NEW YORK — Buffalo beat Gang Green at its own game.

James Cook rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns and the Bills (2-0) defeated the Jets (0-2) 30-10 on a sunny afternoon at MetLife Stadium.

The Bills have won three consecutive games in their rivalry with the Jets, which began in 1960.

Buffalo ran for 223 yards, a week after the Jets used the ground game to stay competitive in a two-point loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was the most rushing yards the Jets have allowed in any game since 2021.

“Very disappointing,” Jets coach Aaron Glenn said. “Very disappointing in all three phases.

“First off, I gotta take a look at myself, I want to take a look at every player and I want to take a look at every coach. There’s no stone that won’t go unturned until I figure out the issue.

“But I do know this, I’ve been here before with two teams, in New Orleans and in Detroit. One thing we are not going to do is waiver not one bit, not one bit. The brand that we say we are going to play, we are going to play that type of game and our guys will get better.”

A week after he had one of his best games in recent memory in his Jets debut, Justin Fields completed just 3 of 11 passes for 27 yards and 49 yards on the ground before he exited the game due to a concussion in the fourth quarter.

Fields held the ball in the pocket too long and was inaccurate all day. Against the Steelers, the Jets’ offense was effective by both throwing and passing the ball down the field. They registered 394 yards of offense against Pittsburgh.

After Joey Bosa sacked him, Fields went to the medical tent and then headed to the locker room.

Tyrod Taylor came in for Fields with 12:03 left in the fourth quarter with the game already decided. He completed 6 of 10 passes for 51 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Jeremy Ruckert in a losing effort.

This Sunday could not have been any different for the Jets. Penalties, mistakes and missed tackles plagued the Jets the entire game. They also couldn’t establish the run or the pass against the Bills.

The Jets recorded just 154 yards of offense during the entire game, with a lot of them coming in garbage time when the Jets were down by four scores. Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson had four catches for 50 yards. The Jets want to be a run-heavy offense, but they finished with 100 yards on the ground. This was a week after the Bills allowed 238 rushing yards in their 41-40 victory against the Baltimore Ravens.

“Definitely frustrating,” Wilson said. “We didn’t play well when we were on the field. We just didn’t play well, not good enough. Can’t wait to go practice because not good enough.

“I don’t know man. I felt like we had a good plan, had a good week of practice and came out and laid an egg when it mattered. We gotta figure it out, I don’t know, I don’t know how exactly how that happened, but props to them.”

Bills quarterback Josh Allen had a modest day after completing 14 of 25 passes for 148 yards. He also registered 59 rushing yards.

“I think their effectiveness came from us not executing early on, not getting in a rhythm,” Taylor said. “From an offensive perspective, we kept our defense too long. Too many quick drives early on.”

Late in the first quarter, leading 10-0, Jets pass rusher Micheal Clemons hit Allen in the nose and he briefly exited the game. Allen removed his helmet on the sideline, and the CBS cameras showed trainers cleaning up blood from his nose as Mitchell Trubisky came in under center.

“I pulled it when I should have handed it off,” Allen said about the nose injury. “I tried to throw it and I decided to tuck it.

“I don’t know what hit me, if it was a knee, a hand or somebody. The helmet just came down right on the bridge of my nose and just started leaking. Obviously, gushing blood, I just wanted to get off the field and stop it.”

Trubisky then completed a 32-yard pass to Josh Palmer on one of his two snaps. Allen then came back in after trainers were able to contain the bleeding.

Allen said after the game that his nose is fine and he can breathe.

“It was a weird one,” Allen said. “It’s still kind of going on me, but we will be alright.”

Glenn has emphasized the Jets’ eliminating the bonehead penalties, which have been a problem the last couple of seasons. But penalties were the theme of the Bills’ first drive.

In the first quarter, there was a holding penalty that was tacked onto Allen’s 40-yard run, which put Buffalo in field goal range. Then, on a third-and-19 on the Jets’ 30-yard line, Clemons was called for roughing the passer after he hit Allen late, which gave the Bills 15 yards and an automatic first down. That helped set up Cook’s one-yard touchdown, which put Buffalo up 7-0 in the first quarter.

On the following drive, Joey Bosa stripped Fields after he scrambled up the middle and Bills pass rusher A.J. Epenesa recovered the ball at the Jets’ 24-yard line. But the Bills were only able to muster a Matt Prater 28-yard field goal out of it, which put them up 10-0.

“I’m not about to sit here and blame this on the refs at all,” Glenn said. “I think they had more penalties than we did.

“But some of the penalties that we had are things that we talked about that we shouldn’t allow to happen and those things came up. Maybe I have to emphasize them even more.”

Prater later added a 52-yard field goal that increased the Bills’ lead to 13-0.

The hits just kept coming for the Jets. Following a three-and-out offensively, Cook rushed for a 44-yard touchdown run that put Buffalo up 20-0.

The Jets finally got on the scoreboard after Nick Folk made a 51-yard field goal with 4:21 left in the second quarter, which cut its deficit to 20-3.

On their opening drive to begin the second half, the Bills extended their lead to 23-3 when Prater converted his third field goal of the game, this time from 32 yards.

Former Jet Elijah Moore got in on the action after he scored a four-yard touchdown on an end-around, and the Bills went up 30-3 to begin the fourth quarter. The Jets drafted Moore in 2021, but they traded him to the Cleveland Browns in 2023.

“We gave up 30 points, so not good,” Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner said. “It is definitely frustrating because even though we lost last week, it is one of those things where we know what type of team we want to be.

“We didn’t display that today at all.”

A few of the Jets players suffered injuries against the Bills in addition to Fields. Safety Tony Adams sustained a groin injury in the first half and did not return. Pass rusher Jermaine Johnson also injured his ankle and cornerback Michael Carter II has a shoulder injury.

Glenn didn’t have an update on any of the injuries and said each player would be evaluated.

The Jets will have their first road game of the season in Week 3 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This will be the first of back-to-back games in the state of Florida. The Jets will also play at Miami in Week 4.

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