What on earth did New York football fans do to deserve this endless Giants and Jets dreck?

If you’re an NFL instrumentality who roots for 1 of nan New York shot teams and you’re not pissed off, disgusted and/or astatine nan extremity of your statement of patience, you astir apt don’t person a pulse.

Why can’t New York shot fans person bully things?

The Yankees made it to their first World Series successful 15 years.

The Mets roseate to salient relevance this season, winning 89 games and advancing to nan NLCS, wherever they gave nan heavy favored Dodgers a scare earlier they succumbed and sicced them connected nan Yankees.

The Knicks yet made nan Garden travel live past season, and person higher hopes for this one.

The Rangers, who didn’t moreover autumn from relevance aft Garden guidance sent that informing missive to season-ticket holders astir a rebuild, are 1 of nan champion teams successful nan NHL, a Stanley Cup favorite, having made it to nan convention finals successful 2 of nan past 3 seasons.

The Liberty conscionable celebrated their first WNBA title pinch a parade done nan Canyon of Heroes.

Both MLS locals, nan Red Bulls and NYCFC, are opening their playoff series. NYCFC won nan MLS Cup successful 2021 and nan Red Bulls, while still searching for their first MLS Cup, person been successful nan playoffs for 15 consecutive years.

Even nan Devils, Islanders and Nets person had their moments during nan decade-plus of unspeakable nonaccomplishment from nan Jets and Giants.

If you’re a instrumentality of nan perennially dysfunctional Jets and you aren’t rooting for nan full cognition to beryllium blown to bits for yet different commencement over, you’re nan astir optimistic quality being connected nan planet.

If you’re a instrumentality of nan Giants, who limped location Monday nighttime aft a 26-18 nonaccomplishment successful Pittsburgh, you cling to nan dream that ownership commits to immoderate continuity and gets caput coach Brian Daboll a young move backmost to develop.

What gives astir present pinch these shot teams?

The Jets, nary playoff appearances since 2010, look to beryllium doomed arsenic agelong arsenic proprietor Woody Johnson continues to unrecorded without immoderate mirrors successful his homes and plays imagination shot proprietor without copping to his ain accountability for nan messes he’s created.

Johnson, arsenic evidenced by his knee-jerk firing of caput coach Robert Saleh (the squad is 0-3 since and has gotten progressively worse successful nan process), continues to make rash decisions without due proposal from his “football people.’’

Whether Woody moreover has immoderate “football people” he listens to is very overmuch up for statement … unless you count Aaron Rodgers arsenic his “football people.’’

Both nan Jets and Giants are 2-6 entering this week’s games — nan Jets hosting 6-2 Houston connected Thursday nighttime and nan Giants hosting nan 6-2 Commanders connected Sunday.

Since their past playoff season, nan Jets are 79-140.

Since going 11-5 successful 2016 and losing nan wild-card playoff crippled successful Green Bay aft nan infamous Odell Beckham Jr. South Florida vessel travel during playoff week, nan Giants are 40-84-1, including their 2 playoff games successful Daboll’s first season.

How, successful this era of free agency, speedy fixes and a weighted collegiate draught system, does this benignant of bottom-barrel consistency beryllium pinch these 2 teams?

Why don’t we person promising young franchise quarterbacks group to lead our teams into nan future?

Who knows what Rodgers’ early is aft this season? Is he really readying connected 1 much spell astatine it successful 2025, and will he moreover beryllium welcomed back?

Daniel Jones’ early is much certain. The Giants cognize they person to move connected from him aft this season, erstwhile it’s financially feasible for them to extricate themselves from his statement and statesman anew. Jones seldom embarrasses himself, but besides seldom is bully enough.

Why don’t we person up-and-coming, head-coach-in-waiting adjunct coaches who are coveted by different franchises for illustration Detroit coordinators Ben Johnson connected discourtesy and Aaron Glenn (a erstwhile Jet, of course) connected defense?

What do we person to look guardant to pinch our shot teams astir here?

More embarrassing calamity from nan Jets?

More of nan aforesaid almost-but-not-good-enough from nan Giants?

I cognize Giants president, CEO and co-owner John Mara burns to triumph and is trying desperately to do it nan correct way, resisting nan burn-it-all-down urges of galore Giants fans.

I besides cognize Woody Johnson wants to win, based connected nan countless millions he’s spent (albeit not ever wisely). What I don’t cognize is whether he knows really to do it nan correct way, because he’s ne'er fixed america overmuch grounds that he does.

Jets and Giants fans should beryllium enraged, because they each merit better.

In nan tone of nan NFL’s waste and acquisition deadline looming adjacent week, connected Election Day of each days, my telephone speech coming pinch Post Deputy Sports Editor Mark Hale began pinch Hale proposing 2 tongue-in-cheek trades.

The Jets waste and acquisition their full squad to Baltimore for nan Ravens roster and nan Giants waste and acquisition theirs to Detroit for nan Lions roster truthful we tin person immoderate compelling, winning shot to watch astir here.

If only.