Gardner: Refs penalizing me more because Jets are losing

New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner has a theory to explain why he's being flagged by officials: the team's 0-4 record.

"I watch football all the time, and I just feel like - I don't know if this is wrong to say - but I think I get called for more stuff just based off of us not winning," Gardner said after Monday's defeat by the Miami Dolphins, according to ESPN's Rich Cimini.

"I watch these winning programs, and there'd be some egregious things, and it don't get called. They're letting the players play."

Gardner was called for pass interference for a second consecutive game during Monday night's contest against the Dolphins.

He believes the referees aren't focusing on him alone, but the entire Jets team.

"I feel like we don't get the calls that we should get, and we get the calls that we probably shouldn't get called for," Gardner said.

The Jets were flagged 13 times for 101 yards Monday night. Head coach Aaron Glenn acknowledged he felt some of the calls could have been incorrect but stressed that the Jets need to be more disciplined.

"There's a number of calls in that game I felt didn't go our way that I felt we should have gotten, and I could easily go through those, but I'm not," Glenn said. "But I do know this: We had a good amount of penalties on our end that we have to clean up. And again, we're talking about a team that had two years of leading the league in penalties, and we're still trying to clean those things up."

The Jets are 0-4 for the first time since 2020. They've committed 32 penalties and have seven turnovers to zero takeaways.