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Saw this headline this morning – “Aaron Glenn blasts 0-4 Jets as ‘very disappointing’ after error-filled loss.
This was based on this post-game press conference.
I was there for the entire press conference, dodging softballs. I didn’t hear him blast anybody.
Yes, he “very disappointed” in the 13-penalty performance, but it wasn’t a fiery press conference where he was “blasting” anybody. He was obviously upset, but pretty calm and reserved.
So, when I saw “blast” in a headline on a major website, I thought “clickbait” because that is not what I witnessed.
He didn’t “blast” anybody – he just talked about the things they need to clean up . . .
I want to make this clear. I never call for firings of executives, coaches and players, but I think an important point needs to be made, and I touched on this a little on Monday night.
If you are going to hire a rookie head coach, who has never done the job before, you might want to open the bank vault and hire an all-star team of coordinators, kind of like a power four college program would.
There should be no budget issues at all.
I have no idea if the purse strings were pulled in when hiring the coordinators. I don’t have access to the Jets ‘ spreadsheets, but Aaron Glenn probably needed an all-star team of coordinators. The current guys could turn out to be fine, but the way I look at it is that Glenn is an alpha dog leader of men – he really is, and perhaps he would have been better served with three big-time coordinators, who would’ve cost the Jets a lot of money to hire because they were in high demand.
In the future, you could argue that it would be best for Woody and Christopher to back up the Brinks truck for coordinators when hiring a first-time coach.
Ira needs to push for this. Ira is the brilliant man who manages the Johnson’s money. And when I saw “brilliant,” I’m not being sarcastic. The man is brilliant.
Perhaps you need to cut other things for budget reasons, but the coaching budget should be through the roof.
I truly believe Glenn is one of those coaches that if you just led him be the leader, and give him three superstar coordinators to run the three sides of the ball, master chess players on offense, defense, and special teams, Glenn could have a lot of success as an NFL coach.
At this point, as Glenn is learning the why’s and wherefore’s of being an NFL head coach, you wonder if the fact that two coordinators are doing their jobs for the first time and trying to figure things out themselves in their respective jobs, and the third coordinator, who is a good man, was fired after one year as a DC and one year as a HC, and is perhaps better served in the assistant head coach job role, you wonder if that is not buttressing Glenn as much as he needs . . .
Another thing not buttressing Glenn as much as he needs was his decision, along with Darren Mougey and whoever the contract negotiator was, to give Justin Fields a two-year, $40 million deal for $30 million.
That largesse of that deal shocked some people.
What would have been a more resume appropriate deal?
How about Jameis Winston’s deal with the Giants – a 2-year deal for $8 million with $5.3 million guaranteed.
I’m not being a wise guy.
I’m being dead serious.
If Fields better than Winston. Obviously, a better runner, but not better in any other way, and Fields was signed to play quarterback, not running back.
Winston is 36-51 as an NFL starter, and when the Jets signed Fields, he was 14-30, and now he’s 14-33.
That contract was wild, and while Fields is a warrior who gives you everything he’s got, he’s not good at going through progressions. He tends to lock on his first read and is often a one-read-and-run QB. He also doesn’t throw with anticipation, waiting for receivers to flash open, then throwing rockets, sometimes late.
But it’s unfair to criticize Fields for those shortcomings because they were all over the film from his first four years. Caveat emptor.
September 30, 2025
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