At 1-6, the Jets season has likely been over for a few weeks. Thursday night's loss to the Patriots simply confirmed what football fans have been privy to since a Week 2 meltdown against the Packers: The Jets continue to invent ways to lose.

Truly awful NFL teams -- Raiders, Bucs, Jaguars -- lose on a week-to-week basis because of a dearth of talent. Teams like the Jets -- flawed, but not without skilled players and bright coaches -- are more frustrating to watch lose on a weekly basis.

On Thursday night, the Jets looked like the better team, played like the better team and -- if not for a strange sequence of events before Nick Folk's 58-yard field goal attempt -- may have walked away with a victory.

Yet they didn't. In the process, the Jets became the first team in NFL history lose despite rushing for 200-plus yards, holding the ball for 40-plus minutes and committing zero turnovers.

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'Same old Jets' is a cliche some fans hate, but for the 2014 team, it's a weekly exercise in finding ways to lose.

Was last night the worst loss of the season thus far? Did you walk away with any positives from the defeat? Why can't the Jets seem to pull out a close game?

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