LONDON — Justin Fields looked to the sideline and saw Aaron Glenn staring back at him. The offense was lined up for a play but a snap would never come. As the clock ticked down to zero, Garrett Wilson walked off the field and threw his arms up. He followed Glenn off the field, shaking his head on his way through the tunnel.
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The clouds over Tottenham Hotspur Stadium cleared around kickoff, but boos rained at halftime, an understandable reaction for a group of fans who flew thousands of miles to watch their favorite team on foreign soil, only to watch their players scurry into the locker room, confused as to why their coach was simply … giving up. They weren’t the only ones.
Glenn has spoken a lot about all he learned while working on Sean Payton’s coaching staff with the Saints, but there his mentor was on Sunday, at halftime, looking across the field, wondering what his protege was doing.
“We were waiting, either a Hail Mary or something,” Payton said. “And then the clock just ran out, so that was a little surprising. That’s unusual.”
There are numbers that can explain what happened on Sunday, like an NFL team finishing a game with minus-10 passing yards — but that won’t really do the trick. The Jets, in spite of a historic level of passing ineptitude, still had a chance to win.
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