Last week, Aaron Glenn, the coach of the winless Jets, spoke to Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson to hear how he got through his tough first season in Dallas. Johnson was 1-15 with the 1989 Cowboys, including an 0-8 start.
After the Jets’ loss to Denver on Sunday, dropping the team to 0-6, legendary New York sports talk host Mike Francesa was critical of the Jets on his podcast, including taking umbrage with anybody who might make an analogy between Johnson’s first season as an NFL coach and Glenn’s.
“I understand Jimmy Johnson got one win in his first year, but he was building a team from nothing,” Francesa said on his podcast, sponsored by Bet Rivers. “This isn’t the same situation – you are not building a team from nothing.”
Francesa feels Glenn entered this season with a lot more talent with the Jets than Johnson had in Dallas in 1989.
“You’ve got a lot of players from last year’s team that can play,” Francesa said. “That team should have had a winning record last year if they were coached well – they weren’t. They gave games away. You didn’t inherit a one-win roster. Don’t act like you did. That is nonsense.”
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