As Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn walked off the podium during their end-of-year press conference, the New York Jets\u2019 brain trust concluded a difficult first season together.<\/p>\n
Despite all the confidence they walked in with, a 3-14 season marked by historic struggles on both sides of the ball<\/a> left both the team and the fanbase understanding how much work there is to be done.<\/p>\n Now, the quest begins to ensure that a season like 2025 doesn\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n Here are some of the key takeaways from Mougey and Glenn\u2019s press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n 5. Trust\u2026 despite results<\/p>\n The word \u201cculture\u201d was not used during this press conference. That\u2019s a good thing, because the Jets\u2019 culture can only be fixed by wins. Glenn and Mougey finally learned that throughout their 3-14 season.<\/p>\n The new word is \u201ctrust.\u201d After a dismal season, Glenn asked the fanbase to trust him when he says things will be different moving forward.<\/p>\n \u201cI expect and want our fans to have a total trust in us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to earn that, too, and our plan is to do that. We don\u2019t expect to have another season like this here.\u201d<\/p>\n Does the current regime deserve that trust after one of the worst seasons in franchise history<\/a>? That answer is for the fans to determine. Clearly, though, the current regime believes this year was an important learning experience.<\/p>\n 4. Mougey\u2019s confidence in resources<\/p>\n I continue to remain impressed with Mougey. He\u2019s not revealing anything to indicate what the team plans to do in the offseason. Even so, he clearly remains optimistic about what he has to work with.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited about the offseason as we go into it,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel more confident today than ever moving forward with what we have going\u2026with the assets we have moving forward, I know we\u2019re going to continue to build and add good players that\u2019ll help us win.\u201d<\/p>\n The assets Mougey discusses are four draft picks within the first 45 overall selections<\/a>, as well as over $90 million in cap space<\/a>. It will be up to Mougey to make the most of those resources.<\/p>\n Throughout his first year on the job, Mougey made a handful of successful moves. He\u2019ll have to build off that in the coming months.<\/p>\n 3. Breece Hall\u2019s future<\/p>\n If fans were hoping to get clarity on the star running back\u2019s future, they will be disappointed. Regarding Hall, Mougey said that the 24-year-old is \u201ca good player, and I want to keep good players.\u201d<\/p>\n Does that mean a long-term contract will be discussed? Don\u2019t bet on it. <\/p>\n \u201cI met with Breece yesterday and had some good conversations.\u201d <\/p>\n Mougey later said he wouldn\u2019t comment on future contracts until around free agency. It\u2019s challenging to envision the Jets extending Hall to a long-term deal at this point, so the franchise tag appears to be the more logical solution.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean the Jets will tag him, though.<\/p>\n Hall\u2019s future is as uncertain as it was before Mougey and Glenn\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n 2. A more subdued Glenn<\/p>\n The Glenn seen during the final day of the regular season was far different than the one we saw in his introductory press conference. Last January, the confidence was noticeable. The bravado was a welcome addition.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Glenn remained confident, but with his tail between his legs. A 3-14 season will do that to anyone. <\/p>\n \u201cI put a lot of it on me as far as the wins and losses,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to do a better job. I\u2019m not going to blame the roster or the coaching staff. I have to do a better job. I know we\u2019ll be better next year.\u201d<\/p>\n Accountability, of course, is important. It\u2019s a big reason why the Jets haven\u2019t made a head coaching change. But this was a humbling experience for Glenn from the very beginning.<\/p>\n If he\u2019s unwilling to learn from this, his tenure will be short-lived.<\/p>\n 1. A new defensive coordinator<\/p>\n New York needs a new play-caller on the defensive side of the ball. Glenn made it clear exactly the kind of coach he wanted running the unit, with a concentration more on schematic cohesion than anything else. <\/p>\n \u201cI like to be aggressive,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cI want to make sure the guy we do have, there\u2019s a lot of synergy between us. There will be a number of coaches we take a look at.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSynergy\u201d was a word used frequently by Glenn on Tuesday. It sheds a little light on who exactly the team will be targeting. <\/p>\n Glenn is a defensive-minded coach with a penchant for playing man coverage outside and using exotic blitzes across the board. One coach who fits that mold quite well is Michigan defensive coordinator Wink Martindale. Keep an eye on him throughout this process.<\/p>\n There will be other names targeted. But it\u2019s clear the defensive play-caller will be a key focus going forward. <\/p>\n Reporting from the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn walked off the podium during their end-of-year press conference, the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,1469,7,3228,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,4403,3231,3916,3234],"class_list":{"0":"post-660537","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-darren-mougey","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-free-content","12":"tag-jets","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-ny-jets-coaches","20":"tag-ny-jets-news","21":"tag-ny-jets-players","22":"tag-standard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115852672454327386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660537","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=660537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}