{"id":351537,"date":"2025-09-08T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/351537\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:15:16","slug":"why-this-jets-season-opening-loss-didnt-feel-like-so-many-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/351537\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Jets season-opening loss didn’t feel like so many others"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looked so very different. It looked so very much in sync<\/a> with so many of the past 55 seasons.<\/p>\n

The Aaron Glenn era kicked off with reason for hope, and a sterling debut from new quarterback Justin Fields, but the franchise with the longest playoff drought in North American sports suffered its latest gut-punch in a 34-32 home loss<\/a> to Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers, surrendering a nine-point fourth quarter lead, as Chris Boswell hit a game-winning 60-yard field goal with 1:03 remaining.<\/p>\n

After entering the past two seasons with Rodgers and misguided Super Bowl hype, the Jets exceeded many expectations under Fields, who completed 16-of-22 passes for 218 yards and a touchdown, while adding 48 yards and another two scores on the ground against one of the league\u2019s top defenses. Breece Hall offered strong support for an offense that didn\u2019t register a first-half punt for the first time since at least 1991, rushing for 107 yards on 19 carries, while Garrett Wilson had 95 yards receiving and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

But the game swung early in the fourth quarter, when the Jets \u2014 holding a 26-17 lead \u2014 allowed a pair of touchdown passes from Rodgers in a 50-second span, enabled by Xavier Gipson\u2019s fumble<\/a> on the kickoff return, sandwiched between the scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looked so very different. It looked so very much in sync with so many of the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,8213,487,7,226,493,1917,255,2321,2097,6,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-351537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-breece-hall","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jets","13":"tag-justin-fields","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-jets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkjets","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115168629662721870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351537","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=351537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}