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Bowles wouldn't view Jets missing playoffs as failure

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The New York Jets came one win short of making the playoffs last season, and if they had the same result in 2016, it wouldn't be a total letdown, according to head coach Todd Bowles.

"I wouldn't say it would be a failure (if we missed the playoffs)," Bowles told Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. "You have growing pains.... You want to make the playoffs. That's our goal. You're pissed that you don't make it. Ultimately there's only one team happy at the end of the year. We want to go to the playoffs. I don't know if it's going to be a success or a failure, but we need to get to the playoffs and we need to expand from there."

Last year was the closest the Jets got to a postseason appearance since they last made the playoffs in 2010.

Bowles is entering his second season as the team's head coach, and he believes in coaching his hardest and letting the cards fall where they may.

"I don't feel any pressure," he said. "I do what I always do. I coach football. I've been on good teams when I thought we'd be good ... and we were terrible. I've been on teams when I didn't think we had much talent ... and we were very good. So, as a coach, you just prepare and try to make each game the best game you can. And at the end of the year, when you look up, you want to be standing at the top."

While he denies feeling the pressure of coaching in New York, the 52-year-old concedes his job will ultimately rely on winning games, whether it's in this season or the next.

"You get paid to win games," Bowles said. "That's what we do. It's a different profession than most. We get paid off results, not off of getting better and losing."

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