Aaron Glenn awoke forward of his first Jets coaching camp follow round 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
He has been getting ready for this second since he was the Saints‘ defensive backs coach (2016-20).
Glenn’s spouse, Devaney, despatched an encouraging textual content message to the coach on his first day of coaching camp.
“‘Just be A.G.,’ and that’s who I’m going to be,” Glenn stated. “Proper, unsuitable, and detached. Nothing goes to alter about how I function, nothing goes to alter about the best way I feel.
“When I woke up at that time, I didn’t go back to sleep because now we have this whole day where we have things that we got to get done. I’m looking forward to every part of every minute, every hour of what we have going on today because it’s a day of teaching and I want to make sure I go through that the right way.”
It was a quiet and light-weight first day of coaching camp for the Jets. The follow lasted 90 minutes, and with out pads, however Glenn was in the course of every part.
Simply as he did throughout organized workforce actions and necessary minicamp within the spring, Glenn was seen shifting from place group to place group, making certain gamers executed their assignments as instructed by the coaches.
“Usually on the first day, that’s when most of the mistakes happen, most of the penalties happen,” Glenn stated. “But I thought our guys did a really good job. Listen, we have a long way to go and we know that. But today, I thought it was pretty good.”
Glenn is tasked with attempting to show round a Jets group that’s did not make the playoffs since 2010, which is the longest postseason drought in North American sports activities. The Jets have additionally had 9 consecutive shedding seasons.
As soon as the pads do come on, the Jets are anticipated to be a extra bodily workforce, which is a part of the tradition Glenn is attempting to deliver. With that, each participant should compete for his or her job. Even the starters from the earlier Robert Saleh/Joe Douglas regime.
“He’s somebody who wants to establish a culture and he’s definitely doing that,” Jets middle Joe Tippmann stated. “You know, through our meetings, through practice, through OTAs and it’s just been great getting to kind of get the ball rolling with that.”
Glenn is aware of the historical past of the Jets higher than simply about anybody. He performed for the group from 1994-2001 and was a two-time Professional Bowler. As well as, Glenn additionally is aware of how a lot the Jets followers have suffered the final decade-plus.
In 1998, Glenn was a participant on the Jets workforce who completed a sport away from reaching the Tremendous Bowl after shedding to the Broncos within the AFC Championship.
Glenn’s mentor is Invoice Parcells, who was his coach with the Jets on the time. Practically three a long time later, Glenn has unfinished enterprise to assist the Jets attain their objectives, which they had been unable to realize when he was on the roster. Throughout his introductory press convention in January, Glenn stated in regards to the 1998 loss within the AFC Championship, “I’ll be damned if I’m not going to come back here and get that back.”
After he was achieved enjoying, Glenn known as Parcells to inform him he needed to get into teaching. Nevertheless, Parcells inspired him to begin as a scout earlier than turning into a coach.
For 2 seasons, Glenn labored as a scout for the Jets. From there, Glenn climbed the ladder, progressing from assistant defensive backs coach for the Browns to defensive backs coach for the Saints, to Lions’ defensive coordinator in 2021.
The duty of fixing the Jets tradition received’t be a straightforward one, however one Glenn has skilled each as a participant and a coach. He got here from a Lions group that went from a 3-13-1 report in 2021 to a 15-2 mark final season below Dan Campbell.
Nobody is aware of how his regime will finally prove, however the Jets gamers consider in Glenn’s imaginative and prescient and plan early throughout his tenure.
“AG is great,” Jets quarterback Justin Fields stated. “He’s superior, tremendous particular person with regards to not solely chatting with me, not solely our relationship, however, , everybody’s relationship.
“He’s straightforward with it. He keeps it very blunt. I think our relationship is very good when it comes to that, personally and just being on the same team, being on the same page on how we want to lead this team.”
Initially Revealed: July 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM EDT
