Aaron Glenn on Jets' Comeback Bid: 'One of the Most Exciting Preseason Games' in His Career

"There was no quit in our guys."

NFL preseason finales can be drab affairs, and so the Jets backups were struggling to get something going facing a 19-3 deficit against the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles' backups with almost the entire fourth quarter remaining at MetLife Stadium on Friday night.

Then the "no quit" that first-year head coach Aaron Glenn referred to several times in his postgame remarks rose up hot as QB Adrian Martinez and the Jets offense caught fire, moving to two long-drive touchdowns and then getting within a 60-yard field goal with a minute to play of pulling out an improbable 20-19 victory.

As Glenn well knew, it didn't matter that he opted not to try that long FG, that Martinez's fourth-down pass sailed wide of Jamaal Pritchett , and that the Jets lost,