The New York Jets somehow managed to finish their first year under head coach Aaron Glenn with a dismal 3-14 record, leading to mass changes across the entire coaching staff. Glenn himself canned half his coaches, including both the offensive and defensive coordinators. It was a brutal clean-out, and honestly, can you even blame him after what went down? This team made NFL history, but for all the wrong reasons.
An All-Time Historic Collapse in New York
You read that right: *NFL history*. The Jets became the first team ever recorded in the league to fail to log a single interception for an entire season. Not one! How does that even happen? And if that wasn’t enough gut-punching history, they also became the first team in NFL history to lose five straight games by 23 or more points in a single season. Five in a row! That’s just unheard of, a total collapse. One former assistant coach, speaking to Jonathan Jones of The Athletic, didn’t hold back, calling that final stretch the “Worst football experience I have had.” You can feel the frustration burning through that quote, right? This wasn’t just a bad season; it was historically bad.
Blew Up the Roster and Blew Up the Season
It’s easy to point fingers, but the picture in New York was definitely complicated. Coach Glenn walked into a Jets roster that was already demoralized from years of disappointment. It was clear rebuilding the culture would take more than one year, but starting the season with seven straight losses and constantly showing a lack of poise in big moments didn’t exactly scream “progress.” Then, things got even messier when the Jets basically torpedoed their own roster at the trade deadline. They shipped away Pro Bowlers Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams. Like, really? You’re trying to build something and then you pull the plug on your best players mid-season? Star receiver Garrett Wilson was also limited to just seven games with a knee injury, gutting whatever talent was left on the field for the remainder of the year.
Another former coach, however, offered a bit more perspective, saying, “The team that A.G. took over, they were a five-win team, and we got rid of all the best players.” He added that while getting rid of an “old roster” might have been the right call, you have to live with the consequences. He thought Glenn had a “good plan as a first-year head coach” and was just “stuck in a tough situation.” So, was it all on Glenn, or was he handed a no-win scenario and then stripped of his few remaining chips? Either way, you can tell that season is still leaving a nasty taste in a lot of mouths.
For Jets fans, the hope has to be that all those historic “firsts” stay in the rearview. Because honestly, nobody wants to see that kind of season again, especially not the folks who lived through it on the sidelines.
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Originally reported by Bleacher Report.
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