Jets Introduce New Leadership Group

Edition #790

☀️ Good morning ☕

I’m really not one to read too much into introductory press conferences, but there’s a wrong way to do it (Gase, 2019) and there is a right way to do it (Glenn, 2025).

The new Jets head coach said all the right things, it’s about winning, it’s about culture, no player is more important than the next. He also handled the media in a way we haven’t seen for a long time. Take the below clip as an example. Glenn was asked about Rodgers and he said they’re still in the evaluation phase and they’ll make that decision on whether to bring him back when they were ready. The NY media being the NY media tried to get him to slip up and say something they could use for headlines by asking the same question multiple times and in different ways.

Mougey was exactly the same. You get the impression that these two are going to do things their way and in their own time. When Glenn was asked if Bringing Aaron Rodgers back was a football decision he said: "When it comes to the team, it's always a football decision. There's no other decision to be made about that."

"This thing is not about Aaron Rodgers, folks. This is about the roster," Glenn told reporters after his news conference. "We plan on building the best roster that we can. So, whatever that may be -- guard, tackle, defensive tackle -- that's what we're evaluating. Listen, everybody's under the microscope. That's just what it is."

"Get used to winning. That's all I've been a part of my last couple of years and I don't want to do anything other than that. Winning is all I know." - Aaron Glenn

🟢 Brant Boyer was confirmed as the new special teams coach in San Francisco, joining Robert Saleh in the Bay. I liked Boyer but over the years it’s been feast of famine for his units. He’s had multiple top ten units and multiple units in the bottom third. After being here for so long, I think this makes sense for everyone. There is going to be an incredible amount of turnover in the coaching staff as there should be. I wish Brant all the best in San Francisco, but it was the right time to move on.

🟢 Speaking of coaches moving on, after Marquand Manuel joined the Giants last week, Jets CB coach Tony Oden joined Dennard Wilson’s defense down in Tennessee as their Passing game coordinator/cornerbacks coach. Oden was highly respected and the the Jets have had a fine cornerback room over the last few years, but again, with us hiring Glenn who was an All-Pro himself, I’m not overly concerned about losing Oden. Glenn wants to bring in his own guys.

🟢 Jeff Ulbrich was introduced as the new Falcons DC yesterday and he had some interesting quotes about his time in New York as interim Head Coach - "I learned ... the value of truth tellers on your staff ... There's certain things that need to be told to the head coach that are occurring because a lot of times what I found in that interim role, although it was interim, I felt the shift and the way people talked to me and treated me and what they said to me and the lack of truth sometimes was really detrimental."

🟢 He also looked back on his time and revealed that he regretted not handing over defensive play-calling. "There is an element of a failure for myself in that way because I didn't delegate it, I didn't. I just took it all on myself. In my mind's eye, I was trying to create continuity and I didn't want to fracture the staff... I thought the best thing for me to do at that point in time was just try to keep everybody in the same role that they had just so we could keep things rolling -- and it wasn't the right thing to do. "As I look back, I should have delegated, I should have given the defensive coordinator responsibilities to someone else and because it's just, in my opinion, it is too hard, especially when it's thrown on you in the middle of the season." This is a little bizarre to me, as this wasn’t a four game run as interim head coach. He had the opportunity to try it, see that it wasn’t working and then alter his approach. Instead he double-downed on a poor strategy and look what happened.

🟢 Quinnen Williams is going to the Pro Bowl as the first alternate to the AFC Roster to Replace Chiefs Super Bowl Participant Chris Jones. Williams is the first Jet to be named to three consecutive Pro Bowls since C Nick Mangold