Adam Gase will return to Miami the same way he left it: as a losing head coach on the hot seat.

Many expected Gase, now running the Jets, to be a better coach his second time around because of his experience and creativity on the offensive side of the ball. Turns out, he’s learned nothing from his previous head coaching stop.

Sam Darnold, who was supposed to become a star under Gase’s watch, has regressed. The offensive line play and play-calling have been equally bad, but Darnold is still making the same mistakes he made in college and in his rookie season. The Jets head coach even admitted after his team’s 29-15 loss to the Jaguars that he is not putting Darnold in the correct position to succeed.

No matter what you think about Gase, the Jets have only eclipsed 16 points one time this season. That was excusable when Luke Falk was under center, but not anymore. With Sunday’s 29-15 loss to the Jaguars, Gase now has more career losses by double-digits than he does total wins.

With the Jets reeling at 1-6, Gase is in danger of losing his locker room and his job once again. Gase had supporters in the locker room down in South Beach, but Dolphins owner Stephen Ross couldn’t overlook a 23-25 record through three seasons.

“We need to focus on winning a game,” Gase said. “The fact that I was there last year is irrelevant.”

Maybe that’s true, but there is some symbolism at play. The Jets brass should be inching closer and closer to same realization the Dolphins made as Gase returns to Miami for the first time since he was fired nine months ago. Gase’s former team is one of the worst in recent NFL history, but that’s by design. The Dolphins are essentially trying to lose games and a loss to them would be rock bottom for a head coach who has already lost support from the fanbase and has unnerved the media from his snide press conferences.

In three seasons in Miami, Gase exited with a losing record. The coach led the Dolphins to a 10-6 record and a playoff appearance in his first year with the organization. The past two years, he compiled a 13-19 record. After jumping out to a 3-0 start to the 2018 season, Miami finished 7-9.

The Dolphins ranked 24th in the NFL in yards and 17th in points during their 2016 wild-card season. They then dipped to 25th in yards and 28th in points in 2017 and 31st and 26th last year.

After becoming the next head coach of the Jets, Gase was propped up as an offensive genius and quarterback whisperer, even coming with a recommendation from Peyton Manning. Now, the Jets are in the stage of having buyer’s remorse.

The Jets hired Gase partly because he went 5-1 against them during his time in Miami and due to his past success working with quarterbacks. If anything, Gase has beaten the Jets himself and Darnold has only regressed under his direction.

Now, the prospect of a loss to the winless Dolphins would be demoralizing, especially if the head coach can’t rally his troops out of a funk to beat the team that fired him nine months prior.