Jets have hit rock bottom and Aaron Glenn might go down with them

Somehow, someway, the New York Jets have managed to dig deeper than rock bottom. The scoreboard in MetLife Stadium, 37-22, barely captures the scale of this embarrassment.

What unfolded against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 5 was football at its most lifeless, a full-system meltdown that defied logic, effort, and explanation. The Jets are disintegrating before our very eyes with every passing week, and Aaron Glenn is becoming the lightning rod.

Glenn was hired to restore order and respectability to the franchise. Five games in, his team looks unrecognizable, a lifeless shell of what it was supposed to be. There is no discipline. There is no energy.

There is no hope.

At 0-5, the Jets are spiraling toward something darker than another lost season. This is organizational freefall — a historic unraveling that threatens to take Glenn down with it.

Another Jets humiliation has Aaron Glenn inexplicably on the hot seat

The idea that Glenn could be a one-and-done head coach seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Glenn was widely seen as one of the top head coach candidates on the market. He's a franchise legend who returned home to fix the broken culture of his former team.

The Jets believed Glenn’s presence alone could stabilize a fractured locker room and restore credibility to a team that had spent decades residing in the NFL's basement. Instead, everything he was brought in to repair has only deepened.

The discipline he preached has vanished. The defense he built his reputation on is a mess. The fight and identity that made him such an appealing hire have evaporated under the weight of weekly humiliation.

What was supposed to be a homecoming revival is veering toward a nightmare, and if something doesn’t change fast, Glenn’s tenure might end before it ever truly begins.

It shouldn't be this bad. Every statistic and analytic paints the picture of a Jets team that should at least be competitive in every football game. The Jets entered Week 5 in the top seven in both offensive and defensive success rate. They've forced the second-most three-and-outs of any team in the NFL.

And yet, when you watch the actual games, it feels like a cruel illusion. There’s no rhythm, no urgency, no belief. What should be a gritty, competitive football team has turned into a recurring nightmare.

The Jets are the first team in NFL history to start a season 0-5 with zero takeaways. Glenn is the first coach in Jets history to begin his career with an 0-5 record.

It's still difficult to envision a scenario in which Glenn is fired after just one season with the Jets, but we're approaching a point where the conversation can’t be avoided anymore, where the idea of moving on after one disastrous year starts to feel less reactionary and more inevitable.

How did we reach this point? How can a coach with a reputation for discipline watch his team unravel so publicly? How does preparation fail so completely, and how does effort disappear in plain sight? How did optimism turn into disbelief, and belief into resignation?

At what point does patience become complicity in historical incompetence? Those are questions the Jets will have to answer sooner than anyone could have anticipated.

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