N.Y. Jets wide receiver compares team's season to wearing a dirty diaper

Neither are pleasant.
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Jacob Lauing
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N.Y. Jets wide receiver compares team's season to wearing a dirty diaper
Dirty diapers are not pleasant. Neither was the Jets 2016 season. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

The New York Jets were not good in 2016.

With the sixth worst offense in the NFL, a tense locker room environment and a 5-11 record, the Jets ended up at the bottom of the AFC East, a scenario wide receiver Brandon Marshall compared to wearing a dirty diaper.

"The best way I can describe it is having a diaper on and never changing it, and just sitting in that diaper the whole year," Marshall said on Showtime's Inside the NFL. "That's how our year was. It was a bad year."


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He has reason to be bitter.

In 2016, Marshall notched his lowest touchdown total since 2010 and his lowest career reception tally as a starter. He can blame it on Ryan Fitzpatrick, one of the league's worst quarterbacks, or his own vocal tendencies, which have been known to divide locker rooms and squash team chemistry.

Either way, the Jets have their hands full as they try to recover from a soiled 2016 season.

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Jacob Lauing

Jacob is Mashable's Sports Intern. He graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where he studied journalism and served as editor-in-chief of Mustang News, Cal Poly's student newspaper. Some of Jacob's favorite activities include watching baseball, playing music and eating bagels.

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