Broncos HC Sean Payton baffled by Aaron Glenn’s end-of-half clock management for Jets: ‘That’s unusual’ – Hartford Courant

Aaron Glenn tried to play Piggy in the Middle with the Broncos in London — and wound up playing the goat instead.

With a minute left in the first half of Sunday’s game and momentum relaxing on Denver’s sideline, Glenn and the Jets dialed up a fake punt on 4th-and-1 from their 37-yard line. It wasn’t exactly subtle. Darren Rizzi, the Broncos’ special teams coordinator, sniffed it out. Sean Payton cracked postgame that his wife would’ve known it was a fake. Nonetheless, first-year Jets head coach Glenn pulled off an aggressive call and had some clock and two timeouts to put New York in the driver’s seat.

Then, after using his third timeout after a second-down sack of Jets quarterback Justin Fields and a 6-yard completion to Josh Reynolds on third down, Glenn let the clock tick on 4th-and