Aaron Glenn is already starting to remind people of a different ex-Lions HC

Aaron Glenn was supposed to bring a spark to the New York Jets — the kind of energy Dan Campbell brought to Detroit. Instead, just seven games into his tenure, he’s starting to remind people of a very different former Detroit Lions head coach.

The Jets are 0-7, and if they lose again this weekend to the Cincinnati Bengals, they will be winless heading into the month of November. Glenn has grown increasingly combative with the media, firing back at reporters and using postgame pressers to defend his own decisions rather than inspire confidence.

And the truth is, he doesn’t have a single result to justify it. The Jets have the worst record in football. His attitude, once brushed off as fiery and competitive, is only accelerating how quickly the fan base and media are turning on him.

Glenn continues to point to Campbell’s Lions as a blueprint and a shield. But instead of giving off Campbell’s vibes of defiant optimism, he’s showing shades of Matt Patricia — prickly, defensive, and losing. And people are starting to notice.

Some Jets fans are scared Aaron Glenn might be turning into Matt Patricia

SNY's Connor Hughes likened Glenn to Patricia after a tense back-and-forth between the first-year head coach and reporters on Friday regarding the team's quarterback plans for Week 8.

Glenn refused to give a straight answer on who will start at quarterback Sunday, instead taking repeated shots at reporters and recycling the same vague response.

In Glenn's defense, he was asked different variations of what was essentially the same question, but his combative tone didn’t land well with those in the room. NFL analyst Marcus Mosher summed it up bluntly: “Being a jerk and being bad isn’t a good look."

Therein lies the issue with Glenn's approach. Plenty of NFL head coaches have been combative and dismissive with the media over the years, but it's difficult to justify that hostility when your team hasn't won a game yet.

Winning heals all wounds, and until Glenn and the Jets start to win football games, they will continue to be the subject of well-deserved media scrutiny. The truculent approach doesn't work if you're the worst team in the NFL — it just comes across as defensive.

That’s exactly why Matt Patricia’s tenure in Detroit unraveled. Patricia brought the same abrasive, condescending tone to press conferences and the locker room, but without wins to back it up, that approach only alienated the media and his players.

The perception shifted from “tough coach” to “in over his head” fast. Glenn is starting to tread that same dangerous line, and without a quick turnaround, the narrative could harden just as it did with Patricia.

Glenn can talk a big game and make all the Lions comparisons he wants, but if the results on the field don't change quickly, he risks becoming the next Matt Patricia instead of the next Dan Campbell.