A chilly Sunday afternoon for the New York Jets and their fans produced more of the same, as the conclusion of the 2025 regular season draws closer to wrapping up.

Gang Green was defeated by the archrival New England Patriots by a final score of 42-10.

While most fans will look at this, shrug, and move on with their lives—victims of the lack of competency from the Jets all year—there were plenty of takeaways to talk about.

In this case, we have awards to dish out from Week 17’s contest in East Rutherford—the good, the bad, and the ugly, as always.

The ‘They deserve Better’ award: Special Teams

A blowout loss to the Patriots was to be expected. The sad thing is that Gang Green continues to waste what has been an excellent season from their special teams unit.

Thomas Hennessy played in his 148th NFL game—good for 20th in franchise history.

Austin McNamara and Kene Nwangwu also performed admirably.

The ‘Thank You Cleveland’ award: Shedeur Sanders

The Cleveland Browns shocked Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. This gave them one more win than the Jets, forcing a winner-takes-all clash with the Black and Gold and the Baltimore Ravens.

More importantly, Cleveland’s win vaults the Jets into the third overall pick for the 2026 NFL draft.

The ‘Why is Eric Watts in coverage?’ award: Chris Harris

It’s unwise to have edge rushers covering running backs in pass coverage. That simply isn’t their job. For some reason, though, the Jets had Eric Watts in coverage against Rhamondre Stevenson.

Worse yet, Watts is a bigger-type edge player at 277 pounds.

It was a mismatch that the Patriots exploited for a 22-yard touchdown. Harris looked completely outmatched against Josh McDaniels all game. The tape won’t help him prove he’s worthy of being a full-time coordinator just yet.

The ‘What happens now?’ award: Aaron Glenn

For a majority of the season, an argument could be made that Glenn, a first-time head coach, was simply going through the same struggles many first-year coaches go through. It made sense for the Jets not to move on from him despite all the struggles.

They believed in his plan.

What happens now? A 35-point loss and a postgame claim of a lack of effort leave legitimate questions surrounding Glenn’s future.

While he’s probably not going to be fired, some damage control will need to be done to salvage whatever animosity arises from those comments.

The ‘Well, that was easy’ award: Jets defense

As competent as the defense looked against the New Orleans Saints last week, the Jets looked like the complete opposite against New England. They gave up 10 first downs and 14 points in the game’s first 10 minutes of action.

Missed tackles, penalties, and difficult coaching decisions were all to blame at the start.

There’s something to be said about this being potentially the worst Jets defense in a long time. Their talent and scheme don’t align, and it has worsened by the week.

The ‘1K Finally’ award: Breece Hall

Sunday was a disaster, but Breece Hall continues to play at a high level. The former second-round running back reached the 1,000-yard rushing mark for a single season for the first time in his career.

There’s absolutely no reason Hall should want to come back to the Jets next year, but if he does, the team should do whatever they can to keep the running back happy.

He has been the organization’s all-in-one this year.

The ‘See, tanking works!’ award: Drake Maye

Maye threw just two incompletions in the dominant performance to go along with five touchdowns. The Patriots, having lost the final game of the 2023 regular season, put themselves in a position to draft Maye in April of 2024.

Since that decision, the Pats have won the AFC East and are back in the saddle of a top contender in the conference. The Jets, meanwhile, can take pride in being the team that sent Bill Belichick to the college ranks.

Nothing else.

Reporting from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.