{"id":1012694,"date":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1012694\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","slug":"jets-cant-let-signs-of-improvement-take-familiar-turn-with-stellar-geno-smith-outing-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1012694\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets can&#8217;t let signs of improvement take familiar turn with stellar Geno Smith outing wasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Aaron Glenn held his right thumb and index finger about two inches apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s this gap right here that we have to close,\u201d the Jets coach said. \u201cWe\u2019re fighting our asses off to close that gap. \u2026 We\u2019re going to continue to work to close that gap, and then we\u2019ll be on the other side of these games. I truly believe that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On this day, the Jets were on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/27\/sports\/jets-left-feeling-right-there-after-agonizing-loss-to-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the wrong side of a 31-24 loss<\/a> to the Lions, and the loss and Glenn\u2019s words were a reminder that the Jets are still a work in progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look, if you had told a Jets fan in August that the team would lose by three points to the Packers in overtime and seven points to the Lions in a game they could have won in the fourth quarter, they probably would have signed up for that.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Aaron Glenn held his right thumb and index finger about two inches apart.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s this gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1012695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,113,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,9,2833,3248],"class_list":["post-1012694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117346696122770564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}