The Jets walked out of MetLife with a loss that stung a little harder than the usual early-season setback.
New York had the Packers in a spot where it could have finished the job on Sunday in Week 2, but instead the lead slipped away in the fourth quarter. Green Bay put up 10 points in the final period, then won it with a field goal in overtime. That dropped the Jets to 1-1 and left them with the kind of defeat that lingers because the opportunity was there.
That’s the part Demario Davis understands all too well. The veteran linebacker didn’t sugarcoat the reality after the game, but he also framed the loss as part of where this Jets team is right now. New York is still trying to build toward the kind of cohesion Green Bay already has, and Davis said that kind of chemistry doesn’t show up overnight.
"Yeah, we want to be able to close them out, but it's tough to do, especially when you're going against a tough football team," Davis said after the game, per the team. "I think it's just a credit to the work that we put in to be in that position late in the game against a really good football team.
"They've had a lot of years together, and we still are trying to get to that point, and it shows that we're really close. We're really close, but in this league, man, it's a race to get better. It's a race to get better, and we just got to find that one or two spots that get us over the hump."
That’s the blunt truth of it: the Jets are close, but close doesn’t count in the standings when a game slips away in overtime. Davis’s message was that the team can’t let this become the identity of the season, even if this one hurt more than a routine loss.
There’s also no escaping the frustration around the coaching side of it. Aaron Glenn didn’t have his best day, and some of the decisions he made raised eyebrows.
Still, from a broader team perspective, the Jets are not far off. They’re just not there yet.
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