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Clock management issues and 2-minute troubles are giving Aaron Glenn and the Jets a tough time · Best of: Features

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  Clock management issues and two minute troubles are giving Aaron Glenn and
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  the Jets a tough time. Written by Dennis Wazak Jr. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. The clock
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  appears to be ticking for Aaron Glen, and that precisely one of
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  the major reasons he and the New York Jets are in this
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  mess. After a twenty eight twenty five loss to the previously winless
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  Miami Dolphins, the Jets sit at 2 5 and at yet another
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  low point. Early defensive struggles against an offense that was among the
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  NFL's worst were an issue, as was poor play calling at the
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  goal line with a chance to tie the game. But Glenn, mismanagement
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  of the clock and his timeouts in two minute situations have been
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  a recurring theme in his twenty four game tenure. The most damning
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  statistic. Glenn's jets have been outscored one hundred and seven six in
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  the final two minutes of the first half during the last two
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  seasons. Well, the thing is we're trying, said Glenn, who explained that
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  the Jets practice two minute drills throughout the week. So it's not
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  like we're not trying to get that done. We've just got to
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  improve in our execution. I have to improve on on both sides,
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  how we manufacture these things. So I mean it's a process of
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  getting these things done. I know it's frustrating for the fans, I
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  know it's frustrating for the players, it's frustrating for us as coaches,
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  but we've just got to continue to work at it. And as
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  long as we continue to do that, I just know that we'll
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  get better at it. That's a tough sell to anyone who watched
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  the Dolphins, leading fourteen seven at the time, get the ball at
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  their nine yard line with eight forty four left in the second
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  quarter, and go on a clock chewing, ninety one yard drive that
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  ended fifteen plays and eight thirty eight later with a two yard
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  touchdown run by Malik Willis. And with all three timeouts still in
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  Glenn's pocket. With only six seconds left before halftime, Geno Smith took
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  a knee and Jets fans booed loudly as the team headed into
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  the locker room. Glenn said after the game he didn't use his
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  timeouts because he thought his defense would stop the Dolphins to give
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  the Jets the ball back. He added that, in retrospect, he should
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  have used them. Glenn reiterated Monday that the thinking was that the
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  Dolphins could negate the Jets timeouts by getting first downs, and if
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  they used all of them, Miami could run out the clock. The
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  Dolphins did and got into the end zone. We've got to do
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  a better job, and I have to do better job, and I
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  said that yesterday, Glenn said. And to me I think that's the
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  most important part of making sure we just try to improve in
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  those areas. What's working? Getting the ball to rookie Omar Cooper Junior,
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  the first round draft pick has thrived in his two games, since
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  returning from injured reserve. He had five catches for one hundred and
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  fifteen yards and a touchdown against Miami, making him the third player
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  in NFL history with at least five receptions, one hundred yards receiving
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  and a TD catch in two of His first three career games,
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  joining Don Looney, 1940 Philadelphia and Bobby Johnson, 1984 Giants. It's
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  a long year, so Tubo games. You can't just say you established
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  yourself, Cooper said I will say, I'm grateful that I was able
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  to play tuboo games, play healthy, and I feel like me and
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  Gino are connecting really well. I feel like we can continue to
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  grow on that. What needs help? Among the laundry list of items
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  is finding ways to get number one wide receiver Garrett Wilson the
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  football more consistently. His first official target came in the third quarter,
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  and he finished with two catches
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  for twenty six yards on three targets. Wilson was noticeably frustrated during
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  a sideline outburst that Glenn said was overblown. There's also the curious
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  calls by offensive coordinator Frank Reich on first and goal at the
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  one in the fourth quarter and the Jets, down twenty-one fourteen. Fullback
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  tight end Andrew Beck, who had no carries this season, lost a
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  yard on first down. Braylon Allen lost another yard on the next
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  play, and Smith was sacked for a twelve yard loss on third
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  down, so New York had to settle for a field goal. Stock
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  up. T. Mason Taylor, the second year tight end, had a season
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  high five catches four sixty two yards and his first two touchdown
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  game. Taylor, a second round pick East year, also made a toe
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  tapping grab on a late two point conversion to make it a
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  three point game. Stock down. CB Jarvis. Brownley Jr.
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  He was a surprise healthy, inactive, and Glenn declined to go into
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  details, saying he was going to keep that in house between me
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  and Jarvis. Brownley acquired last year from Tennessee, didn't play at the
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  end of New York's loss at New England last week, and was
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  replaced as the nickel cornerback by rookie D'Angelo Pons. Injuries. D.
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  T. Vondreswet left Sunday with a knee injury, R B. Brees Hall,
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  Quadriceps, and L. G. Dillon Parham, Kinney have missed four straight games.
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  Key number. Five nineteen, Glenn's record as Jets coach, including zero eight
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  versus AFC East opponents. Next steps Glenn is on the hot seat,
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  and things could get worse Sunday in front of the home crowd
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  if the Jets can't find a way to debeat Las Vegas, which
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  is on a four game skid. Glenn said he knows it's going
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  to get noisy, but the jets are blocking out the outside noise.
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  Just focus on who we have in this building, he said, and
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  then just improving. See the AP's full NFL coverage here.