Aaron Glenns answer for Jets time out blunder was alarmingly ambiguous

Another Jets game, another highly curious coaching gaffe from head coach Aaron Glenn and his staff. The Jets were trailing 14-7 late in the first half with the Dolphins driving on them and Glenn inexplicably opted not to use any of his timeouts as the Miami offense got closer to scoring. Eventually, the Dolphins took a 21-7 lead on a TD with 6 seconds remaining in the half and the Jets went into halftime having not used one of their three timeouts.  Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.In a tight game with possessions so precious, this was coaching malpractice. After the game, when Glenn was asked why not use the timeouts, his answer was alarmingly ambiguous. “Yeah, I think that’s when [Miami] was all the way down in the red zone,’’ Glenn said. But it wasn’t.

The Dolphins were at the Jets 32-yard line at the two-minute warning and continued to drive after that with the Jets still not calling timeout. “We felt like we were going to stop them,’’ Glenn said.“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. “You know, that’s something that we should have done is use our timeouts.’’ Glenn is now 4-9 in one-score games, which is damning considering more than 50 percent of NFL games since 1999 have been decided by a TD or less. Geno Smith, who was 23-for-30 passing for 287 yards with three TDs and one INT, had a weird game in that his stats were excellent — but he made two killer plays that cost the Jets. On the first, he threw an INT right into the chest of Dolphins safety Michael Taaffe inside the Miami 20-yard line on the Jets’ second series.That cost them at least a field goal and possibly a TD. For Smith, who’d gone the first five games without throwing an INT despite leading the NFL with 17 last year, it was his second in the past two ...