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New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn reacting in the middle of an NFL game against the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n
Former Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn may have bitten off more than he can chew with the New York Jets<\/a>, some league insiders believe.<\/p>\n Glenn was scooped up by the Jets after successfully building up a Super Bowl contending defense in Detroit, departing at the same time as offensive coordinator Ben Johnson following the 2024 season. While Johnson quickly built the Chicago Bears<\/a> into a contender, Glenn struggled with a poor roster in New York and now faces what some believe is an even more dire outlook.<\/p>\n Speaking to The Athletic\u2019s Mike Sando<\/a>, a league executive shared some deep concerns about the direction of the Jets \u2014 which the executive believe goes far beyond what Glenn can control.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Jets keep doing the same thing,\u201d another exec said. \u201cThey trade good players off their team, they get draft picks, nobody wants to play there, they are a young team, they have to find a journeyman quarterback. Then they bring in all these picks, they can\u2019t find a quarterback still, and then they trade all those players for more picks and still can\u2019t find a quarterback.<\/p>\n \u201cI would guess the owner is very involved with that thought process.\u201d<\/p>\n But Glenn is getting at least some of the blame. Another executive told Sando that the Jets were \u201cbringing in veterans to help the culture because Glenn could not do for the Jets what his old boss in Detroit, Dan Campbell, did for the Lions.\u201d<\/p>\n There are at least some with a more optimistic view of Glenn, including an executive who believes he has the Jets close to turning a corner.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve done a good enough job supplementing their roster to where they don\u2019t have a lot of glaring holes now, so they could move up or down in the draft,\u201d another exec said. \u201cTheir roster is not bad. This should probably be the last free-agency period where they are really aggressive. You need to plan and budget like you are hitting on these draft picks.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tNathan Dougherty<\/a> is a sports reporter covering the NFL for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Miami Dolphins. Previously he wrote for the Rochester Business Journal and served as the assistant editor of athletic trade magazines Coaching Management, Athletic Management and Training & Conditioning. He is based out of Rochester, New York, and loves everything football. More about Nathan Dougherty<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Lions\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn reacting in the middle of an NFL game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-lions","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116340892101776794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851211","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=851211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}