The Jets somehow keep finding new ways to lose football games

The New York Jets, historically, are a losing football team. Yes, they've won a Super Bowl championship, which is more than a lot of teams in the NFL can say, but especially in this modern era, they're a perennial loser.

They're such losers, in fact, that they consistently find new ways to lose football games. Whether that be penalties, turnovers, blown leads- you name it. The Jets have lost a game in every possible fashion.

Which is why it should come as no surprise that in their Week 2 loss to the Green Bay Packers, the Jets found yet another way to lose a football game. ESPN's Rich Cimini shared a statistic that will likely make fans' blood boil after choking away such a winnable game.

The Jets are the first team in NFL history to lose a game where they held an opponent to less than 200 yards, their opponent had over 100-plus penalty yards, and they won the turnover battle. Previous teams were 44-0 under those circumstances. Until Sunday.

New York Jets find a new turnover low in loss to Green Bay Packers

In what is a new low for a team that is already fairly familiar with the floor, the Jets just can't seem to get out of their own way when trying to turn things around.

The worst part about this defeat is how easily it could've gone the other way. Set aside the coaching miscues, botched clock management, and other on-field mental mistakes from players, and think about the fact that the Packers fumbled the football five times, and the Jets only managed to jump on it once.

In what was a wet, rainy day at MetLife Stadium, all the Jets needed to do was scoop up one more of those loose balls, and things might have been different. Call it what you want, but defensive back Andre Cisco referred to it as flat-out bad luck.

"It's like luck of the draw a lot of the time, if I'm being honest, there's also a lot of effort within getting to the ball. But sometimes it's just when it happens, who's over there. So we'll have to see exactly what's happening on those plays and be honest with yourself... But for us to only get one back is obviously, doesn't happen often."

Phrases like "luck of the draw" or "doesn't happen often" feel incredibly fitting when talking about the Jets. They're a team that is typically on the wrong side of luck, and most of the time, it's because of their own undoing.

Whether it's finding a new way to lose or failing to jump on more than one loose football, things just don't seem to be turning around quickly enough in New York, and that responsibility falls on the man tasked with making the changes.

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