Jets players love Aaron Glenn and it's getting impossible to deny it

New York Jets cornerback Jarvis Brownlee made one thing very clear with a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this week. This Jets locker room loves Aaron Glenn.

Brownlee quote-tweeted a video of Glenn firing up his players during Sunday's 27-24 win over the Atlanta Falcons and added a caption of his own, calling Glenn the "best head coach in America."

Brownlee has only been with the Jets for a couple of months. He arrived from Tennessee in a midseason trade, almost immediately earned a starting job, and quickly displaced a long-tenured veteran in Michael Carter II.

He’s been in Florham Park for a little over two months, yet he sounds like someone who’s been with Glenn for years. One tweet doesn’t define a head coach, of course, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the reality that Glenn has won over his players.

The Jets have completely bought into Glenn. They’re 3-2 in their last five games after an 0-7 start, competitive every week, and playing harder than a 3-9 roster has any right to. Glenn has this team fighting, and players are not shy about letting the world know exactly how they feel about him.

Jarvis Brownlee provides further evidence that Aaron Glenn has won over the Jets locker room

The Jets’ record is ugly, but their effort in recent weeks has been undeniable. They’ve been in seven straight one-score games entering the fourth quarter. All three wins required fourth-quarter comebacks. They’ve trailed in each of their wins.

And despite trading two All-Pros in Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams and losing Garrett Wilson for much of the second half of the season, the team looks sharper and arguably tougher than it did in September.

Glenn keeps using the word grit to describe his roster, and it showed again in the 27-24 win over Atlanta, a game in which the Jets closed with 10 points in the final two minutes.

Even Glenn’s own growth is showing, as his earlier-season game-management hiccups have been replaced by cleaner late-game execution. He has the sideline and the locker room responding to him.

Brownlee’s tweet is just the latest example of how trusted Glenn has become internally. The vibes in this locker room remain strong despite the record, and players consistently reference how Glenn communicates and keeps them motivated week to week.

It isn’t just current Jets players who feel this way, either. After the Falcons game, Glenn, who was mic’d up, shared a really cool moment with Atlanta defensive tackle David Onyemata, a player he crossed paths with during his Saints days.

Onyemata sought Glenn out, got emotional, and told him: “You changed my life… I appreciate you for that," in a moment that was caught on camera. Remember, Glenn wasn’t even his position coach. He was the Saints' defensive backs coach from 2016 to 2020.

But that's just who Glenn is. He's a former player who understands how to reach people, who earns trust quickly, and who makes players better simply by investing in them.

No one knows whether Glenn will ultimately succeed in New York. A lot of that depends on whether the Jets can finally solve their longstanding quarterback problem (easier said than done). But what he has done is build a foundation based on connection, respect, accountability, and buy-in.

And when players are publicly calling him “the best head coach in America"? Yeah man, it’s getting impossible to deny what’s happening inside that locker room. Glenn has won over his players.