The Jets had their first two rookie minicamp practices this weekend below first-year coach Aaron Glenn.
The periods regarded so much totally different than these in earlier years.
Not like former coach Robert Saleh, Glenn actively coached and interacted throughout 11-on-11 drills. Glenn additionally noticed and spoke with rookies throughout positional drills.
“For me to get a chance to go to every position and be able to give my opinions on how they should do things and try to help those guys be successful and that’s the fun thing about coaching,” Glenn stated. “That’s the fun thing about my development as a coach to be able to go with the quarterbacks and talk to those guys, the running backs, the D-line, the linebackers, so that was the change of being able to move around the field and be able to coach every position.”
That is Glenn’s first alternative to guide an NFL workforce, however he has exhibited management qualities earlier than at his earlier cease. In 2022, when he was the defensive coordinator of the Lions, Glenn delivered a robust speech throughout HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ in entrance of all the workforce, discussing how “‘Enough is enough’” when it got here to shedding.
Lions coach Dan Campbell empowered his assistant coaches to talk in entrance of the workforce, making ready Glenn to turn into the Jets coach.
“I just talked about that before from being DB coach to a coordinator, to a coordinator, to the head coach,” Glenn stated. “I give a number of credit score man, to Dan Campbell for placing me in positions to be head coach for the Lions on sure conditions and for him placing me within the entrance of the room for him asking my recommendation on how follow ought to go, so it was a very a seamless transition for me to script follow.
“It was a seamless transition for me to be in front of the team, so all those things he’s done may actually prepped me to be in this position, so I’ll give him a lot of credit for that.”
Glenn involves a Jets group in an identical state of affairs to when he grew to become Detroit’s defensive coordinator in 2021. The Lions had been a laughingstock of the NFL and made the playoffs 3 times from 2000-20, shedding within the wild-card spherical every time.
However following its 3-13-1 season in 2021, Detroit completed with a profitable file three seasons in a row. In 2022, Campbell and the Lions, with the assistance of Glenn, completed 9-8. Within the final two seasons, the Lions received the NFC North, together with final 12 months, after they ended the 12 months with the very best file within the league at 15-2.
The Jets haven’t made the playoffs since 2010, the longest postseason drought in North American sports activities. Additionally they haven’t completed with a profitable file since 2015.
After he accepted the Jets teaching place, Glenn mentioned the significance of constructing a profitable tradition and laying the muse for that. His expertise with Campbell and the Lions may present context on how he plans to do this throughout his tenure with the Jets.
“I think he in the back of his mind, he was prepping me to be in this position,” Glenn stated about Campbell. “But additionally, I believe he knew I had the ear of the workforce additionally, not simply the protection as a result of I vibe with these guys on the offense fairly a bit.
“I think I’ve said this before, every morning at 7:30, J-Mo [Jameson Williams] was in my office and we would sit there and talk, so I do agree with that. I think it was a little bit of both now that I actually look back and just think about the positions that he put me in, but again, I give him so much credit for making this a seamless transition for me to stand here and be the head coach of this team.”
It’s too early to find out if Glenn’s tenure with the Jets will likely be profitable. However he has already begun figuring out a number of gamers who may assist the Jets reach 2025. Throughout follow, second-round decide and tight finish Mason Taylor and fourth-round broad receiver Arian Smith each flashed throughout Friday and Saturday’s follow.
Taylor routinely displayed his velocity and quickness, alongside along with his dependable fingers. Smith confirmed his elusiveness and his capacity to separate from defenders.
“I told those guys it really doesn’t matter where you’re from, even what you did,” Glenn stated. “The factor is, all of them have finished an awesome job to get within the constructing, and when you get within the constructing, you may have a shot.
“Once you get in the building, you have a shot, so I thought it was important for them to understand that. I thought it was important for them to understand the direction of what we’re trying to do in this camp, that it wasn’t a true physical camp, but there were three things I wanted to get out of those guys. What I want to know is, can they learn, one. Two, are they coachable, and three, can they play special teams, and I think a lot of those guys answered those questions, so that was my message to those guys, and I felt those guys did a really good job.”
