The Jets are staring at another hard reset, and Aaron Glenn looks like he’s heading toward the center of it.
Sunday’s loss was just the latest reminder that New York is still stuck in the same place it’s been for far too long. The season was supposed to feel different. Instead, the same problems keep showing up: the roster isn’t good enough, the offseason moves didn’t land, and the coaching staff hasn’t been able to pull this thing together.
That leaves Glenn in a brutal spot. There are moments when he seems like he should get more time, but the bottom line is simple: he’s not winning games. If the Jets are serious about becoming a Super Bowl contender anytime soon, it’s hard to see Glenn as the coach who gets them there.
At the same time, this mess isn’t all on him. The Jets have spent years being one of the worst-run organizations in football, and plenty of coaches have already tried to clean it up. That’s why some of the blame naturally points higher up, even if Woody Johnson is never going anywhere.
Still, the most likely outcome feels obvious. Glenn is going to lose his job eventually. The only real question is whether it happens in the next couple of days or after the season ends.
His 5-21 record all-time makes the case for keeping him awfully thin, and it’s tough to imagine Johnson looking at that number and deciding Glenn deserves another year.
As Rich Cimini of ESPN wrote, “If coach Aaron Glenn has any chance of saving his job -- with a 5-21 record, it looks bleak -- he needs to stave off the resignation stage. That's when it gets really ugly, when the energy is drained out of the locker room, when fissures form among players. It's when hope is gone.
“Presumably, Glenn will have the final eight games to convince owner Woody Johnson that the organization is heading in the right direction under his leadership. It could be an insurmountable challenge,” Rich Cimini of ESPN wrote.
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