Damien Robinson is quite possible the player I hated the most. Not because of what happened off the field but he was horrible, I mean awful! I remember we switched to the cover 2 and brought him in. We got to Oak in the PLayoffs and was supposed to be the Over the Top cover for Aaron and he left guys alone in the endzone totally disregarding his assignments. I remember after one TD Aaron looked at Damien and Pointed to where he was supposed to be to help w/ the coverage. He was a total disgrace on the field.
I loved Aaron Glenn as a player and as a Jet but Herm and company were right on the call. Herm knew from his own experience as a CB that you didn't need a star back there to make an impact. He was an undrafted free agent himself and he was a part of a fine Eagles defensive backfield for a decade. The nearly 14 million cap hit that the Jets starting corners were going to have for 2002 was completely indefensible. Parcells frontloaded a bunch of contracts with bonus money to keep people happy and in the case of Glenn that prorated bonus hit just kept mounting. I, BTW, am not a huge detractor of Herm at all. I think he was a mixed value as head coach, with real motivational skills and poor technical ones. I'd have been happy if Herm stayed after 2005 as long as the architect of the Jets collapse - Terry Bradway - moved on. I was annoyed when Herm got the boot and Bradway stayed in the organization because I knew there were going to be negative ramifications if he had any influence.
Wrong. Herman was an idiot to breakup that Secondary and jets paid the price for Herman's idiocy for years thereafter as our defense got picked apart with his foolish and indefensible prevent defense / bend don't break philosphy. Letting Glenn go was just one of a number of errors that Herm made as HC of the Jets. Bring Glenn back and keep Herm away in a studio with Matt Millen.
Disagree. No coach in his right mind lets both starting corners go in the same season. Couple that with letting Victor Green go too soon it was a disaster... and to bring in the likes of Robinson & D. Abraham was just awful...
You have to find the disaster in the stats though, and it's just not there. The Jets went from 9th fewest TD's allowed in the air in 2000 to 4th fewest in 2001 to 5th fewest in 2002 to 4th fewest in 2003 to 15th fewest in 2004. They lost in the playoffs in 2004 not because the defense could not stop the pass, quite the contrary - the Steelers passing game was inept all day against them when they were eliminated. The reason the Jets lost to the Steelers, aside from Chad's inability to make a play under pressure, was that they couldn't stop the Steelers ground game. The defense was stingy in the air in terms of scores allowed before they gave away Glenn and stingy in the air afterwards. The key player on pass defense for the Jets was not Aaron Glenn, it was John Abraham.
We got rid of him to early, remember, we traded him and Coleman to trim the cap. Another Bradway/ Herm blunder. He was a good one
