In case it wasn’t already clear, the New York Jets have a new sheriff in town.
And this one has no problem ruffling the feathers of some of the all-time greats.
Head coach Aaron Glenn’s exploits this offseason have shown evidence of a coach who wants to keep everything in-house, including how he and the players on his roster communicate with each other.
So, when Aaron Rodgers told everyone earlier this week about his split with the Jets, it only enhanced Glenn’s true message.
Aaron Glenn’s Message Proven Right For Jets
Speaking on “The Pat McAfee Show” Thursday afternoon, Rodgers went out of his way to criticize the Jets as a franchise and spent most of his bashing on the Jets’ new coach.
“He said, ‘I don’t wanna be up in front of the room, saying something, and have guys looking back at you,'” Rodgers said of Glenn’s remarks. “And I said, ‘What does that even mean? Are you assuming that I would be in the back of the room during the team meeting, undermining what you’re saying?’ I said, ‘You don’t know me.’ And he said, ‘You don’t know me.’
“And then I said, ‘Exactly. Which is why I flew across the country to have a face-to-face meeting with you, to talk about my experience with the Jets and to hear your vision for the team.’ … What I thought was gonna be a couple-hour meeting turned into like a 15-minute meeting, and I walked out of there … I don’t want any part of that. It was already a debacle.”
Rodgers may think his meeting with Glenn was a debacle, but it was anything but for the franchise. It only didn’t look good for him.
Glenn’s message has been clear. He came into Florham Park with a goal to improve the organization’s culture and finally build a winner.
Rodgers only won six games in his two years with the team, while the organization won a combined 12 games during that span. It wasn’t a successful stretch, and it was clear that the four-time NFL MVP wasn’t the same caliber player.
So Glenn went in a different direction. He removed the distractions that could have come to the team with the future Hall-of-Famer on the roster and is building the team in his image.
Whether it works out or not is irrelevant. Whether the team’s decision to move on from Rodgers came from ownership first is also irrelevant.
The fact is that the Jets have a new sheriff in town. And he isn’t taking the old ways of doing things as gospel. New York may be all the better off because of that.
