Inside Woody Johnson's relationship with Aaron Glenn, Jets HC's hot seat status | JFD
On Jets Final Drive, The Athletic's Zack Rosenblatt shares information from his latest article, where he dives into the reality of Jets owner Woody Johnson's relationship with head coach Aaron Glenn, and the truth behind his job security going into the 2026 season.
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I think people have made a lot of assumptions about Woody Johnson and Aaron Glenn, their relationship, their future, based on things that have happened in the past, which I get to a degree.
Like, Robert Saleh fired in-season, the Jets have a terrible season last year, they're the kind of the laughing stock.
Aaron Glenn fires half his coaching staff.
Like, these are all very fair things to point out.
But I think, the thing that gets lost is that Aaron Glenn and Woody are a lot closer than people realize.
I think they have a really, really good relationship, and I do not think that Woody and Robert Saleh did.
And I, I don't think that's nothing.
No, they did not.
Yeah.
Like, and, and I don't think either of them liked each other, and Woody did not hire Robert Saleh, and Woody hired Aaron Glenn.
He made him the highest paid head coach in team history.
He's all, he was all in on him then, and I still think he wants him to succeed.
So, like sure, if, if the season's a complete disaster again, could I see him getting fired?
Absolutely.
But from everything I understand, like, there's not, like, a win total where there's, like, "If you don't hit this number, we're firing you."
It's all about, it's gonna be all about context.
Like, obviously he can't win three games again, but I think it's gonna be about the context of how competitive they are, how they look at the end of the year, how much better the defense is, how the offense looks under Frank Reich.
Like, there's a lot of factors that are gonna go into it.
Yeah.
But it's not gonna be like, "Oh, you only won X amount of games, you are fired."
Like, it, it, it's gonna be a lot more complex than that.
