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ESPN’s Adam Schefter announced the Jets have hired Aaron Glenn as their new head coach on Wednesday.
Remember, Tuesday morning, when NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport tweeted, “A monumental day: Top target Aaron Glenn visits the Jets and the goal is to keep him from leaving the building, sources say. The deal isn’t done & there are still some particulars to discuss. But if all goes well, he could end today as HC of the NYJ. If not, the Saints await.”
How foolish was it for somebody to tell Rapoport, “The goal is to keep him from leaving the building.”
How does that help your bargaining position, painting a picture that you are so desperate to land a candidate, that before he arrives for a second interview, you put this out there?
He did get out of the building. Why?
Likely because the desperate Chicago Bears paid Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson $13 million a year to their new head coach.
So the way the market works is the agents now consider that the new benchmark for the next deal?
Are you going to pay $13 million to Glenn, especially after what we saw Saturday night?
To be honest, fair or unfair, he’s lucky he’s still in a position to get a head coaching job after Saturday night.
“Aaron Glenn should hope some NFL owners went out to dinner tonight,” long-time Rochester sportscaster Mike Catalana tweeted during Washington’s 45-31 win over Detroit.
Obviously that didn’t sway the Jets interest, but you’d have to think it could impact the pricetag. We will see what Schefter announces about the terms of the deal. That has not come out yet.
Something else that perhaps impacted the price tag is the fact that he’s never been a head coach before.
Perhaps that didn’t impact the Chicago Bears who were desperate to team offensive guru Johnson with QB Caleb Williams, but it should impact the Jets.
“I don’t necessarily know that the Jets is the best place because we’ve seen it. It’s not the best place for an inexperienced head coach,” Boomer Esiason said on the Boomer & Gio show this week.
Look, when it comes to head coaches like Jim Harbaugh (Los Angeles Chargers) and Sean Payton (Denver), who are making a king’s ransom, the big money makes sense because both have proved themselves as NFL head coaches.
Let’s say you sign a cornerback like Jalen Ramsey or an edge-rusher like T.J. Watt, you know what your getting. They proved they can do their jobs on a high level so you pay accordingly.
But coordinators projecting to the HC, nobody has a clue, and that is why you should temper the money.
The concept of paying Glenn $13 million a year with no head coaching experience and after what happened Saturday night is profligate spending.
Nobody should have leaked out, “Top target Aaron Glenn visits the Jets and the goal is to keep him from leaving the building, sources say.”
That was foolish and painted the Jets in a corner.
If you claim something is a “second interview” why would you leak out that stuff before the interview, unless you viewed it as a “contract negotiation” and not a true “second interview.”
And in this supposed “second interview” wouldn’t you want to spend some time, before hiring him, asking him, “What happened to your defense against Washington on Saturday night?”
Isn’t that something you would want to discern before hiring him?
But this is the man Woody wanted. This is his decision.
Time will tell if it works out.
January 22, 2025
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