There was loads of pleasure over the Jets’ rent for head coach, together with from one one who had beforehand been crucial of a Jets coordinator.
Broncos head coach Sean Payton congratulated Aaron Glenn on social media after the announcement that the Lions defensive coordinator had gotten the vacant Jets gig.
“Congratulations, AG! Much Deserved,” he wrote Wednesday on X.
Glenn was Payton’s defensive backs coach with the Saints from 2016-20.
Payton had famously taken pictures at Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett after he took over the top teaching job in Denver — a job Hackett had been fired from — in 2023 whereas additionally taking a jab on the Jets as a complete.
Payton known as the job that Hackett did with the Broncos “one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL” and had stated throughout an interview with USA At this time that with “everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite.”
In different feedback that Payton made within the interview, he additionally appeared to take intention on the Jets for his or her inclusion on “Hard Knocks” that summer time.
“We’re not doing any of that. The Jets did that this year,” he stated. “You watch. ‘Hard Knocks,’ all of it. I can see it coming. Remember when [former Washington owner] Dan Snyder put that Dream Team together? I was at the Giants [in 2000]. I was a young coach. I thought, ‘How are we going to compete with them? Deion [Sanders is] there now.’ That team won eight games or whatever. So, listen … just put the work in.”
The remark irked some Jets gamers, however then-head coach Robert Saleh averted commenting on the problem.
The Jets introduced on Wednesday that they’d employed Glenn, who had performed for the staff for eight seasons, making him the group’s nineteenth full-time head coach.
The rent has been praised by a variety of former members of the group, together with former security Victor Inexperienced and receiver Keyshawn Johnson.
“Turnaround, man,” Inexperienced stated. “I really think ‘A.G.’ is the guy to turn this thing around. I know that head coach is in him now. He’s there. He has it.”
