The Jets walked into Sunday already carrying a familiar label: competitive, but limited. Through six weeks, that had mostly held true. They won the games that looked there for the taking and hung around in the tougher ones.
That script crashed hard at home against the Dolphins.
New York fell 28-25 to a Miami team that came in without a win and was being treated like an underdog after a miserable start. Instead of looking like a team trending forward under Aaron Glenn, the Jets looked flat and unready. For a defense that has made competitiveness its selling point, that was a bad day in every sense.
The loss could also push Glenn’s job security back into the spotlight.
No one is pretending this is a loaded Jets roster. Even so, Sunday was a step backward, not forward. The defense had no answer for a Dolphins offense that can make a strong case for being the NFL’s weakest collection of skill-position talent without De’Von Achane, and New York’s own mistakes piled up in a game where it actually out-gained Miami.
The problem for Glenn is that this wasn’t a one-off. The late-game and late-half issues have been a theme. His decision not to call timeout late in regulation during the Week 2 loss to the Packers already drew attention, and the Jets have been outscored 107-6 in the final two minutes of the first half during his time in charge.
With this defeat, Glenn is now 0-8 against AFC East opponents. That includes 0-3 against the Dolphins, who are 5-15 against everyone else since the start of last season.
If this is the loss that ends up defining Glenn’s run in New York, it won’t be because it was the only bad game. It will be because it felt like the point where frustration stopped being about isolated mistakes and started looking like a pattern.
That said, an immediate firing still doesn’t fit the Jets’ recent history.
Woody Johnson and his brother have generally avoided in-season coaching changes, even after ugly losses. Todd Bowles was kept through some brutal results in 2018 before the team moved on after the season, and Adam Gase survived every loss during an 0-13 start in 2020.
The one exception came with Robert Saleh in 2024, but that situation was different. The Jets were being asked to win with Aaron Rodgers, and there was still some belief a 2-3 team could stay in the race. At 2-5 now, and not nearly good enough to be considered a playoff team in the AFC, this version of the Jets doesn’t look like a club that can simply flip a switch and rescue the season.
Johnson may be angry enough to consider something drastic. But if the owner follows the pattern he has set before, any final decision on Glenn would likely come later, not immediately.
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