The Aaron Glenn Period and the Energy of “If”

Aaron Glenn is the newest man tasked with the seemingly unattainable job of attempting to tug the New York Jets out of the depths of hell. It appears the final consensus amongst members of media and the fanbase that this was a “home run” choose that’s “certain” to vary the tradition of arguably probably the most putrid franchise in all {of professional} sports activities. For all of these requires an offensive thoughts, for all of these requires a veteran coach,  the Jets largely ignored that and interviewed a protracted checklist candidates who weren’t on every other crew’s radar.

Of the 16 candidates interviewed, eight of them had been retread choices. Of these eight, solely two of them (Mike Vrabel and Matt Nagy) have profitable data as a Head Coach. it from a offense/protection perspective, 10 of the candidates had a non-offensive background (Darren Rizzi was a Particular Groups Coordinator) after which six offensive coaches had been interviewed.

Given this pool of candidates, it turned clear that gifted offensive minds like Kliff Kingsbury or Todd Monken weren’t going to be coming in to 1 Jets Drive for an interview. Longtime veteran coaches with Tremendous Bowl success like Pete Carroll and Mike McCarthy had been neglected for some motive.  Be it lack of curiosity from the Jets themselves, or lack of curiosity in the Jets on the a part of the canidates.

As a substitute, for the fifth time in six hires this century, the Jets have taken a defensive coach from one other crew and made him a first-time Head Coach. We’re listening to the very same phrases we’ve heard every cycle, comparable to “Leader of Men” and “culture changer”.  Someway this passionate fanbase has turned a blind eye to the blisteringly apparent incontrovertible fact that this rent is one other instance of the Woody Johnson Jets doing the identical factor and anticipating a distinct outcome. Whereas that’s not precisely the definition of madness, a sensible man as soon as used it to elucidate the phrase.

ESPN referred to as Saleh a frontrunner of males. Sports activities Illustrated praised Todd Bowles as a former NFL participant who was extremely revered amongst the league. Rex Ryan was clearly (and nonetheless is) thought of one of many best talkers of his time who can encourage anybody to do something together with his passionate speeches.

Maybe, as a substitute of listening to about these guys’ “incredible leadership” or “respect from peers”, Woody, the media, and the followers ought to actually concern themselves with the precise job of being Head Coach. Please take a number of seconds to take heed to probably the most profitable DC-turned Head Coach of all time discuss his personal expertise making the swap: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEaHFOAJGTP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Invoice Belichick is extensively thought to be the best NFL coach in historical past however when he was a DC-turned first time Head Coach, he went 36-44 and solely had 1 profitable season in 5 tries in Cleveland. Belichick was horrible. The problems he outlined within the clip above don’t have anything to do with management or respect, it’s about having far more duty and having to make many extra selections that have an effect on excess of X’s and O’s. Then, after they lastly get to the sport methods, all of our defensive predecessors had a few of the league’s worst offenses yr after yr.

It’s laborious to disregard the truth that every of Glenn’s predecessors (Saleh, Bowles, Ryan and so forth.) struggled with the offensive aspect of the ball as Jets.  Bowles really improved on for his second stint simply as Belichick did. Given all this, I might’ve cherished to provide Brian Flores his second stint to indicate us how a lot he’s discovered from his first one. However with Aaron Glenn, and us having no selection however to root for our man to succeed, I’ve to depend on the ability of “if” to take care of religion on this seemingly hopeless soccer crew and its downtrodden fanbase.

IF Woody Johnson can enable his workers to do the roles they had been employed to do with out obstacle
IF Aaron Glenn is ready to enhance the penalties/self-discipline points that plagued the final regime from begin to end
IF Aaron Glenn is in a position to herald an OC that can provide the Jets a reliable offense
IF Aaron Glenn is ready to hone as much as his personal phrases and develop expertise in all phases of the roster, not simply protection

It’s actually not unattainable, however none of his defensive first time Head Coach for the Jets predecessors have been capable of do these items so it doesn’t appear possible. However IF, if Aaron Glenn can in some way discover a strategy to make it occur – utilizing his expertise as a participant right here, his expertise as a scout right here, if in some way has some benefit that may be leveraged to keep away from sure doom – then perhaps the Jets have lastly discovered their chief.

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Born and raised in NY, cursed to be a Jets, Knicks, and Mets fan for all times. I take turns yearly crying over my snake-bitten franchises however hopefully earlier than I die my favourite of the bunch (Jets) will have the ability to reward my timeless religion in them. Within the meantime, I will present rational perception and evaluation to assist in giving you a practical perspective on the greenest present in New York Metropolis!