The Jets opened the season with an easy win over the Titans, but the last three weeks have not been as pleasant for Aaron Glenn’s club.
After blowing a lead in a painful loss against the Packers at home in Week 2, the Jets lost a close game in Detroit and then got dismantled by the Bears in Chicago on Sunday. The three-game losing streak calls to mind dismal Jets seasons of the past and the head coach was asked after Sunday’s loss if he’s worried about the roof caving in on his team in the weeks to come.
“Well, that’s exactly it, we have too many people that want to think about history,” Glenn said, via a transcript from the team. “Inside of that locker room, I want our guys not to think about history, because history is going to be brought up so much. And they get it from the outside, just beating down on history so much. We just have to circle the wagons and not let any of that come inside our locker room. We’ve been working our butts off to change that. But our guys know because everybody’s going to bring history in this. It brings so much negativity to us that we have to continue to be positive on what we’ve been doing. Improving on things, and then the things that we’re not doing good at we have to continue improving that. So that’s really the focus for us.”
Browns head coach Todd Monken had a pointed response to those who brought up his team’s own tortured history after a Week 1 loss and Cleveland has now rattled off three straight wins. Coincidentally, they’re also next up on the Jets’ schedule and Glenn will need to get a win in that game if he really wants to put any notions of another lost Jets season to rest.
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Bears coach Ben Johnson can’t help himself. And I love it.
After not naming a starting quarterback for Week 4 against the Jets — and given that numerous reports indicated Tyson Bagent would start — Johnson decided to have both Bagent and Case Keenum on the field for the first play from scrimmage.
It meant that Keenum was technically a starter, even though it was a Bagent game.
“Well, I got all these memos saying that Tyson was starting before I had ever made an announcement, so I now want to get Case out there the first time,” Johnson told reporters after the 23-12 win. “It was like a ceremonial first pitch out there, hand off the torch.”
Johnson was reminded that the move gave Keenum the win.
“Good for him,” Johnson said. “I think the team gets credited for the win.”
He’s right. It is all about the team. The decision to play games with the starting lineup as a reaction to the fact that he failed to keep the starter’s identity a secret has nothing to do with the team’s objectives.
Again, I like the cheekiness. It’s part of who he is. As long as it never gets in the way of winning a game, it’s fine.
As to whether Keenum got the win, it’s possible that Bagent did, too. Even though Bagent lined up as a receiver, the official game book shows two starting quarterbacks for the Bears.
Kyle Monangai didn’t start Sunday’s game at running back for the Bears, but he finished it.
Monangai rang up 30 carries for 146 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Bears’ offense in a 23-12 home win over the Jets. Monangai had 12 carries for 54 yards in the first half, but took over the lead role after D’Andre Swift lost a fumble in the third quarter and the Bears were happy to keep riding him because the Jets couldn’t stop him.
The big day for Monangai was part of a dominant offensive effort for the Bears. They had the ball for more than 42 minutes and ran up 492 yards over the course of the afternoon. The Bears ran for 232 yards overall and quarterback Tyson Bagent was 24-of-33 for 261 yards. Bagent threw an interception and the Bears were stopped on a fourth down on the Jets’ 1-yard-line, but they never punted en route to the win.
Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick’s interception was the Jets’ first since Week 18 of the 2024 season and defenders got their mitts on three other Bagent passes, but penalties led to all of those turnovers getting wiped out. They needed them as the offense only managed 157 yards and 58 of them came on a Geno Smith touchdown pass to Isaiah Williams once the Jets were already down 17 points.
The loss was the Jets’ third in a row after a Week 1 win in Tennessee and they’ll return home to host the surging Browns in Week 5.
Bagent didn’t technically start at quarterback as Bears head coach Ben Johnson had him line up at receiver while Case Keenum took a snap and handed the ball to Swift. That was the only snap that Keenum played and the back-to-back wins without Caleb Williams are a good sign that the Bears will be able to keep weathering storms while Williams recovers from his hamstring injury.
The Bears will be in Green Bay next weekend and signs point to Williams missing at least one more game before he’ll be ready to return to the lineup, so it could be the Bagent and Monangai show again for Chicago.
The Bears ran the ball effectively throughout the first half on Sunday and Kyle Monangai has helped them pick up where they left off.
After D’Andre Swift lost a fumble to set up a Jets field goal early in the third quarter, the Bears turned to Monangai and he ran for 22 yards on their next possession. The last five of them resulted in his second touchdown of the afternoon and the Bears are now up 20-6 with under three minutes left in the third.
Swift’s fumble gave the Jets the ball on Chicago’s 28-yard-line, but a third down incompletion forced the Jets to settle for Jason Sanders’s second field goal of the day. The first field goal also came off a turnover — Minkah Fitzpatrick’s streak-busting interception — but the Jets have just 79 yards of offense and will need to find some kind of spark quickly to have any chance of improving to 2-2 on the season.
Monangai has 17 carries for 76 yards and quarterback Tyson Bagent is 21-of-27 for 225 yards for a Bears offense that hasn’t had much difficulty moving the ball.
The Bears had the ball for almost 22 minutes in the first half of Sunday’s game against the Jets and they have a 10-point lead to show for that edge.
Cairo Santos’s second field goal of the day pushed the lead to 13-3 on the final play of the first half. The only touchdown of the first 30 minutes came when running back Kyle Monangai converted a fourth down from the 1-yard-line at the end of the first quarter.
The Bears’ massive edge in time of possession stands even though they have the game’s only turnover. Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick had the team’s first interception since Week 18 of the 2024 season and it set up a field goal, but the Jets only have two first downs and 34 total yards of offense so far on Sunday.
The score would be more lopsided if not for good work in the red zone by the Jets defense. They held on the 1-yard-line on the Bears’ opening possession and both of Santos’s field goals came after red zone stops forced the Bears to settle for three points. They’ve had four drives of 11 or more plays, though, and the Jets will need to get the ball back in their hands more often to have a chance of coming back.
Tyson Bagent has played most of the game at quarterback for Chicago — Case Keenum took the first snap and handed off with Bagent lined up at receiver — and is 16-of-22 for 170 yards and the interception. Monangai and D’Andre Swift have each run for 54 yards, so the Bears will likely continue to lean on the ground game and drain the clock with a victory in sight.
The Jets went the entire 2025 season without intercepting a pass and the streak ran to 20 games last weekend, but it is finally over.
Safety Minkah Fitzpatrick picked off Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent in the second quarter to bring the drought to an end. Fitzpatrick missed the last two games with a groin injury, so it was a very happy return to action.
The Jets appeared to have an interception earlier in the game, but defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat’s pick of a Bagent shovel pass was wiped out by a penalty.
Fitzpatrick gave the Jets the ball on the Bears’ 34-yard-line and they picked up one first down before turning to kicker Jason Sanders for a 36-yard field goal. Sanders made the kick and the Jets now trail the Bears 7-3 with 8:15 to play in the first half.
It looked for a moment like the Jets had ended their long interception drought, but a penalty flag extended it and a Bears drive that resulted in the first points of Sunday’s game in Chicago.
Running back Kyle Monangai punched the ball in from the 1-yard-line on fourth down and the Bears went up 7-0 with 23 seconds to play in the first quarter. The run was the Bears’ eighth play in a goal-to-go situation in the quarter as their first possession ended with D’Andre Swift being ruled down short of the end zone after reviews of two different runs.
The Jets took over inside their 1-yard-line and tried to draw the Bears offside before taking an intentional delay of game. They punted after going three-and-out and appeared to get their first interception since the end of the 2024 season when defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat nabbed a Tyson Bagent shovel pass, but an illegal use of hands penalty gave the ball back to the Bears.
Bagent lined up at wide receiver on the first play of game while Case Keenum took the snap and handed off, but is 8-of-10 for 93 yards since taking over as the quarterback.
Would it be Tyson Bagent or Case Keenum in the starting lineup for the Bears on Sunday against the Jets?
Why not both?
The ever-cheeky Ben Johnson put both players on the field for the Bears’ opening drive. Keenum served as the quarterback, and Bagent split wide.
Keenum handed the ball off, and then he exited.
The move technically keeps the Bears from joining the 1997 Jaguars with three different starting quarterbacks in four games. But, still, it’s Bagent at quarterback.
Starter Caleb Williams is missing his second straight game with a hamstring injury.
As Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reported earlier in the day, Johnson told the team on Wednesday that Bagent would be the starter. He asked them to keep the information in-house.
It worked until Friday morning, when we heard that Bagent had gotten the first-team reps on Wednesday and Thursday.
If, as expected, quarterback Tyson Bagent starts for the Bears today, he’ll be the third quarterback to start for Chicago this year. In only four games.
Via NBC Sports research, the Bears will be the first team to have three different quarterbacks start the first four games of a season since the 1997 Jaguars. (They were Mark Brunell, Steve Matthews, and Rob Johnson.)
The Bears resisted announcing the Week 4 starter vs. the Jets. (While it’s not a violation of the rules, the NFL should consider requiring all teams to name their starting quarterbacks at some point during the week preceding a game.)
The Jets will be trying to end an NFL-record 20 straight games without an interception.
Bagent, who is from West Virginia, will be facing former West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith. After leading the league in interceptions last year with 17, Smith has thrown none through three games, and he leads all qualifying quarterbacks with a 75.5-percent completion rate.
The Jets have lost two in a row, and they’re 1-14 against teams with a winning record since 2024, including 11 straight losses.
Cornerback Joey Porter Jr. will make his first appearance of the 2026 season on Sunday.
Porter is active for the Cowboys less than a week after joining the team in a trade with the Steelers. Porter was listed with a back injury while in Pittsburgh, but his contract impasse with the team was seen as the true reason for his inactivity and Porter was not on the injury report for the Cowboys.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Porter is expected to play a limited number of snaps against the Texans in his Cowboys debut, but his presence should be welcomed for a defense that has struggled to find consistency over the first month of the season.
Cowboys at Texans
Cowboys: LB DeMarvion Overshown, CB Cobie Durant, CB Caelen Carson, RB Emari Demercado, LB James Houston, OL Ajani Cornelius, WR Camden Brown
Texans: LB Azeez Al-Shaair, DE Chris Braswell, OL Febechi Nwaiwu, OT Nate Thomas, TE Marlin Klein
Titans at Ravens
Titans: RB Michael Carter, CB Jaylon Jones, G Drew Moss, OT Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson, TE Kylen Granson, DT Jackie Marshall
Ravens: QB Joe Fagnano, LB Trey Hendrickson, WR Chris Moore, DT Aeneas Peebles
Patriots at Bills
Patriots: OT Dametrious Crownover, TE Tanner Arkin, QB Behren Morton, CB Christian Gonzalez, DT Christian Barmore, CB Channing Canada
Bills: WR Skyler Bell, S Jalon Kilgore, CB Christian Benford, LB Mike Danna, G Ar’maj Reed-Adams, OT Jude Bowry, DL T.J. Sanders
Jets at Bears
Jets: WR Adonai Mitchell, RB Breece Hall, CB Nahshon Wright, LB Kiko Mauigoa, LB Kinglsey Enagbare, G Dylan Parham, TE Mason Taylor
Bears: QB Caleb Williams, OL Ozzy Trapilo, CB Cam Lewis, DL Jaydon Loving, DL James Lynch, DL Jamree Kromah
Jaguars at Bengals
Jaguars: CB Montaric Brown, WR C.J. Williams, CB Christian Braswell, S Jalen Huskey, LB Jack Kiser, OL Daniel Faalele, DE Wesley Williams
Bengals: S Bryan Cook, S Kyle Dugger, LB Swayze Bozeman, OL Myles Hinton, WR Colbie Young, DT B.J. Hill, DT Landon Robinson
Cardinals at Giants
Cardinals: QB Carson Beck, CB Starling Thomas, S Dadrion Taylor-Demerson, LB Cameron Robertson, OL Josh Fryar, WR Reggie Virgil
Giants: S Ar’Darius Washington, RB Devin Singletary, CB Nikko Reed, LB Jihad Ward, OL J.C. Davis, TE Thomas Fidone, DL Bobby Jamison-Travis
Rams at Eagles
Rams: WR C.J. Daniels, QB Ty Simpson, CB Cam Lampkin, CB Jaylen Watson, OL Bill Murray, TE Colby Parkinson, DT Aaron Donald
Eagles: WR Hollywood Brown, WR DeVonta Smith, QB Cole Payton, S Marcus Epps, LB Zack Baun, OT Lane Johnson, OL Fred Johnson, TE Dallas Goedert
Packers at Buccaneers
Packers: OL Jacob Monk, G Kevin Zeitler, G Aaron Banks, DT Anthony Campbell
Buccaneers: LB Rueben Bain, QB Baker Mayfield, DB Benjamin Morrison, TE Ko Kieft, OL Luke Haggard, OL Billy Schrauth, DL DeMonte Capehart
