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The New York Jets have a gaping hole to fill at quarterback after veteran Brett Favre announced his retirement from the NFL for about the tenth time. (So when will he be back?)

All kidding aside, it really looks like Favre has left the game for good this time and the Jets will need to find someone capable of replacing him. While he didn't play well down the stretch, he was still way better than any of their other options at the position last year.

The Jets were very interested in trading for both Matt Cassell and Jay Cutler, but neither deal went down. Cassell had zero chance of happening with the New England Patriots in their division while the Denver Broncos preferred to trade Cutler outside of the AFC.

It's tough to compete in a division with Tom Brady when your team doesn't have a quarterback who can at least somewhat match up with him. The rest of the team simply isn't good enough to overcome a bad quarterback, and very few teams around the NFL are capable of that.

It certainly doesn't help that the Jets will have to play the AFC South and NFC South this year. Both divisions have been among the NFL's best over the past few years and provide very few easy wins.

Speaking of not getting much help, take a look at the beginning of New York's schedule. They play at Houston before hosting the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans. Then they travel to New Orleans and Miami for back-to-back road games.

The one bit of good news is that they get the Cincinnati Bengals and Oakland Raiders outside of their assigned division opponents, which is a gift from the scheduled Gods.

Still, it's going to be a tough road ahead with a difficult schedule and a major question mark at the quarterback position.