Even with a past-his-prime Favre playing for them in 2008, he still led them to a 9-7 and would've clinched a WC spot if they hadn't lost in the final regular-season game to a Miami team led by former Jets QB and (criminally underrated) QB Chad Pennington coming in and pulling off the upset and ultimately, winning a AFC East division title that in retrospect, neither team likely gets anywhere close to if Tom Brady hadn't been knocked out for that entire season in Week 1 vs. Chiefs when a Chiefs LB tore his ACL on a low, borderline dirty hit that if it happened today to a Mahomes or Josh Allen, would see large sections of Chiefs and Bills fans being forcibly held back from storming the field to settle the score with the butt crevasse who seemingly tried to end a NFL legend's career.
9-7 is a record most Jets fans would be delicious for now since they haven't had a winning season in almost 8 seasons and that was when a plucky, cheeky underrated QB by the name of Ryan Fitzpatrick was their starter. A well-traveled, quirky, but sometimes successful, streaky QB who was capable of throwing 350 yards and 4 TD's for 1-2 games, then go 13-28, pass 240 yards while throwing 1 TD and a couple of picks in the subsequent next 3-4 games.