The Jets Should NOT Fire Aaron Glenn During This Season

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Let's be very clear right off the top. Aaron Glenn is a horrible NFL head coach. He has taken a lifeless, bad football team and somehow made them much worse. Mediocrity is too kind a word for Glenn's performance thus far.

Aaron Glenn is horrific and wildly over his head in every portion of the job. This is exactly why he needs to remain head coach of the New York Jets this season.

There seems to be a divide among Jets fans online. It's time for every Jets to fully embrace what this team is.  Some of them seem to want this team to keep winning. These people need to accept reality. The Jets are giant dumpster fire with no chance of anything positive happening this season. They are literally the laughingstock of the entire NFL. The Saints? The Browns? The Titans? They giggle at us. "At least we aren't the Jets" they cackle to themselves as they wallow in the human feces that those franchises currently exist in. Guess what? They are right! It's better to be them than us. Our feces somehow has even worse consistency.

If you are a Jets fan and want the team to do well, you need to stop being a child. Accept reality. The only way forward is backwards. They need to lose as many games as possible and get the best possible draft pick. This team needs to be so awful that this idiotic ownership group can't fuck it up. The only way that can happen is if the draft picks are high and/or plentiful enough that they will walk into drafting great players. A blind squirrel can find an acorn now and then. It's even easier when there are many, many more acorns scattered on the lawn.

Which brings back to the beautiful mind that is Aaron Glenn. This report came out today which almost certainly was put out by the Jets to try to curb the fan base's need to fire this inept man.

SOURCE - Let’s get this out of the way: Glenn is not getting fired. Not this season, and not in the offseason either.

There are a few reasons for that, but let’s start with the most important one: Patience. Owner Woody Johnson, according to multiple team sources, has mostly stayed out of the way so far — he’s letting Glenn build the team, the culture, in his vision. Johnson, as The Athletic has reported over the years, hasn’t always been good about staying out of the way when things have gone poorly.

It should also be noted that Johnson is paying Glenn handsomely — multiple league sources say Glenn’s compensation is higher than that of Robert Saleh, who was reportedly making $5 million annually. If Johnson fired Glenn after this season, he would be paying him a significant salary for, reportedly, four more seasons to not coach the Jets.

Basically Woody Johnson is too cheap to fire him. Great! For once, Woody isn't stupidly ruining this franchise. I mean, this is an unintentional consequence to him being a horrible owner but we'll take what we can get! The only way I would want this plan to change is if a great coach suddenly became available. Brian Callahan ain't that guy. So we will wait and lose.

I get all of this sucks. It's another season where they aren't competitive enough to get us to Halloween. It's been 15 years since they made the playoffs. That's nearly an entire generation just gone. We're talking 1/5 of our entire lives just wasted over this past decade and a half.

Losing is the last and I believe only option left for this team. One man has the ability to help the Jets lose more any other. Luckily, he's our head coach.

This may not be the man we want but it's the one we need.