Yes, I am "effing" serious. Outside of Jets fans Glenn is mostly remembered for being burned by Marino's fake spike.
Aaron Glenn,Marcus Coleman & Ryan Young. I remember it quite well. Aaron Glenn was my favorite Jet player growing up..that expansion draft when he left was on my 20th birthday. Definitely ruined my day.
I liked Aaron but I think he was always overrated, he was good almost from day 1 but he always got killed by the top WRs. Good player, most jet fans think he was great.
Ryan Young was shipped along w/ Glenn and Coleman. We had no choice b/c BP left us in cap hell and the only place we downgraded was Glenn to Beasley but we still wound up having a better team in 2002 and winning only our 2nd AFC East title so we hated to lse Glenn but it was for the best.
My favorite Glenn memory was his 103 yard Field Goal return for a TD to end the first half against the Colts in Indy one year. He was not over rated. He was a good player. Marcus Coleman was mentioned in this thread earlier. Remember when Parcells nicknamed him "The Wizard"? due to his slow learning of the defense? Haha, that was funny. What a great prick Parcells is.
That was a great play but unfortunately we lost that game to to 3-13 Colts, it would be our last loss until the title game in denver. He was overrated, if he's thought of as a good player he wasn't but to most Jet fans he was great and he was never a great player.
He was a game changer when he dropped kick offs! Which was weird bc he was the top kick returner in the nation coming out.
It did end up working out and I wonder how much a chance we would have had against Gannon and the Raiders in 02 if Glenn was on the roster. Our CB's were decent in 02 but they weren't exactly elite. Parcells gets a lot of credit for building the team but many of the moves he made ended up hurting us down the road. That being said our FO made some questionable moves at times after he left but I'm not going champ style either and saying we've been failures either. The fact that outside a few years we've been pretty competitive since Parcells left says we've had some pretty good people running things as some teams would have gone right in the crapper with the issues we had ie; Oakland, Tampa and SF when they had their cap issues. Glenn was very good but he wasn't elite, he was never shutdown and teams didn't have to gameplan around him. He was fast, athletic , had big play capability and was a pro bowler but I look at him as a much shorter version of Cromartie, a very good CB but not among the best in the game.
I was always a big Glenn fan but when he signed a one day contract to retire a Texan, it really stung.
He was very good but not great. He did get burned by very good receivers and had horrible hands, dropping many potential interceptions. Case in point - Joey Galloway ate him for lunch in the game vs Seattle in 98 when Testaverde was awarded a TD on the last play but the ball never crossed the goal line. That game led to instant replay being reinstated by the NFL.
He was a pro bowl level corner who had streaks of dominance but never consistently. Joey Galloway & Issac Bruce were the 2 guys that really gave him problems.
he was the second best CB in franchise history and, were it not for the WORST grocery shopper's total destruction of the salary cap requiring him to be unloaded to the Texans, he would have retired as a Jet to the Ring of Honor. Another reason why the Quitter was a great coach and a completely awful GM
Thanks for deciding my age for me. I watched him change several games with my own eyes--especially his first couple of years with Houston.
You're thinking of the Nov 2001 game in Miami. The Jets won 24-0 - their only shutout of the Dolphins in team history - it was the first time Miami was shutout at home since 1970. The Jets intercepted four passes that day and ran two back for TDs. Glenn in the first quarter and then Victor Green in the third quarter. A nice day.....
