Breece Hall’s explosive quote after losing to the Dolphins sums up what the Aaron Glenn experience has been for Jets players
The Jets would probably like a do over right about now.
“Teams shoot themselves in the foot, then we come back and shoot ourselves in the head.”
That is what Breece Hall told the New York Jets media via Zack Rosenblatt after the team’s 27-21 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Monday night.
Don’t let the score fool you; the game wasn’t nearly that close, and that was true even after the horrific Tyreek Hill injury. At 0-4 and looking worse than ever, the questions now turn to Aaron Glenn. A defensive head coach whose unit can’t stop a nose bleed.
But it’s one thing not to execute, it’s another thing to be outclassed, out-disciplined, and outsmarted, and that has dominated the first four weeks of Jets football.
The Aaron Glenn experience couldn’t have started any worse
Now, there is a chance that this is all just a horrible first impression, and Glenn turns things around the rest of the season. But we have a month-long sample size at this point. That is more than enough to make some definitive statements about a team. And for the Jets, they are awful.
It’s ironic, yet somewhat predictable. I’ve had this operation red-flagged ever since Aaron Rodgers went on the Pat McAfee Show and exposed that Glenn and the Jets essentially said he wasn’t good enough to be their quarterback anymore.
“I figured that when I flew across the country on my dime, there would be a conversation,” Rodgers told McAfee in the spring. “I meet with the coach, we start talking … he runs out of the room. I’m like, that’s strange. Then he comes back with the GM. So we sit down, and I think we’re going to have this long conversation, I’ve flown across the country, and 20 seconds in, I’m talking to the GM, and (Glenn) leans to the edge of his seat and says: ‘You’re sure you want to play football?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m interested.’ And he said, ‘We’re going in another direction at quarterback.’”
Well, Rodgers is off to a 3-1 start with the Pittsburgh Steelers and looks to be having the time of his life. Pittsburgh’s game against New York just so happened to be his best game of the year thus far, with Rodgers throwing four TDs to four different players en route to a 34-32 win. Meanwhile, the Jets under Glenn look like a J.V. operation.
“This is worse than the Buffalo loss, in my opinion,” said ESPN color commentator and analyst Dan Orlovsky during the game. “Buffalo beat them because Buffalo is better than them. Miami outplayed them, but there’s such controllable, self-inflicted stuff.”
Penalties, players calling fair catches inside the five-yard line on punts, false starts, and fumbles, it’s all been problematic for the Jets so far. And that doesn’t fall on just the players. That falls on the person who is teaching or allowing it.
In this case, that is Glenn.