The New York Jets didn’t just lose to the Chicago Bears on Sunday. They got dragged through 60 minutes that looked lopsided from the opening stretch and only got uglier the deeper you dug into the numbers.
The final was 23-12, but that score barely captures how one-sided it was. Chicago owned the football for 42:45, while the Jets managed just 17:15. That gap told the story before the stat sheet even finished doing the damage.
And then came the jab from the other side. Bears linebacker Devin Bush said it was one of the easiest NFL games he’s ever played.
“One of the easiest NFL games I ever played in. I’m not sore at all.”
Bush added that he was getting bored on the sideline, which is about as brutal a postgame verdict as a defense can hand out. That line hit even harder given how little the Jets had going offensively, especially when it mattered most. In the fourth quarter, New York had the ball for just 45 seconds.
The possession battle was only the start. Chicago ran 89 offensive plays to New York’s 32, the second-worst ratio in a single game in NFL history. The only uglier one came from the 1999 expansion Cleveland Browns in their first game back against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Bears also piled up over 475 yards while the Jets finished under 175. That’s only the second time in franchise history New York has been on the wrong end of that combination. The other came in a 56-3 loss to the Patriots in 1979.
Chicago added 34 first downs, the most the Jets have ever allowed in a game, excluding overtime.
For a team that had earned a little breathing room from the fanbase with back-to-back hard-fought losses in Weeks 2 and 3, this was a brutal reset. After 21 games in the Aaron Glenn and Darren Mougey era, the Jets are still getting punked like this, and now they head into Week 5 facing a must-win matchup against a red-hot Cleveland Browns team with a rest advantage.
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