Despite an offseason vow to clean up his team’s mental mistakes, head coach Aaron Glenn has yet to deliver for New York Jets fans. In fact, things have gotten much worse. After Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season, the Jets rank dead last in NFL team turnover ratio with a -7. Adding insult to injury is the fact that the Jets still have not taken the ball away on defense, the only team in the NFL yet to do so.
Most of their turnovers have come in the form of fumbles, which is partly just bad luck but also the result of poor ball security, one of the most fundamental skills in all of football. Week 4 is a perfect example of this. Against the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football, the Jets lost all three of their fumbles, which is tremendously bad luck, but better ball security to begin with would have prevented these, like when Justin Fields tried to escape a sack with just one hand on the ball.
Miami’s defense forces another turnover!
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These avoidable, backbreaking turnovers are a big part of the reason why Aaron Glenn was heard screaming at Jets players in the locker room after that game. Now it seems that Glenn has not only made ball security a focal point of practice this week, but he’s personally seeing to it that his players hang on to the ball. He was seen at Thursday’s practice with a boxing glove on his hand as he tried to punch the ball out of players’ hands.
Ball security drills with Aaron Glenn trying to punch it out himself with a boxing glove on
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It’s a creative way to run a drill during practice and will help his players protect the ball better. Remember, Glenn is a former defensive back. He knows a thing or two about forcing fumbles, having forced six himself during his career.
Hopefully the Jets are taking his lessons to heart. The Jets are 0-4, which means Glenn’s team thus far matches the ineptitude of Adam Gase’s Jets. A loss on Sunday to the Dallas Cowboys would drop the Jets to 0-5, which would be the first time in the Super Bowl era that a Jets head coach lost his first five games.
If the Jets are going to snap their losing streak, it has to come against the hapless Cowboys. They’ve mostly served as a ‘get-right’ game for other teams thus far in 2025. Then again, so have the Jets. Much like last Monday night, this is a match between two desperate teams, and Gang Green can’t afford to fumble this opportunity away.
