Diante Lee
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I think you're giving me an optimistic case that I can buy, right?
And I think that if you're laying this out, if you're really analyzing it, you would say, all right, Darren Moogie, Aaron Glenn hire together, right?
Your timelines are linked.
So if you're giving your GM a long road, you're going to give your head coach a long road in theory, right?
Maybe, yeah, maybe.
In theory, right?
That's very much a theoretical thing.
They might disagree for sure.
I think you look at the way that they traded away their most impactful defensive players in Quentin Williams and Sauce Gardner midseason.
That would also suggest that everybody is aware that 2026 is about as low stakes a season as there could be for any franchise in the NFL.
So you understand that as well.
I think the thing that's just been most concerning to me is kind of what we keep coming back to, which is, does this guy who is making decisions in Aaron Glenn know what he is doing?
Does he have a clear idea of how he wants to build the infrastructure of his staff, how they practice, how they play, how they game plan, how they want to approach decision making in certain ways?
And I would say outside of how well they played on special teams, I don't think there was ever a single Sunday when I was going through power rankings and I had the Jets on TV
I felt like, oh, okay, this game let me know what an Aaron Glenn coach team is supposed to look like.
I don't think we ever really left a week of football feeling that way about this team on either side of the ball.
And you just never want to be in a position in your second year as a head coach where you're turning over both your coordinators, right?
That is the telltale sign that somebody does not have a firm grasp on what they're trying to do.
We saw this in Tennessee with Brian Callahan, right?
With all the changeover-