New York Jets’ $20M GAMBLE on Justin Fields Is an EPIC Failure | Aaron Glenn MUST Take Blame

New York Jets’ $20M GAMBLE on Justin Fields Is an EPIC Failure | Aaron Glenn MUST Take Blame

The Justin Fields experiment is a failure and it’s a big mark against this Jets coaching staff and front office. Locked on Jets starts now. You are Locked on Jets, your daily New York Jets podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Welcome. This is the Lockdown Jets podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. It is uh Monday, October 20th, 2025. And I’m your host, John B from gang greenation.com. Thanking you so much for making the show your first listener, first watch every day. And a big shout out to you every day. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week, Monday through Friday. Today’s episode is sponsored by Prize Pix. Download the Prize Pix app today and use code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Well, it is not a very happy Monday for New York Jets fans as the Jets fell to the Carolina Panthers 13 to6 yesterday at Metife Stadium. Another really ugly performance. The Jets record falls to 0 and7 on the season. But there’s more to this game than the loss. There’s more to this than the Jets being 0 and seven. The Jets had to bench Justin Fields at halftime of this game. And I don’t think it’s it’s an exaggeration to say they had to. Fields was that bad. And Fields has been playing that badly for weeks. And I think it’s fair to say at this point the Justin Fields experiment is a failure. And I think that’s a huge mark against this new coaching staff in front office. I think it’s a microcosm of how this coaching staff and front office have not inspired any confidence. And it’s a sign that things need to change. They need to start showing us something. And this is the topic of today’s show. And we could start by talking about Fields. You know, it it was a dismal performance. And I think with these first round quarterbacks who don’t pan out, it’s very easy to make excuses for them. But at the end of the day, Justin Fields is on team number three. He’s on coaching staff number four. He’s in year number five. He’s not playing well enough. I think that in this Jets fan base, as I spoke with people during the off season, there was a lot of realism about Fields. People that I spoke with in the fan base were very cleareyed about this. The Jets needed somebody to play quarterback. You know, if it wasn’t Fields, it was going to be a similarly uninspiring option. Fields, you know, on paper had some upside, but I don’t think anybody was really expecting it to pan out. I I think we all knew the odds were pretty low that this was going to pan out, that Justin Fields, that this experiment was going to be successful. That said, I mean, we’re talking week seven halftime that it’s over. And you have to remember Fields missed a game uh due to injury. So, it was really five and a half games it took for this Fields experiment to fail. And I think that that really really makes you question the people running this team. I think it really has to lead to questions about the decision-making processes the Jets have. I think it has to lead to questions about the way these guys are being coached because as uninspiring as Justin Fields has been through his career and you know this is year five. He’s on team number three. Typically a first round pick doesn’t get to team number three in year five unless there are some pretty substantial issues. But as uninspiring as Fields has been through his career, this is the worst he’s ever looked. He did not look this bad in Chicago. And I think that there are lots of different angles to this. Number one, I think one of the most important things any regime has, coaching staff in front office, one of the most important things they have to show is the ability to target the right types of players. Players that may be underachieved with their previous team, but we can get more out of them. They have a skill set that we can work with and we know how to get the most out of them. And when you do that at the quarterback position, it is very, very important. It’s the most important position on the field. The Jets targeted Justin Fields as their number one priority this off season and they thought that they could unlock him the way maybe Minnesota unlocked Sam Darnold, the way maybe Tampa Bay unlocked Baker Mayfield. You want to go back a couple years the way uh Tennessee unlocked Ryan Tanahill. You you can talk about the reclamation projects across the league. The way the Colts this year are unlocking Daniel Jones. There have been a lot of recent first round failures with their original team who have gone to another team and had success. And part of this is, you know, you get a couple years into the league, you understand how to operate at the quarterback position at a higher level. You know, defenses that maybe perplexed you in year one and year two, by the time you’re a little bit deeper into your career, you understand how to deal with them, but also better coaching, better infrastructure, a system that works better for you. That’s what the idea was when the Jets signed Justin Fields. And I don’t think the Jets really ever implemented anything that could work with Justin Fields. I mean, I was looking through this last week with Tanner Angstrand. And I mean, the the rates that the Jets were running pass plays with either run pass options or play action, which create simpler reads. And for a quarterback who’s developing as a passer, you know, you want to be at the high end. You want to be at the high end of the league when you talk about the rate at which you’re throwing those passes. Jets were near the bottom of the league throwing those types of plays with Justin Fields. I mean, you look at this game, I don’t understand, first of all, why Fields even started because if Fields’ confidence level was that low and you could you could see it on the field. I mean, you could you could see that he did not have any confidence in what he was seeing. You could see that he was really struggling to get to his reads. And when you play with hesitancy in the NFL at quarterback, you know, you can’t function. There’s just no way you can have success because the quarterback position in the NFL of 2025 is all about timing. Timing has to be precise and you have to be able to let let it rip when your receivers’s got a window because windows close quickly in this league. When you play with hesitancy, you’ve got no shot and Fields has been playing with hesitancy for weeks. And heading into this game, I felt like, you know, if Fields was in a good place mentally, if he kind of shook off the struggles of the last couple weeks, then yeah, fine. You start. It was clear though that this confidence level was gone. I mean, you could see that in his postgame interview. You could just see his body language. It looked he looked like Zack Wilson in 2022 or Sam Darnold in 2020. Now, I know this was after the game, but on the field during during the game, you could just see he was playing with no confidence. I don’t understand on the first series why you would go with a third and five play and throw it on third down and fourth down. I don’t understand why they why they passed on the field goal, but if you knew you were going for it on fourth down, why would you not run it on third down? This was an issue with Tanner Angstrom that we’re going to get to in a little bit. Um, but you know, you can look at this from the big picture. You can look at it from the small picture. I don’t think the Jets really designed an offense. I I I don’t know if Justin Fields can be developed, but if he can be, the Jets, the offense the Jets designed around him was never going to make it work. And if you look at like the offense the Jets have been running, it’s just so misaligned with what Justin Fields’ skills are supposed to be that if I was a cynic, I would say it seems like the Jets just signed Justin Fields to have a big name at quarterback to try and hype the fans up for the season because it just doesn’t seem like that they had any intention of building the type of offense that could work. But, you know, if if you if you’re somebody who’s not a believer in Justin Fields, well, then you could just look at the evaluation that they thought they could get more out of him than they really could. You know, it’s one thing for this to be underwhelmed. It’s one thing for Justin Fields to kind of fail. You know, I don’t think any of us really thought that Justin Fields was going to be the long-term quarterback for this team. I think we all knew that the like the out the the best case scenario would be he’d play well enough to stick around for a couple years and buy the Jets a little bit of breathing room when it comes to drafting a quarterback. You know, they could wait to pick the right guy. They wouldn’t necessarily need go into 2026 feeling a lot of pressure to pick a quarterback. And if they drafted somebody, if Fields might play well enough to enable the Jets to start that guy on the bench, they wouldn’t need to step into the lineup immediately until he was ready. We knew that that was the best case scenario. I don’t think that anybody saw I mean maybe maybe a few people who were real skeptics on fields but I don’t think most people saw this failing to this extent it failing to the extent where Justin Fields is on the bench at halftime of week seven where Justin Fields is on the bench at halftime of start number six this season. This is a colossal failure. And when you get it wrong to this extent on something as important as the quarterback position, I think it opens up major questions about what you’re doing. I think it opens up major questions about your talent evaluation process. It opens up major questions about the systems that you’re running, especially because, you know, it’s kind of a double whammy what Tanner Angstrand’s doing. He’s running systems that really are not NFL best practices in 2025, but he’s also not running systems that align with what Justin Fields skills are supposed to be. And I think that like in some ways this coaching staff is kind of hiding behind Justin Fields’s struggles. You know, it’s easy to say, well, the way Fields is playing, he couldn’t run an offense effectively no matter what you do. And that may be true, but there are still things that give you better odds of success, and the Jets are not running. This is this is really bad. 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But it’s not the only issue we’ve seen. In fact, I want to flip this around a little bit because we’re now seven games into Aaron Glenn and Darren Muji’s tenure and the Jets don’t have a win. I thought about a simple question yesterday. What has this regime done in these first seven games to inspire confidence? And I don’t know that I really have an answer for that. Part of this is the Jets keep losing games in different ways. It’s almost like, you know, a boat that springs a league. And whenever you plug up the that whole a new league springs, that’s what it’s like every single week with this team. You know, in yesterday’s game, obviously, the quarterback was a big issue, and the quarterback’s been a big issue through much of the season, but we really saw this team’s glaring lack of depth at the wide receiver position play a big role in this loss because in the second half, Tyrod Taylor came in and if we’re being honest, Tyrod Taylor did not play well. Now, you know, you can you can make excuses because you he had to come in in the middle of the game. He did not get the first team reps all week in practice. And you know, there was a moment in the first half, Taylor came in briefly for Fields when Fields had to be evaluated for a concussion. And there was a penalty that I think you could probably put on Taylor, you know, not working with the team uh in practice through the week. There was a penalty on illegal shift where uh both Mason Taylor and Alan Lazard were moving pre- snap. And when you get an illegal shift penalty with two guys moving, it’s usually on the quarterback for snapping the ball too quickly. And maybe Tyrod just didn’t like have the timing down. Um, but you know, you watch this game, it was not a very impressive performance by Tyrod Taylor. Still, the receiving the receivers were bad. And there were two big plays. The Jets left two big plays on the field in the passing game. One was a ball Allen Lazard did not come down with. That was a poor throw by Tyrod. Lazard was open deep. It was kind of a trick play where they snapped the ball to Bree Hall in a Wildcat formation. Ball eventually went back to Tyrod for a deep for a deep pass and Lazard was behind the defense because uh it seemed like Carolina bid on it. Tyrod badly underthrew the ball, but it was still a ball. It wasn’t just a ball Lazard could have caught. It was a ball Lazard should have caught and Lazard did not come down with it. Later in the game, there was a deep ball to Aryan Smith. It could have been a touchdown. It was a ball. I’m not going to say he should have caught it, but it was a ball that could have been caught. And you look at the four receivers the Jets are using now with Garrett Wilson out. You’ve got Alen Lazard who has been a subrement level receiver when he hasn’t played with Aaron Rogers through his career. This is the second year he’s playing without Rogers. Second year he looks unplayable. Got Tyler Johnson a career backup. You have Josh Reynolds who has been I’ve talked about this a lot. Eight years in the NFL. Two of those eight years he’s been his team’s third leading receiver. You’ve got Arian Smith, who’s a fourth round pick who probably should be on a practice squad right now. You know, the receiver position is really important. I remember in the offseason Aaron Glenn talking about how critical the receiver position is. And this is the group the Jets rolled out there. It’s not just that they’re bad, it’s the total lack of upside. You know, I remember in 2020 the Jets signed Brashad Perryman and it was rough. And you knew going into the season the odds were not great and Brashad Perryman being good, but at least you know this was a guy who finished the previous season on a red-hot tear. You know, he had a great December of 2019 and he had a first round pedigree and he had physical tools and the Jets were limited that offseason just like they were limited this off seasonason. He at least got somebody who you thought could have upside. I I mean I remember when the Jets drafted Steen Hill in 2012 and they went into that 2012 season with not a great receiver group. Um and Stephen Hill was very raw. you know, he’s really just had like the size speed combination, but you at least like saw what they were thinking. They got these guys and they’re bad, but there was no chance any of these guys was going to be any good, you know, and this is a microcosm of other things. I mean, who’s what position group is outperforming expectations this year? What unit is outperforming expectations this year? I can’t come up with any. What unit is playing consistently well? You know, I can’t come up with any. Who are the guys the Jets brought in who are exceeding expectations? Again, like I can’t really come up with any. I mean, maybe Jawan Briggs, the defensive tackle, you know, the backup nose tackle, but I mean, that’s a backup nose tackle who’s getting a handful of snaps a game. You know, maybe there are a few moves that look okay so far. I mean, I think Briggs and Harrison Phillips have been pretty decent. Uh Jarvis Brownley Jr.’s is off to a pretty good start so far as the slot corner. But I mean, those aren’t legacy moves, you know? Those aren’t moves that that you you look at and say, “That’s a steal.” At least right now. I I’m trying to like find something to hang my hat on with this coaching staff in front office. Something that tells me these guys know what they’re doing. I haven’t found anything. And like it can come in many different areas. It can come in a position group that’s outperforming expectations. It can come in like big-time additions that you made that you know maybe seemed under the radar at the time but are having a big impact. It can come in, you know, getting more talent out of a position group than than you were expecting. Instead, like if anything, guys are underperforming. You have guys like Will McDonald and Jamie and Sherwood who may not have been stars but clearly have taken a step back this year. I mean, you just look across the the offensive line. John Simpson had a good season last year. It wasn’t because of the coaching, but he’s taken a big step back this year. the offensive lines feels like it’s underperforming. There’s nothing really that good about the team at the moment. There’s nothing that you really inspires confidence that anybody in this coaching staff and in this front office knows what they’re doing. I think like the best thing you can look at is the defense right now because the last two weeks we’ve seen an appreciable change in the defense and we’ve seen the defense give up 13 points, both losses, because the offense hasn’t been able to get into the end zone either game. But, you know, maybe that’s a sign the defense is making strides. Now, the question is whether that’s sustainable because we saw Bryce Young miss some throws in that game. We saw Bryce Young miss open receivers that could have blown this game open earlier. Um, is this a case where maybe the defense has found its footing a little bit and it does seem like the defensive line’s playing a lot better since Germaine Johnson’s gotten into the lineup uh returning from that injury he suffered week two. You know, some of the changes in the secondary, Jarvis Brownley Jr. at at slot corner, Malachi Moore at safety in place of Tony Adams. It feels like they those have been upgrades, but it’s only been two weeks. You know, is it the case where this is just a short-term spark? Because sometimes guys go in, you mix it up a little bit, you know, it gets the team playing on a different level. And we saw that a little bit yesterday when Tyrod came in. It definitely felt like there was more energy to the way the Jets were playing on offense when after Tyrod came in. You knew it wasn’t going to last, though. You know, sometimes these short-term sparks really kind of fade quickly. Um, or is it the case where this Jets defense has improved? I I do think philosophically they’ve limited the big plays. I think that they’ve cut down a lot of the mistakes. It feels like this defense has become simpler. It feels like they’ve become more dedicated to avoiding the big play. And when you force other teams to put together 10, 11 play drives, that’s tough to do because it’s tough for guys even in the NFL to go that long without making a mistake. You know, we’re seeing a lot more bend but don’t break from the Jets. And then it feels like in the second half of these games, the defensive line’s heating up a little bit. Maybe that’s the thing we can lean on right now. 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To get started, again, it’s fuel.com to download the FanDuel app. This is the Lockdown Jets podcast here on this Monday. We are talking about the Jets 0 and7 start after they lost yesterday to the Carolina Panthers. Another really ugly game. This was the second straight time the Jets allowed 13 points and still lost the game. And the reason they lost the game was they could not get into the end zone on offense. Once again, the Jets had to bench their starting quarterback Justin Fields. And I think it’s clear that Fields’ time in New York will come to a very, very early end. I cannot imagine he’s going to be back in the starting lineup uh this coming week when the Jets take on the Cincinnati Bengals. I would have to imagine Tyrod Taylor will take over as the starting quarterback for this team for the foreseeable future. And as I said earlier, I think that the failure of Fields, the fact it’s been this dramatic is a big mark against this coaching staff in front office. And the problem is you look across this team, you look across the performances, you look across the roster, you look at how the units are performing, and there’s not really any area where you can say this regime has done a good job through the first seven games. Now, fortunately, it’s only seven games. And despite what some fans want, I can’t imagine that these guys are going to get fired before the end of the season. And even once we get to the end of the season, I have a tough time imagining the Jets moving on from Aaron Glenn and do Darren Mucci after one year, it’s possible. And you know, one of the themes of my Monday shows this year has been me saying, I don’t think it’s going to happen, but the odds just got a little bit higher yesterday. And once again, we’re in week seven, and I can tell you, I don’t think it’s going to happen, but the odds just got a little bit higher yesterday, and they are higher than they’ve been at any point this season. The way to short circuit those odds is to see improvement going forward. And you know, every single week it seems like we see the graphic, coaches who started 0 and6, coaches, now we’re up to coaches who started 0 and7. And you see a lot of the worst guys who’ve ever coached in the NFL on that graphic, guys who started 0 and seven. You know, we’re talking about some some of the really dreadful coaches, but you also you also see guys who haven’t, you know, were pretty successful. Kyle Shanahan’s one of them, the one that Glenn gets compared with constantly because he worked under him in Detroit, Dan Campbell, but also some guys who maybe aren’t on the level of like those elite coaches, but at least at least quality coaches. You know, Brian Flores, who started 0 and7 Miami in a truly hopeless situation in 2019, ended up getting that team to five wins, which normally five wins wouldn’t be that impressive, but that my 2019 Dolphins team had a lot of people thinking they would be 0 and6. you know, they they were viewed for a stretch early that season as perhaps the worst team in modern NFL history. They ended up going five and 11 and Flores followed followed that up with back-to-back winning seasons. Now, there were some internal issues in Miami. Flores, you know, did Flores got into some battles with the wrong people and ended up getting fired after his third year. But, you know, I think most people would conclude that Flores is not a terrible coach. Maybe he’s not a great coach. He’s not a terrible coach. and Zack Taylor. I think it’s an open question how much of Zack Taylor’s success came because he’s a good coach and how much came because he had Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, T Higgins on his offense. You know, I think a lot of people could look really good with that sort of firepower on offense, but I think we’d say Zack Ter Zack Taylor’s not a terrible coach. He started 0 and7. So, there are enough decent to good coaches to know that, you know, 0 and7 is not necessarily the end of your career. But I think we need to see improvement. And I I think part of this is, you know, you look at these, you look at some of these coaches and you see they started 0 and seven. I think the question that doesn’t get asked enough is did these guys improve along the way? I think the answer to that is almost certainly yes. I mean, I would say Kyle Shanahan’s better coach today than he was in year one in San Francisco. You know, I think Brian Flores got better during the course of his Dolphins tenure. Again, I think a lot of the reasons he got fired were not necessarily because of his coaching. I think there were some issues within that organization. Um, you know, Zack Taylor, you know, look, they were within the they were in the Super Bowl within two years of him starting 0 and7. You know, obviously he didn’t get in the way of that. And Dan Campbell, and you know, Campbell, of course, is the guy that’s compared with Glenn the most because Glenn came from Detroit. Glenn was part of that coaching staff that started so miserably. It’s a comparison Glenn’s making. It’s a comparison. It’s clear the Jets are floating this comparison in the media because you you look around national writers, local writers, you see a lot about the 2021 Lions and articles that are written about this Jets team. Is that fair? Well, you know, you can’t assume the Jets are going to have the exact same trajectory as the Lions under Aaron Glenn as the Lions had under Dan Campbell. But it is a reminder that you know even a really rough start even a start through halfway through year one like this which is just dismal which for which there’s nothing been done there’s nothing redeeming is something is something you can overcome. It is something you can get past but I think we’re going to need to see improvement from Glenn along the way. I think we’re going to need to start to see tangible progress. Now number one that comes to mind it’s the lowhanging fruit. This defensive renaissance that we’ve seen the last two weeks needs to be sustained. I I think that that’s very important. I think we’re going to need need to see growth from people in the coaching staff. Um, you know, I was really critical of Steve Wilks those first first five weeks. I don’t think I was any I don’t think I was really unfair to Steve Wils. I think Steve Wils did a miserable job. And I I do believe that sometimes, you know, somebody does a miserable job early in the season, they start doing better and you say, well, you you what what was with the criticis? Well, the criticism was because the guy wasn’t doing so well, but things are starting to improve. We’ll see whether the Jets can sustain that. I think on the offensive side of the ball, Tanner Rangstren’s been lousy, you know, and it’s easy to hide behind a lack of talent. And look, he has to deal with a quarterback who really lost all of his confidence. He’s dealing with a wide receiver group that isn’t good. But even so, there are just things doing that make no sense. You know, I talked about the lack of RPOS’s and play action passes for fields. Um, you know, there really aren’t any deep shots designed in this offense. Um, and in the second half of that game against Carolina, the Jets had four run plays in a close game where they were really challenged throwing the football. The Jets completely abandoned the run. There’s no excuse for that. And of those four run plays, two were scrambles by Tyrod Taylor. So, the Jets only called two run plays in the second half of that game. That’s just inexcusable. And increasingly to me, it’s looking like a guy Tener’s looking like a guy who designs plays well because I do think the Jets plays their design well. Sometimes you’ll see like film breakdowns and someone will say, “Well, that’s a really well-designed play by the Jets.” I think that’s fair, but that’s there are different aspects of being an offensive coordinator. It doesn’t seem like Angstrand has any concept of how to game plan or call plays because the stuff the Jets are doing makes no sense. We need to see improvement from Angstrand because, you know, Dan Campbell got rid of his first offensive coordinator in Detroit. He got rid of Anthony Lynn. Anthony Lynn was a former head coach at the time. It seemed like it made sense. You know, you want a new head coach. It’s generally a considered a best practice to have a former head coach on your staff. It just didn’t work and he fired Anthony Lyn and brought in Ben Johnson. I think that something’s going to have to give with Angstrand going forward. You Justin Fields excuse is gone now. I know Tyrod Taylor’s not great, but Tyrod Taylor’s not Justin Fields. Tyrod Taylor is going to throw the football. And I know the wide receiver situation is not great. Well, Garrett Wilson’s coming back. Um, you know, it’s not the results, it’s how we’re getting there. And I think you can evaluate an offensive coordinator independent of the talent he’s got. You know, um, we’ve seen bad Jets offensive coordinators and we’ve known that they’re not good. I Nathaniel Hackett had to run an offense with Zack Wilson and Alan Lazard is his number two wide receiver and a bad offensive line. We still knew he was bad. Adam Gase ran an offense with no talent. We could figure out, we’re smart, we were smart enough to figure out he was bad. Tanner Angstrand’s got a lot of limit, had a lot of limitations personnel-wise. It’s pretty clear he’s not been good so far. That’s got to get better. Lots and lots have to get better for this Jets team. And it would be nice if some of the guys they brought in start shining. There’s going to be have, you know, we’re we’re a long way between now and the end of the season. And this could look differently in 11 weeks when the season ends. But we have to start seeing improvement and if we don’t then we’re going to have some interesting discussions near the end of the year. But that’s all for today’s episode. This has been the Lockdown Jets podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Your team everyday is our motto. As always, if you enjoy the show, hit the subscribe button where you’re watching or listening so that you’ll never miss an episode. 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New York Jets hit rock bottom at 0-7. Is Justin Fields experiment over?

John B. dissects the Jets’ disastrous start, focusing on Fields’ benching and the offense’s struggles. He critiques the coaching staff’s decisions, particularly offensive coordinator Tanner Angstrand’s play-calling and game planning. The discussion covers the lack of depth at wide receiver, recent defensive improvements, and comparisons to other coaches who started 0-7.

Tune in for a no-holds-barred analysis of the Jets’ failures and what it means for the franchise’s future. Will the current regime survive this catastrophic season?

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