NFL insider eviscerates coaching staff while ringing 'Same old Jets' alarm

New York Jets fans are tired. They're burned out. The Gang Green faithful are trapped in a nightmare version of Groundhog Day. The phrase, "the more things change, the more they stay the same," couldn't ring more true for those who have been following the team for the last 15 years.

Undisciplined football. Zero accountability. An utter failure to get a big defensive stop with the game on the line. Routinely getting outcoached, with no feel for how to make an adjustment. These have been hallmarks of the Jets' experience.

From the end of the Rex Ryan era to Todd Bowles, Adam Gase, and Robert Saleh, this has all rang true. It might be time to add Aaron Glenn to the list now, too. From the looks of it, one NFL insider is ready to, and maybe you should be too.

Connor Hughes rips Jets coaching staff after another embarrassing defeat

SNY's Connor Hughes is ready to ring the alarm. Speaking after Monday night's 27-21 defeat at the hands of the floundering Miami Dolphins, Hughes proclaimed that the Jets have an identity. That identity is "undisciplined, ill-prepared, and poorly coached." Translation: "Same old Jets."

Aaron Glenn may insist it's not the case, but until proven otherwise, the morbid mantra rings true. These Jets are, in fact, the same.

This is a team that lost a heartbreaking shootout in Week 1, only to come out completely flat with a matchup the following week against a division rival, a 30-10 dismantling at the hands of the Buffalo Bills. One of the biggest storylines of that game was the team's complete non-answer to Buffalo's incessant run-blitzes. Where have we seen that sort of lack of adjustments before?

Moving on, Week 3 featured one of the most thrilling plays in recent Jets' memory. With the game virtually over, Will McDonald lept over the line to block a Tampa Bay field goal attempt before scooping the ball for an improbable 50-yard touchdown, giving the Jets an unexpected 27-26 lead with 1:49 left in the fourth quarter.

Steve Wilks' much-maligned defense couldn't come up with a stop, and the Jets would fall 29-27. Seemingly, every team in the league would have rallied after a dramatic turning of the tide that McDonald's brilliant play provided. Not the Jets. They folded like a house of cards. Again.

Miami was supposed to be the get-right game. If there was any team spiraling harder than the Jets to begin the season, it was the Dolphins. Playing in primetime on Monday Night against this particular division rival is supposed to mean something.

25 years ago, these two teams met in the Meadowlands on Monday Night Football with the Jets securing one of the most thrilling and improbable victories in team history this side of Super Bowl III.

Ah, different times. Instead of coming out and putting their foot on the throat of a struggling arch rival, the Jets fumbled, literally and figuratively.

Their opening drive looked to be the stuff Tanner Engstrand's dreams are made of, with Breece Hall, supported by Braelon Allen and Justin Fields, slicing and dicing his way down the field in the best the Jets' rushing attack has looked all season.

Then, from the Miami six-yard line, Braelon Allen carried the ball up the middle and made a dive for the endzone, fumbling the ball, which was recovered by Miami to ensure the Jets came up empty.

From there, Fields did his best to avoid throwing the ball downfield, looking terrified to turn the ball over again. The Jets would fumble twice more anyway, and lost all three fumbles in the game.

Adding insult to injury, they committed 13 penalties, giving up 101 yards in the process. So far in 2025, the Jets have committed 32 penalties, 10th most in the league, and have lost 291 yards as a result, fourth most in the NFL.

Breece Hall said it best after Monday's embarrassment. Other teams shoot themselves in the foot, but the Jets, well, they shoot themselves in the head.

Meanwhile, Aaron Glenn has promised accountability, something that has been missing from the previous four regimes, but responses like this from Sauce Gardner demonstrate anything but.

Cutting a punt returner in Xavier Gipson (even if it was weeks too late), but cutting players alone doesn't build accountability. If that were true, Glenn would simply cut the entire roster. Problem solved.

Accountability is building a culture where the players hold themselves and each other to a standard, with or without the intervention of the coaching staff. We're not there yet. Who knows if we'll ever be.

There's still time. We're only a quarter of the way through the season. But put another way, we're already a quarter of the way through the season, and nothing has changed, not from Week 1 and not from 2011 when the wheels started coming off the Rex Ryan regime.

Therefore, time is running out for Aaron Glenn to start executing his vision. Steve Wilks needs to get his defense in order yesterday. And Tanner Engstrand needs to build some consistency and prove he can make successful adjustments based on what the opposition throws at him.

When and if that happens, the Jets and their fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Until then, well, they're the same old Jets.

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