Nearly five months after taking over as head coach of the New York Jets, Aaron Glenn addressed his team a final time Thursday as the spring season reached its conclusion in Florham Park, NJ.
“Overall, I thought this has been a really good camp for all of us including the coaches,” Glenn said moments after the Jets completed their mandatory minicamp. “We had basically our last team meeting this morning and what I wanted to make sure I stressed to the players throughout this whole deal from Phase 1 all the way to Phase 3 is they started creating some habits and some good habits. And as you leave the building, I don’t want those habits to go away. I want them to continue to think about those habits. Also throughout this whole deal, it’s been about our process and how we want to operate as a team and who we want to be, how we want to do it.”
While minicamp was mandatory, Glenn was pleased with the voluntary buy-in from his team in Phases 1 and 2. During Phase 1, the Jets were limited to meetings, strength and conditioning, and rehab. Then the Jets took another step with on-field workouts and the third phase featured OTAs before it wrapped up with three minicamp practices.
“I’m very proud of all those guys,” Glenn said. “Overall, I think we had about 91 percent of the guys who were here — I’m talking about throughout all the phases. I think the best team that I’ve been around when it comes to that was about 80 percent, so those guys trumped that.”
Middle linebacker Jamien Sherwood, the 2024 Curtis Martin Team MVP who signed a multi-year extension with Jets in March, has been encouraged by the start under the new staff.
“I believe in the process,” Sherwood said. “Obviously, I can’t tell you what tomorrow is going to bring and what it’s going to look like, but what we’ve been able to put on tape, what we’ve been able to put together and create in this new foundation, to me, it looks good. I believe in all my teammates, I believe in myself and I believe in our coaches. I think we’re going to put together a great game plan every week to go out there and compete.”