The Jets' struggles for 2024 and the first week of 2025 come to an end Sunday at MetLife Stadium when they play host to Miami in a chill (low 30s, 15-30 mph winds) Meadowlands environment.

The Dolphins are in better position to still achieve something this season. If they can improve to 9-8 with a win over the Jets and a Denver loss at home to Kansas City, they would squeeze the Broncos out and themselves into the PO picture. The Jets (4-12), meanwhile, are fighting for a third-place or fourth-place schedule (they would finish 4th in the AFC East with a loss and a New England home win over Buffalo) for next season, plus top-10 draft position.

But that shouldn't alter the Jets' approach to this game. As interim HC Jeff Ulbrich said this past week:

"When times are good and we are playing well and the record is awesome and we are headed to the playoffs, easy to be a great teammate, easy to be a good player, easy to prepare," Brick said. "It is not easy to prepare when you are losing, when you are out of it, when all of the external noise is going on, and for guys to really demonstrate in times like this who they are, I think, is powerful going forward."

Both teams are banged up physically. The Jets removed two more reliable performers from their secondary for this game. They placed two-time Pro Bowl and All-Pro CB Sauce Gardner on injured reserve for this last game due to a hamstring issue, four days after S Chuck Clark went on the IR for a second time this season with a torn pectoral in the loss at Buffalo.

Also not unexpected was K Greg Zuerlein's return to IR with a back injury, and the unveiling of the Jets' fifth kicker this season. Joseph, who has kicked for Cleveland, Tennessee, Minnesota, and this season the Giants for 6 games and Washington for 1, is ready to go after a good week of practice He's converted 82.1% of his FG tries and 56,7% of his 50-yard tries (17-of-30).

The big injury for the 'Fins is to starting QB Tua Tagovailoa's hip, which kept him out of last week's 20-3 win at Cleveland and, from the tone of HC Mike McDaniel's reports, could sit him again vs. the Jets, against whom he has a 5-0 record. Tyler "Snoop" Huntley, except for the 4 sacks and 8 QB hits the Browns defense administered to Huntley, quarterbacked the Miami offense efficiently last week, and, with the Jets trying to find their way out of a recent pass-rush funk, could do it again in the Meadowlands. On Sunday, Tagovailoa was declared inactive,

But the Dolphins' big pass-catching targets are ailing if nothing more. Tyreek Hill isn't having his usual crazy season and although he's started all 16 games, he's been battling dual injuries. WR partner Jaylen Waddle has missed the last two games with a knee injury. Both were listed as questionable for the game and Hill didn't practice Friday due to waist and illness concerns. But both are active and ready to rock with the Jets.

Offensively, the Jets' skill players have several gaudy individual league goals to soot for in this season finale:

■ Aaron Rodgers has 499 regular-season touchdown passes in 247 career games and can become the 5th player in NFL history with 500 RS TDPs, joining Tom Brady (649), Drew Brees (571) and Hall of Famers Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508). Rodgers can also join Manning (244 games) as the only players to reach 500 RS TDPs in less than 250 career games.

■ Garrett Wilson needs 3 catches to become the 2nd Jet all-time to record 100-plus catches in a season. Brandon Marshall (109-1,502-14 TDs in 2015) is the only other Jet with 100 catches. With 81 receiving yards, Wilson will have 1,104 yards, which would be a career best, surpassing his 1,103 yards as a rookie in '22.

■ Davante Adams from Rodgers for one more TD pass vs MIA would give the dynamic duo 83 TD connections, RS and PO combined, and break their tie for 3rd place on the NFL's all-time list with Dan Marino and Mark Clayton, also at 83. Adams/Rodgers will not catch Marvin Harrison/Peyton Manning (114) or Jerry Rice/Steve Young (92) this year.

These are the Jets' seven inactive players for Sunday's game:

• S Jaylin Simpson
• CB Jarrick Bernard-Converse
• LB Jamin Davis
• CB Michael Carter
• DL Phidarian Mathis
• T Morgan Moses
• EDGE Braiden McGregor

And here are the Dolphins' seven inactives:

• QB Tua Tagovailoa
• LB Anthony Walker
• LB Mohamed Kamara
• OL Andrew Meyer
• OL Braden Daniels
• WR Dee Eskridge
• WR Erik Ezukanma