🔥 Aaron Glenn Hot Seat Meter Week 8: Glenn is running out of chances to save his Jets job

There's really not a whole lot to say at this point. But I'll try.

It's actually one of the perks of the job for New York Jets head coaches. A history of losing and embarrassing moments has set the bar so low that even the bare minimum would be fine.

All fans want at this point is to win the games the Jets are supposed to win. Beat the teams that were, at one time, as bad as the Jets. And give up New York's spot as the designated league punching bag, if only for a moment.

After this latest loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, coach Aaron Glenn has sufficiently failed to meet fans' pathetic hopes.

The Cleveland Browns, the Miami Dolphins, the Las Vegas Raiders, and the New York Jets

The NFL's perennial cupcakes.

Sure, each will have the occasional bright season or two, but for the most part, these four seem to constantly find themselves back at the bottom, jockeying for No. 1 overall picks.

By far the worst of the bunch, the Jets. And not just historically, but apparently still.

After opening up with a run of opponents tailor-made for Glenn, Mr. Goodell and his comrades extended a second olive branch by matching the Jets with all three of the other teams listed above.

Who could possibly want a better landscape for washing off the stink of league irrelevance and saving your job in the process?

Apparently, Glenn.

A failure to defend

Losing two games in a row is bad. Losing to bad teams is worse. Losing those games because of what should be your bread and butter? Fireable.

No analytics. No stats. No in-depth analysis. If you score thirty-three points in an NFL game and lose, your defense was the reason.

For the second week in a row, against opponents they should have beaten, the Jets' defense failed.

Had the team been undefeated prior, it'd be an anomaly. Had the unit led the league in interceptions coming in, it'd be surprising. Had the offense been god-awful all season, we'd give the defense a pass, blanketed in empathy.

As it is, none of those things have happened. The team is losing games, and we've all but run out of excuses for this defense and for Glenn.

If the losing doesn't do it, the fallout will

While the record, alone, may be reason enough to move on, it's the combination of secondary disappointments that has dug Glenn's grave.

The defensive struggles for a defensive coach, the postgame apathy, and the team's disastrous ability to finish (halves, drives, games) all add insult to injury.

The only question now is whether Glenn makes it through the season, or if the Johnsons will pull the plug with games still left. Given their love for him personally, I'd imagine they'd let him ride off into the offseason sunset admirably, even though the decision has likely already been made.

If that weren't enough, the Jets' current potential for an all-time draft pick situation certainly doesn't create any urgency to win now. Barring some sort of viral humiliation between now and then, I'd anticipate an end-of-season breakup.

One last hope

Almost eerily, and as it has all season, the Jets' schedule appears to have been curated specifically for Glenn and tailored to the situation he finds himself in now.

I don't know if it's proof that the NFL really is scripted and that the Jets are the most predictable team in history, or if Glenn made some kind of soul-related deal this offseason, but it appears the universe has gifted him one last Hail Mary.

Starting with this Sunday's trip to Kansas City and the Jets' matchup with the league darling, the Chiefs, the remaining schedule is a gauntlet of top dogs.

Two matchups with the team favored to represent the AFC in this year's Super Bowl in the Buffalo Bills, a head-to-head with the team that played in the AFC title game last year, in the Denver Broncos, and a penultimate game against the team and man Glenn want to be, in the Cinderella Minnesota Vikings and their defensive mastermind, Brian Flores.

If there is a multiverse in which Glenn can retain his employment, this is the baptism.

If he were to somehow become a different coach overnight and transform this Jets team into one capable of beating these particular giants, not only would he rightfully earn another year, but it would go down as one of the greatest turnaround stories in sports history.

I'm talking about a Damson Idris/Peter Berg biopic kind of cinema.

Realistically, a spanking in Arrowhead followed by a swan song drubbing at home courtesy of the Bills will make sure Glenn never makes the team plane to L.A.

Current Heat: 9.5 (and holding) 🏳️

Add us as a preferred source on Google

Follow