Aaron Glenn defends Jets’ quiet trade deadline approach

The New York Jets, a 2-7 football team, just had one of the quieter NFL trade deadlines of any team in the NFL.

Their lone move was trading away Andre Cisco, who was demoted to the fourth safety role, to the Detroit Lions for a 2029 sixth-round pick.

Usually, a 2-7 team enters sell mode when you get to the deadline to try to get future capital to help retool in the offseason. The Jets didn't do that, and the reason given by Aaron Glenn is extremely difficult to defend.

Aaron Glenn says New York Jets 'on the cusp' of being better

Glenn said the Jets being "on the cusp" is the reason why they had a relatively quiet trade deadline. He's 5-21 through six games. He's said they've been on the cusp since their Week 2 loss to the Packers, when they blew a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter.

I understand that he's put in a tough spot talking to the media multiple times a week as his team continues to lose games, but it just gets to a point where it comes off as completely tone deaf.

If the Jets were hovering around four or five wins on the season, I could totally get that approach. Sure, it would be an uphill battle to be a playoff team even with the few extra wins, but maybe they would have a chance to prove that things are actually improving and going in the right direction. At 2-7, you lost that privilege.

How low is the bar that we're talking about this football team being close in five of their seven losses? Plus, Rich Cimini also brings up a good point that the Jets have played the 23rd-hardest schedule this season.

They got the worst version of the Packers. They played the Bears without Caleb Williams. Three of the Patriots' five offensive linemen got hurt during the game when they played in Week 6. They lost to the winless Dolphins on their home field. They lost to the Raiders, who have lost five of their last six games and entered on a four-game losing streak.

Eventually, you have to win some football games. Nobody wants to hear that you think the team is close when you're 2-7, with an improved roster, after a three-win season the year prior.

If the reports are true that the Jets turned down a sizeable offer on Will McDonald because the coach is trying to save his job over the final eight games, then we're in some real trouble. How a coach who is clearly a dead man walking can have this much pull is genuinely shocking.

Either way, this is a bad look for the Jets. What's going to be the spin from Glenn after they get their teeth kicked in by the Bills on Sunday? He certainly won't be able to play the "on the cusp" card after this game.

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