Former Lions DC Facing Heat Due to Poor Play: 'Same Old Jets'
Former Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is finding life away from Motown quite difficult.
On Monday Night, in a primetime contest against the winless Miami Dolphins, the New York Jets were undisciplined and left Hard Rock Stadium with a record of 0-4 to start the 2025 NFL season.
Glenn's team had far too many turnovers and costly penalties that contributed to a 27-21 loss.
"When it comes to the game today, very disappointed," Glenn said, via Jets OnSI. "I'm very disappointed and there's no way you can win any game with 13 penalties and three turnovers. It just can't happen. But, what we have to do is go back to work. It's the only way we can fix it. Really take a look at these penalties. Take a look at these turnovers and make sure that we understand that before we can win games, we have to learn how not to lose games. We have to do a better job in that case and we will. We will. The only way to do that is to go back to work and that's what we have to do."
Currently, Glenn's squad is one of two team's the AFC that has yet to experience a victory early in the 2025 season. The other is the Tennessee Titans.
Sauce Gardner expressed his frustrations, noting that officials are making calls against his team because they are a losing franchise.
“I’m personally frustrated. I feel like me personally, us not winning. I watch football all the time and I just feel like, I don’t know if this is wrong to say, but I think I get called for more stuff just based off of us and just not winning," said Gardner. "I watch these winning programs, and it’d be some egregious things, and it don’t get called letting the players play.”
Glenn spent his first training camp with the Jets preaching discipline and playing a clean brand of football. Unfortunately, the Jets have been on the wrong side of the turnover tally.
"It just can't happen. What we have to do is go back to work, that's the only way we can fix it," Glenn said. "We have to understand before you can win games, you have to learn how not to lose games."
The Jets next face the Cowboys, who are looking to get back on track after only producing a tie against Packers in Week 4.
Here is a sample of the reaction to the Jets losing to the Dolphins on Monday Night Football.
Sturm’s Third-Line Experiment Fizzles in Preseason Shake-Up
The Boston Bruins' third line on Monday night against the Philadelphia Flyers made a ton of sense on paper. It featured Fraser Minten, who projects as the team's two-way center of the future, who brings defensive reliability and is still searching for his offensive upside. Minten's wingers should've been able to bring out that offensive upside, as Matej Blumel funnels shots at the net at a high volume, and Matt Poitras is the prototypical playmaker.
The line's experience should give fans and the coaching staff some caution about expecting the trio to be a line in the regular season. It'd be hard for them to comfortably play 82 games at the NHL level without expectations of some regression and nights where they struggle. However, in a season where there are few expectations for the Bruins, it could be the perfect year to feature this line and build it up as a potential third, and eventually second, line of the future.
Well, the line lasted only two periods. Poitras moved up to the second line with Casey Mittelstadt and Pavel Zacha, while Viktor Arvidsson moved down with Minten and Blumel. I don't disagree with that move either, as the concept of Arvidsson automatically getting a second-line spot didn't seem right. He brings a speed and tenacity that could fit alongside Minten and Blumel while also lending some veteran leadership.
Head coach Marco Sturm's comments post-game make me think that he really wants Monday night's third line to work. It's too late in the preseason for him to be throwing lines together just for the sake of doing it, and it feels like the coaching staff feels that this line could work on paper as well. The challenge will be for the trio to actually show it on the ice.
"“They practice so hard and so well the whole time, and I feel like in games, they think too much. So, I gotta get them out of that.”"Marco Sturm
It raises an interesting question. While everyone thinks that those three are vying for the final spots in camp, is there a chance that the trio will be Providence's first line to start the season? Considering the lack of expectations, an idea for the front office is to gel them as a line in the AHL and then recall them all to Boston at the same time at a later date. They wouldn't be the first team to implement that strategy.
