Saturday, August 2, was supposed to be a “pseudo-scrimmage” for the New York Jets.
“I’m going to try to make it as game-like as we can. We need to start making sure we get into that mode,” Jets head coach Aaron Glenn told ESPN’s Rich Cimini in advance of the annual green-and-white scrimmage.
Well, if that’s a sign of things to come for the green and white, it’s about to get ugly.
“Jets practice is over. Aaron Glenn cut it short. It was one of the sloppiest practices I can remember. 12 penalties in practice. [Justin] Fields went 2-for-10,” Brian Costello of the New York Post recapped on social media.
Jets practice is over. Aaron Glenn cut it short. It was one of the sloppiest practices I can remember. 12 penalties in practice. Fields went 2-for-10.
— Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) August 2, 2025
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NFL Insider Connor Hughes of SNY described the scrimmage as “a very rough one for the offense” … “Lots of penalties for everyone. Ugly day.”
The #Jets ended practice a little earlier than they were supposed to. Green & White scrimmage was a very rough one for the offense.
Justin Fields was 2 of 10 passing. Did have one drop. Lots of penalties for everyone. Ugly day.
Thought rushing attack looked good at times, but… pic.twitter.com/HatGdzQdda
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) August 2, 2025
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“Scrimmage over: In a word, sloppy. Aaron Glenn cut it short. Fields struggled, only 2-for-10. Had a couple of nice runs, but take that with a grain of salt (no tackling the QB). Lots of work ahead,” Cimini said on X previously Twitter.
Scrimmage over: In a word, sloppy. Aaron Glenn cut it short. Fields struggled, only 2-for-10. Had a couple of nice runs, but take that with a grain of salt (no tackling the QB). Lots of work ahead. #jets
— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) August 2, 2025
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Penalty Issues Persist for the Jets
Last season, the Jets were the most penalized team in the NFL. The beat reporters just described the most penalized practice they have ever seen.
Not good, Bob.
To his credit, Glenn doesn’t seem to be too concerned.
“There were a lot of things that we need to clean up. The one thing that I’m sure everybody saw were the penalties. I’m glad we had the refs out there because that is one thing that we want to hit and make sure we hit those hard. I want them to ref it just like it was a game, and I thought they did a good job of that. There are no excuses. Our players understand that. We know penalties are discipline issues, and we gotta make sure that we are more disciplined than that on both sides of the ball,” Glenn told the media.
He also vowed that this won’t continue into the season.
“We will get those cleaned up. I promise you that, but there is a lot of work to do,” Glenn admitted.
Connor Hughes of SNY said that Glenn described a big chunk of the penalties as “competitive,” which means they’re “technique-based.” That means they are correctable and can be fixed with coaching, essentially.
Justin Fields Followed His Best Practice With His Worst
On Friday, August 1, Cimini described Fields being “on fire” and said it was his best practice of training camp “by far.”
However, he followed that up on Saturday with a poor performance.
Fields finished 2-of-10, and the passing game received a lot of jokes on social media. The good news is this is what practice is all about. Fields and the offense need to work out the kinks before the games start counting in September.
It was a troubling sign, but thankfully for them, they still have another five weeks to figure it out.
Jets Receive Dubious Honor
The folks over at Sportsbook Review ran a fan survey asking the pressing question, “Which NFL franchise is the most cursed?”
Unsurprisingly, the Jets were crowned the top billing among the NFL’s 32 teams.
“More than 1 in 5 respondents selected the Jets as the most cursed NFL team,” James Bisson of the Sportsbook Review revealed. Out of the entire voting system, the Jets received 20.3% of the votes, securing the victory.
“This isn’t the sort of thing where a team is simply going through a drought. You could have surveyed NFL fans from 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, or today, and the response would be the same. No team has been more snakebitten than the J-E-T-S,” Bisson said.
Those who voted were able to elaborate their thoughts further with written responses. Reasons for the Jets’ placement ranged from sucking annually in the NFL draft to terrible ownership to having a 56-year active Super Bowl drought.
One of the other cursed feathers in a Jets fan’s cap is the long, bizarre history of quarterback injuries/situations. Geno Smith got sucker punched in the Jets locker room by a teammate. Several Achilles tendons have exploded at the beginning of Super Bowl hopeful seasons, I’m looking at you, Vinny Testaverde and Aaron Rodgers. Hell, even one of them somehow contracted mononucleosis. Oh, Sam Darnold.
Did all of that really happen? I’m being told, yes, it did. When I turn to the skies and scream why? God simply responded, “It’s the life of a Jets fan.”
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