The Jets are altering their organizational reporting construction with the hires of Aaron Glenn as coach and Darren Mougey as common supervisor.
Each males will report back to proprietor Woody Johnson.
Mougey could have management of the 53-man roster, however is not going to be Glenn’s boss.
The Jets have gone forwards and backwards during the last decade or so between a construction the place each males report back to Johnson and one the place the coach reviews to the GM.
Robert Saleh reported to Joe Douglas within the earlier regime.
“We’ve gone forwards and backwards,” Johnson stated. “They’ll each come discuss to me.”
It looks like Glenn has extra juice as a result of he was employed first. He was concerned in Mougey’s second interview final week. At one level Monday, Johnson referred to Mougey as Glenn’s “sidekick.”
Mougey stated he didn’t assume it was odd for the crew to rent the coach earlier than the GM.
“I believe you’ve really seen it occurring increasingly,” Mougey stated. “I don’t contemplate it like that. I believe they each [searches] had their processes. There was a number of dialogue all through the method with each events, too.”
Glenn was hesitant to debate any present Jets gamers, saying he desires to take time to guage all of them.
However he did have familiarity with cornerback Sauce Gardner after evaluating him through the 2022 draft course of because the Lions defensive coordinator.
Glenn, a Professional Bowl cornerback himself, stated he acknowledges Gardner’s expertise.
“He was a rattling good participant,” Glenn stated of the draft course of. “That’s why he’s made the Professional Bowl when he’s been right here. What he did final yr, we’re within the means of taking a look at that. If there’s points, we’ll repair that. The factor is he got here right here as a Professional Bowler. We anticipate him to go away as a Professional Bowler.”
Glenn was requested what he desires the id of the Jets offense to be.
“We’re going to be New York Jets,” Glenn stated. “As you see us play, you’ll be capable to see the id at that time. I at all times say household enterprise stays in home, so I’m not going to let that exterior this constructing. Our gamers are going to know what our id goes to be and also you’re going to search out out by the way in which we play.”
Jets DT Quinnen Williams was named to the Professional Bowl Video games as a alternative for Chiefs star Chris Jones.