The New York Jets certainly don't need a reminder of how bad things are.
When a team is 0-5, it's pretty loud and clear.
But it is really, really bad, even worse than it might initially seem, and one statistic really drives that point home.
The New York Jets have not yet forced a turnover yet this season. They haven't taken the ball away from the other team through five games.
The turnover stat has been tracked since 1933, and not once has a team gone five games without forcing one, until now, according to Pro Football Talk.
In fact, PFT points out that every team that has played so far in Week 5 forced a turnover just this week, aside from the Jets.
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Head coach Aaron Glenn gave his thoughts postgame on Sunday after a blowout loss to the Dallas Cowboys:
“That’s true. Well, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I just know this, that we haven’t taken the ball away. That’s one of the things you guys are going to hear me say, it’s not giveaways, it’s not turnovers, you have to take the ball away. That’s what you do as a defense. That has to be the mentality of the defense, that we have to go and get it, because no one is going to give it to us and we have to be intentional about that too. We emphasize it, we attack it, we go through it, but, man, it just has to show up. We got to keep doing it. We can’t just sit back and say, ‘We’re not getting them.’ We have to continue to try and emphasize it, and hopefully at some point they’re going to come in bunches for us.”
The Jets season might already be doomed, but it wouldn't hurt to start taking the ball away a bit.
Because if they don't do that, the zero in their win column might stay that way for a while.
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