2011 New York Jets season

The 2011 season was the New York Jets' 42nd in the National Football League (NFL), their 52nd overall and their third under head coach Rex Ryan.

Despite sitting at 8–5 in early December, controlling their own destiny to make the postseason, the Jets lost their last three games and finished at 8–8. The team failed to improve upon their 11–5 record from 2010 and failed to reach the playoffs and the AFC Championship game for the first time since 2008, which also had a three-game losing streak to close the season. The Jets' 2011 season, from its lockout-impacted start to the team's losing streak that marked its end was chronicled extensively in Nicholas Dawidoff's 2013 book Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football. Beginning in the offseason, Dawidoff embedded himself with the team, primarily with defensive coordinator Mike Pettine and assistants Dennis Thurman and Mike Smith. This season began a lengthy postseason drought for the Jets; as of 2024, they have failed to qualify for the playoffs since 2011, with just one winning season in that time.