{"id":118430,"date":"2025-06-10T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118430\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:26:10","slug":"steve-wilks-and-aaron-glenns-styles-make-for-unique-jets-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118430\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wilks and Aaron Glenn&#8217;s styles make for unique Jets pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last defensive play that Steve Wilks called ended in Mecole Hardman\u2019s Super Bowl-winning walk-off touchdown catch.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly 500 days since the Chiefs <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/11\/sports\/chiefs-beat-49ers-in-overtime-to-win-wild-super-bowl-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat the 49ers in the 2024 Super Bowl<\/a>, and Wilks \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/14\/sports\/49ers-fire-defensive-coordinator-steve-wilks-after-super-bowl-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was fired days after that game<\/a> \u2014 is back in the NFL <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/29\/sports\/jets-hiring-steve-wilks-as-defensive-coordinator-on-aaron-glenns-staff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Jets defensive coordinator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After spending last season as a college volunteer assistant coach at Charlotte, Wilks is calling plays under defensive-minded Aaron Glenn as part of Glenn\u2019s effort to become a CEO-style head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really about our playbook,\u201d Wilks said. \u201cIt\u2019s about our play style.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last defensive play that Steve Wilks called ended in Mecole Hardman\u2019s Super Bowl-winning walk-off touchdown catch. It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,9,3248,22352],"class_list":{"0":"post-118430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-steve-wilks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114658592960810929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}