Aaron Glenn's AFC East record hits an all-time low after listless Dolphins loss

Sunday afternoon gave New York Jets coach Aaron Glenn an opportunity to end one of the bleakest droughts in franchise history, and he unsurprisingly wasted it. 

Glenn entered winless in seven tries against AFC East opponents dating back to last season. Call us crazy, but you’d think a home game against the winless Dolphins — and being at least four-point favorites in most sportsbooks — would be the perfect recipe for success. 

But these are the Jets we’re talking about here. Glenn’s poor clock management and another disappointing defensive outing contributed to the latest loss, dropping his overall record to 5-19. Whoever remains among his supporters is running out of excuses, assuming they even have any left. 

“Listen, I know what the record is, I do, but I also know what I feel about these players and how they play,” Glenn told reporters. “I know that we’re not where we need to be. But I totally believe that we’re on the right track.”

Aaron Glenn’s New York Jets tenure is only getting worse

Just to put things in perspective, the Johnson family has hired eight coaches since arriving in 2000. Nearly all of the first seven, as well as 2024 interim coach Jeff Ulbrich, had no problem winning their first AFC East game relatively quickly:

In all seriousness, how can someone look at that table and think Glenn deserves a third season? We’ve all seen some terrible Jets seasons — the 2012 and 2020 teams both come to mind, partly because of the preseason expectations — over the past 26 years, yet all except Saleh won an AFC East game in their first campaign. 

We don’t know who the best replacement would be, other than that we want to see them hire an offense-oriented coach for only the second time this century. Gase remains the exception, and his disastrous tenure shouldn’t scare the Jets from finding someone with offensive coordinator experience. 

But who are we kidding? The Jets will almost certainly target someone’s defensive coordinator or a bounceback coach who has no business earning another head coaching job. We can’t wait for Johnson to try selling fans on Josh McDaniels or Anthony Lynn, the latter of whom coached for the Jets from 2009 to 2014. History will then repeat itself, and we’ll be having this exact same conversation in October 2028.

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