New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn promised multiple times this season that the team he was coaching wasn\u2019t \u201cthe same old Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turns out, he was right. <\/p>\n
They are much worse. <\/p>\n
Glenn set out to build a winner in Florham Park for the first time in almost two decades. Through it all, his overconfidence and bravado, once seen as engaging and exciting, turned into a major albatross. Answers he gave at the start of his tenure quickly changed on a dime<\/a> the minute the losses began to pile up.<\/p>\n At his introductory presser, Glenn touted, \u201cWe\u2019re the freaking New York Jets, and we\u2019re built for this (expletive).\u201d<\/p>\n All fans have seen this season is even worse (expletive) than before.<\/p>\n These are not the \u201cSame Old Jets\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201csame old Jets\u201d moniker is back, although it hardly even applies at this point. Most of the previous 65 iterations of the franchise were better than this one.<\/p>\n The 2025 Jets\u2019 average point differential of -11.0 ranks fifth-worst in team history; after adjusting it for their strength of schedule, they rank second-worst<\/a>.<\/p>\n Where did the Jets go wrong?<\/p>\n Was it their inability to competently build a defensive scheme that matched former play-caller Steve Wilks\u2019 zone principles with Glenn\u2019s man-press demands?<\/p>\n Was it their inability to build a passing offense that could average more than 145.8 yards per game?<\/p>\n Ultimately, the Jets\u2019 historically poor season can be traced back to a single mistake: The signing of Justin Fields and the immediate push\/hubris to make him a starter.<\/p>\n Fields had been a failed quarterback well before he was a member of the Jets. For some reason, Glenn felt that his team would be the one to finally turn the Ohio State product into a quality NFL starter.<\/p>\n Despite a lack of evidence to support that claim, the Jets gave Fields a free pass to be the team\u2019s leader without a competition in camp\u2014a competition he would\u2019ve lost had the results mattered.<\/p>\n