FLORHAM PARK – There’s no need for red flags or alarms. This isn’t DEFCON 1. The Jets haven’t yet seen another team’s jersey. Their first preseason game is Saturday. They have scrimmages against the Giants the next week. There’s a long way between now and the opener against Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers.

But concern? Yes, concern is warranted.

The passing game is currently an issue.

“The offense wasn’t up to par,” said head coach Aaron Glenn of Tuesday’s practice.

Even those viewing life through the greenest of green lenses are grounded in this reality: The Jets are not the Greatest-Show-on-Turf. They want to be gritty. They want to be tough. They want to thrive in the ugliest of games. Essentially, each Sunday, drag their opposition to the deep end and see if they can’t swim.

Their offense will reflect that. The Jets believe they’ve invested enough in their offensive line (Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Joe Tippman or Josh Myers, Alijah Vera-Tucker, Armand Membou) where they can rely on them. So they will feed (and feed and feed and feed) running backs Breece Hall, Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis. A true return to a ground-and-pound philosophy.

The strategy can work – it has in the past. But only if you have some semblance of a threat through the air. That’s simply not the case at the moment.

Garrett Wilson, whom the Jets awarded a $130-million extension to before camp opened, is a superstar receiver. The problems are with … everything else. The Jets watched Davante Adams depart for Los Angeles. They pivoted to sign Josh Reynolds and Tyler Johnson. They kept Allen Lazard. Xavier Gipson and Malachi Corley are back, too. They drafted Arian Smith. It is still early (this bears repeating), but none have separated themselves as a legitimate complement to Wilson.

They struggle to get open. They don’t excel in contested catches. They drop passes at an alarming rate. Rookie tight end Mason Taylor was turning heads, but he’s now dealing with a high ankle sprain and expected to miss a few weeks.

“This is probably the most talented receiving group I’ve been a part of in my eight years, top to bottom,” said Lazard.

Glenn wanted no parts of a third Rodgers season, although it would have been his first. So he swapped him out for Justin Fields. The Jets named the former Bears first-round pick and short-time Steeler their unquestioned starter. Fields has done very little to justify that unrivaled vote of confidence to this point.

Fields completed 9-of-17 passes on Tuesday with a pair of interceptions. That doesn’t include a 7-on-7 period where he completed just one-of-four attempts with another interception. There were two drops and three sacks – that doesn’t help the quarterback.

Off days are expected in training camp. The issue is they’re stacking bad ones. This wasn’t a one-off. On Saturday, Fields completed just 2-of-10 passes. On Monday, he was 4-of-16. Keep the calculator in your pocket. The Jets' starting passing attack is 15-of-43 (34 percent) with the two Sunday interceptions in his last three practices.

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