What is Aaron Glenn thinking after another embarrassing loss? | Gang’s All Here

What is Aaron Glenn thinking after another embarrassing loss? | Gang’s All Here

His answer was essentially, you know, if I do that now, I’ve got the starting quarterback looking over his shoulder. You know, well, you know what? We all look over our shoulder. In every part of business, we’re all looking over our shoulder, not just sports. You have to perform to stay in your position. And I don’t care whether Justin Fields has to look over his shoulder after a performance like yesterday, he he should have been looking over shoulder. Hello and welcome to Gangs All Here. My name is Ryan Samson. That’s our guy Mark Kenneserero from the New York Post, our sports columnist. Uh the Jets are coming off a 13-11 absolutely brutal, ugly loss in London versus the Denver Broncos. Uh and we’re here to talk about it with Mark and break down Aaron Glenn’s postgame comments, Aaron Glenn’s comments today, talk about the situation, Justin Fields play. We’re going to break it all down on today’s episode of Gangs All here. But before I get to any of that, Mr. Kenazero, how are you doing today, sir? I’m trying to recover from what I was watching uh from across the pond yesterday, Ryan. It was uh it’s weird. I wasn’t covering the game. We just had our our beat rider uh Brian Costello over there and it’s just an odd sensation when you’re watching it on television, you know, rather than being at the game. I it almost not that I am a Jet fan, I’m you know, neutral, but it was it was maddening to watch and it kind of put me in the in the shoes of the Jet fan. Not that I’m I don’t feel like I always am because, you know, I’m a fan myself in general in sports, but it just I watched it and I just was like, what are we doing here? You know, not not dissimilar from what I would be thinking in the press box, but I’m more charting it in the press box than I am just watching it on TV here. And again, I just felt like I was in this, you know, sitting in the in the in the lounge chair of a Jet fan, you know, pulling hair by hair out when you’re wondering what they’re doing offensively. Why aren’t they, you know, running, you know, running more design runs with Justin Fields, who obviously can’t pass the ball? Why aren’t they throwing the ball to, you know, to Bree Hall who was supposed to be in training camp? That was all the talk was he was going to be an amazing outlet. And, you know, how much Fields likes to throw to the running backs, blah, blah, blah. And none of it was happening and nothing was being adjusted as this thing was spiraling. And quite frankly, if it had not been for I mean, the Broncos kept kept the Jets at the game. Matt, you know, Matt Parrot, you know, the effect is very weird. I I was looking at the inact I was looking at some of the, you know, the inactives and activives before the game and saw that Parrot was going to be starting and I and I all I remembered was how bad he was with the Giants because obviously I I covered the Giants as well and I said, “Well, maybe that might be a little bit of advantage.” And sure enough, we had three holding penalties in the first half. uh you know so between penalties like that and and you know obviously the the fumble that the Jets caused you know the turnover their first by the way of the year that the defense is has turned over or has has created you know that game should have been 20 to nothing at halftime but it somehow was close and it was even close most madling maddeningly it was close to the point where the Jets had it in their hands they just needed five or six or seven more yards and Nick Folult’s going to kick that game-winning field goal and they’ve gone and st you know stolen one, you know, from the Broncos in in London and Aaron Glenn was getting his first win as a as a as a Jet head coach or as an NFL head coach. So, it all in in a long winded answer to you, it just sitting here watching my flat screen, which is just above. I just I was speechless. Yeah. You know, and it’s funny listening to actually the you know, the broadcast and listening to Curt Warner talking about it. I mean, he, you know, it sounded like he just wanted to, you know, leave the the TV booth after after he was so he was so exacer ex exasperated. So, I, you know, I think we all felt it and uh I I I don’t, you know, I know we’ll get into it a little bit, but I I I was not satisfied with what I heard from Aaron Glenn after the game. Well, let’s start there, Mark. Right. So, like Aaron Glenn, right, this is his first go of it as a head coach and and all the offseason talk from him and his messaging he gave to the fans and to you and the media was, look at, we’re the New York Jets. We’re built for this. Uh, I want the fans to be proud of the product that’s on field, but this team has regressed and it’s gotten worse week by week. the defense finally had a good game, but up until that that point, it was five weeks mark of a defense that just couldn’t stop a nosebleleed, couldn’t get a key stop, couldn’t create a turnover. So, it was nice to see that. But then on the other side, the offense, it’s been this narrative of right, they can’t score and they can’t create a offensive push unless it’s in garbage time, which Glenn likes to neglect and say, “No, there’s no such thing as that. the defense, you know, defenses, opposing defenses are really going to play us tough and we get good yardage, but when re in reality, garbage time is a real thing and the Jets offense has produced a lot of that in garbage time. They take a massive step back yesterday. Yeah. And I thought you hit on a key point there. The game plan for Justin Fields didn’t make sense mo most of the game in terms of he didn’t use his legs much, wasn’t scrambling, wasn’t any designed read option runs, and he didn’t use Bree Hall, arguably his second best receiver on the team at all, not one target. And only target went to Isaiah Davis. And Garrett Wilson was blanketed by Patrick Certan on 62% of the routes he ran. One target, four uh four targets, one catch. So, as a coach, how can you defend what happened yesterday and what Justin Fields went through and and for you to say it’s a ridiculous question that we shouldn’t bench him in that point? Did Did Yeah. How do you feel about that? Well, I really didn’t like the way Aaron handled uh Brian Costello’s question. Um, you know, our colleague, obviously, the Jetbeat writer here. Um, that was the one and only question that needed to be answered in that in that press conference. It was the most relevant question that that needed to be posed. And Aaron is very defensive. He’s been defensive about the quarterback position since back since training camp, you know, and and you know, I I spoke to him and asked him a question today. We had a Zoom, you know, at at 10:00 this morning uh with Aaron and I I I asked him, I said, “Listen, I understand, you know, you you know, he keeps making it sound like the benching of of Justin Fields yesterday would have been like an all-encompassing benching for good.” My question to him was, why would you not think about relieving him for that game like a pitcher is relieved who’s struggling? You know, a starting pitcher in baseball who’s struggling early and it’s it’s clear he’s not going to get better. Why would you not consider bringing Tyrod Taylor in who’s a you know you know quite frankly is a better passer. He sees he sees the sees the field better. Um and Aaron he continues along that line. His answer was essentially you know if I do that now I’ve got the starting quarterback looking over his shoulder. You know well you know what we all look over our shoulder in every part of business. We’re all looking over our shoulder not just sports. You have to perform to stay in your position. And I don’t care whether Justin Fields has to look over his shoulder after a performance like yesterday he he should have been looking over his shoulder and you know it’s funny you know just it just shows you how TV just kind of glazes over things you know as again I’m watching the broadcast yesterday which I’m not usually doing because I’m in the press box and you know they’re talk they’re they’re flashing Justin Fields’s numbers up this year saying he’s one of he’s having one of his best seasons of his career. Dude you’re 0 and6 or at that time you’re 0 and5 and yeah he hasn’t thrown an interception this year. Yeah, he’s got I think he had seven touchdowns, no interceptions, whatever the numbers were. But again, as you just referred to a minute ago, a lot of that production was was in garbage time when the Jets were out of games already, you know. So, it’s so deceiving and I don’t understand. Aaron needs to to look at at at the picture a little in my opinion and I’ve got a lot of respect for him. He covered his entire career as a Jet. I love the hire of him. You know, I was all for it. You know, it hasn’t it’s not looking good right now, quite frankly. He’s looked overmatched. He looked a little bit, you know, over, you know, over his skis a little bit so far. And and that can change. I hope it does change, but uh I I don’t you shouldn’t not bench your quarterback just because you don’t want to hurt his feelings, you know, and and you know, hurt his confidence. I mean, this is a big boy league, you know. Bill Parcels always says, you know, bring the Huggies if he needs the Huggies, but we’re not we’re not in that kind of business here, you know. And you know, yesterday was a classic example of and and listen, I’m bringing Tanner Angstrand in too because quite frankly, he did nothing. He did nothing to to to adjust all day. And and what was even more bizarre to me was was today Aaron was touting how Angstrand stayed to his game plan, you know, which was a terrible game plan. What are we doing here? The Broncos have one of the best pass rushes in the NFL, one of the best defenses in the NFL. And you drew up long developing pass plays for a quarterback to sit in the pocket and try and make reads when that’s not Justin Fields. That’s not his strength. Exactly. With a quarterback who who could barely get through his first read, you know, at this point. And uh you know, it’s funny. I’m going to I’ll throw the Giants in for a quick second because I’ve been covering a bit of them, you know, of late since since Jackson Dart took over. Jackson’s Dart’s absolute superpower from what I’ve seen so far is his ability to maneuver in the pocket while keeping his eyes down the field. And you know, he’s created. So, I mean, I I covered the game on Thursday night against the Eagles. I covered the game on Saturday, I’m sorry, last week on Sunday in New Orleans. And those are the two things I that was the thing I took away from both of those games. Even though the New Orleans game went sideways on the Giants, he is unbelievable. His presence in the pocket. And I don’t I mean you listen I mean I get it. Denver’s got a you know a significant pass rusher. These weren’t the these weren’t the 85 Bears. Okay. I mean it’s almost like the J the Jets game planned to play against the 86 the 85 Bears. I mean yeah the Broncos are good but everybody’s got a good pass rush. You know you know so to what we were talking about before how do you counteract a pass rush? quick one read, you know, quick two stop, two step drops, one read one read and out. And I I I understand that Certain is a fantastic, you know, cornerback. And yes, he did neutralize um obviously Garrett Wilson who looked like he was obviously we now we know that he was ailing a little bit with his knee. Uh there’s other ways to counteract that, you know, and I I did ask Aaron today, why not why would you not have more design runs for Fields? Because that’s the one thing he we know he does do well. He’s an incredible athlete, you know, and and and in fairness, the Broncos were bringing guys out on the outside, you know, to contain, but I don’t think that that still precludes you from from calling some design runs, you know, that’s more to, you know, you know, to to prevent him getting out of the pocket and scrambling, you know, when he’s in trouble. So, I would have absolutely, you know, you know, designed up some called up some more design runs. Uh, it just the whole thing was it was so, you know, was weird, Ryan, when you think about it. It was probably just as maddening for the Denver fan wondering why in the world are we not blowing these idiots out for God’s sake, right? You know, I’m sure in Denver they’re look they’re looking at it just as negatively as we were here except for the fact that, you know, the Jets are 0 and5 and Denver was, you know, it was right in the mix. Well, look, and and to go further to your point, Mark, about this offense and what they were doing schematically wise, you know, I go back to what you said there too about Aaron Glennon in the training camp talking about Bree Hall, right? Like screen passes are another big way to stop a pass rush because if you got aggressive pass rush, you can catch them in a screen pass and break one for 20, 30, 40 yards, which the Jets had zero explosive plays yet again yesterday. Uh do you know that Bree Hall, believe it or not, he has zero targets on 14 routes at lined up as wide receiver. And this is a quote that Aaron Glenn said, you could split him out at wide and let him run the entire route tree because he can run it like a receiver. So to what you’re saying about him and Angstrand, how are you how exactly are you utilizing this guy to the best of his potential? So that’s where I question as a fan and someone that’s been around this game a little bit. It’s like I was always told KP know your personnel. If you know your personnel, you should be able to coach to their strengths and get them in the best positions. That’s not what’s happening here with this Jets team. And let’s go to situationwise with Aaron Glenn, right? Someone that you’re saying is over his skis a little bit at the end of the game. Let’s not even talk about the end of the first half, which is a disaster. Yeah, the worst. The end of the end of the game though, you burnt a timeout in the previous to to last drive because you just wanted to punt it on fourth down. So, you just burnt the timeout. Those aren’t useful for you right there. And then the last drive, you don’t run the ball. And then on fourth, you know, third down and fourth down, you decide to to throw it. A guy that you watched in Justin Fields who has negative 10 passing yards at that point has eight sacks before the final sack. And you said instead of kicking the field goal and giving our chance for a 62 yard, which you didn’t even know what the distance was at the end of the game, let’s not get there. But you put the ball in Justin Field’s hands, a guy that you watched was already sacked eight times and wasn’t processing the field well, wasn’t throwing to open guys. And honestly, Mark, I watched a quarterback who looked like he had the yips and didn’t want to throw the football. How do you not recognize that as a coach in the time in the moment and saying, “Guys, we just got to kick here and take that chance.” Well, I the most, you know, referring to that sequence to me and there were so many things that went wrong beginning with the wasted timeout which Aaron explained today that you know he initially felt he wanted to get aggressive and he was thinking about going for it but they wanted to call the timeout and talk about it and John Burgerer his analytics guy talked him out of it saying I don’t think this is a good play here. So yeah, so they these are the kind of things that should be should be addressed prior to the good coaching staffs, the Bill Parcels and the and the Bill Bichcs. Those things are being processed on the sidelines two plays before that that that sequence occurs. Not, oh my gosh, what are we going to do now? You know, gez, the clock’s running down. Um, so that was the first mistake. But the to me the most egregious mistake without question and you referred to it putting having Justin Fields drop back to pass at second and three from the 46yd line of Denver. Okay. If you gain four more six more yards, you’re at the 40. That’s a 58 yard field goal, which which Nick Folk has kicked in recent weeks, his career high. And apparently, you know, the conditions were very calm and benign at Tottenham Stadium yesterday. Um, you needed basically if you make 10 yards, you’re almost certain to have folk make that field goal. And you you drop Justin Fields back to pass as you referred to, he’s already been sacked eight times, hasn’t been able to see the field. You’re putting your trust in that and instead of just running Bree Hall, who at worst is going to fall forward for a couple three yards and get you a little bit closer to to field goal range. And it was again, it was only second down at that moment. Um, that put them obviously in in in in third and long and then fourth and long, you know, fourth and eight, third and eight. And I thought the final mistake was again, I mean, we’re obviously crapping all over Fields, but he deserves it at the way he played. You know, you cannot tell me that the Jets had a better chance of converting a fourth and eight on a day when they were two out of 15 on third down. Okay. on a day on a day when Fields was was you know obviously you know he looked like a high school quarterback you know was dumped into a prof professional game are you honestly gonna tell me that you think the percentages were higher that you’re going to gain that first down than Nick Folk might F might might be used to just might be able to blast a 62 yard field goal you know which was not out of the question he if he can get 58 you might be able to kick four more yards Mark four more yards yeah so uh that was the you know that was obviously the final nail and you know I I don’t think there was any Jet fan or Jet follower on the planet who was watching that sequence who thought the Jets were going to convert on fourth and eight while there were I I tell you what the happiest people on that field were the guy were were everybody on the Broncos sidelines. Those guys were like, “Oh, great. They’re going for it. They’re not kicking the field goal because there’s they had a better chance kicking a field goal.” You know, now I wasn’t out there. I haven’t had a chance to talk to Nick Faulk. Um, Nick’s certainly not gonna throw the coaching staff under the bus, but I’m quite certain that that Nick, you know, I don’t think there’s any way that Nick was on that sideline saying there’s no way I can’t I can kick a 62 yard field goal. I refuse to believe that. Mark, let’s talk about the end of the first half now. Uh, I’ve never seen anything like that before. More fun and follys, right? Like I’ve never seen anything like that before in my life where a coach goes for it on fourth and one uh with the fake punt and then just decides to run out the clock. To me, that’s coaching scared because you wanted to keep the ball away from Shawn Peyton and the Denver Broncos. And when you’re coaching scared and admitting that you’re coaching scared, that to me is a giant red flag that I don’t know if you’re right for this job because I know you’re 0 and5. What do you have to lose at this point? Go for it. Be aggressive. Go for points. Don’t coach scared because that to me means that you’re unsure of yourself and you’re unsure of this team and you don’t really trust the guys you have out there. There are so many tentacles of badness to this that whole sequence to be honest with you. I don’t even know where to start. You mentioned obviously Okay, let’s let’s let’s do let’s put it this way. They’re afraid of the Broncos getting the the ball. What were the Broncos doing on offense yesterday? The Jets defense was playing fantastic. in a way you weren’t trusting not only your offense but your defense as well, you know, so that Okay, let’s start there. All right, so yeah, they’re afraid to give the Broncos back the ball, right? And which is just to me inexplicable. And you know, listen, I I asked Aaron again today about even if you were being uber cautious and you didn’t want to put the ball in the air, you had a fourth down and one at around midfield, you you could have just Why not at the very least try try a Hail Mary? Why not at the very least? It’s the last play of the half. The Broncos aren’t going to get the ball back. They had a timeout. They wouldn’t be able to use it because you you’re using that last fourth down play. you know, you not to get a first down, just to literally throw Hail Mary down. Now, Aaron did cons admit today, you know, if he had to do it all over again, he probably would have done that. But what was scary was he was he he talked about how there was confusion on the sidelines. He kind of admitted there was confusion on the sidelines. Now, part of it was he was kind of blaming the ref, the officiating staff, because they said one of them called a first down and the other one said it was fourth down on the fourth and one. Now, I didn’t see that watching the TV, you know, watching the TV broadcast. Nobody mentioned it. Uh it was clearly, you know, fourth and one to me and everybody that was watching. So, I I don’t really know what he heard on the sideline, but at the very least, if you’re going to be so if you’re going to be the most cautious, then just run that thing down, which it was down to about 5 seconds, put fields under, you know, under under center or or shotgun him and just wing something down the field and you might get a defensive, you know, penalty which which, you know, keeps the half going and then puts you in field goal range. I mean, why would you not at least do that? It’s a free play. it’s a free play, you know. So, there was just so many elements to that were so bad. I mean, there was no urgency after. Listen, I love the fact that they went for the, you know, for the fake field goal. In fact, it was so such a surprise that the fake punt. Sorry, you meant right. The fake punt. Fake punt. Fake punt. I’m sorry. It was such a surprise that that the damn TV cameras Yeah. They weren’t even on NFL Network. We never even saw the play because they were off like doing they were and interestingly they were showing the Denver sideline and the Denver special teams coach was going nuts because he saw Bree Hall lined up in the back field. Exactly. And but the TV I mean that was don’t get me going on that NFL network broadcast because that was like a high school public broadcast. It was pathetic. Anyway, that’s another whole another podcast. Uh and uh but anyway, yeah. So it I like the I like the aggressive nature there. And the irony to all of this how the how basically Aaron shriveled up in that moment is that his disciple his latest disciple Dan Campbell goes for almost every fourth down right and I don’t know they so they go for that and then there’s no urgency. They run the ball they get you know you know they get one of I mean Fields gets sacked again I believe in that sequence because they ran it and then they said oh let’s throw it now too. It made no sense. It was everything was so disjointed. And quite frankly, most of the Jets off offensive game plan was to try was to it was like conventional, you know, let’s run in first down, run in second down and try to get it to third and five or third and fourth and maybe, you know, third and four or maybe we can get a first down. That became so utterly and pathetically predictable. Uh it obviously didn’t work out so well. I mean it was just a like I said Angstrand I I just I am some of the things that he did in that game were almost fireable offenses. I mean obviously you’re not going to fire your OC you know six games in but it was you he looked so overmatched in that game and you know and again I go back to the you know the last drop back you know before the end of the game because quite frankly to me that cost him the game. um you know that that you know I I you’re speechless trying to understand what reasoning you know and and and he’ll be available this week on Thursday and we’ll ask him you know the Thursdays the data coordinators and uh I’m sure he’ll have time to craft a very you know very sound answer and reasoning for that by by Thursday you would think but I don’t think anything he could say is going to change mine or anybody’s opinion about how how bad of a sequence it was. Well, look, he’s a rookie offensive coordinator and you have a rookie head coach and they’re all trying to figure this out on the fly. And I will say, Mark, this is the point where I ask you, who’s been around this game for a while now, and I mean that in no derogatory way or mean way, but look, when do you start losing the locker room when things like this happen? Because I saw Garrett Wilson’s comments after the game on camera and he was confused even what happened at the end of the first half. And that’s a guy in my opinion who wants to win, who wants to be so good for this team and help his team win a football game no matter what. But they just keep falling on themselves. And I guess my question is Aaron Glenn’s messaging, when does that start falling short? When guys in that locker room look at you and you’re confused and you don’t understand what the situation is and it’s leing leading to really ugly losses like this. Yeah, it’s you can’t fool your players uh when you’re a coach. Um, and I know that that you know that locker room wants Aaron to succeed. I mean, Aaron’s a guy that you want to play for. Um, and you know, he’s he’s said and done all the right things, you know, not including the poor game game management, if you will, you know, on Sunday. But, uh, there, you know, you can’t tell me that there aren’t guys in that locker room. Uh, now again, I wasn’t in there yesterday. You know, I mean, I’m sure, you know, even even the comments that Garrett Wilson made yesterday and, you know, I thought he did a very good job of being diplomatic, but also being somewhat transparent about how unhappy he was about the plan of the sequence and and the confusion. Uh, but even then, you know, he’s biting you. He’s he’s just about drawing blood, biting his tongue, you know, and and you know, cuz these guys don’t want to throw the head coach under the bus. You know, they’re six games into this thing again. And I mean this, you know, if the season’s over in terms of you want a winning season, but um you can’t tell me that there’s not a lot of guys in that locker room that were shaking their heads yesterday wondering why the hell is Tyrod Taylor not in this game. You know, they’re at practice. They see it. They see the way he slings the ball around. He’s a better passer. Um this was a day that, you know, fields just I mean he he started the game poorly and got worse as the day went on. And when your players are looking at that, you know, they, you know, and nothing’s being done, you know, I mean, Aaron, you know, as I referred to, Aaron talked about worrying about, you know, Fields looking over his shoulder. He should be worried about his own players, the other players in the locker room, wondering if whether he’s putting them in the best position to win the game because, as you referred to at the top, Ryan, you know, the the defensive performance yesterday was fantastic. I mean, it it’s weird because I I actually thought Bo Knicks was was was slinging the ball around pretty well. uh early on in that game and and I don’t my eye is not uh great enough on TV without watching film at what kind of adjustments that Wilks might have made and quite frankly I thought Wilks has been doing a poor job all year. Yes. Uh but uh I mean you know he had those guys ready to play and obviously they had they had a they had a players only team meeting the defense uh before they went over to London and that obviously seemed to have paid some dividends. Uh but you know that defensive performance and the special teams performance which really gets bust in the mix here was fantastic. I mean you know the return game you know the downing of that punt obviously you know ended up giving them you know the lead at 1110 right with the safety. Yeah 100%. You know I mean there was just so many good things that happened in that game and Aaron did touch on those things today with us and he should you know I mean I guess I mean everybody is all they’re thinking about is all the nonsense that happened yesterday. you know, I and I and he’s the head coach and he has to address the fact that they’ve gotten better at yes, they regressed overall, but mostly because the quarterback has regressed and the offense and quite frankly the play calling, the offensive coordinator, but um that was a really really good football game for that defense and and the special teams and it was wasted by the offense. And because of that, you can’t tell me that there aren’t guys on those sides of the ball that are wondering and even on the offensive side of the ball for all the guys that want to support Justin Fields and nobody wants to support him more than than Garrett Wilson who’s his college teammate. You know, there has to be there’s there’s guys in that locker room, it’s just human nature, that are wondering, why are we not bringing Tyrod Taylor in just for the second half? Do something. I I started tweeting yesterday after the after this third threeand out. I just said I think the Jets are one or two more three and outs away where they’ve got to bring Tyrod Taylor in. And uh you know obviously it never happened and and we never really got a I I were not happy with with the explanation that Aaron gave that you know Aaron is so petrified of the of a quarterback controversy. You got bigger problems that right now way bigger way bigger. You know what I mean? way bigger mark and and and that’s where again I I I go back to I know it’s different sport but Joel Sherman I do pinch strike post and he always talks about feel of the game Ryan feel of the game is the manager feeling what the situation is going on the field because that’s a key thing right it Aaron Glenn did not have a feel of what was going on with Justin Fields and the offense and that was a poor reflection and ultimately ended in that result because like you said the defense of special teams really gave them a chance to win that football game yesterday and the the offense was just a complete letdown and they missed a huge opportunity to put Tyrod in even just for a couple series to see if they could spark something offensively and win a football game for once this year. Uh my final question mark for you though, look 0 and6 the heat is only going to get hotter around this noise with Aaron Glenn and the job he’s doing in his first year. I want to be patient, but the more and more evidence is piling up here, Mark, where I’m seeing a coach who just clearly is in over his head, and I I have to question, is he really the fit to be a head coach for this job? Because let’s say the Jets do go two wins, three wins this year, or god forbid, zero wins. How can you honestly say as an owner, Woody Johnson, I can keep this guy as my head coach next year when you’re going to end up with a top pick and you’re going to be selecting a quarterback this upcoming draft? What I would say is first of all, um, I I I want to see progress, you know, with Aaron and the Jets because I I want Aaron to succeed because I like him a lot and I and I do believe he’s got some good traits to be a good head coach. But if Woody Johnson watches another 10 of these of what he watched yesterday, you can’t bring him back. I mean, he absolutely has to see progress. And I think he will see progress. I listen this is a learning experience for everybody there you know Aaron and obviously Yangstrand and you know in terms of and Muji you know quite frankly at the top um I I’ll I’ll say I’ll be surprised but I’ll I don’t think you’re going to see a game that poorly coached again this year. I hope in my opinion at least on the offensive side of the ball let’s say. Uh but as you said, you know, you know, the Joel’s Joel’s comment about the feel, you know, all of these sports games are they’re chess matches, you know, and they’re, you know, and you know, baseball is a classic example of it, which obviously Joel, you know, knows as as well as anybody, you know, you know, who’s covered the sport as much as he has. Football is is less so than, you know, than baseball, you know, but there is there are chess moves to be made in football. There’s adjustments to be made. Bill, Bill Bich was notorious for being one of the best, you know, halftime adjustment coaches around, you know, but I I hated to see the Jets just continually just bang their head against the same brick wall that they were doing all day yesterday. And I I you know, the use of the timeouts, the time the clock management, you know, Aaron even, you know, earlier in the year, I was not there that day, but I know Aaron said one one day, you know, in training camp that he was talking about how the last four minutes of each half is on the head coach. Yeah. said it himself, you know, and uh so in, you know, in answer to the larger question, Woody Johnson needs to see improvement. He needs to see, you know, and that that’s that goes for everybody. Um now, you know, listen, the Jets have got a Carolina team that just, you know, just took care of Dallas yesterday. You know, normally when you see Carolina on the schedule next week, you’re like, “All right, well, that’s a good chance for them to get their first win.” Well, Carolina’s three and three. They’re not so bad. you know, they just took care of a Dallas team that smoked the Jets. They’re looking at the Jets as that’s an easy win right now. Exactly. You know, and then you got the Browns, you know, coming after that and, you know, which which will probably be the tank bowl, right? Um, watch Shador Sanders come in and light it up on us, too, because like that’s the guy they could have. Listen, I know they weren’t going to, but that was a guy that passed up in the draft. And I’m just saying like it’ll probably happen. like I wouldn’t shop that would that would fall into the category and it’s a very large closet full of of of items in the only only the Jets category but uh yeah I listen it’s too early to make an indictment of of Aaron it hasn’t looked good so far today I thought I thought I thought Sunday was a real low point offensively um and listen he’s in charge of that you know and you know he if he hears that pass call coming over his headset you know at second and three from the 46 six. Uh he’s he’s he’s vetoing that. Okay, you just got to veto it. You know, okay, it was your OC that made the call, but you got to veto that. You got to say, “No, no, we’re running the ball. We’re not we’re not dropping this guy back pass.” So, these are the things that Aaron’s learning on the fly. And uh you know, we we we’re hearing from his explanations that, you know, he’s not quite up to speed with some of these things as a head coach. You know, the one thing, and this is something I think I’m writing about for for in a day or two, if I could just bring this up, Ryan, Aaron keeps referring to, and again, it’s it’s his experience, and I get it, but he referring to the 0 and 11 start with, you know, with with Detroit, you know, Campbell and, you know, how they were they were in bad shape down in New Orleans with the Saints. And it’s almost like he’s throwing that out there, you know, like, well, listen, it’s going to happen to us that way. We’ll turn it around just like they are. Well, there’s no guarantees that that’s going to happen, right? We don’t have Jared Goff, you know, for example, you know, waiting in the wings. Now, I get I get it. They lost with Jared Goff, too, you know, but, you know, eventually they got it right and Jared Goff was, you know, borderline MVP candidate. He’s borderline he was MV MVP candidate uh for that team. So, I I I I caution the Jets fans who think that just because, you know, Aaron’s going through this, you know, with the Jets the same way he went through it in Detroit, the same turnaround is going to happen and the Jets are going to be one of the best teams in the league in two years. You know, they got to make that happen themselves and that comes by making progress and small steps like they did with the defense playing better. You know, let’s hopefully maybe that hopefully the defense has found itself a little bit yesterday because that’s where that’s where some of the best talent on the team lies. Absolutely. I mean, they were given 30 plus points away was an absolute travesty before yesterday. So, yeah, you just got to hope, you know, that you know, baby steps and I know this sounds kind of corny and cliche, but you know that the offense needs to make that step now. And and quite frankly in Carolina in that first half, if we’re seeing the same ineptitude out of Justin Fields, I don’t give a damn what what Aaron Glenn is worried about with with Justin Fields’s feelings or hurting his feelings or looking over his shoulder. He’s he’s he’s taken the Sparky Anderson hook and and taken him his ass off the field and he’s putting Tyrod Taylor on the field because Jet the Jets need hope to win a game at some point. You know, they’ve lost three games now by two points and another one by six points. So, you know, again, there’s been some garbage time involved a little bit there, but um you know, they have they’ve had opportunities. They’ve had leads in fourth quarters like they did yesterday. So, you know, part a lot of that’s on the head coach. You got to figure out how to get over that hump. Well, Mark, this was awesome. This was a uh nice therapy session for me. Uh and I’m sure a lot of Jets fans are going to appreciate listening to this as well. We’ll see how it goes from here, man. Uh like you said, the Panthers coming up this week. It doesn’t sound great for Garrett Wilson with the knee. Uh, so we’ll see what comes out of that, but uh, I am anxious to see how the rest of this season goes and if the Jets can take, like you said, those incremental steps forward and not keep going backwards. Mark Kenzero, thank you very much, sir. Thanks, Ryan. Talk to you soon.

On today’s episode of Gang’s All Here Ryan Sampson & Mark Cannizzaro react to Aaron Glenn’s postgame comments about refusing to bench Justin Fields for Tyrod Taylor and discuss if Glenn’s mismanagement could ultimately cost him his job after one season if things don’t improve quickly.

Timecodes**
00:00 Intro
5:05 Fields should have been benched
12:30 Glenn mishandled the entire game
22:37 Could Glenn lose the locker room?
27:20 Glenn on the hot seat

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