The Jets (3-9) lost the Seahawks (7-5), 26-21, at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. Here are three takeaways from the game.

Potential Game-Winning Drive Comes Up Short
The Jets had a chance, for the fifth time this season, to march down the field for their first game-winning drive this season, but fell short.

Aaron Rodgers & Co., following RB Zach Charbonnet's 8-yard rushing touchdown that put the Seahawks up, 26-21, with 5:34 remaining, was able to get to the Seattle 29-yard line before stalling. Rodgers was sacked by DT Leonard Williams on third down and the 5-yard loss set the offense up with fourth-and-15. Rodgers tossed the ball up to WR Garrett Wilson on one final desperation play, but the pass landed incomplete.

"I don't know," Rodgers said on the team's inability to muster a game-winning possession. "I think games are often won the first, second and third quarter. Fourth quarter, it's an important time of the game, but plays at the end of the second quarter cost us this game. Then come the fourth quarter, it's execution, it's strain, it's the little things. It's accuracy. We just have a lot to go around, myself included, first and foremost."

Interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich added: "We have to figure that out quickly. It's never on one person, it isn't. It's on the entire collective group, from players to coaches to every single human being out there on offense. We have to be better in those moments."

Penalties
The Jets finished with 12 penalties for 83 yards and were flagged 8 times in the fourth quarter including 4 on Seattle's game-winning drive.

Down by 21-19 on their 33-yard line, the Seahawks elected to keep their offense on the field on fourth-and-6. The defense was then flagged for too many men on the field as Xavier Gipson lined up deep in return position.

"I'll take full blame for that," IHC Jeff Ulbrich said of the penalty. "Initially, we thought the punt team was coming out, so our punt-return unit went out and then they decided to go for it on the fourth [down]. We have to be better at communicating that across the board."

Set up with fourth-and-1, rookie CB Qwan'tez Stiggers was penalized for pass interference that gave Seattle the ball in Jets territory. Again facing fourth-and-1 four plays later, the Jets stopped RB Kenneth Walker short of the first down, but DT Solomon Thomas had a horse-collar tackle that put the offense inside the red zone. Edge Will McDonald IV later lined up in the neutral zone, changing a third-and-6 to a third-and-1.

Zach Charbonnet scored the next play and gave Seattle its first lead of the game.

"I have to look at every single one of those penalties," Ulbrich said. "See if they're real, not real, what caused them. It's not OK, it's not acceptable, it's not our standard. Penalties ultimately extend drives and we can't let that happen."

The Jets' penalties nearly cost them another touchdown in the beginning of the third quarter. The defense held the Seahawks' offense out of the end zone in goal-to-go territory on 6 consecutive plays (8 snaps) as it was flagged for pass interference and offside.

It was the defense's fourth goal-to-go stand this season, which is tied for the second most in the NFL this season, with the Bears and Lions, and the third goal-line-stand after first-and-goal from the Jets' 1-yard line since 2009.

Special Teams Rollercoaster
Midway through the second quarter, there had been 2 blocked extra points (one for each team), the Seahawks muffed 2 kick returns and the Jets forced 1 fumble, recovered 2 and returned a kickoff for a touchdown.

Jets RB Kene Nwangwu, in his debut in green and white after he was called up from the practice squad Saturday, forced his first career fumble in the first quarter that CB Brandin Echols recovered. Anders Carlson then recovered a muffed kick in the second quarter as the Green & White became the first team since the 2016 Patriots to recover two fumbles on kickoffs in the same game.

Nwangwu's 99-yard return touchdown in the second quarter was the fourth of his career, second most among active players, and the Jets' first since 2021. The Green & White's 3 special teams scores since '21 are tied for the third most in the league.

Quinnen Williams' blocked extra point in the second quarter was the Jets' first PAT block since Henry Anderson rejected Titans K Ryan Succop in 2018. It was the first at home since Marvin Washington blocked a kick by Raiders K Cole Ford in 1995.