Aaron Glenn finds a new low in Jets' head coaching history with another AFC East loss

With each passing Sunday afternoon, Aaron Glenn might eventually make New York Jets fans yearn for the Adam Gase era. 

We know how blasphemous that sounds, but direct your incredulity and anger elsewhere. Sunday’s disappointing 26-19 loss to the Patriots dropped the Jets to 0-7 against AFC East teams over the last two years.

Neither Gase nor Robert Saleh had such little inter-division success in their first seven tries. Seriously. We’ve seen some disturbing Jets facts over the years, but this is right up there.

“I don’t think anybody feels good about being 2-4,” Glenn told reporters on Sunday afternoon. “But I do feel good about the effort that we played with. I do feel good about a number of things that we’re doing. There’s just some things that we have to get ready to fix.”

Right, yeah, the effort and feeling good. What happened to that whole idea that Glenn would turn the Jets back into a competent organization?

New York Jets cannot justify keeping Aaron Glenn after another AFC East loss

Arguing that Glenn is a bad coach solely off his 5-18 record is a lazy blanket statement, and those arguments often ignore the bigger picture. Jason Garrett won nearly 56% of his games in Dallas, and no one ever considered him a top-tier coach, partly because he wasted the Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott era. 

To put Glenn’s Jets tenure in perspective, do any of his five wins immediately stand out for reasons beyond the final score? When have they indisputably looked far better than their opponent? The only game that comes to mind is the Week 1 win over the Tennessee Titans, and that was a game the Jets should have won. So we’re talking about one game in 23 tries. 

Compare that to the Cleveland Browns, who are already 2-0 in AFC North play. Regardless of how Cleveland’s season ends, Todd Monken’s team has already defeated two 2025 playoff teams (Carolina and Pittsburgh) and recorded two other comeback wins. 

Mike LaFleur’s Arizona Cardinals just notched a remarkable last-minute road win over an injury-ravaged Los Angeles Rams team. Klint Kubiak’s Las Vegas Raiders started 3-0 with victories over the Los Angeles Chargers (before their season spiraled) and the New Orleans Saints. 

All of those teams have at least one divisional win. Even Saleh and the Titans just won an AFC South game! It took Saleh two intra-divisional games in Tennessee to do what Glenn hasn’t done in seven. 

Honestly, that might be the most damning indictment against Glenn. We could use whatever metrics or facts we want, but good luck finding something more telling.

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