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Aaron Glenn was asked after the Jets’ loss to Denver if he was considering a QB change after Justin Fields threw for 45 yards
“What kind of question is that?” Glenn said.
Sounds like a fair one.
Glenn sometimes gaslights reporters who ask legitimate questions.
For those not familiar with gaslighting, it is a tactic of manipulating someone into questioning their perception of reality.
He should perhaps try to avoid doing this moving forward. Look, reporters ask some foolish questions that agitate players and coaches. So you can understand players/coaches sometimes taking umbrage when that happens. But when somebody asks a legit question, perhaps an uncomfortable question for you, why gaslight them? Bad media strategy and in turn bad approach with the fans. If you are on social media, look at some of the responses from the fans regarding the answer Glenn gave. Most fans weren’t enamored of that answer to a legit question.
The Jets’ defense and special teams played great today in the team’s 13-11 loss to Denver, but their offense was atrocious, including Fields getting sacked nine times.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner repeatedly said during the NFL Network broadcast of the game that the signal-caller was holding the ball too long.
“One thing he needs to work on is processing this information – he’s just holding the football – get the ball out of your hands,” Warner said during the game.
In his fifth year in the league, his issue with holding the ball too long and not going through progressions efficiently is probably not going to change. It’s probably settled science. And that isn’t a criticism of the player. He gives you all he’s got. It’s more about shedding some light on the eclectic scouting process that led to the two-year $40 million deal.
“When a player shows you who he is, believe him,” – Bill Parcells said many years ago . . .
Coming off the field at halftime, Garrett Wilson seemed to have some words with Glenn, perhaps due to the Jets’ handling of the clock at the end of the half.
It was a matter of time this season before Wilson, a fierce competitor, exploded. We saw similar explosions over his first three years in the league.
You get the sense he’s at his wits’ end with all the losing over his three-plus years with the team after playing in college at Ohio State, where losing a game is a rarity.
So that begs the question – “Why did he re-sign with the team?”
Well, first of all, who is going to turn down a four-year, $130 million contract with $90 million guaranteed?
And let’s say he had forced his way out via a trade last off-season, do you think another team would have given a deal for $32.5 million a year?
Unlikely.
Let’s not forget, when safety Jamal Adams forced his way out in 2020, and was traded to Seattle, he had to wait a year to get his big deal.
So a team might have told Garrett, what Seattle told Jamal, “We are trading for you, but you are going have to wait until after your fourth year to get paid.”
So he cashed in with his current team, which was clearly looking to re-sign Wilson and Sauce Gardner, perhaps as a mea culpa to the fans, giving them hope, locking up two of their biggest young stars.
But this narrative that Wilson was excited to come back for a chance to play with his college QB, Fields, is somewhat overblown.
Don’t you think that Wilson, more than others, knew about Fields’ shortcomings as a QB from their time in Columbus together?
Of course he did.
So Wilson taking the money, and signing long-term with the Jets, was more of a business decision. It had little or nothing to do with Fields’ arrival.
Now that his frustration is starting boil over again, what is he going to do?
I was chopping up this topic with a long-term New York sportswriter who has covered all the sports, and he made a salient point I had no thought of.
He said that a lot of agents will tell their clients who re-sign with bad teams – “Take the money now, and if this continues, we will force our way out in a couple of years.”
Not predicting a Wilson departure right now, but if the losing continues, you could see this scenario come to pass in the near future.
You look in the eyes of guys like Wilson, Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams, and you can tell this losing is starting to damage their souls, just like many diehard Jets fans . . .
October 12, 2025
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