Will the Jets Head Coach Make It Past This Season After an 0-7 Start?
The New York Jets are off to their worst start in half a decade. Their 0-7 start is the longest winless streak to start a season since their disastrous 2020 campaign that saw them finish 2-14. The team came into the season with low expectations after hiring both a new head coach and general manager. Many fans were just rooting for a watchable product, some sort of foundation to build the culture and develop any young players on the roster. What they’ve gotten has been nothing short of a catastrophe through the first seven games.
The issue isn’t just that the Jets are winless, it’s how they’re losing games. There seems to be something else going wrong every week, whether it be tackling ineptitude, poor quarterback play, poor playcalling, bad execution, or all of the above. While the defense has seemed to have improved a bit over the last couple of weeks, the offense has completely fallen of a cliff. They have zero touchdowns in their last two games, and the murmurs of a Breece Hall trade are getting ever louder. Justin Fields was benched in the second half of Week Seven, and he might not be coming back. The entire team has just been unwatchable, and a majority of the blame falls in the lap of the head coach Aaron Glenn.
Glenn’s decision making has been near inexcusable. Whether it be the disasterous drives before the half the last two weeks, the call to keep Fields in the game during the last game and a half, or the seemingly random fourth down attempts throughout games, it just seems that the coaching staff has zero feel for the game. The issue that this creates is the longer this slide continues, the more likely it is for Glenn to lose the locker room. He made the change at quarterback to help prevent this, but only time will tell if it’s too late.
Is it reasonable to even believe that the Jets would move on from Glenn so quickly, though? Assuming they don’t get it together in the coming weeks, the team is on the fast track to the number one pick in the 2026 draft, a pick that would most likely be a quarterback. The last four quarterbacks taken first overall have had their coaches fired before their second year. This stunts the development of the player, as they now not only have to adjust to NFL speed, but they also have to learn two playbooks in two years. After such a disastrous showing in his first year, how much faith would Woody Johnson have that it would improve that much in year two? The true issue lies in the money. Aaron Glenn was given a long-term contract, and Woody is still paying Robert Saleh for his contract. At the end of the day, it will most likely come down to whether or not Woody Johnson wants to bite the bullet and pay two coaches not to coach, or whether he decides to stick it out and pray that the team improves. Only time will tell what will happen, but with every loss, Glenn going one-and-done becomes a more believable reality.
