Aaron Glenn interviewed the Jets, too.
After a season by 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 each other,” Glenn stated. “I used to be right here [as a player in 2000] when Woody purchased the workforce. My conversations with him again then had been actually, actually optimistic.
“Coming back here, sitting and talking with him, there is no better person to work for than when they sit and tell you — and you strategize about — a winning commitment. He has that. And that’s all I need 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 lot of exaggeration, hyperbole,” Johnson stated. “You really have to take all that stuff with a grain of salt. Nobody knows how involved I was. I want Aaron Glenn to coach the team. I want the general manager [Darren Mougey] to manage the assets and the players. And I’ll take the owner’s position. That’s what I’d like to do.”
Glenn was requested for interview by 5 of the six groups with vacancies, however stated he at all times had his eye on returning residence to the place he was a first-round draft decide in 1994.
He additionally labored as a Jets scout in 2012-13.
That desire suggests a stage of confidence in Johnson’s administration model.
“We’re going to continue to have conversations and continue to look at that,” Glenn stated. “I trust him with everything I have, and I look forward to working with him.”
Johnson additionally vowed to take a distinct strategy with the eighth head coach and sixth normal supervisor of his 25-year tenure.
“I have to look in the mirror and I have to be a better owner — and I’ve tried to be better,” Johnson stated. “I have to have patience. I have to let them evolve in these positions, which I think they will. I think it’ll be quick, but I think 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 ownership is fiercely competitive, cares deeply about the players and the fans, and is committed to winning,” Mougey stated. “I felt that in the interview process each 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 some of the in depth searches for brand new management in NFL historical past.
“It’s going to be really, really fun going forward,” Johnson stated. “I hope. And I expect.”
