{"id":1019828,"date":"2026-10-06T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1019828\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:56","slug":"aaron-glenn-finds-jets-positives-in-dismal-loss-to-bears-as-season-hangs-on-upcoming-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1019828\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Glenn finds Jets positives in dismal loss to Bears as season hangs on upcoming stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the day after a 23-12 beatdown at the hands of the Bears<\/a>, Jets coach Aaron Glenn spent Monday morning trying to emphasize the positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That may sound crazy for Jets fans who watched their team play one of the worst games in franchise history \u2014 and that\u2019s saying something. That may be tough after being fed every crazy stat from this game that showed the historical ineptitude of the Jets<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But when Glenn met with the media virtually Monday morning, he tried to push back on the tidal wave of negativity that is coming his and the Jets\u2019 way after this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some positives that came out of this, and sometimes everybody just focuses on the negative part of it,\u201d Glenn said, \u201cbut our deal is we\u2019re going to make sure we try to continue to improve on that and hopefully from the outside our fans will see that and again, we\u2019ll just look at the next week and we\u2019re just trying to go 1-0 each week and that\u2019s the thing that we\u2019re focused on and that\u2019s the only thing I want our fans to focus on. We\u2019re going to flush this game. We\u2019re going to move ahead. We\u2019ve got a team that\u2019s coming in that\u2019s playing pretty good, so our focus is to make sure we beat that team and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn looks on during the first quarter of a game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Jets are 1-3 after losing three straight games, and any positive vibes<\/a> that existed after close losses to the Packers and Lions disappeared as the Bears went up and down the field on the Jets. The numbers from this one were staggering, none more than the 89-32 play disparity in favor of the Bears.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glenn took pride in the team\u2019s red zone defense. The Bears went 2-for-7 in the red zone and Glenn also pointed to the Jets running game, which averaged 4.2 yards per carry but did not get many chances because the Bears had the ball all day.<\/p>\n

Glenn also pointed out the Jets lost to three strong playoff contenders, but he did not mention the Bears played with backup quarterback Tyson Bagent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s what I do know, these last three games that we had, we knew exactly what we were going against,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cWe were going against a team that have won the division, we were going against teams that have high-powered offense, and I\u2019m just speaking defensively right now, and we knew they were going to be in a situation where they just moved the ball and we have to do a good job as far as limiting points on defense. We didn\u2019t do a good job of that against Detroit. I thought we did a good job against Green Bay, and then with this game, a high-powered team, I thought we did a good job of just limiting points as many times as they were in the red zone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Not many people predicted the Jets to win these past three games before the season, but the way they lost to the Packers and Bears has added more pain for Jets fans. The team now has four games that could determine their season \u2014 home against the Browns, at the Patriots and then two home games with the Dolphins and Raiders. The Jets need to find a way to win some games to keep their season alive and avoid the talk around the team shifting to next spring\u2019s draft.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThree straight losses is tough to stomach, and we all feel it \u2014 we need to win,\u201d center Josh Myers said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t necessarily seen the results in these last three games, but we will. We\u2019re going to win games. I have all the faith in the world in that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day after a 23-12 beatdown at the hands of the Bears, Jets coach Aaron Glenn spent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,9],"class_list":["post-1019828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117391975469895602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019828","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=1019828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}