Jets give fans treat after nearly grabbing defeat from jaws of victory in blunder-filled win

And for the latest Stupid Jet Trick …

They won a game in spite of themselves.

For that, the Jets should be praised, ending a five-game losing streak with a frightful but guileful 21-13 win over the Texans on Halloween night at a half-empty MetLife Stadium. 

The winning points came from an acrobatic one-handed catch of an Aaron Rodgers jump-ball pass by receiver Garrett Wilson in the end zone.

It was Wilson’s Odell Beckham Jr. moment. 

The 26-yard scoring catch came on a third-and-19 from the Houston 26-yard line with 12:54 remaining in the game and gave the Jets a 14-10 lead at the time.

It was the second consecutive impactful week for Wilson, who had a monster game Sunday at New England in a losing cause. So, salute Wilson for breaking out of a slump, for which he chastised himself three games ago after having a Rodgers pass bounce off his chest and turn into a damaging interception in Pittsburgh.

But celebrate the Jets at your own risk, because for the entirety of the first half, they did everything they possibly could to hand this game to the Texans, like that generous neighborhood family who gives away the most candy to trick or treaters.

They trailed 7-0 in a game that should have, at the very least, been tied at 7-7 — had it not been for the Jets’ dumbest trick of the game and the season.

Allow us to introduce you to Malachi Corley.

If you’d forgotten about Corley, a third-round draft pick out of Western Kentucky, you’d be easily forgiven, since he entered Thursday with exactly one touch on offense this season — a 4-yard reception Sept. 15 at Tennessee.

Corley’s second NFL touch came on the first play of the second quarter, and it was a memorable one. He got the ball on a perfectly executed toss right and rambled into the end zone from 19 yards out, untouched by a Houston defender.

It was a rare glorious moment in what has been an utterly inglorious Jets season to date. Until it wasn’t.

As it turned out, Corley performied a too-cool-for-school trick — pretending as if he’d been the end zone before even though he hadn’t. He dropped the ball before he crossed the plane of the end zone.

The ball bounced out of the end zone, meaning not only was the Corley touchdown nullified, but the Texans got possession of the ball on a touchback.

“It’s unacceptable,’’ interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said at halftime of the Corley gaffe. “He knows that. He’ll learn from that and grow from that and I’ve got a feeling he’s going to make up for that.’’

That make-up day will have to wait for later because Corley (who bolted from the locker room before reporters were permitted inside) never got any closer to getting his hands on the ball the rest of the game than the handful of spectators sitting up in Section 315.

For a Jets team that entered the game having averaged 16.4 points per game during the losing streak and was starved for offensive touchdowns, this was a big deal.

“Definitely frustrated, to be honest,’’ said Ulbrich, who finally broke through with his first victory after three losses following the firing of Robert Saleh.

“And,’’ Ulbrich added, “angry at the same time.’’

The Corley play looked like it was destined to go down in infamy alongside the long list of boners. Because in the Jets’ world, these are the way things usually pan out.

It put added pressure to excel on a team that had done little excelling all year.

“It was kind of season on the line in the second half,’’ Rodgers said. “To go to 2-7 would have been real tough.’’

Then the Jets scored 21 second-half points in the win.

Fortunately for the Jets, though, they have Wilson, who finished with nine receptions for 90 yards and the remarkable go-ahead TD catch. And they have Adams, who caught seven passes for 91 yards and the 37-yard, game-sealing TD for a late 21-10 lead in his best game since the Jets brought him in.

And they have Rodgers, who showed grit despite a rough first half and finished 22 of 32 for 211 yards with three TD passes and no turnovers.

“We’ve been waiting for this offense to wake up,’’ Rodgers said. “That’s the standard I have to play to. Hopefully, this gives us confidence that we can beat anybody.’’