The can follow and the ' footsteps in going from picking in the top five of the in consecutive years to playing postseason football in the 2022 season. Sounds crazy. Yes, the Jets' 11-season playoff drought is the longest active postseason dry spell in the . The last time Gang Green made the playoffs, head coach Rex Ryan, cornerback , quarterback , and running Drake London Jersey back LaDainian Tomlinson were in the midst of leading New York to a second straight AFC Championship Game appearance in 2010.However, change at the top is constant in the NFL. There hasn't been a repeat champion since the 2003-04 , the longest drought of having a back-to-back Super Bowl champion in NFL history. Also, since 1990 (32 straight seasons), at least four teams have qualified for the playoffs in every season that were not in the postseason the year before, including at least seven new playoff teams in three of the last five seasons.Team2020 record2021 record6-1010-7Bengals4-11-110-78-811-66-1012-54-11-19-8Patriots7-910-78-810-7From their head coach and offensive coordinator background, a second-year quarterback coming off a rookie year with plenty of bruises to their talent acquisition styles, the Bengals are clearly the most logical comparison for the Jets when examining the seven teams that joined the postseason party last season after being left on the outside looking in during the 2020 season.Much of the ever-growing popularization of the outside-zone running/play-action scheme run by the Bengals and head coach Zac Taylor as well as the Jets and head coach Robert Saleh can be traced back to Marcus Mariota Jersey stints as an NFL head coach with the and the now-Washington . 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan (Mike's son), head coach Sean McVay, head coach Matt LaFleur, and head coach Mike McDaniel all worked under the elder Shanahan in Washington.Taylor apprenticed under McVay in Los Angeles as an a sistant wide receivers coach and quarterbacks coach before becoming the bo s in Cincinnati. Saleh and Jets offensive coordinator and play-caller Mike LaFleur, Matt's younger brother, both worked under Kyle in San Francisco, with Saleh serving as defensive coordinator and Mike as the offensive pa sing game coordinator. The scheme has helped generations of quarterbacks to some of the best years of their careers, including Hall of Famer John Elway, future Hall of Famer and back-to-back NFL MVP , one of the NFL's career leaders in completion percentage , and game managers and . This leads into the next point of comparison: the quarterbacks.Both Joe Burrow, the first overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, and , the second overall pick by the Jets in the 2021 NFL draft, had rough entrances into the NFL. Burrow was sacked 32 times in the first 10 weeks of the 2020 season, second-most in the league in that span ahead of only during his last season with the Eagles. That punishment led to Burrow tearing the ACL and MCL in his knee, cutting his first season short following Week 10. The Bengals quarterback bounced back Keith Brooking Jersey in Year 2, earning AP Comeback Player of the Year honors while leading the NFL in completion percentage (70.4%) and yards per pa s attempt (8.9) and being the NFL's second-highest rated pa ser (108.3 pa ser rating) behind only MVP Aaron Rodgers. Oh, and he had the Bengals one score away from winning the Super Bowl.Clearly, it would be jaw-dropping for Wilson to accomplish all of that in his second year, too. Although, simply taking a HUGE step forward with an improved supporting cast isn't out of the question. Wilson already flashed signs of growth after a knee injury of his own in his rookie season. Following a PCL injury in his knee that knocked him out for four games from Weeks 8-11, Wilson had a positive TD-INT ratio (5-2) and became much more of a running threat.Before injury (Weeks 1-7)After injury (Weeks 12-18)Pa s TD-INT4-95-1*Pa ser rating63.575.2Rushing yards22163Rushing TD04The post-injury Wilson at the end of last season led Jets general manager Joe Douglas to completely buy into Wilson being Jets' quarterback going forward."I 100% see greatne s," Douglas said on in April. "I see a young quarterback that really went through the ringer to start the year. And what was most encouraging about Zach was when he came back, he maybe had one turnover over the last six games. He was taking care of the football. He was playing within the scheme."Wilson said he has added 13 pounds of muscle to run his weight up to 221 pounds this offseason, and Jets head coach Robert Saleh has liked what he has seen in the team's offseason workouts so far."He looks good, he looks confident his shoulders are back, he's not caved in," Saleh before the team's second practice of organized team activities. "He's confident, he's smiling, he's vocal."You can always tell the confidence level and their understanding of what they're being asked to do by the volume of their voice. And he's getting pretty loud."A critical variable for the Jets to po sibly make some noise and fly into the playoffs this season is their rapid accumulation of talent surrounding Wilson, not unlike the way the Bengals beefed up their supporting Olamide Zaccheaus Jersey cast around Burrow.In 2019, the Bengals used their first round draft pick, 11th overall, to select their left tackle . In 2020, the Jets used their first round draft pick, 11th overall, to select their left tackle . Both have lost about a season to a season-and-a-half of their careers because of injuries, with Williams mi sing his entire rookie season with a shoulder injury as well as the last six games of his second season with a knee injury. Becton mi sed the final 16 games of his second season in 2021 with a knee injury. A key factor in the Bengals making the leap in their first round left tackle's third season was his health, as he mi sed only one game, playing in 16. The Jets will need the same from Becton in his third season if Wilson is going to have what he needs -- time to throw -- to succeed.After both teams picked their face-of-the-franchise signal-callers within the first two picks of the draft, they supplemented their supporting casts. Cincinnati kicked off the second round of Burrow's draft in 2020 with wide receiver joining them at pick 33. The Jets used draft capital from trading Pro Bowl safety to the to add more offensive line help with at pick 14 in the first round, and then added another receiver at the top of the second round, taking 34th in 2021.With both teams picking in the top five again after their quarterbacks' rookie seasons, the Bengals reunited Burrow with his LSU teammate, wide receiver with the fifth overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. The Jets had three first round picks in the 2022 Draft -- fourth, 10th and 26th -- with the latter two coming from trades. New York selected cornerback , wide receiver , and linebacker Jermaine Johnson, respectively, ending up with a corner who hadn't allowed a single pa sing TD in college, one of the Big Ten's best pa s-catchers, and the ACC's sacks Ta'Quon Graham Jersey and tackles-for-lo