The Jets HC isn't worried about what others have said.
Instead of calling a timeout with about a minute left in the fourth quarter, New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn decided to save his timeout, for whatever reason, allowing the Packers to throw a Hail Mary.
Doing what everybody wanted the Jets to do would have let the team get the ball back by forcing a punt. Instead, the Packers were able to run the clock down, and Jordan Love threw a Hail Mary.
Even though Love was sacked, the process still made things far more worrisome than anything else.
For the past year or so, questions have lingered about whether Glenn is the answer at head coach. It’s not that he is a bad guy or that players don’t seem to play for him, but it’s important that he makes decisions at the level everybody needs him to.
I don’t want to put all of the blame on him, but it did feel like the Jets could have won this game if Glenn had made a better decision in that situation. At the very least, it would have given his offense a chance to win.
Speaking about it again on Monday, however, it didn’t sound like he was too worried about it. In fact, Glenn went as far as to say that he felt it was the right decision. I definitely don’t agree with that, and most don’t, but this is what the Jets’ head coach thought.
“And if you put yourself in a backed-up situation and things don’t go as planned, I think you’re giving the other team an opportunity to go down there and make a play,’’ Glenn said, per the New York Post. “I felt like that was the right decision to [make] at that point. We actually wanted to play for overtime when it came to that.’’
“There are always gonna be decisions [you question],’’ Glenn said. “Every coach has that. I think when the clock got to 11 seconds [in the fourth], I could have easily called timeout there and forced a punt, but I don’t think one play determined the outcome of the game. We ended up getting a sack on the play.”
It’s interesting to see him come out with these remarks after everybody criticized him, but it’s the name of the game.
It’s a lot easier to coach from the couch or the stands than to do what Glenn does on a daily basis, but the decision didn’t seem like the right one. I don’t think anybody can disagree with that besides Glenn, who has to stand by what he decided to do.
