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Jets Dropped by Bucs in Wild Finish

 It will be remembered as the Aaron Glenn Dance game. 

On a day when the Jets had absolutely no business winning a football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York somehow, someway managed to grab the lead 27-26 with a little under two minutes to go in regulation, AND still managed to squander the lead and lose by two, 29-27. 

 Trailing 26-13 with a little over six minutes to play, the Jets rallied together a drive where they were the beneficiaries of some truly lucky breaks. 


First there was a pass interference penalty on Jamel Dean after he made what appeared to be a drive killing interception near midfield that was nullified by the flag. 

Later, Allan Lazard made a rather dubious catch for a touchdown on fourth down near the Buccaneers goal-line where he had to tiptoe while falling down near the back-line. The ball appeared to bobble out of his hands and hit the ground, but officials determined there wasn't enough evidence to overturn it, and the Jets were rewarded a touchdown to cut into the Bucs lead at 26-20. 

Finally, after Head Coach Aaron Glenn burned all three timeouts well before the two minute warning, the Jets got the biggest break of all when Will McDonald IV leapt over the entire front line and blocked a field goal attempt by Tampa's Chase McLaughlin, scooped it up and ran back for the score to give the Jets a 27-26 lead. 

Glenn was seen jumping and down and dancing on the sideline. Too bad nobody told him the Bucs still had all three timeouts and about two minutes to get in position for the game winning field goal. 

And with the way the Jets defense continued to play like a sieve on Sunday that is exactly what happened. Baker Mayfield drove the Bucs all the way into field goal territory, including blasting down the right sideline for 20-yards to the Jets 18. 

McLaughlin hit the game winner, sending the Jets to 0-3. 

And for some reason Glenn was seen celebrating afterwards as he clapped on the way out. In the postgame it only got worse as Glenn blasted the media for creating a Same Old Jets narrative. It was ridiculous! 

The Jets lost this game in the most Jet-like way possible. And all the Jets rookie head coach could do was celebrate a moral victory? This was the same guy who said there were no moral victories after a much better team performance two weeks again against Pittsburgh on Opening Day. 

The Jets are in trouble. 

Their defense is terrible and gets worse every week. The offense is mostly unproductive. And it appears they are a team right now with little to look forward to.  

 

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