Social media erupts over ex-Lions DC Aaron Glenn’s team being the last remaining winless squad
The New York Jets are the last winless team standing through the first five weeks of the 2025 NFL season.
The previously winless squads, the Tennessee Titans and New Orleans Saints, got off the schneid in Week 5.
Aaron Glenn is the first first-time head coach in Jets history to start his career with a 0-5 record. Social media erupted in response.
ESPN radio host Jake Asman said, “The New York Jets are the only winless team in the NFL. Pathetic.”
Top Social Media Reactions to Jets’ Futility
“[They] can’t stop making history,” Barstool Sports joked on X previously Twitter.
KFC said, “[the] Jets played so bad everyone universally agreed 0-17 is a very real possibility and the consensus is this is the worst team in franchise history… and yet they didn’t have the worst game of the day for New York sports.”
“There are winnable games upcoming for the Jets, but they look like a poorly coached, poorly prepared team right now. Players don’t respond well after making a negative play, and it cascades into a collapse each and every week. Sunday’s loss to Dallas is a microcosm of all the major mistakes they have made in the first month,” beat reporter Nick Faria of Jets X-Factor said on social media.
“While there’s no feasible way that AG is on the hot seat in Year 1, the #Jets are in a spot we haven’t seen since the Kotite era. And it’s simply inexcusable with the talent they have on the roster,” Faria added.
Taking a Look at the Worst Seasons in Team History
The green and white have never gone winless during a season in franchise history.
However, their two worst seasons came in 1996 and 2020.
The Jets went 2-14 in Adam Gase’s final season with the team in 2020. Rich Kotite went 1-15 in his final campaign in 1996.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel…
No NFL team has ever overcome a 0-5 deficit to make the playoffs. The Jets are 0-5.
Fans may not like it, but it might be time to take a gander at the 2026 NFL draft order. According to Tankathon, the Jets would hold the No. 1 overall pick in the first round of next year’s draft.
We didn’t necessarily require Tankathon to reveal that information, considering the Jets are the only winless team remaining in football.
However, in a draft that is projected to have multiple quarterbacks go in the first round, this might be exactly what the doctor ordered.
There are plenty of reasons why the Jets haven’t won a game this season. If you look at the stats, you wouldn’t say quarterback is one of them.
Justin Fields hasn’t thrown an interception through the first five weeks of the season, but he has struggled.
He holds onto the ball forever, which leads to additional pressure. Fields is struggling to read the defenses in front of him, which is why he continues to hold onto the ball.
The Jets‘ offensive line allowed 32 pressures to the Cowboys (PFF). This included six sacks, 10 hits, & 16 hurries. The Cowboys hit Justin Fields 14x and sacked him 5 [times], per NFL GSIS. [Dallas] hadn’t had more than 25 pressures in any game this year,” NFL Insider Connor Hughes of SNY posted.
Former QB Blames Steelers for Lack of Development
Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Josh Dobbs had a bit of a strange adventure during his time in the Steel City, and looking back at it, he sees why development issues were a thing for him.
Dobbs is currently the backup quarterback in New England, working with the Patriots to help mentor Drake Maye. The veteran started his career in Pittsburgh but has since bounced around to numerous teams such as the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns, Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers.
Dobbs Development Issues in Pittsburgh
Speaking with Tyler Dunne of Go Long! Dobbs opened up about some of the tougher times in his career, pointing to when he was with the Steelers and they had no real plan for him.
"So, I've seen it both ways. I've shown up for work and I had no clue what I was being asked to do. And I've been in a place where you've had to come in as a quarterback and it's like 'Here's the game plan, here's a script.' You're figuring out your reads and your footwork and it's trial by error. There's no framework of what you're trying to get done as an offense. I've been there. I've done it. It's not enjoyable," Dobbs said.
"I want to know the why. I want to know why and how we're attacking them. You just want reasoning. As I said, I've seen the exact opposite of the coin."
That's not the case for Dobbs now, and may not have been the case for the other teams he played for outside of the Steelers. However, Dunne identified that Dobbs was talking about his time behind Ben Roethlisberger, where he was trying to learn from a veteran who may have been working at his own pace.
"As in, Pittsburgh," Dunne wrote. "When Dobbs backed up Ben Roethlisberger, he felt left astray. Lines got blurred. He had no clue what the timing, rhythm and spacing of plays were supposed to be. By then, Roethlisberger had already been through the ringer and was doing his own thing. Dobbs could learn from watching but also remembers asking himself all the time
Tougher Times in Pittsburgh's Offense
Dobbs was part of an offense that went through some hardships. Really, since then, they've continued to, with things getting worse for a moment under Matt Canada and now starting to see some light under Arthur Smith.
But at the time, Roethlisberger was working with a group of players he had established relationships with. There was little need to go by the book when Antonio Brown was catching passes from you. And so, Dobbs lacked in development.
Eventually, Dobbs found himself being traded and Mason Rudolph joined the team as the QB2. Today, Rudolph remains the Steelers backup to Aaron Rodgers, while Dobbs hopes he's on the right side of history on a growing Patriots team.
