Former Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn may have bitten off more than he can chew with the New York Jets, some league insiders believe.
Glenn was scooped up by the Jets after successfully building up a Super Bowl contending defense in Detroit, departing at the same time as offensive coordinator Ben Johnson following the 2024 season. While Johnson quickly built the Chicago Bears into a contender, Glenn struggled with a poor roster in New York and now faces what some believe is an even more dire outlook.
Speaking to The Athletic’s Mike Sando, a league executive shared some deep concerns about the direction of the Jets — which the executive believe goes far beyond what Glenn can control.
âThe Jets keep doing the same thing,â another exec said. âThey trade good players off their team, they get draft picks, nobody wants to play there, they are a young team, they have to find a journeyman quarterback. Then they bring in all these picks, they canât find a quarterback still, and then they trade all those players for more picks and still canât find a quarterback.
âI would guess the owner is very involved with that thought process.â
But Glenn is getting at least some of the blame. Another executive told Sando that the Jets were “bringing in veterans to help the culture because Glenn could not do for the Jets what his old boss in Detroit, Dan Campbell, did for the Lions.”
There are at least some with a more optimistic view of Glenn, including an executive who believes he has the Jets close to turning a corner.
âTheyâve done a good enough job supplementing their roster to where they donât have a lot of glaring holes now, so they could move up or down in the draft,â another exec said. âTheir roster is not bad. This should probably be the last free-agency period where they are really aggressive. You need to plan and budget like you are hitting on these draft picks.â
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