BY NICK ST. DENIS
The New York Jets' season came crashing to an end Monday night in only a way that the Jets could manufacture.
After an absolutely deplorable showing by their offense, the Jets still had the ball at the Tennessee Titans' 25-yard line with just under a minute to go, down just four points and poised for an improbable scoring series that would keep their season alive for at least another week.
So it's only fitting that maybe the Jets' best player, center Nick Mangold, snaps the ball low, which gets kicked by running back Bilal Powell and ends up in the hands of the dismal Titans, who end the Jets' season on a play that says all anyone needs to know about Gang Green's 2012 condition.
Tennessee won 14-10.
"It hurts beyond belief," Jets coach Rex Ryan said, via Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. "Thing that hurts most is we got [no one] to blame but ourselves."
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez couldn't recover the muffed snap, which resulted in New York's fifth turnover -- four of which came the way of Sanchez interceptions.
It's a pretty insulting way to put away a defense that has earned its right to be considered for postseason contention.
New York's defensive players are hopefully seated in separate zones of the plane ride home from the offense.
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