There was loads of pleasure over the Jets’ rent for head coach, together with from one one who had beforehand been crucial of a Jets coordinator.
Broncos head coach Sean Payton congratulated Aaron Glenn on social media after the announcement that the Lions defensive coordinator had gotten the vacant Jets gig.
“Congratulations, AG! A lot Deserved,” he wrote Wednesday on X.
Glenn was Payton’s defensive backs coach with the Saints from 2016-20.
Payton had famously taken pictures at Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett after he took over the top teaching job in Denver — a task Hackett had been fired from — in 2023 whereas additionally taking a jab on the Jets as an entire.
Payton known as the job that Hackett did with the Broncos “one of many worst teaching jobs within the historical past of the NFL” and had stated throughout an interview with USA Right now that with “all the things I heard about final season, we’re doing the other.”
In different feedback that Payton made within the interview, he additionally appeared to take purpose on the Jets for his or her inclusion on “Onerous Knocks” that summer season.
“We’re not doing any of that. The Jets did that this 12 months,” he stated. “You watch. ‘Onerous Knocks,’ all of it. I can see it coming. Bear in mind when [former Washington owner] Dan Snyder put that Dream Workforce collectively? I used to be on the Giants [in 2000]. I used to be a younger coach. I assumed, ‘How are we going to compete with them? Deion [Sanders is] there now.’ That workforce received eight video games or no matter. So, pay attention … simply put the work in.”
The remark irked some Jets gamers, however then-head coach Robert Saleh averted commenting on the difficulty.
The Jets introduced on Wednesday that they’d employed Glenn, who had performed for the workforce for eight seasons, making him the group’s nineteenth full-time head coach.
The rent has been praised by numerous former members of the group, together with former security Victor Inexperienced and receiver Keyshawn Johnson.
“Turnaround, man,” Inexperienced stated. “I actually assume ‘A.G.’ is the man to show this factor round. I do know that head coach is in him now. He’s there. He has it.”
