Former Jets Coach Blasts Team's 3-14 Season: 'Worst Football Experience'

At least one of Aaron Glenn's former coaches did not enjoy his time with the New York Jets last season.

Key points

• A former coach spoke bluntly regarding his 2025 campaign with the Jets to The Athletic's Jonathan Jones.
• The Jets went 3-14 with the NFL's worst point differential (-203) in Glenn's first year as head coach.
• The Jets opened with seven straight losses before earning back-to-back wins over the Cincinnati Bengals (without Joe Burrow) and Cleveland Browns.
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At least one of Aaron Glenn's former coaches did not enjoy his time with the New York Jets last season. The Jets went 3-14 with the NFL's worst point differential (-203) in Glenn's first year as head coach. Glenn created significant changes to his staff this offseason in hopes of snapping the organization's 15-year playoff drought. A former coach spoke bluntly regarding his 2025 campaign with the Jets to The Athletic's Jonathan Jones. Notably, the season concluded with five straight losses of 23 points or more. Worst football experience I have had, the former coach remarked. Glenn's tenure didn't start much better. The Jets opened with seven straight losses before earning back-to-back wins over the Cincinnati Bengals (without Joe Burrow) and Cleveland Browns. They scored the NFL's fourth-fewest points, allowed the second-most points, and became the first team to ever go an entire season without tallying an interception. Another coach criticized Glenn's standoffish demeanor with reporters during the season. He scoffed when asked regarding benching quarterback Justin Fields against the backdrop of an 0-6 start and afterwards declined to offer an injury update on wide receiver Garrett Wilson. Everything with the media, I used to cringe, an ex-Jets coach remarked. First year, we're not (Bill) Belichick here. I just felt like he was arrogant – and I don't want to say that word – but he knew ball more than everybody else. Nevertheless, not all former Jets employees had bad things to say. Another fired coach defended Glenn. This person inherited a franchise that hasn't won more than seven games in a season since 2015. The team that A.G. Took over, they were a five-win team, and we got rid of all the best players, the coach remarked. I'm not saying those weren't the right decisions. You had an old roster, but you've obtained to be realistic and live with the consequences. He had a good plan as a first-year head coach. There were a lot of other factors. I don't have anything against A.G. I think he was stuck in a tough situation.

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For context, the Jets went 3-14 with the NFL's worst point differential (-203) in Glenn's first year as head coach. Glenn created significant changes to his staff this offseason in hopes of snapping the organization's 15-year playoff drought.

Notably, a former coach spoke bluntly regarding his 2025 campaign with the Jets to The Athletic's Jonathan Jones. The season concluded with five straight losses of 23 points or more. "Worst football experience I have had, " the former coach remarked.

Glenn's tenure didn't start much better. The Jets opened with seven straight losses before earning back-to-back wins over the Cincinnati Bengals (without Joe Burrow) and Cleveland Browns. They scored the NFL's fourth-fewest points, allowed the second-most points, and became the first team to ever go an entire season without tallying an interception.

Another coach criticized Glenn's standoffish demeanor with reporters during the season. He scoffed when asked regarding benching quarterback Justin Fields against the backdrop of an 0-6 start and afterwards declined to offer an injury update on wide receiver Garrett Wilson.

"Everything with the media, I used to cringe, " an ex-Jets coach remarked. "First year, we're not (Bill) Belichick here. I just felt like he was arrogant – and I don't want to say that word – but he knew ball more than everybody else."

Nevertheless, not all former Jets employees had bad things to say. Another fired coach defended Glenn. This person inherited a franchise that hasn't won more than seven games in a season since 2015.

The team that A.G. Took over, they were a five-win team, and we got rid of all the best players, the coach remarked. I'm not saying those weren't the right decisions. You had an old roster, but you've obtained to be realistic and live with the consequences. He had a good plan as a first-year head coach. There were a lot of other factors. I don't have anything against A.G. I think he was stuck in a tough situation.

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