Garrett Wilson erupts as Jets fall to winless Dolphins

The Jets' best player caught 2 balls for 26 yards against Miami. By the 4th quarter, the cameras had him going off on the bench.

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Story: Garrett Wilson erupts on the sideline. Can you blame him? #Jets t.co/WFuJttqqYM

Wilson was caught in a heated exchange with Geno Smith while the Jets trailed 21-14 late. Afterward he said they were "collaborating" and that he didn't think he was even talking to Geno. Glenn took the blame for the target share: "A player of his magnitude, we have to do everything we can to try to get him the ball." Fine. But 3 targets for your WR1 in a 3-point home loss isn't a collaboration problem. It's a game plan problem.

The snap counts don't make it look any better. Wilson played 44 snaps, Omar Cooper Jr. went for 5 catches, 115 yards and a touchdown, and Mason Taylor scored twice. So the offense moved. It just didn't run through the guy the franchise is built around. Then there's Jarvis Brownlee Jr., a healthy scratch, and Glenn won't say why.

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Glenn said the reason for benching Jarvis Brownlee Jr will remain “in-house.” Asked if it was disciplinary, he repeated the “in house” answer. So it certainly sounds like it wasn’t directly performance-related. #Jets

"In-house" is the kind of answer that gets louder every week a team keeps losing. The bigger story is the end of the 1st half. Miami drove deep into Jets territory with under 2 minutes left, and Glenn sat on all 3 timeouts. The Dolphins scored, the clock ran out, and the Jets never got the ball back before the break. Glenn said Sunday he should have used them. By Monday he was defending the decision.

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Glenn defends his clock management/timeout usage (or lack thereof) at the end of the half, but acknowledges the two-minute is frustrating — an area where he admitted he needs to improve. Jets outscored, 107-6, in the final 2 minutes of the 2nd Q under Glenn. #Jets

Read that stat again: 107-6 in the final 2 minutes of the 2nd quarter under Glenn. That isn't one bad decision. It's a pattern, and his own admission that it's an area he needs to improve doesn't change it when he's still doing it this deep into his tenure. The defense didn't help either: Demario Davis had 3 missed tackles, Dane Belton had 4, Minkah Fitzpatrick gave up a 63-yard touchdown, and Jason Sanders missed a costly field goal.

Then the history arrived. The loss was the Jets' 3rd since 2019 to a team that entered 0-5 or worse, the most in the NFL over that span. And Glenn just joined a club no coach wants to be in.

Rich Cimini

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Aaron Glenn becomes the 9th head coach since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to begin his career with eight straight division losses. He’s the 5th coach to do it in the last 30 seasons (Jim Schwartz, Matt Eberflus, Pat Shurmur, Leslie Frazier). ESPN Research. #Jets

Starting a career 0-8 in the division puts Glenn next to Jim Schwartz, Matt Eberflus, Pat Shurmur and Leslie Frazier, and that's not a list that ends with a long tenure. The hot seat talk is everywhere now, and the Wilson blowup is the scene that sums it up: the most talented guy on the roster watching from the sideline while the coaching staff hands a winless team a win. Glenn can keep the Brownlee reason in-house. He can't keep the timeouts in-house. Everybody saw those.