Still winless in his third week as an NFL head coach, the Jets’ Aaron Glenn busted out a few dance moves along the sideline as New York’s Will McDonald returned a blocked field goal for a 50-yard touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The miraculous play gave the Jets a brief 27-26 lead with just 1:49 to play in Tampa. But unfortunately for Glenn, who remains winless following the 29-27 defeat, that high-stepping, arm-waving saunter down the Jets’ sideline has aged poorly in the eyes of impatient fans.
‘Dancing to ANOTHER LOSS,’ one fan wrote on X after the Jets’ 17-point comeback was spoiled by Chase McLaughlin’s 36-yard game-winning field goal as time expired.
‘FREAKING CLOWN!!!’ another wrote. ‘You think TAMPA didn’t see that celebration?? Talk about not needing any motivation for Tampa Bay!! Amateur coach!’
One fan asked his comrades to ‘never forget this,’ adding: ‘Guy sucks.’
‘When I saw that I was like bruh, it’s still a minute left in the game,’ another added.
Aaron Glenn busted out a few dance moves along the sideline as New York’s Will McDonald returned a blocked field goal for a 50-yard touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The play would give the Jets a brief 27-26 lead, only for the Bucs to pull out a 29-27 win
It marked the second narrow loss of Glenn’s brief tenure with the Jets.
‘It’s tough. It’s frustrating,’ quarterback Tyrod Taylor after the loss.
Taylor filled in for injured starter Justin Fields, who suffered a concussion in New York’s blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills last week. He threw a pair of second-half touchdown passes to get the Jets back in the game.
Will McDonald gave New York a shot at its first win under coach Glenn by blocking a field goal attempt and returning it 50 yards for a TD that put the Jets ahead 27-26 with under two minutes to go.
But just as the defense was unable to finish off Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers after New York took a late lead in Week 1, the Jets failed to close again. Baker Mayfield led a seven-play, 48-yard drive to position Chase McLaughlin for a 36-yard field goal that won it.
‘Obviously, as players, you put on your cleats and your helmet, shoulder pads … day in and day out to put in the work to go out there and win. You want to see those rewards,’ Taylor said. ‘By no means are moral victories something that we can accept in our locker room. But this is a young team, and we´re changing in a good way.’
The Jets are 0-3 for the third time in six years. Glenn joined Robert Saleh, Adam Gase (2019) and Lou Holtz (1976) as the only coaches to begin their tenures with the Jets with three straight losses.
Aaron Glenn is now 0-3 in his first season as head coach of the New York Jets
Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Chase McLaughlin (4) the game-winning field goal on Sunday
‘We’re 0-3. How many more games do we have? Fourteen? That speaks for itself,’ Glenn said. ‘We have a lot of games to go play and we can build off this.’
Garrett Wilson had 10 catches for 84 yards for the Jets, including an 11-yard TD early in the fourth quarter. He said he sought out McDonald after the game to let him know how much his effort on the field goal block meant to the team.
‘I just told him (from) me, but I hope he took it as the whole team like: ‘Give us a chance.’ That is a pure will play,’ Wilson said. ‘When I say will, I mean, like, actual will power, like I am going to make this play. You make a decision before the play and you go out and execute. It is not easy. That gave us a chance. That was an extraordinary play.
‘At some point, when people make plays like that, we are going to finish this and celebrate the right way.’
