Glenn blasts 'disappointing' Jets after sloppy loss

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- After watching 60 minutes of sloppy football, New York Jets manager Aaron Glenn ripped into his squad with a locker-room rant that was heard successful the adjacent media room. Glenn was hot, and understandably so.

The Jets dropped to 0-4 with a 27-21 nonaccomplishment to the Miami Dolphins connected Monday nighttime astatine Hard Rock Stadium -- a three-turnover, 13-penalty show that sparked vexation successful each corners of the locker room.

Glenn's post-game invective focused connected penalties and turnovers, according to players.

"It's obvious, but it inactive has to beryllium said due to the fact that we're inactive not doing it right," wide receiver Garrett Wilson said. "We're talking astir it, we're talking astir it and we're talking astir it. (Limiting penalties) is the archetypal happening we speech astir successful the locker room, truthful let's hole it adjacent week. If we don't hole it adjacent week, it's ridiculous."

An 0-4 commencement isn't that antithetic for the Jets -- it happened successful 2020 -- but Glenn finds himself successful a tiny fraternity of coaches that person experienced profound struggles. He joins Adams Gase (2019) and Lou Holtz (1976) arsenic the lone coaches who began their Jets vocation with 4 consecutive losses.

No Jets manager has started 0-5. The Jets big the Dallas Cowboys connected Sunday.

Cornerback Sauce Gardner, drafted the aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic Wilson (2022), is staring astatine the anticipation of a 4th consecutive losing season. The vexation was etched connected his look arsenic helium spoke softly successful a somber locker room.

"It's highly shocking," Gardner said. "I privation to win. Period, constituent blank. Obviously, erstwhile I was younger, coming into the league, I was conscionable similar -- me, Garrett, the young people, we person to bash our job. Now it's to the constituent wherever we're talking Year 4 close now."

After competitory losses to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Jets were assured against the antecedently winless Dolphins. They got disconnected to a promising start, marching 81 yards (mostly connected the ground) connected their archetypal possession.

Then, disaster.

On a first-and-goal from the Miami 6, moving backmost Braelon Allen mislaid a fumble astatine the 1 - the archetypal subordinate this play to suffer a fumble successful a goal-to-go situation. It was the archetypal fumble successful 20 vocation games; his nighttime ended early. Later, helium suffered a perchance superior genu injury.

Fields mislaid a fumble connected the 2nd possession, arsenic the Jets became the archetypal squad since 2020 to suffer fumble connected their archetypal 2 drives of a game. Isaiah Williams completed the chapeau trick, fumbling connected a kickoff. The Dolphins converted the turnovers successful 14 points.

"Very disappointing, precise disappointing," said Glenn, who had composed himself by the clip helium got to the interrogation podium. "There is nary mode you tin triumph immoderate crippled with 13 penalties and 3 turnovers. It conscionable can't happen."

Both teams began the nighttime with nary takeaways. The ended the nighttime with none, becoming lone the 5th squad successful the past 90 years to beryllium 0-4 with nary takeaways, according to ESPN Research.

When Glenn became the coach, helium vowed to destruct the team's longstanding punishment problem. On Monday night, they had 9 violative penalties, tied for their second-most successful a crippled implicit the past 25 years. Five were of the pre-snap vari...