When you're a fan of a team, you always enjoy watching your team win. Right?
Like, if you're a fan of the Jets, and you've been watching every game this season while they lost and lost and lost, sometimes in inexplicable ways, and rolled into Week 15 with an 0-13 record, you must have absolutely loved watching them beat the Rams on Sunday. Right???
It was a dominant win. A historic win. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Jets are the second 0-13 team in NFL history to win a game in which they never trailed. The other was the 1962 Raiders, who beat the Patriots in Week 15 of that season, and if you Google the 1962 Raiders, you learn the wonderful fact that their quarterback's name was Cotton Davidson. So that's awesome too, right? Right??????
You can see where I'm going with this. Jets fans, or at least a meaningful percentage of them, might in fact not be happy their team won Sunday. Having suffered this long through a brutal, winless season, the fan base had begun to take comfort in knowing, at least, that they would be rewarded with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft and a shot at superstar Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence. The Jaguars entered Sunday with a 1-12 record and got waxed by the Ravens in the early Sunday window. So Jets fans knew their team needed to lose to stay "ahead" of Jacksonville in the race for Lawrence.
Cue the clichés. The Jets don't even know how to lose right, etc. It might be unconventional to lead our Week 15 overreactions with the two worst teams in the league, but hey, it has been an unconventional year:
