The New York Jets currently hold the longest active playoff drought in North American sports at 14 years, but new head coach Aaron Glenn isn’t worried about that.
“To me, it’s a process and I’ve talked to our staff about this,” Glenn said (h/t New York Post). “I’m not here to talk about the playoffs. I’m not here to talk about the Super Bowl when the players first get in. To me, it’s the process of actually making it to that point. The two things I want to make sure we do first and foremost is establish the culture that we’ve been talking about and try to create a building environment.”
A culture needs to be established to get back to the pinnacle of the sport. The core of players at One Jets Drive won seven games two seasons ago with Zach Wilson under center and incompetence throughout their coaching staff. This team is talented, but it hasn’t been led correctly.
Glenn and new general manager Darren Mougey came in and made signings and decisions they believed were best for the organization moving forward. In Glenn’s introductory press conference back in January, he talked not only about winning but also about building a team that can have “sustained success.”
“Rah-Rah speeches don’t change cultures, people do,” Glenn said on Jan. 27 at his introductory press conference. “I experienced that with Bill Parcells. You bring the right people in with the right mentality and everybody has a shared vision, you’re going to win games. You get that right and you get the identity right, you’re going to win games and we expect to do that.”
“But we want to change the mentality of the fans also,” Glenn told SNY. “Listen, get used to winning because that’s all I’ve been a part of my last couple of years, and I don’t want to do anything other than that.”
Glenn and Mougey’s offseason has centered around ‘moving in silence.’
“I’m a huge believer in moving in silence,” Glenn said. “I think our staff has done a really good job of that – just overall of making the moves we need to make. This doesn’t need to be a big hooplah of what we’re doing, we just want to go about our business and coach these players and try to create an atmosphere for the players that’s totally different from probably what they’ve been used to.
“You don’t win in the offseason anyway … the only thing that makes a difference is what you do during the season.”
