00:06you know that you have a problem when a former nfl head coach can basically diagnose it from
00:12the tv studio in week seven the jets lost 28 to 25 to a miami team that came into met
00:18life
00:18winless and afterwards super bowl winning head coach mike tomlin saw some numbers
00:23that jumped off the screen those numbers were 107 to six that's how badly the jets have been
00:30outscored in the final two minutes of first halves during erin glenn's tenure but tomlin had some
00:36advice for gang green with three games in you got enough of a body of work to determine what your
00:41weaknesses are and then plow down the course to fix them well they've been looking at this particular
00:46weakness since the beginning of last season and it's still 107 to six and so certainly they got a
00:52lot of work ahead of them if i were them i would do two minutes every day of my life
00:56until further
00:57notice coach tomlin said if i were them i would do the two minute every day of my life until
01:07further
01:08notice ouch but after further review sometimes the truth hurts and he absolutely has a point because
01:14what happened against miami wasn't just another bad two minutes it looked like the same problem
01:20showing up again let's start with the data 107 points allowed six scored in the final two minutes
01:27of first halves under glenn and miami added to that problem on sunday with a drive that was painful to
01:32watch if you were wearing green and white or if you were a fan of the team the dolphins they
01:37started
01:37at their own nine then in 15 plays they moved the ball 91 yards they keep the football for nearly
01:44nine minutes and with six seconds left before halftime malik willis runs it in what had been a
01:50one score game turned into a 21 to 7 miami lead and here's where this becomes about more than defense
01:57towards the end of that drive in the final two minutes aaron glenn still had his timeouts
02:01but he didn't use them after the game glenn admitted quote that's something that we should have done
02:08well thanks now i actually appreciate the accountability but accountability after the fact
02:14doesn't put those seconds back on the clock and to be fair to glenn you can call every time out
02:19in the
02:20world and your defense still has to get off the field which arguably was the biggest problem for
02:25the jets on sunday particularly when it came to stopping the run miami they ran the ball 41 times for
02:31156
02:32yards ali gordon the second he finished with 103 yards on 25 carries and according to next gen stats
02:38he forced a career high 10 missed tackles even though he saw a stacked box on 11 of his carries
02:45the jets they knew miami wanted to run they loaded up to stop it and miami kept running the ball
02:51down
02:51their throats anyway and that's the part that should really bother the jets this wasn't some mystery
02:57offense this wasn't patrick mahomes-esque offensive wizardry on display here gang green knew what was
03:03coming and they still couldn't consistently get off the field which made the second half even more
03:09frustrating because the jets actually did a lot of good things offensively geno smith he threw for 287
03:15yards and three touchdowns braylon allen ran for a buck 04 omar cooper jr he was a bright spot again
03:21with 115 receiving yards the jets they finished with 377 total yards those look like numbers from a
03:29team that should have a pretty good chance to win yet like the same old jets new york spent the
03:36second
03:37half chasing a deficit their defense and game management helped create before halftime new york
03:43started closing the gap and then with under five minutes left malik willis finds caleb douglas for 63 yards
03:48that touchdown was the backbreaker the exact kind of play your defense can't give up when the
03:55offense has finally pulled you back into the game and even after the jets answered to make it 28 to
04:0025
04:00the defense got one more chance fourth and one get a stop and geno gets the ball back with a
04:06chance to
04:06win or tie malik willis keeps it on the qb sneak first down jets couldn't stop four straight runs and
04:13that
04:14was the ball game and that's why i don't think this after further review is simply the jets defense
04:20was bad it's more specific than that the jets keep failing in the moments that require situational
04:25discipline we have seen this at the end of the first half we've seen this on third down we've seen
04:30this on fourth down situations that require the team to get the ball back when your offense finally
04:35has momentum and when your head coach's background is defense well those moments are going to land right
04:41on his desk and that's why tomlin's comment hits so hard when another head coach can look at your team
04:48and immediately identify the same weakness that keeps showing up the problem isn't hidden anymore
04:54everybody knows it look i'm the one always saying players have agency aaron glenn can't make the
05:00tackles he can't cover the receivers and he can't personally get the defense off the field the players
05:06absolutely have to own that but the timeouts the situational management the fact that this keeps
05:12happening over and over again that's where the head coach enters the conversation and after further
05:17review 107 to 6 isn't just an ugly stat anymore we got to be real about this it's a pattern
05:23the jets
05:24don't just need to play better defense they need to start playing the end of halves like the game can
05:29be
05:29won or lost right there because too often under aaron glenn it has been
