If this man is either a medical marvel or totally batshit crazy, the hope meter is not at 0 just yet. If he’s serious about attempting to play, for better or worse, in mid December, here’s what it will take for the Jets to make the playoffs this year:

Let’s assume that it will take minimum 10 wins WITH the right tiebreakers for a playoff berth this year. Fortunately, the Jets already possess a conference record tiebreak over the Bengals, and have an opportunity to tiebreak the Browns, Texans, Bills, and Dolphins. If Rodgers returns on December 17th, he can play 4 regular season games against the Dolphins, Commanders, Browns, and Patriots.

The whole point of this is to search for optimism, so I’m gonna assume that Rodgers can lead this team to 3-1 over that stretch, especially since the Browns have now lost Deshaun Watson for the year (even though he wasn’t terrific, I still believe he has more upside than DTR and PJ Walker).

Adjusting to our current record, that’s 7-6. So can the Jets win at least 3 out of the 4 games in between?

I am drinking the Kool-aid rn and saying yes. Bills, Dolphins, Falcons, Texans.

I really believe we can beat the bills, seeing as how we’ve already done that with an anemic offensive output, and the Bills have lost key starters on defense, + the offense is struggling and they just fired their OC.

The first Dolphins game is at MetLife. Divisional games are always weird, and Jets Dolphins games in particularly are always very weird. We should be able to split with the Dolphins IF we can start scoring.

Comes down to Texans Falcons. Win 1/2 in this scenario and we could be a playoff team still.

So ik it seems hopeless because we can’t score, but against my better judgement I’m gonna say that that probably won’t continue to THIS extent.