Jets dominated the Bears on Sunday.
Jets open as 3-point underdogs against Vikings.
The Minnesota Vikings are 3.5-point favorites against the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon.
The Bears lost 31-10 to the Jets at MetLife Stadium.
Trevor Siemian will start for the Chicago Bears against the Jets on Sunday. Justin Fields is likely to miss the game.
The Chicago Bears are on a four-game losing streak. They take on the New York Jets in the Meadowlands.
The Jets have been busy preparing for their game against the Bears.
Justin Fields is not going to start against the Jets on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears take on the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
The Jets are 28th on offense, 20th in rushing and 25th with passing yards. New York is eighth on defense, ninth against the run and 10th against passing.
The Jets got Sauce Gardner with the fourth pick in the draft. The Seahawks got Tariq Woolen nearly 150 picks later in round five.
The Jets lost in New England and have to bench Zach Wilson. They are looking for their first win since 2000 against the Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Bears are looking to break their four-game losing streak against the New York Jets.
The Chicago Bears are 3-8 and will play the New York Jets (6-4) on Sunday.
Hugh Douglas came to Philadelphia from New York Jets in 1998. He was disappointed with the team and the football culture of the city.
The New York Jets have made a change at quarterback for Sunday's match-up with the Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Bears and New York Jets are playing each other at the Meadowlands. The Bears are coming off their fourth loss in a row.
The New York Jets have a good defense and enough offensive weapons to compete for the playoffs. Zach Wilson needs to be replaced.
The Chicago Bears are waiting on Justin Fields' status until Sunday's game against the New York Jets.
The Jets and Bears are preparing for both Justin Fields and Trevor Siemian at quarterback.
The Jets have lost two out of three games and coach Robert Saleh has benched Zach Wilson for Mike White.
Mike White will start for the New York Jets against the Chicago Bears at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears take on the New York Jets in the 2022 NFL season.
Corey Davis will return to the Jets' lineup after missing the past three games with a knee injury.
The Chicago Bears lost 27-24 to Atlanta last week. They are 3-8 and face the New York Jets (6-4) on Sunday.
The NY Jets lost 10-3 to the New England Patriots on Sunday. The team is out of the playoffs.
Justin Fields is injured and the Chicago Bears will play the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
The New York Jets benched Zach Wilson despite the team being on the verge of a playoff spot.
Minnesota Vikings lost 40-3 at home to the Dallas Cowboys. New England Patriots are coming off an improbable last-second win over the Jets.
The Chicago Bears are on a four-game losing skid. They are hosting the New York Jets in Week 12.
Since 2002 and the formation of the modern AFC South with the Atalanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New York Jets are just 2-6 SU/3-4-1 ATS as the visiting team against the four...
This week's parlay picks for each game on the Sunday afternoon slate are: Jets vs. Vikings, and below we take a closer look at Jets-Vikings.
The New York Jets are 7-4 and in the hunt for a playoff spot. They play the Vikings (9-2) on Sunday. The Vikings are the favorite. The Jets have been talking about playing meaningful games in December since the opening days of training camp.
NFL Best Bets is a recurring series in which professional sports handicappers lend their insights and picks for the most intriguing matchups for each week of the professional football season. This week, they pick Jets-Vikings, Titans-Eagles, Chiefs-Bengals and the Patriots-Falcons.
The New York Jets are 7-4 and in the final AFC wild card spot. The Vikings are 9-2 and running away with the NFC Central. They trail the Philadelphia Eagles by one game in NFC North. The Jets have not been to the playoffs in 11 years. New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers are 6-5 and the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills are 8-3.
Saturday, 14 Aug: New York Jets vs New York Giants at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 12 Sep: New York Jets vs Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium
Sunday, 03 Oct: Tennessee Titans vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 10 Oct: New York Jets vs Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Thursday, 04 Nov: New York Jets vs Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium
Sunday, 28 Nov: New York Jets vs Houston Texans at NRG Stadium
Sunday, 05 Dec: Philadelphia Eagles vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 12 Dec: New Orleans Saints vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 02 Jan: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 19 Dec: New York Jets vs Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium
Sunday, 11 Sep: Baltimore Ravens vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 18 Sep: New York Jets vs Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium
Sunday, 25 Sep: Cincinnati Bengals vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 02 Oct: New York Jets vs Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field
Sunday, 09 Oct: Miami Dolphins vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 16 Oct: New York Jets vs Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field
Saturday, 22 Oct: New York Jets vs Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High
Sunday, 30 Oct: New England Patriots vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 06 Nov: Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 20 Nov: New York Jets vs New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium
Sunday, 27 Nov: Chicago Bears vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 04 Dec: New York Jets vs Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium
Sunday, 11 Dec: New York Jets vs Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium
Sunday, 18 Dec: Detroit Lions vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Thursday, 22 Dec: Jacksonville Jaguars vs New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
Sunday, 01 Jan: New York Jets vs Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field
For your consideration: The Curse of the Guarantee.
If one applies any sort of objectivity, the list of true honest-to-Lombardi franchise highlights of the New York Jets numbers one. Now admittedly, Joe Namath’s “guaranteed” Jets victory in Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts is certainly among the most significant wins in professional football history, but one wonders how many Jets fans (like any under 50 years old) might have traded the single title for a bit more success.
The American Football League introduced a New York team to compete with the NFL and the Giants in football’s biggest market. For the first three seasons, the team was known as the Titans and until the Super Bowl win, as a bastion of mediocrity: In eight years, the team managed a single winning season.
And then Super Bowl III, followed by a 10-4 season and a divisional-round loss, followed by 11 seasons of .500 and under. From time to time, the team has squeaked into the playoffs since 1981 and has gone 9-11 in playoff games, but these oases of okay play are surprisingly isolated in time. No. 6 overall draft pick Richard Todd was handed the keys to the offense after they were snatched out of Namath’s hands in 1977, but it was Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau and the Jets defense that should get the lion’s share of credit for the playoff runs of 1981 and ’82.
These defenses continued on through to the late 1980s, as ’83 draftee Ken O’Brien took the helm. For the later part of O’Brien’s career, however, and much of the 90s thereafter, times were lean for the Jets, thanks to the repeated comically bad choices at NFL drafts. And then, finally (or so they thought) … Bill Parcells, a guy who’d already taken one Lombardi with the Giants and been to another Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, was hired as head coach to finally make the Jets champions again. Only, the usual happened between Parcells and authority and after one AFC championship game appearance sandwiched by two sub-.500 seasons, he was gone. Parcells’s total mark with the Jets: 30-20 SU/30-19-1 ATS.
The Jets’ next brush with success came under the watch of head coach Rex Ryan got them to back-to-back appearances in the final game after the 2009 and ’10 seasons, but Ryan stayed on as head coach for four more years in which the Jets regressed to their losing ways, including three seasons with bottom-five offenses and a bottoming-out (so to speak) with the Butt Fumble. Ryan’s total mark with the Jets: 50-52 SU/ 50-49-3 ATS.
After Ryan’s departure in 2014, things have returned to normal for the Jets: From 2015 through ’21, New York had six seasons of below .500 ball and five seasons of 10 or more losses.
The question remains: What exactly did Namath do to get that Jets’ Super Bowl win…?
The largest bet ever made on the New York Jets? Easy: The wager that QB Joe Namath placed on his team to beat outright the 17½-point favorite Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. At least outwardly, Broadway Joe wagered his reputation by guaranteeing the Jets victory to media several times prior to the game. Behind the scenes, we’re thinking he met Lucifer at the crossroads and sold the Jets’ future for his Lombardi Trophy. How else to explain the 342-430-2 (.443) regular-season record in the 50 seasons after the Super Bowl win, not to mention a 10-13 SU (but 13-10 ATS!) playoff mark…
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