Could Jets' Aaron Glenn be one-and-done as head coach?
The last time the New York Jets started their season 0-5 was 2020, when they ended up 2-14 and selected No. 2 overall in the following year's draft.
They wound up firing head coach Adam Gase at season's end.
Now, New York is headed down the same path, with a historically awful start and murky future at best. Could Aaron Glenn suffer the same fate as Gase did half a decade ago?
Could Aaron Glenn be fired if the Jets don't turn their season around?
The Draft Network's Justin Melo recently wrote a piece breaking down each first-year head coach's start to the 2025 season, and he did give some credit to Glenn amid a brutal skid.
"Aaron Glenn's New York Jets are the league's lone winless team through five weeks. The Jets are rebuilding after moving on from veterans like Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams. They've been occasionally competitive, losing one-score games to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Steelers," wrote Melo.
"They've also been awful in various categories, with the worst turnover differential (-8) in the NFL, and committing 42 total penalties, third-most in the league. They're playing hard for Glenn, and this is a patient rebuild with obvious growing pains."
It seems for now, Glenn and company will return for a second season in New York, barring a complete bottoming out in the coming months. But if the Jets keep getting blown out and look disinterested in the process, the calls for a firing will only grow louder.
The 2025 Jets are the first team in NFL history to lose their first five games without forcing a single turnover, and if they keep racking up embarrassing records, then Glenn may follow in the footsteps of Lou Holtz and Pete Carroll as the only Jets coaches to be dismissed after one season.
Jalen McMillan Not Expected Back Soon
This is Exhibit-37,945 why worthless preseason games must be abolished.
Back when the Bucs traveled to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers in August for a worthwhile scrimmage and a worthless preseason game, Jalen McMillan went up for a pass and was undercut by a piece of Steelers camp meat trying to make the team (classic camp meat move, trying to make a splash play).
Daryl Porter accomplished his mission and he’s now on the Steelers practice squad. Meanwhile, a key cog of the Bucs offense, McMillan, still wears a neck brace.
That’s the word from Bucs coach Todd Bowles and it sure doesn’t sound like McMillan will suit up for the Bucs any time soon.
Bowles, after practice today, was asked about McMillan. It wasn’t a comforting answer.
“I don’t know when he will return to practice, but he is getting better,” Bowles said. “He is still in a neck brace and that is about the only update right now.
“He is getting better. I cannot give you a timetable on it and I will see once he starts to do more.”
Then, when Bowles was asked if McMillan would return this season, Bowles was anything but encouraging.
“I hope so, yes,” Bowles said.
#Gulp.
McMillan suffered what was deemed a “strained neck” at the time of the injury. He was undercut and flipped over by Porter and landed on his head.
And because some UDFA defensive back went headhunting, the Bucs lost a key receiver for months, maybe the season.
So tell Joe again how valuable these wretched, worthless preseason games are.
