MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Aaron Glenn vowed to make the Jets a more disciplined team this summer.
So far, it’s not happening.
The Jets committed 13 penalties that cost them 101 yards in Monday’s 27-21 loss to the Dolphins.
Many of the penalties came before the snap or were costly personal fouls, the types of penalties that Glenn vowed to eliminate.
“We have to understand that before you can win games, you have to learn how not to lose games,” Glenn said. “We have to do a better job in that case and we will.”
The Jets had six pre-snap penalties on offense — three false starts, a delay of game, an illegal shift and an illegal motion.
On one Dolphins drive in the second half, Sauce Gardner was called for pass interference and Kiko Mauigoa for an unnecessary roughness penalty that extended a Miami touchdown drive.
Garrett Wilson was called for a questionable offensive pass interference that wiped out a touchdown.
“It doesn’t surprise me they called it,” Wilson said. “I guess I’ve got to be better. I watched it. I watch football. They don’t call that. I’ll make sure I don’t do it again and leave no doubt.”
Gardner feels he is being targeted for penalties because the Jets are a losing team.
“I’m personally frustrated,” Gardner said. “I feel like me personally, us not winning. I watch football all the time and I just feel like, I don’t know if this is wrong to say, but I think I get called for more stuff just based off of us and just not winning. I watch these winning programs, and it’d be some egregious things, and it don’t get called letting the players play.”
The Jets vowed to get their running game going this week and they ran for 76 yards on their opening drive, showing a lot of heavy formations with an extra lineman and two tight ends.
The drive ended in a Braelon Allen fumble, though.
They rushed for 197 yards in the game, that is the most since Oct. 8, 2023, when they had 234 against the Broncos.
Allen exited the game with a knee injury and CB Michael Carter left the game with a concussion.
Glenn was unsure of the severity of Allen’s injury.
WR Tyler Johnson was inactive for the first time this season.
He has four catches for 63 yards in three games, but had a critical drop against the Buccaneers.
Josh Reynolds returned from a hamstring injury, making Johnson the odd man out.
The other inactives were: Edge Jermaine Johnson (ankle), CB Jarvis Brownlee (ankle), KR Kene Nwangwu (hamstring), OT Esa Pole, TE Jelani Woods and DT Leonard Taylor.
Former Dolphins stars Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas were honorary captains.
Jets rookie tight end Mason Taylor is the son of Taylor and the nephew of Thomas.
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