The dark clouds hanging over MetLife Stadium didn't have all to do with the weather in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday.

Following a 10-9 defeat against the visiting Broncos,Aaron Rodgers took some of the blame for a poor offensive performance that amounted to zero touchdowns and 248 yards of total offense, early season low points for a talented unit that entered the season with high expectations, Michael Bacal of NFL.com reports.

"I can't say I had a spectacular game," Rodgers told reporters after the loss. "I missed some throws. The weather sucked, but so did some of my throws. We had some chances, but way too many mental mistakes, too many poor throws, and then we just missed some easy stuff, some protection stuff that should've been easy, some route-adjustment stuff that should've been easy. Our focus wasn't as sharp as it's been in the first three weeks."

More often than not, New York's mental mistakes came pre-snap. The offensive line was flagged early and often with false starts, a good majority of the team's 13 total penalties (90 yards) in the game. One of the more crucial of those instances was on a fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line in the second quarter, which then forced the Jets to settle for a field goal in a game decided by one point.

"We got to figure it out," head coach Robert Saleh said of their pre-snap issues. "Whether or not we're good enough or ready to handle all the cadence. Cadence had not been an issue all camp. Felt like our operation had been operating pretty good. Obviously, today took a major step back."

Rodgers said the pre-snap penalties were "way out of character" for his offense and hopes he can chalk it up to being an anomaly. Sunday was the first outing this season without starting right tackle Morgan Moses, who suffered a knee injury in Week 3's dominant win over the New England Patriots, and rookie Olumuyiwa Fashanu started in the veteran's place.

"That's one way to do it," Rodgers said when asked of Saleh's cadence comment. "The other way is hold them accountable. I mean, we haven't had an issue; Morgan (Moses) had one false start, I believe, before this. It's been a weapon; we use it every day of practice. We rarely have a false start and to have, I don't know, five today, it seemed like – four or five. It seems like an outlier. I don't know if we need to make mass changes based on kind of an outlier game."

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