Already it was the season that wouldn’t die. Leave it to the Jets to make the unwatchable interminable.

Only the Jets could take the final second of play in a meaningless game late in a lost season and turn it into 17 breathless seconds of slow-motion train wreck.

The Jets were up by five when the Titans took the game’s final snap on their own 42-yard line. A short completion to Dexter McCluster, an immediate shovel pass back to Nate Washington, his backwards run and across-the-field throwback to Charlie Whitehurst later and Tennessee was in business. Whitehurst crossed midfield and in full stride lateraled to Delanie Walker, who appeared to have a clear path to the end zone.