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Crickets over at the Jets.
We expected major changes at the Jets following a 3-14 season, which included no interceptions, and a historic December with a -107 point differential, the worst in NFL history.
With teams firing head coaches and coordinators all over the NFL right after the season, nothing out of Florham Park.
Now, I’m not calling for anybody to be fired. I’m not in the firing business. These are people who have families and mortgages. This isn’t a board game.
But with that being said, there are going to be changes, and with the season they had, do you need to mull over every staff member to this degree for two weeks now?
And in defense of some of the people who might be on the hotseat, why let all of them twist in the wind?
After a season as they had, one of the worst in Jets history, there wasn’t anybody who underperformed in his job to the point where the head coach could have decided right after the season, we are moving on? This is a little strange.
Heck, the Los Angeles Chargers, a much better team than the Jets this past year, fired their OC and O-Line coach right after the season. I think that was unfair considering both their franchise offensive tackles were on IR, but that is besides the point.
Don’t you kind of know, after the season like the Jets had, who you perhaps need to move on from?
What is it that you need to mull over for two weeks?
Once again, I’m not a firing person, but I’m also a realist. It happens in the NFL. Sean McDermott was bounced in Buffalo today. It’s a tough business. You know what you are signing up for when you get into it.
Perhaps one reason nobody has been let go yet is because the owner is a true believer in Aaron Glenn, and his plan is to let him do his thing, and this is how Glenn is choosing to handle the evaluation of his staff.
Reading the tea leaves, you get the sense that the powers-that-be in Florham Park believe people are silly for questioning Glenn as an HC after one year. Remember, the insiders told us there wasn’t even a thought of replacing him after one year. Woody and Hymie are clearly true believers in the man and his plan, even if it didn’t look great in Year 1.
But who is evaluating the evaluator?
Glenn is now evaluating his staff, his operation, and figuring out what went wrong in year one.
But can he see the forest for the trees?
Don’t you kind of need a football guy above him to say, “Here are some of the issues that need to be fixed, especially related to his staff, game management and X’s and O’s.”
I do believe that, when it comes to the roster, there are people involved evaluating what went wrong with some of the personnel evaluations in Year 1, like Rick Spielman and Darren Mougey, but who is evaluating the coach’s staff, game management, and X’s and O’s?
That is why the Jets desperately need somebody in the role Matt Ryan serves in Atlanta, and Tony Boselli in Jacksonville.
But while this is taking a while, there are going to be changes on the defensive staff. You don’t need to be an insider to realize that. They don’t have a defensive coordinator.
They have interviewed several candidates. We are on the record saying that they have to hire somebody who has done the job before.
This isn’t the time to give a position coach a chance.
The hire needs to have already proven he can run a defense.
The Jets’ defense was so disorganized the past year, with blown coverages galore weekly, they need an “organizer,” somebody who is going to put an end to the Jets looking like the Keystone Kops defensively.
So, whether it’s Wink Martingdale, Jim O’Neil, or Jim Leonhard, that is the kind of guy they need, not a position coach you roll the dice on, with no idea if that cat can run an organized defense, one that is devoid of players constantly being out of position, like we witnessed this past season.
January 19, 2026
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