Bowles doesn’t want Jets looking past Browns

The New York Jets insisted they weren’t listening when all the talk was about how awful they’d be this season.

Now that they’re one of the NFL’s early season surprises at 2-2 and favored by some to beat winless Cleveland, they’re not buying into that hype, either.

“We’re not good enough to look past anybody,” coach Todd Bowles said Thursday. “Really, we’re not. We just work every day to get better from the week before.”

That’s the dose of reality Bowles provides his players at every opportunity, saying earlier this week that the Jets have no reason to get “big-headed” despite consecutive wins over Miami and Jacksonville.

“We’re 2-2, we’re .500,” Bowles said. “That’s nothing to brag about. We have to get better in a lot of areas each week. We made some mistakes in the Jacksonville game (that) we have to get better at, and we have to keep building.”

After all, the Jets still rank 29th in run defense and have only six sacks this season. Their passing offense is 26th and hardly strikes fear into defenses.

But at 0-4, the Browns are a desperate opponent — one that likely expected a better start after a 1-15 season a year ago. Cleveland is 2-29 since an overtime win at Baltimore — led by current Jets quarterback Josh McCown — and that matches the worst 31-game stretch in league history.

Rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer leads the NFL with eight interceptions and he also has the NFL’s worst quarterback rating at 36.3.

So, the Jets should be licking their chops, right? After all, the AFC East is wide open with New England off to a surprisingly mediocre start at 2-2, Miami sitting at 1-2 and Buffalo leading the division at 3-1.