Aaron Glenn had every reason to be frustrated after the Jets got rolled in Chicago on Sunday, because this one went well beyond the 23-12 final.
New York lost to the Bears on the road, but the scoreboard barely captured how one-sided it was. Chicago piled up 492 total yards to the Jets’ 157, owned the ball for 42:45 compared with New York’s 17:15, and ran 89 plays while the Jets managed only 32. The Bears even had two more first downs than the Jets had plays.
The one area where New York did win was turnovers. The Jets finished plus-2 there and picked off a pass for the first time since January 5, 2025. But those takeaways never came close to offsetting an offense that never got anything going.
After the game, Glenn didn’t hide from the mess. Via SNY, he said, "I'm very, very disappointed on a number of different levels," and added, "This was basically just not playing complimentary football at its best.
The penalties, which negated a couple of turnovers that we had, were tough. That's tough to live with.
For the defense to go out there for 90 plays ... I think our offense had 30 plays ... it's tough to get something going in that situation."
For a Jets team that opened the season with some encouraging signs, Sunday felt like a sharp step backward. They had beaten the Tennessee Titans 23-10 on the road in Week 1, then pushed the Green Bay Packers to overtime in Week 2 before falling 20-17, and followed that with a 31-24 road loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 3 after Geno Smith lost a fumble on the drive that could have tied the game.
That three-game stretch at least suggested progress for a roster that went 3-14 in Glenn’s first season and tied the Las Vegas Raiders for the NFL’s worst record last year. This offseason, the Jets added three first-round picks and brought in veterans including Minkah Fitzpatrick, Geno Smith, T’Vondre Sweat and Joseph Ossai. With that kind of investment, ugly blowouts are no longer easy to excuse.
That’s why the Bears loss carries extra weight. New York didn’t just lose - it looked a lot like the 2025 version of the team again, and that’s the last thing Glenn can afford as the heat around him starts to rise.
The next chance to steady things comes against the Cleveland Browns, who are 3-1. If the Jets come up short again, the case for keeping Glenn in place gets a lot harder to make.
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