EAST RUTHERFORD – It simply wasn’t good enough. With extra days to prepare for a struggling Denver Broncos team starting a rookie quarterback, the Jets seemed to fall back into their old ways, losing an often unwatchable 10-9 game in front of a rain-soaked crowd at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon. No more excuses. No more “our quarterback got hurt in week one,” or “the young players need time to develop” from last year, a Gang Green team that’s built to win now and certainly isn’t designed to be “same old Jets” looked exactly that; they took 13 penalties and held Denver and freshman signal caller Bo Nix to just 187 total yards, but still couldn’t find a way to win the type of game that good teams seem to walk away with. Not good enough. And head coach Robert Saleh knows it. “Obviously, it was sloppy,” Saleh said. “Lot of pre-snap penalties, they’re already a good defense and we made it easier for them with just a lack of execution. We had opportunities – first and goal from the one, we’ve got to be able to put it in and didn’t – and we had the ball twice with a chance to win and didn’t.  Weather withstanding, you’ve got to play detailed. When it’s sloppy outside, you’ve got to be detailed, and we had too many self-inflicted wounds.” A miserable first half for both sides saw the Jets clinging to a 6-0 lead on two Greg Zuerlein field goals, and Nix was held to a stunning line of completing seven of his 15 passes for negative-seven yards in the game’s first 30 minutes. But, on their second drive of the second half, a seemingly worn-down Jets defense both bent and broke; Nix found Courtland Sutton wide open in the back of the end zone with 3:08 left in the third quarter to give the Broncos a 7-6 lead. Both teams traded field goals – Zuerlein hit from 40 yards out, followed by Denver’s Wil Lutz converting from 47 – but Lutz missed a 50-yarder with less than two minutes left, seemingly setting the stage for a somewhat miraculous Jets win. A short pass to Breece Hall and a big defensive pass interference call on a ball intended for Mike Williams was followed by three straight Aaron Rodgers incompletions. It was still enough, however, to set the stage for Zuerlein, but he missed his 50-yard attempt through the rain to seal a stunning upset win for the Broncos. “That’s a really good defense, but when your defense holds them to ten (points), you’ve got to win the game, 100 percent of the time,” Rodgers said. “That’s on the offense.  That’s on me.  Not good enough.” Indeed. After a big Thursday Night Football win on a short week left everyone in the building encouraged, Saleh insists that an abysmal showing even with having had extra time to prepare for it on Sunday won’t have the opposite effect. “I thought we had a great week of prep, felt great energy in the locker room pre-game and even at halftime,” he said. “Defensively, we came out and played really well, and offensively, it just wasn’t up to our standard. The reality is it was going to be tough sledding no matter what with the way the rain was coming down, but what’s disappointing is the self-inflicted wounds that come with it…we gave up a lot of yards that we didn’t need to give up.”