FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — It had been nearly two weeks since absurdity befell the Jets, an epoch in their tormented history.

The latest embarrassing episode did not play out on the field, where three years ago quarterback Mark Sanchez fumbled after ramming into an offensive lineman’s backside. Or at a lectern, where in 2010 Rex Ryan fielded questions about foot-fetish videos believed to feature him and his wife. Or in an office, where Bill Belichick handed the team president a note saying he had resigned as “HC of the NYJ” after one day on the job in 2000.

It happened in the locker room Tuesday morning, where a punch from a reserve linebacker connected with the jaw of the presumptive starting quarterback, another bizarre event in the franchise’s copious annals of mayhem.

The quarterback, Geno Smith, has a broken jaw and is expected to miss the next six to 10 weeks after Coach Todd Bowles said he was “cold-cocked, sucker-punched, whatever you want to call it” by Ikemefuna Enemkpali, who was quickly released.