NFL

Jets shut out by Packers, 9-0

The spooked look on Rex Ryan’s face in the postgame press conference told you all you needed to know about the Jets’ frightful 9-0 loss to the Packers yesterday at the Meadowlands.

In keeping with the Halloween theme, the Jets’ inept offense scared the swagger and bravado right out of the usually audacious Jets coach.

Some of Ryan’s questionable game management, though, was just as scary as his team’s bumbling offense.

BOX SCORE

PHOTOS: PACKERS BLANK JETS

COMPLETE JETS COVERAGE

“I wish we could play it again — do it over — but there are no do-overs in this league,” Ryan said through clenched teeth.

The sickening loss, littered with three turnovers and seven costly penalties, ended a five-game Jets winning streak and foiled their bid to win a sixth straight game for the first time since 1998. It marked the first time the Jets (5-2) have been shut out since Nov. 19, 2006.

“It felt embarrassing to be shut out at home,” Jets right tackle Damien Woody said. “Our personnel and our coaching staff is too good for us to be shut out at home.”

“A shutout is ridiculous when you’re at home,” Jets center Nick Mangold said. “It’s disappointing for us, disappointing for our fans.”

Perhaps the most disappointing plays came from the highly-touted receiving corps, which dropped at least six catchable passes.

While quarterback Mark Sanchez (16-38, 256 yards, 2 INTs) stood up and took the blame, calling the game “just a poor job on my part,” it was the receivers who really let him down.

The worst of them was Santonio Holmes dropping a pass in the third quarter on a slant route on which he was so wide open he would have scored had he made the catch. It was one of at least two drops Holmes had in the game, but this one possibly cost the Jets the game.

Holmes, telling a team official he was alerted of a “family emergency” after the game, declined to speak to the media. Nor did fellow receiver Braylon Edwards, who ironically made the best catch of the game, a shoestring grab on a 32-yard gain in the second half.

Jerricho Cotchery, who uncharacteristically had a couple of bad drops, was in character after the game in that he was, as usual, stand-up in the face of adversity.

“We didn’t play well at all and it was a very frustrating day to say the least,” he said. “When you’re not making plays you start pressing, get out of character and you end up making more mistakes. That’s what happened out there.”

There was plenty to go around.

Kicker Nick Folk, who entered the game having made 13 of 15 field goals, was wide right on a 37-yard attempt in the third quarter with the Jets trailing 3-0.

Punter Steve Weatherford made an ill-advised decision when he faked a punt and ran for it on a fourth-and-18 from the Jets 20-yard line. He came up one yard short, which gave the Packers a short field and they converted the freebie opportunity into a 20-yard Mason Crosby field goal and a 3-0 lead.

That ended up being all the Packers would need offensively, though Crosby added field goals of 41 and 40 yards in the fourth quarter as insurance.

The Jets looked as if they might be making a move to take the lead in the fourth quarter when Packers cornerback Charles Woodson ripped the ball out of the hands of Jets tight end Dustin Keller after it was clear Keller was already on the ground.

But because Ryan had burned the second of his two allotted challenges on a relatively meaningless play late in the first half when Packers corner Tramon Williams ripped the ball from Cotchery’s hands, he was unable to challenge the play and it might have cost the Jets the game.

After the game, though, Ryan didn’t exactly take ownership of his game management gaffe, insisting the two Sanchez INTs that were ripped away were nearly identical.

“I don’t see what would have been different had I challenged the Dustin Keller play, because it was the exact same thing,” Ryan said.

No, it wasn’t. On the Woodson play on Keller it was a lot clearer that Keller had possession of the ball when he and Woodson fell to the ground.

As was the theme of the day, it was a trick with no treat.

“Weird day all the way around, man,” Jets linebacker Calvin Pace said.

mcannizzaro@nypost.com