Aaron Glenn trying to avoid Jets infamy as he lives out Lions dj vu

Aaron Glenn has been through a season like this before.Glenn is off to an 0-4 start in his first season as Jets coach.In 2021, when he was in his first year as the Lions defensive coordinator under Dan Campbell, they got off to an 0-8 start.

Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.“Well, I would say this: It’s not fun being 0-8,” Glenn said this week.

“Man, you get ridiculed, you get talked about.I mean, people are after you in the worst way, when as a coach, man you just have to believe and understand how you want to build and the foundation that you’re trying to set, that you cannot waver from those things even when the outside noise is really on you.

[Campbell] did an outstanding job of that, and the same with the whole staff, because we all felt it.”Glenn and the Jets are now trying to avoid the fourth 0-5 start in franchise history with a game Sunday against the Cowboys (1-2-1), who are having their own issues.The Jets don’t just have a bad record.They have looked bad in three of the four games.

Last week in Miami, they had 13 penalties and three turnovers on the way to a 27-21 loss.Glenn sees similarities between those 2021 Lions and these Jets.The Lions turned things around the following season, going 9-8, then went to the NFC Championship game in 2023.“We just knew at some point it was going to break through, and once it broke through, man, we were just rolling,” Glenn said.

“Listen, I feel the same way about here, and I understand how the fans feel, I do.I’m hurting just like they are.

… But I do know this: I believe in everything that we’re doing, and I know that there’s going to be a breakthrough, and when it breaks through, this thing is going to pop exactly like we all want it to.”Glenn would be the first coach in franchise history to begin his time with the team with five straight losses.Coincidentally, Adam Gase started off 0-4 in 2019 a...