During Sunday’s 48-20 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New York Jets’ special teams unit nearly delivered another momentum-shifting play before the game was officially out of control.

In the second quarter, Isaiah Williams broke free for what appeared to be a punt-return touchdown, only for the score to be erased by a questionable block-out-of-bounds penalty on Tre Brown. The return would have marked Williams’ third return touchdown of the season.

Without the penalty, Williams would have recorded his third return touchdown in just 12 games with the Jets, leaving him alone in second place in franchise history behind only Dick Christy, who totaled four return touchdowns over 38 games.

“I hate it for the guys because they work their asses off throughout the week, and every time they take the field, they believe they can have a positive impact. It showed again on that play,” Jets special teams coordinator Chris Banjo said regarding the play.

“You get to see how special Isaiah is with the ball… Again, I hate it for the guys, but we move on,” the first-year coordinator continued. “We continue to move forward. We’ve got to do a better job as coaches and players, making it black and white, so we don’t put ourselves in those situations.”

Chris Banjo says he disagrees with the penalty that wiped out Isaiah Williams’ punt return touchdown on Sunday:

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The Jets’ special teams unit continues to stand alone as the league’s gold standard.

New York leads the NFL with a 10.8% special-teams DVOA, creating a wider gap over the third-place Indianapolis Colts (4.8%) than the Colts hold over the 20th-ranked Carolina Panthers (-0.9%).

With three games left in the season, their DVOA is also on pace to rank fourth-best in NFL history since the metric began tracking in 1978.

What Banjo has accomplished in his first season as coordinator is remarkable, transforming a unit that ranked 24th in DVOA a year ago into the league’s best almost overnight.