The Jets are a mess. But they’re not the most hopeless franchise in the NFL

Woody Johnson fired Robert Saleh just five weeks into the season. But there are plenty of other teams whose futures look bleak

Ownership: Culture is a nebulous term in sports, one of those know-it-when-you-see-it things, but few things are more evident than the Jets culture being rotten under Woody Johnson. They have not made the playoffs since the 2010 season, pirouetting from short-term fixes to visions of long-term rebuilds, without the patience to see the team through difficult spells. It is a short list of owners who would axe a coach five weeks into a season because they were maybe-possibly embarrassed in front of their friends, but if any owner would, it's Johnson.