Aaron Glenn has been via a season like this earlier than.
Glenn is off to an 0-4 begin in his first season as Jets coach.
In 2021, when he was in his first 12 months because the Lions defensive coordinator below Dan Campbell, they obtained off to an 0-8 begin.
“Effectively, I might say this: It’s not enjoyable being 0-8,” Glenn mentioned this week. “Man, you get ridiculed, you get talked about. I imply, individuals are after you within the worst method, when as a coach, man you simply should consider and perceive the way you need to construct and the inspiration that you just’re making an attempt to set, that you just can not waver from these issues even when the skin noise is absolutely on you. [Campbell] did an impressive job of that, and the identical with the entire employees, as a result of all of us felt it.”
Glenn and the Jets are actually making an attempt to keep away from the fourth 0-5 begin in franchise historical past with a sport Sunday in opposition to the Cowboys (1-2-1), who’re having their very own points.
The Jets don’t simply have a nasty report.
They’ve seemed dangerous in three of the 4 video games.
Final week in Miami, that they had 13 penalties and three turnovers on the best way to a 27-21 loss.
Glenn sees similarities between these 2021 Lions and these Jets.
The Lions turned issues across the following season, going 9-8, then went to the NFC Championship sport in 2023.
“We simply knew in some unspecified time in the future it was going to interrupt via, and as soon as it broke via, man, we have been simply rolling,” Glenn mentioned. “Hear, I really feel the identical method about right here, and I perceive how the followers really feel, I do. I’m hurting identical to they’re. … However I do know this: I consider in the whole lot that we’re doing, and I do know that there’s going to be a breakthrough, and when it breaks via, this factor goes to pop precisely like all of us need it to.”
Glenn can be the primary coach in franchise historical past to start his time with the crew with 5 straight losses.
Coincidentally, Adam Gase began off 0-4 in 2019 and obtained his first win in Week 5 in opposition to the Cowboys.
Perhaps historical past repeats itself.
The Jets pointed to the positives this week as indicators they will flip this round.
“We’ve misplaced three video games by one rating,” quarterback Justin Fields mentioned. “So, I feel that’s a optimistic to take a look at and I feel if we clear up turnovers, penalties, that’s positively going to place us in a greater place to safe these wins as a substitute of claiming we’re shut and this and that. However simply specializing in us, not essentially our opponents, however fixing the whole lot that we are able to to place ourselves in the perfect place to win.”
