Two Jets offensive shortcomings in the relatively balmy weather of Baltimore in late November captured how much they want to show progress under first-year head coach Aaron Glenn ... and how frustrating it was to "push it all in" and then go back up the East Coast to home without any winnings to show for your determination.

"For sure, it definitely stings," Tyrod Taylor said after taking the QB reins from Justin Fields and leading the Jets to an early advantage, only to see those two key second-half developments go against the Green & White in their 23-10 loss to the Ravens. "I hate losing, this locker room hates losing. When you're so close, you're right, it definitely stings."

The Jets took a rare 7-3 lead into the second half — it was the first time in their last nine games since 2004 that they headed into the second half with a lead of any size against the Ravens, a team they had never won a road game against in six previous tries.

"We had a balanced attack," Taylor said. "We were running the ball well but also using our play-action quick game efficiently, executing early on."

The execution turned into the first death knell of the afternoon when Glenn, with his team trailing, 10-7, midway through the third quarter, decided to go for it on fourth-and-2 at the Jets 42 Taylor looked for an outside receiver but wasn't able to thread the short pass to John Metchie III for the first down.

Seven plays later, QB Lamar Jackson and the flock drove to RB Derrick Henry's second touchdown of the quarter and a 17-7 advantage.

"I thought our offense was doing a solid job, Tyrod was doing a solid job," Glenn said of the daring yet unsuccessful call on a crunch down in minus territory. "I wanted to be aggressive, and we didn't make it. That's just what it was. I trust our guys to go make those. And that was a situation where I wanted our guys to not blink and get ready to go. And we didn't make it."

"We're definitely disappointed that it didn't happen, it didn't work out," Taylor said. "We preach about being aggressive. We know as an offense that when Coach asks us to go for it, it's up to us to go out there and execute. So we take that to heart. We've got to learn from it so that we can keep getting those opportunities."

A different offensive opportunity arose a quarter later, as the Jets' bid for a comeback was fading. The second wager to come up short occurred, with the Ravens leading, 20-10, through the final quarter, shortly after the offense began feeding Hall and showed signs of life: a 40-yard Hall checkdown catch-and-run to the Ravens 17, and another short pass for 15 yards to the 12.

Then came the turnover.

Something Hall never wanted to have happen again after he lost a key fumble deep in Miami territory in September happened again. Fighting for yardage and maybe the touchdown that would turn this game back into a one-score affair, Hall instead had the ball pried from his grip by CB Marlon Humphrey inside the 5-yard-line. S Alohi Gilman covered the fumble at the 3-yard-line and the Jets' comeback attempt was all but over.

"Listen, I love that player," Glenn said of Hall's error late in his otherwise exemplary 119-scrimmage-yards day. "He's a damn good player for us. He's going to fight for yards. And we all know that once you fight for every yard, you have to be able to protect the ball. They do a good job of going after it and trying to get it. ... That was a good play by them.

"He's my guy," AG added. "You know what? [Stuff] happens. You don't want it to happen, but it did. One thing I didn't want him to do was hold his head down. ... I'm behind him."

So is Taylor, despite the Jets' best chance to get back in this game having disappeared.

"Turnovers hurt in this game," the QB said about lifting Hall's spirits after the giveaway had him down in the dumps on the sideline. "But Breece is a playmaker, one of our better if not our best playmaker. So we're going to keep going to him in the pass game and the run game.

"I'm not going to be perfect, he's not going to be perfect, no one on that field is going to be. But that's my brother. I'm going to pick him up when I see he's down, knowing he's going to do the same thing if it was vice versa. I just wanted to put him in a good spirit, let him know that at some point in this game we're going to need him,."

Unfortunately for the Jets, that next opportunity didn't arise Sunday, just as it didn't happen in their previous game, the score-first, fall-from-ahead 27-14 Thursday night loss at New England. Their next redemption "opp" comes in home games the next two weeks, against the Falcons and Dolphins. How can the Jets show that progress they fought for Sunday in Crabcake City?

"It's just being efficient consistently," Taylor said. "I talked about that earlier in the week. Consistently going out and doing the right things. I think we showed a step in the right direction today. We just didn't finish it."