The clock appears to be ticking for Aaron Glenn. And that's precisely one of the major reasons he and the New York Jets are in this mess.
After a 28-25 loss to the previously winless Miami Dolphins, the Jets sit at 2-5 and at yet another low point. Early defensive struggles against an offense that was among the NFL's worst were an issue, as was poor play-calling at the goal line with a chance to tie the game.
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New York Jets running back Braelon Allen (0) carries against the Miami Dolphins in the second half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Miami Dolphins linebacker Chop Robinson (44) sacks New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) in the second half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Jets tight end Mason Taylor (85) catches a pass for a touchdown as Miami Dolphins cornerback Jason Marshall Jr., left, defends in the first half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
New York Jets wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. (11) celebrates a first down against the Miami Dolphins in the first half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn leaves after a news conference after the Miami Dolphins defeated the Jets in an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
But Glenn's mismanagement of the clock and his timeouts in two-minute situations have been a recurring theme in his 24-game tenure. The most damning statistic: Glenn's Jets have been outscored 107-6 in the final two minutes of the first half during the last two seasons.
“Well, the thing is we're trying,” said Glenn, who explained that the Jets practice two-minute drills throughout the week. "So it’s not like we’re not trying to get that done. We've just got to improve in our execution. I have to improve on, on both sides, how we manufacture these things. So, I mean, it’s a process of getting these things done.
"I know it’s frustrating for the fans, I know it’s frustrating for the players. It’s frustrating for us as coaches, but we've just got to continue to work at it. And as long as we continue to do that, I just know that we’ll get better at it.”
That's a tough sell to anyone who watched the Dolphins — leading 14-7 at the time — get the ball at their 9-yard line with 8:44 left in the second quarter and go on a clock-chewing, 91-yard drive that ended 15 plays and 8:38 later with a 2-yard touchdown run by Malik Willis.
And with all three timeouts still in Glenn's pocket.
With only 6 seconds left before halftime, Geno Smith took a knee and Jets fans booed loudly as the team headed into the locker room.
Glenn said after the game he didn't use his timeouts because he thought his defense would stop the Dolphins to give the Jets the ball back. He added that, in retrospect, he should've used them. Glenn reiterated Monday that the thinking was that the Dolphins could negate the Jets' timeouts by getting first downs, and if they used all of them, Miami could run out the clock.
The Dolphins did — and got into the end zone.
“We’ve got to do a better job and I have to do better job, and I said that yesterday,” Glenn said. “And to me, I think that’s the most important part of making sure we just try to improve in those areas.”
Getting the ball to rookie Omar Cooper Jr. The first-round draft pick has thrived in his two games since returning from injured reserve. He had five catches for 115 yards and a touchdown against Miami, making him the third player in NFL history with at least five receptions, 100 yards receiving and a TD catch in two of his first three career games, joining Don Looney (1940, Philadelphia) and Bobby Johnson (1984, Giants).
“It’s a long year, so two games, you can’t just say you established yourself,” Cooper said. “I will say, I’m grateful that I was able to play two games, play healthy and I feel like me and Geno are connecting really well. I feel like we can continue to grow on that.”
Among the laundry list of items is finding ways to get No. 1 wide receiver Garrett Wilson the football more consistently. His first official target came in the third quarter and he finished with two catches for 26 yards on three targets. Wilson was noticeably frustrated during a sideline outburst that Glenn said was “overblown.”
There's also the curious calls by offensive coordinator Frank Reich on first-and-goal at the 1 in the fourth quarter and the Jets down 21-14. Fullback/tight end Andrew Beck — who had no carries this season — lost a yard on first down. Braelon Allen lost another yard on the next play and Smith was sacked for a 12-yard loss on third down, so New York had to settle for a field goal.
TE Mason Taylor. The second-year tight end had a season-high five catches for 62 yards and his first two-touchdown game. Taylor, a second-round pick last year, also made a toe-tapping grab on a late 2-point conversion to make it a three-point game.
CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr. He was a surprise healthy inactive and Glenn declined to go into details, saying he was going to “keep that in-house between me and Jarvis.” Brownlee, acquired last year from Tennessee, didn't play at the end of New York's loss at New England last week and was replaced as the nickel cornerback by rookie D'Angelo Ponds.
DT T'Vondre Sweat left Sunday with a knee injury. ... RB Breece Hall (quadriceps) and LG Dylan Parham (knee) have missed four straight games.
5-19 — Glenn's record as Jets coach, including 0-8 vs. AFC East opponents.
Glenn is on the hot seat and things could get worse Sunday in front of the home crowd if the Jets can't find a way to beat Las Vegas, which is on a four-game skid.
Glenn said he knows “it's going to get noisy,” but the Jets are blocking out the outside noise.
“Just focus on who we have in this building,” he said, “and then just improving.”
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New York Jets running back Braelon Allen (0) carries against the Miami Dolphins in the second half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Miami Dolphins linebacker Chop Robinson (44) sacks New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) in the second half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Jets tight end Mason Taylor (85) catches a pass for a touchdown as Miami Dolphins cornerback Jason Marshall Jr., left, defends in the first half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
New York Jets wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. (11) celebrates a first down against the Miami Dolphins in the first half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn leaves after a news conference after the Miami Dolphins defeated the Jets in an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, without providing evidence, that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s reelection was “rigged.”
“Elections have to be indisputable and it looked very bad to me,” Trump told reporters before flying to Mississippi for a rally. He added, “I thought it had a very bad look, the way it was tabulated.”
Trump also said: “It looked like another rigged election, frankly.”
Lula's comeback to win Brazil’s presidential runoff Sunday is already facing its first hurdle as his competitor, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, challenges the results, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the country’s two polarizing political forces.
Lula, who convinced an extra 10.4 million voters to support him in the runoff, is expected to take office on Jan. 5, 2027, for his fourth non-consecutive term. He will serve as a counterweight in a region where leaders are shifting to the right and aligning with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, promised to cozy up to the Trump administration.
At a news conference Sunday, Bolsonaro said he planned to request an annulment of the election following a chaotic extension of voting at the request of both candidates. However, it's unclear what legal avenue he would have to do that. His father, now serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt, unsuccessfully contested his loss to Lula four years ago. Flavio Bolsonaro visited his father, who is under house arrest, on Monday, the younger Bolsonaro's public relations office said.
Early signs from Brazil’s institutions and from leaders across the region, including conservative presidents who oppose Lula, suggest the results will be respected nationally and internationally. Trump has yet to weigh in.
Even with the vote extension, Lula’s win was decisive. The soon-to-be 81-year-old incumbent won more than 64 million votes compared to just under 60 million for Bolsonaro, a margin of nearly 4%.
President of Brazil’s electoral authority, Kassio Nunes, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, was among those who recognized Lula’s victory Sunday.
“This is a really uphill battle for Flavio Bolsonaro. Important Brazilian power brokers are closing ranks behind Lula, sometimes begrudgingly," said Brian Winter, Brazil analyst and editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly.
“I sense that Brazilian power brokers that matter don’t really want to go down the path of a truly contested election,” he said.
The key to Lula’s win was the additional 14.1 million voters who showed up for the second-round election, including those who voted for other candidates in the first round. Analysts say three-quarters of those votes went to Lula, handing him the victory. And notably, the first round set a record for the number of Brazilians who decided not to vote, while the second round had the least number of abstentions ever.
Lula gave his digital campaign to lawmaker André Janones, who mounted a fierce and persistent social media operation that mobilized many of those previously uncommitted voters. Janones' key tool was a channel on messaging app WhatsApp called “Lula's Army,” which gathered almost 11 million people and mobilized them to campaign via social media for the incumbent.
Janones “basically embraced the right’s style of aggressive politics, very intense, constant messaging,” said Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo.
“The defeat in the first round jolted the Lula campaign into action. The strategy during the first round was lackluster and saw a lot of infighting,” Stuenkel said.
Juliano Cortinhas, international relations professor at the University of Brasília, said Lula's social media initiative in the runoff was also key to pressuring Meta, the owner of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, to end what the president's campaign denounced as bias helping Bolsonaro.
Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Oct.15 that Meta must adopt measures that assure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates, which the company later said it addressed.
There was “external interference we were suffering by major platforms,” Cortinhas said. “It wasn't only Meta, many others were using their algorithms to repost many images and many messages of the far-right, and they did not do the same to the left.”
It was the first time since 1989 that a candidate came from behind in the first round to win in the second.
Results show voter turnout surged overall, particularly in wealthier metropolitan centers, but Lula achieved his highest gains in lower-income municipalities where his base was already established. He mobilized former non-voters, those who voted blank in the first round and supporters of third-party candidates.
Jorge Henrique Oliveira Sena, a 26-year-old maintenance worker in Brasilia, was one of those who didn’t vote in the first round. Neither candidate excited him much, but he cast his vote for Lula. “It’s not a question of supporting, but between the two, I had more of a connection with him,” he said.
Brazil holds general elections every four years, and its electronic voting machines have made the tallying process quick and secure.
Brazilian authorities adopted electronic voting machines in the 1990s to combat fraud and the system has been largely reliable since then. Results are usually reported mere hours after polls close.
In the lead-up to the 2022 vote, Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly cast unfounded doubts on Brazil’s electronic voting system. No significant fraud has ever been detected.
But the usually swift voting process was thrown into disarray Sunday after a last-minute decision to extend voting nationwide at both candidates’ requests.
Lula made the request because of issues with public transportation in metropolis, Sao Paulo, and the northeastern city of Salvador, two of his strongholds. Bolsonaro requested it after heavy rains in the south, which he won by a strong margin in the first round.
The decision was made by a Supreme Court justice mere minutes before polls were set to close at 5 p.m. and the speed of Brazil’s counting process meant many polling stations didn’t receive the news until they were already wrapping up.
Yet given the reliability of Brazil's voting system and Lula's win by a significant margin, a path to annul the results could be difficult for Bolsonaro.
Benjamin Gedan, senior fellow and director of the Stimson Center Latin America program, said Bolsonaro's rejection of his loss was not surprising.
“False claims of fraud are becoming commonplace, though that does not make them any less dangerous," he said. He noted “Lula’s margin of victory, and the quick recognition of the result by conservative leaders in the region."
Nevertheless, Lula still faces challenges moving forward, including political polarization in the country, a possible fiscal crisis and a right-wing Congress in which Bolsonaro's party will have more seats than any other. Bolsonaro himself remains a senator, though his term ends in January.
“We shouldn’t underestimate the power of the Bolsonaro family," said Winter, the Brazil analyst. "They can make life difficult for Lula for weeks and months to come.”
Savarese reported from Sao Paulo.
Supporters of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate after he wins a fourth term in the presidential runoff in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses supporters during a victory rally after winning a fourth term in the presidential runoff on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro speaks after the presidential runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro speaks after the presidential runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses supporters during a victory rally after winning a fourth term in the presidential runoff on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
