'Jets being Jets': Fitzpatrick sums up team's latest puzzling loss — SkimNews
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- New York Jets scored on their first six possessions Sunday but lost 38-33 to the Las Vegas Raiders, extending their losing streak to three games and becoming the second team since 2000 to lose after scoring on its first six possessions; the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did it in 2019.
- Geno Smith passed for 290 yards as the Jets amassed a season-high 439 yards, with Braelon Allen adding 147 rushing yards and Adonai Mitchell 142 receiving yards; New York scored touchdowns on only two of six red-zone trips.
- Aaron Glenn’s defense allowed 24 points in the second half and 92 combined over the past three games; the Jets generated one sack while Kirk Cousins passed for three touchdowns, including two to Brock Bowers.
- Ashton Jeanty caught a 45-yard pass that set up the Raiders’ go-ahead field goal in the fourth quarter, after New York had led 30-21 with 8:26 remaining in the third.
- Minkah Fitzpatrick called the second-half downturn “bad penalties, bad mistakes” and “Jets being Jets”; his comment gained immediate traction on social media, and a Jets spokesperson said two hours later that he meant “Jets beating the Jets.”
- Aaron Glenn has lost 20 of 25 games in his tenure, while the Jets sit at 2-6 with a 1-5 record in one-score games; the franchise is staring at an 11th straight losing season and a 16th straight year outside the playoffs, the longest active drought in North American sports.
Why it matters: Aaron Glenn’s defense is the clearest pressure point behind the Jets’ 2-6 record: it allowed 24 second-half points and 92 across three games, while the offense produced a season-high 439 yards but only two touchdowns in six red-zone trips. With Glenn’s job security already a burning issue, his self-described defensive “superpower” is under direct scrutiny.
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