Jets won’t let losing splinter locker room

After three straight losses, the Jets are doing their best to stick together.

It would be easy to see this team splinter with the defense playing as well as it did Sunday and the offense playing as badly as it did. The locker room was tense after the 13-6 loss to the Dolphins, with players expressing frustration, but the Jets swear they won’t fall apart.

“If we start dividing now, if coaches start dividing from players or players from players or coaches from coaches — any type of division in this organization — it’s only going to hinder us,” defensive end Leonard Williams said Monday.

Williams said the main message Monday was for them to battle through this adversity together.

“It’s time to come closer together as a team and as a family and as a brotherhood,” Williams said. “When times are starting to get hard that’s when we have to face adversity arm-in-arm. We have to come together and face it as a team.”

At 3-6, the Jets desperately need a win. They get the hapless Bills on Sunday at MetLife Stadium with a chance to enter their bye week off a win.

“I think it’s huge. It’s our next game. It’s a division rivalry,” Jets coach Todd Bowles said. “We let a couple of them go, especially this tough one we just lost [Sunday]. We gave ourselves a chance to win at the end, and we didn’t pull it out. Winning takes care of a lot of problems and a lot of issues. It’s important for us to win the next ballgame.”

Bowles again explained his decision to stick with center

Spencer Long for as long as he did despite Long struggling mightily with his shotgun snaps.

“He was healthy. He had a great week of practice,” Bowles said. “He’s our starting center. If he’s healthy enough to play, he plays. When we saw the finger start giving him more issues than normal, we replaced him with Jonotthan [Harrison].”

Bills coach Sean McDermott left open the possibility that rookie quarterback Josh Allen could return for Sunday’s game. Allen has not played since Oct. 14 because of an elbow injury. McDermott said if Allen can’t play, Derek Anderson would be the quarterback if he clears the concussion protocol. It is clear the Bills do not want Nathan

Peterman to play this week.