The Jets fell to 5-18 under head coach Aaron Glenn in Sunday’s loss to the Patriots and their play at the end of the first half was looming.
New England pushed a 7-3 lead to a 17-3 edge with a field goal and a touchdown capped by a quick three-and-out by the Jets offense. That continues a trend that has occurred since Glenn took over before the 2025 season.
“Yeah, that’s something that—and I think you’ve heard me talk about it before, just the two-minute situation, that we’ve got to improve on that,” Glenn said after the game, via a transcript from the team. “I would have to say the offense and defense, we need to improve on that. We need to be able to position the ball more to get going and stress their defense to try to score points. Defensively you have to make sure we stop them when we get that opportunity.”
According to Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, the Jets is outscored 119-49 in the final two minutes of halves — they traded field goals with New England late in the fourth quarter on Sunday — since Glenn became their coach. That doesn’t include Glenn’s last minute management in a Week 2 loss to the Packers because no points were scored as Glenn sat out timeouts instead of pushing to get the ball back before overtime.
Green Bay would go on to win and the entire package illustrates the situational struggles that have characterized Glenn’s run with the Jets. His lack of awareness in those moments angered many Jets fans and they got more fuel for that fire before the second half started on Sunday. In an interview with Aditi Kinkhabwala of CBS, Glenn seems to believe his team gets the ball to start the third quarter when it’s actually the other way around.