I guess we'll just keep hiring and firing DCs and OCs after each year until we field a unit on either side of the ball that actually finishes outside of the bottom quarter of the league.
I think maybe Glenn will get one more year or two max - that is, he has the opportunity to show improvement in Year 2. if this is the same situation next year, then I fully expect him to be gone. I wasn't a fan this year to be honest. I thought the situation was too big for him. The operation didn't appear to be tightly run. But he's not gone. No sense in complaining about it now. Time enough to complain about it if we suck next year as well.
I think the scuttlebutt around the league is that Glenn's seat is waay hotter than the organization is letting on. Nobody wants to pack up his family and move here with the knowledge that in 1 years' time, they'll be moving again. If Glenn doesn't win in '26, he won't be HC in '27 and looking at the list of opponents for '26, 3 wins will be about right and 5 wins will require divine intervention. Would anyone established where they are want to take this big a gamble? Maybe if Woody backs up the Brinks truck but that's an overpay. I fear that's what its gonna take for Glenn to fill out his staff with qualified people.
(Wrote a response without actually reading yours, so let me correct myself). Advice... sure. Glenn should rely on Mougey to advise him and give him feedback and evaluations, but at the end of the day, every hiring and firing decision on the coaching staff is owned and executed by AG and AG alone. This business of GMs and owners hiring coordinators directly? I think it's just stupid. You can't hold the HC accountable for coaching, without giving him or her the freedom to assemble their staff. Plus you have this one co-ordinator who may not be as close to the HC as the others, the outside guy knows he wasn't hired by the HC but by the GM, there is a possibility that the GM wants to replace the HC with this other guy, tensions in the building... I think it's just a really bad idea. I liked it when the Patsies did it last year with Josh McDaniels because I thought it would implode. Maybe that one worked. But in general, I think it's horrible. The Browns seem to be doing this all the time, and ... yeah, that's more likely the outcome.
Woody re-opened that door by allowing him to essentially fire his entire coaching staff, including both coordinators. When that happens, the HC should be gone as well. First, because it shows that he is incapable of hiring a decent staff. And, secondly, he won't get any better at it this time around because the good candidates for any of these jobs, much less the coordinator ones, are going to be joining staffs of the new HCs that are being hired.
Not necessarily incapable, just didn't do it this time. He may do it the next time. The best and most famous coaches in history have all sometimes hired bad co-ordinators and then fired them. It happens. If we haven't fired AG after this year, he deserves the ability to fix his mistakes. The alternative is you force the HC to go down with the initial decisions he made, without the ability to correct them himself. I think that's worse.
This is definitely worth a listen, interview with the reporter that broke the story. Too much to summarize, eye opening listen. These coaches were fired yesterday, there is some real shit happening at 1JD https://www.youtube.com/live/ZI39pNKZalE?si=96g5eGAzWryzm8Wp
Generally, I would agree. But his hires have been so bad that he's had to fire one coordinator before the season was over because that unit was historically bad and then has essentially fired the other coordinator after the season. On top of that, he's essentially fired the bulk of the coaching staff. That's too much in the way of corrections that need to be made. It would be one thing if he'd hired a mostly decent staff but missed on a guy or two here and there. But to whiff on both coordinators and have to fire most of the rest of the staff, that's not something that's acceptable. He's not going to be able to fill those jobs with quality candidates because they're not going to come here with much better options available. We've already been turned down for multiple coordinator interviews.
I think there are a ton of really smart and experienced co-ordinators and assistants around the league. Just think of all the people who have been fired as head coaches. They got the job initially because they were good at what they did. And to be honest, that's where a lot of contacts comes into the picture. AG should be able to rely on his contacts to come and join him, and maybe reach out through other older coaches with whom he is connected like Dan Campbell or Sean Payton (who hired him as DB coach in 2016).
Same Ol' Jets doing SOJ things - and they wonder why they haven't made the playoff since the first Avatar movie was topping the charts.
I mean, the logic is very flawed. Today top candidates are not picking the Jets when they kept Glenn. So we kept Glenn and are fucked from that perspective. that fact is established. He then draws a conclusion from that, which is that we would also be fucked if we fired him too. Why? That just doesn't make any sense. If you are fucked now, and can go back in time and make a different critical decision, maybe it will cause you to be LESS fucked? I mean you are fucked now anyway, why are you assuming you would also be fucked just as bad if we fired him? There is no logic there at all, you can't make that connection. Keeping Glenn proved right these who were saying people would not want to come here, because it's not a great situation working for a lame duck coach, who will likely be gone in a year, causing them to also potentially be gone. That does not mean that firing him and getting another HC, who has more chance to stick around for more than a year, will yield the same exact outcome.
