Aaron Glenn interviewed the Jets, too.
After a season wherein a number of reviews painted proprietor Woody Johnson and his two teenage sons as meddling in soccer decision-making, Glenn mentioned Monday that his two interviews earlier than he was employed as head coach concerned a back-and-forth regardless of the perimeters’ preexisting familiarity.
“We had questions for one another,” Glenn mentioned. “I used to be right here [as a player in 2000] when Woody purchased the staff. My conversations with him again then had been actually, actually optimistic.
“Coming again right here, sitting and speaking with him, there is no such thing as a higher particular person to work for than after they sit and let you know — and also you strategize about — a successful dedication. He has that. And that’s all I have to know.”
Johnson scoffed at The Athletic’s reviews with out refuting particular claims like his 2024 in-season suggestion to bench quarterback Aaron Rodgers, urgent to commerce for receiver Davante Adams or asking for security Tony Adams to be benched.
“It was a whole lot of exaggeration, hyperbole,” Johnson mentioned. “You actually need to take all that stuff with a grain of salt. No one is aware of how concerned I used to be. I would like Aaron Glenn to teach the staff. I would like the overall supervisor [Darren Mougey] to handle the property and the gamers. And I’ll take the proprietor’s place. That’s what I’d love to do.”
Glenn was requested for interview by 5 of the six groups with vacancies, however mentioned he at all times had his eye on returning house to the place he was a first-round draft choose in 1994.
He additionally labored as a Jets scout in 2012-13.
That desire suggests a degree of confidence in Johnson’s administration type.
“We’re going to proceed to have conversations and proceed to take a look at that,” Glenn mentioned. “I belief him with all the pieces I’ve, and I look ahead to working with him.”
Johnson additionally vowed to take a special method with the eighth head coach and sixth common supervisor of his 25-year tenure.
“I’ve to look within the mirror and I’ve to be a greater proprietor — and I’ve tried to be higher,” Johnson mentioned. “I’ve to have endurance. I’ve to allow them to evolve in these positions, which I believe they’ll. I believe it’ll be fast, however I believe they’ll evolve.”
Johnson employed Mougey from the Broncos over the Bengals’ Trey Brown regardless of Brown’s expertise with a family-run group the place the proprietor is the overall supervisor and his household is concerned in different facets of the entrance workplace.
“It’s clear that the Jets possession is fiercely aggressive, cares deeply concerning the gamers and the followers, and is dedicated to successful,” Mougey mentioned. “I felt that within the interview course of every time that we met.”
The Jets have the longest playoff drought within the 4 main North American professional sports activities (since 2010), however simply accomplished one of the vital in depth searches for brand new management in NFL historical past.
“It’s going to be actually, actually enjoyable going ahead,” Johnson mentioned. “I hope. And I anticipate.”
