4 interesting stats from the Jets’ Week 17 win over Bills

In Sunday’s win over the Bills, the Jets hung onto an ugly one and ended their season on a high note, finishing 6-2 after a 1-7 start.

A win is a win.

The Jets proved that with Sunday’s ugly 13-6 takedown of the Bills in Buffalo. With the Bills already locked into the No. 5 seed in the AFC playoffs, they held out mutiple starters and only played starting quarterback Josh Allen for two series.

From there it was the Matt Barkley show. In the pouring rain, the Bills backup quarterback was erratic, throwing two interceptions and fumbling once. Gregg Williams’ defensive unit held the Bills without a touchdown, while Adam Gase’s offense did just enough to win, despite two missed field goals from Sam Ficken.

Let’s take a look at some interesting stats from New York’s conclusion to the 2019 season.

NFL History

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With Sunday’s 13-6 win over the Bills, the Jets became the eighth team in NFL history to start 1-7 and finish 7-9 or better, according to the team’s website.

Since the start of 16-game schedules in 1978 (not including the strike-shortened 1982 campaign), 111 teams had started 1-7 or worse and only six teams finished 7-9 or better (5.4%).

The second half of the 2019 season marked the Jets’ best second-half finish since 2006.

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