NFL's dumbest moment of the week once again welcomes Jets coach Aaron Glenn, who is on the hot seat
NFL's dumbest moment of the week once again welcomes Jets coach Aaron Glenn, who is on the hot seat
When it was over, Aaron Glenn was blaming and second-guessing himself after another loss. And this has become perhaps too familiar for the team's coach this season.
The Jets lost to the previously winless Miami Dolphins on Sunday, and while that can happen because the other guys get paid, too, the Dolphins had been getting paid without winning before this one.
In fact, the Dolphins had been getting paid without even leading a game all season.
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But against Glenn's team, the Dolphins looked like a playoff contender. That left Glenn disappointed. And defeated.
"When it comes to this game, highly disappointed," Glenn lamented. "Disappointed in myself, first and foremost."
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Glenn is familiar with losing this season, but when the head coach is blaming himself for his clock management, that familiar spot is problematic. And that's exactly where Glenn was for the second time this season — guilty of the dumbest moment of the week.
That Week 7 moment:
The Dolphins held a 14-7 lead with 8:44 left before halftime, and then they went on the Earth's longest drive.
They marched from their own 9-yard line to the Jets 32-yard line with only two minutes remaining until half. Holding all his timeouts, Glenn stood idly on the sideline like a spectator.
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"Yeah, I think that's one they were already down in the red zone, correct?" Glenn asked reporters who wanted an explanation. "Thats the one youre talking about?"
Well, the Dolphins weren't in the red zone. They were at the New York 25 with 1:16 to play. But Glenn saved his timeouts for use in the year 2037, when he maybe gets his next head coaching opportunity.
So the clock ticked, and ticked and ticked, and the next time Miami ran a play, there were only 35 left on the clock.
The Dolphins eventually scored again, and the moment passed, but the clock management from the coach was curious.
"Man, we felt like we were going to stop them," Glenn said. "And maybe we should have called our timeouts to get it back, but at that point, we just felt like we were going to stop them and be able to get the ball back.
"That's something that we should have done is use our timeouts."
Yes, correct.
Glenn's explanation actually makes zero sense because if the Jets had done as he thought and held the Dolphins scoreless, using the timeouts would have given the Jets the football back with more time remaining on the clock.
As it was, the Jets got the ball back with six seconds remaining in the first half, which New York used to merely take a knee.
The second half witnessed something of a Jets rally before the Dolphins eventually prevailed 28-25, but that made
