Aaron Glenn’s handling of the clock was once again under the microscope Sunday, and this time it came with the Jets already looking shaky against a Dolphins team that had yet to win a game.
The sequence that drew the most heat came late in the first half. New York had three timeouts, but Miami was still allowed to bleed the clock all the way down to 20 seconds while moving the ball up the field. That decision did not sit well with those watching closely.
“The Jets have three timeouts and let the Dolphins run it all the way down to 20 seconds while marching up the field. End of half Aaron Glenn,” Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Rosenblatt made it clear the moment stayed with him.
“My brain is still frozen in time on this. I remain baffled,” Rosenblatt wrote.
The reaction from the crowd matched the frustration online, with fans booing the Jets as they headed into the locker room.
Then, to open the third quarter, Glenn added a little humor after last week’s confusion over the offense getting the ball. He joked:
#Jets HC Aaron Glenn with a sense of humor in his interview out of the locker room:
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) October 25, 2026
“The good thing is… OUR OFFENSE is getting the ball.” pic.twitter.com/0pDaTWBoyp
“The good thing is… our offense is getting the ball,” Glenn said.
That comment followed a week in which Glenn had to explain what he meant after appearing to think the Jets were getting the ball last week against the New England Patriots.
“No, I actually talked about just the offense,” Glenn said. “I think they were talking about sustaining drives, and my conversation with them is when the offense gets the ball back, man, we want to be able to sustain a drive and go score.
“Then when the defense gets back on, we want to make sure we stop them and get the ball back to our offense. That’s what I was talking about when it comes to that. The conversation was talking about the offense at that time.”
Glenn may have corrected that earlier slip, but the clock management Sunday still left plenty of questions behind.
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