Bills Set to Host Jets in Regular Season Finale | What is the AFC East Outlook Moving Forward?

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Buffalo Bills gear up for their final game at Highmark Stadium against a struggling New York Jets squad, but is a walkover really guaranteed? Joe Marino and John Butchko break down what’s at stake, from Josh Allen’s playoff chances to how the Bills’ wild card position could actually play in their favor this year. Plus, the show takes stock of the AFC East chaos: are the Patriots’ surprise turnaround and Drake Maye’s MVP push for real, and what do the Jets need to fix before next season? It’s not just game talk—big questions about Aaron Glenn’s future as Jets head coach land on the table, while the Dolphins face huge decisions at quarterback and GM. The guys cap it off with a fun AFC East player draft, putting stars like James Cook, Garrett Wilson, and Jalen Waddle on the board. It’s all the highs, lows, and hot topics for fans who live for AFC East drama.

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0:00.0	What's at stake for the bills in week 18? What's up with the Jets? And a big picture discussion
0:07.0	regarding the AFC East is coming your way today on Crossover Thursday.
0:17.7	You are locked on NFL crossover part part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:28.1	Happy New Year to you and welcome into this crossover Thursday episode of Locked on Bills and Locked on Jets.
0:34.3	We're both proud members of the Lockdown Podcast Network,
0:37.6	the number one sports podcast network.
0:40.3	And, of course, we'd like to issue a big thank you.
0:42.2	Shout out and welcome to our everydayers.
0:44.3	Those of you who never miss a single episode,
0:46.8	we appreciate y'all being here very, very much.
0:49.5	Crossover Thursday is presented by prize picks.
0:52.3	Download the prize picks app today and use code Lockdown NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. I'm Joe Marino from Lockdown Bills. That's John Buchko, the host of Lockdown Jets. And we're here to talk Bill's versus Jets. But we're also going to talk about the overall status of the AFC East. And we're going to do a super fun division draft to close out the podcast.
1:14.1	John, welcome in, and I'm excited to have some fun with you here today on this episode.
1:19.1	Joe, I will have a lot of fun with you in this episode, but it has not been a fun time for the New York Jets over the last, well, for the last 15 years, but particularly
1:27.5	the last month of the season. Yeah, it's, it's certainly been a choice, right? I mean, you trade away
1:33.5	your best players, you're putting a UDFA quarterback out there with receivers that have been on
1:38.7	the team for like just a few weeks. A lot of very significant talent is on injured reserve.
1:47.1	It's not really about winning games right now for the Jets. It's the big picture piece of this and how they're going to leverage their
1:52.8	assets moving forward to have better conversations when we're talking about week 18 in future
1:58.2	years. Absolutely. The Jets will enter this offseason with quite a bit
2:02.5	of salary cap space. Most projections have them among the top five teams in terms of cap space
2:07.3	heading into the offseason. Part of that is they unloaded a couple of big contracts at the deadline,
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