The Jets might be improved. But they still can’t intercept a pass.

Three weeks into the NFL season, after suffering two losses by a combined 10 points, New York Jets coach Aaron Glenn held his index finger and thumb inches apart to illustrate how close he felt his team was to a breakthrough.

“How do we close that gap?” Glenn said Sunday in Detroit, after a loss to the Lions that left the Jets 1-2. “I challenge myself, I challenge the staff, I even challenge the players on let’s identify a couple things that we need to improve on and let’s make sure that we hone in on those things.”

One area isn’t hard to find: No team has been worse at intercepting passes in NFL history than the Jets.

The league’s record-setting interception-less streak grew to 20 games during New York’s Week 3 loss at Detroit. New York last picked off a pass on Jan. 5, 2025, when it recorded two.

Ever since, the Jets’ defense has faced 608 passes with nary a pick to show for it.

“That’s hard to do,” former NFL coach John Gruden said on social media this week. “You would think a ball would ricochet into somebody’s hands.”

During Glenn’s 15-year playing career as a defensive back, interceptions were a specialty. He collected 41, tied for 73rd on the NFL’s all-time list. As the Jets’ streak grew last December, Glenn admitted that “it’s disappointing that we don’t have an interception because coming from what I’ve always played, you expect those things to happen.”

The Jets know all about turnover. When Glenn was hired in January 2025, after a successful run as Detroit’s defensive coordinator, he was the franchise’s fifth coach since its last winning season in 2015. Glenn told fans to “expect a winning team that you will be proud of.”

But only weeks into his first season, as the Jets staggered to a 3-14 record, the team traded two of its best defensive players in cornerback Sauce Gardner and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams. That defensive fire sale didn’t help a unit that would allow 29.6 points per game, second-most in the league.

When the streak reached 12 games last December, Glenn called it “really puzzling.”

When the streak reached 15 to break the previous record held by the San Francisco 49ers in 2024, Glenn said that, “I hate the fact that we didn’t get an interception,” after a loss to New Orleans. “But the thing is we got a turnover, and then we got a fourth-down stop, so these are some things we can build on.”

Unfortunately for Glenn and the Jets, turnovers of any variety have been hard to come by. Since the start of the 2025 season, New York has forced a league-low six turnovers in 20 games. The next-lowest team produced 13. The league leader in that span, Chicago, has 39.

New York set out to address its defensive shortcomings in the offseason. In its secondary, it signed safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, drafted a safety and cornerback and signed Nashon Wright, whose five interceptions last season helped Chicago pick off a league-best 23.

Yes, Wright had heard of the streak.

“I’m on social media, so I’ve seen it, but try not to pay it any mind,” Wright said in June. But “honestly, don’t think it’s been brought up at all” during team meetings, he added.

“I think 2025 was 2025 and I think we’re trying to turn over a new leaf,” Wright said.

Three games in, the Jets’ rank in the league’s upper half by allowing just 20.3 points per game.

Yet the streak lives on.

Relief could be on the way. In three weeks, New York faces New England, whose quarterback Drake Maye has thrown 10 interceptions in his last seven games.

“We’re right here and our guys know it,” Glenn said, his fingers inches apart. “It’s this gap right here that we got to close. And we’re fighting our asses off to close that gap and we will.”