Still, there were a few moments Sunday when Favre looked as if he was channeling his lone Jets season, raising the question of whether another late-season tailspin is coming up as rapidly as the gray hair in his beard.
Monday, on the 40th anniversary of the Jets' lone Super Bowl championship, Buddy Ryan, a defensive assistant on that team, talked about Rex's qualifications to become the Jets' next head coach.
It was a fitting indictment that the Jets' lone touchdown was scored by an offensive lineman who fell on a fumble in the end zone.
He won N.F.L. titles with the Colts in 1958 and 1959 and played a significant role in the Jets' lone Super Bowl victory in January 1969.
Chrebet became the first Hofstra player to see N.F.L. playing time since John Schmitt, who, in 1969, was one of two Hofstra players on the Jets' lone Super Bowl champion.
Darrelle Revis of the Jets, the lone corner in the league on Asomugha's level, excels at these instant changes in direction and acceleration.
Now, Childress has become the second coach to lose his job in part because of Favre's foibles, following Eric Mangini, who was fired after the 2008 season, Favre's lone year with the Jets.
In his lone game against the Jets last season, Henry rushed for a career-high 113 yards on 19 carries, for a 5.9-yard average, but a knee injury cost him the last three games of 2001.
Perhaps the lone flaw in the Jets' thinking was that, in Garrard, they counted on a 35-year-old who had not played in the N.F.L. since 2010 because of back and knee injuries to remain healthy all the way through the season.
In some instances, it is the jets of lone rogues that are seen.
