Aaron Glenn interviewed the Jets, too.
After a season during which a number of reviews painted proprietor Woody Johnson and his two teenage sons as meddling in soccer decision-making, Glenn stated Monday that his two interviews earlier than he was employed as head coach concerned a back-and-forth regardless of the edges’ preexisting familiarity.
“We had questions for one another,” Glenn stated. “I used to be right here [as a player in 2000] when Woody purchased the group. My conversations with him again then had been actually, actually optimistic.
“Coming again right here, sitting and speaking with him, there isn’t a higher individual to work for than after they sit and let you know — and also you strategize about — a profitable dedication. He has that. And that’s all I must 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 stated. “You actually should take all that stuff with a grain of salt. No one is aware of how concerned I used to be. I need Aaron Glenn to teach the group. I need the final 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 stated he all the time had his eye on returning house to the place he was a first-round draft decide in 1994.
He additionally labored as a Jets scout in 2012-13.
That choice suggests a stage of confidence in Johnson’s administration model.
“We’re going to proceed to have conversations and proceed to have a look at that,” Glenn stated. “I belief him with the whole lot I’ve, and I sit up for working with him.”
Johnson additionally vowed to take a special method with the eighth head coach and sixth basic 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 stated. “I’ve to have persistence. I’ve to allow them to evolve in these positions, which I feel they may. I feel it’ll be fast, however I feel 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 final supervisor and his household is concerned in different features 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 profitable,” Mougey stated. “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 spanking new management in NFL historical past.
“It’s going to be actually, actually enjoyable going ahead,” Johnson stated. “I hope. And I anticipate.”