Jets fans are still looking at Aaron Glenn with plenty of skepticism after a brutal first season in charge of the New York Jets.
That reaction isn’t hard to understand. Glenn’s debut year ended with a 3-14 record, a pile of team and league futility marks, and a staff shakeup that saw him fire half his coaches after one season. In The Athletic’s recent fan survey, that reality showed up clearly: most respondents were neutral on Glenn, while a sizable group said they weren’t confident in him at all.
The concerns went beyond the overall record, too. When fans were asked what bothered them most about Glenn’s first season, the answers were often blunt.
The Athletic said many write-ins amounted to “all of the above” or “everything,” with some pointing directly at his staff decisions and the move to sign Justin Fields. One respondent took a different view and wrote, ‘he tanked successfully.
You can’t win in the NFL without a franchise QB and to draft one, you have to pick early. Winning meaningless games would’ve repeated the Zach Wilson scenario.
Anyone who calls for his firing is stupid,’”
It’s still early, though. Glenn has only been through 17 games, and there’s no real argument that he should be written off already. But that’s the reality of the job in New York: if the wins don’t come, the noise gets louder fast.
And right now, winning is the only thing that will quiet the doubt. However the Jets get there, they need results on the field. Until that happens, Glenn’s first season is going to keep hanging over everything.
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