NEW YORK – The New York Jets fired head coach Adam Gase, president and CEO Christopher Johnson said in a statement Sunday after the team’s fourteenth loss of the season.
The Jets 2-14 ended the year with their fifth consecutive losing season, the longest streak in the franchise’s 61-year history. They also lost the playoffs for the 10th consecutive season, his worst postseason drought since the 1970s.
The only silver lining for the team’s fans had been the prospect of landing the first overall pick in the Draft of the 2021 NFL and, in theory, take Clemson’s quarterback Trevor Lawrence. But the team had a surprise win over the Rams and then another win over the Browns, leaving the Jaguars as the coveted pick.
Gase has faced criticism since last season, his first as the team’s coach, with football viewers writing on Twitter: #firegase or fire Gase.
In five seasons as the NFL’s head coach (the first three with the Dolphins), Gase has only had one winning season, when he was 10-6 in 2016, his first year as head coach in Miami. Since then, he has compiled a 22-22 record, with just a 9-23 record in New York.
The Jets are poised to end with their second worst record in franchise history, or with a victory in Week 17 they would match the 3-13 record the 1995 team finished with. The only worst season came the following year. in 1996, when the team managed to win just one game.
Despite having one of the worst records in the league, Gase’s firing remains a surprise. Historically, the Jets hate getting rid of coaches quickly; They haven’t fired a coach during the season since the early 1970s.
But this has been an especially active year for impatient NFL owners, with Gase now the fourth head coach to lose his job this season.
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