Aaron Glenn is getting a re-evaluation from the Jets for his or her head teaching emptiness, this one in-person.
Glenn, who was drafted twelfth total by the Jets in 1994 and is the present Lions defensive coordinator, interviewed with the Jets nearly whereas Detroit was nonetheless in its playoff run.
With the Lions eradicated from the playoffs by Washington on Saturday night time, Glenn is free to make in-person visits with groups. He’s reportedly scheduled to go to the Saints on Wednesday for an in-person interview.
Glenn has additionally interviewed nearly with the Saints, with whom he additionally has ties, having coached defensive backs in New Orleans from 2016-’20 and the place he performed in 2008.
It’s doable the Jets might must act rapidly if Glenn is their No. 1 alternative, as a result of New Orleans is clearly and the Saints have already got their common supervisor in place, with Mickey Loomis coming into his twenty second season with the workforce and really accustomed to Glenn.
The Jets, after all, stay with out a common supervisor, which can complicate issues if workforce proprietor Woody Johnson desires to rent Glenn. As a result of if Johnson desires to draw whomever his high GM candidate is, that job maybe turns into much less enticing if that GM has nothing to do with the hiring of the workforce’s head coach.
The Jets have interviewed some 15 candidates for his or her vacant common supervisor place, a job held by Joe Douglas for six years earlier than Douglas was fired in midseason.
They’ve interviewed 16 candidates for his or her vacant head teaching job.
If Glenn is their man, they probably should act rapidly — with each the GM and head teaching choices.
To that finish, the Jets are set to interview Commanders assistant GM Lance Newmark on Tuesday for the second time, based on ESPN. Newmark, who’s in his first season with Washington, spent the earlier 26 seasons with the Lions and has labored with Glenn.
