Host Eric Allen is joined by Jets head coach Aaron Glenn at the 2025 NFL Annual League Meeting. The two discuss Glenn's rise through the coaching ranks, the team's approach to free agency and how he plans to use different players in 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into the Official Jets Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I Eat, Breathe, and Sleep The New York Jets. My
team that is a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. That's
hard to do.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It's a name of inches, so finding that one little
inch to be successful, it all matters.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Ag Have you been enjoying the sun down here in Florida?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This has been a really good event, just being able
to meet new coaches, being meet older coaches, Guys that
that that I've always had a conversation with, even the GMS,
So it's been a It's been a really good experience.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can you talk about walking around here and seeing some
of the guys who fad major influences on you throughout
your career.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I mean you get a chance to see Andy Reid,
and I mean he's so called the goat right now
up the NFL. Get a chance to some of my
old coaches, Todd Bowles, which is crazy because he was
my position coach and now being a head coach and
I'm a head coach and this sorority now, and man,
just all the like Mike Tomlin and all those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Man, it's it's been a whirlwind. But get the chances.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just sit by those guys and you know, listen, they
just they're just regular guys. You can just talk football,
you can just talk about anything. It's been a bretty big,
prett outstanding to me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
TB actually was your position coach both with the Jets
and with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right, it's crazy and it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Now, how has this off season been completely unique? Because
I don't know if a lot of people know about
what you typically have done in the off season as
far as your individual study to get you prepared.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
For this point.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, listen, I would say this about eight eight to
nine years ago, I've actually been trying to think about
like switching actually from the.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Defense side to the to the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So what I did, knowing I couldn't do that, but
what I did was I went out and I visited
a lot of coaches on the offensive side and just
talk offensive And I would say that it prepared me
to actually be a coach of the football team and
not just the coach of defense. So when sometimes when
guys called me a defensive coach, me, I don't like
that because I am a coach and I coach offense,
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defense and special teams, and I spend time make sure
I study and build my craft as far as being
pretty good at that. So it's been a good ride.
I would say that for these last eight years to
prepare me to be in this position, I would say
this also coach Sean Payton and Dan Campbell to the
really good job of putting me in positions to make
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decisions to help me be in the spot right now too.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I give those guys a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, you quickly correct everybody when they say you got
a defensive background. You said, I'm a coach. Yeah, yeah,
it used to be on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But I'm a.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Coach absolutely, and listen, that's one thing I want to
be known for is listen, my offensive acumen is just
as good as my defensive avcamy and special teams Offso
I think all three parts is what. But you need
to be able to win a game. And I did
everything I could to be to learn and get really
really good at understanding all three phases. So, and I
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think that's what a head coach is supposed to do.
You know, no matter what, when the game go ons offense, defense,
and special team, that's on me, and I accept that responsibility.
So I don't want to be one of these guys
where the defense is playing good, okay, the good defensive
head coach the offense playing right not good, and okay,
that's not his responsibility.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, it is my responsibility.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So I want to make sure that all three phase
of the game has my fingerprint on it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can you talk.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
About growing up in Bordersville, Texas, right outside Houston and
how that upbringing helped you prepare for your trajectory not
only in a professional realm, but also as a man.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Absolutely, now, Listen, that was a tough place to grow
and tough place to come out of. I don't know
if I was the first, but I know I was
one of the only ones that actually graduated out of
a high school out of that neighborhood and end up
going to college and get a degree. And I know
for a fact making to the NFL. So it's this
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shape me as a man. Listen, I would not have
wanted in any other way, right, because there are some
things that I've learned quickly as a young man on
how to defend myself and then also how to create
relationships with multiple people from different backgrounds, And I think
that's the one thing that helped me more than anything.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Listen to any kid that coming to the NFL right
now that's coming on my team, Listen, I can relate
to you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I don't care if you're a guy that you came
from the slums, if.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You guy it was middle of the roads, and you
guys that was born into from a billionaire, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I can speak the language of.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Any of those guys, and and I've been fortunate to
be able to address all three.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, how would you describe being one of eleven brothers
and sisters.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm a football team. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And listen, my whole family was pretty athletic, from my
sisters and my brother.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Also, you guys know how to brother to play in
the NFL for eight years, nine years.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And just understanding that just how you operate together as
a family really looks like a football team because you
have to be on the same page. Everything has to
be in order. With my dad, may share that was happening,
things in order, and it made you appreciate people just
in general. And listen, my family is the same. You know,
(05:26):
I have three kids, I've been married for twenty eight years,
and we look at things the same way.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know, things have to be in order how we operate,
and listen, we got each other's back.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The same thing with my family. You can't say anything
bad about either one of us would jump into that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What do you think, Dad, I would think right now
at this moment, that man that you are in this situation.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Listen, if it's one thing that I wish could have
happened in my lifetime, my dad see me as a
head coach, and listen, he's experienced a lot of good
things within my life as far as making tenant.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
He was with me at the draft, he was with
me when I made my first Pro Bowl man.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
He was with me as I got into being a
defensive back coach and he didn't get a chance to
be a coordinated which I wish he would have, and
then being a head coach man that had been the
ultimate for him. Because listen, he is proud of his kids,
and anything that we did. He was the one that
was holding the flag for us, knowing that he was
behind us. Listen, everything that I got is from him.
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I know that for a fact. But he is a
man of hard work and I said, this was going
my mom never work and he was the one that
supported eleven kids. Yeah, so man, he's an outstanding man
and everything that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Got from him a gd.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You take some lessons from him in terms of how
you deal with your players now, because it's interesting you
said it before. This is a different generation now and you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have to adapt to them.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, yes, Listen, when you have eleven kids, you have
to be able.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
To manage personalities.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I'm talking about six sisters, five brothers, so that's
a lot of different personalities that you have to I'm
just talking about kids and that you have to be
able to manage. And just being able to watch that
and see how he was able to do it was
outstanding for me because it actually taught me a lesson
of everybody's different and you can't talk to everybody the same.
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Some people need more of a hug, some people need
more demanding and being on them, And it actually taught
me that I was just sit there and watched him
do that and the way he raised us as a
as a family.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I don't know if there's anybody better.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And you're right, it actually taught me how to just
deal with different type of personalities and be able to
teach look at each one as there's somebody different and
you have to treat them different.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
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Speaker 1 (07:59):
At kend Can you speak about having no excuses? Because
I think if any coach would have a reason to
feel bad for himself would have bet you last year
when you guys were walking Mashire on that defensive side.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Of the ball. But you guys just kept on going.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Listen, this league is not going to stop for anybody,
And to me, that is the good thing about facility,
and it's the good thing about being a coach because
you get a chance, no matter what the situation is,
get to display how good of a coach you are.
Just by situations like that. We had I don't know,
eleven guys, don't know. I think we had three guys
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that actually our true starters or actually that played. But
you know what, who cares? Who cares another coach. I
look forward to those situations. I look forward those moments
to go out and show not just me who I
am as a coach, but the players that that's probably
out the top of the line. Players get a chance
to go out there and play. And the one thing
that we championed is listen, it's not about the playbook,
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it's the play style. And our guys understand with that,
and they want to and played a style that listen.
No one else in the league play with us, and
that's just who we are. And I plan on bringing
that style into.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The Jets also.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, the one thing you made clear today was that, Hey,
you can ask me about scheme all you want, but
I'm gonna look at who I have here and none
We're gonna align the scheme with the players in the built.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Absolutely, and I think that's the best coaches do that.
And I've heard Andy Reid talk, I've heard Mike Tomlin talk.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Listen, I've heard Pete Carroll talk.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Man, those are some of the things that they talk about.
Everyone has a scheme and that's great, but when you
start to mix and match players within your scheme. Now
you have to build your scheme to who you have.
I mean, Andy Ree is one of the better ones
in the world. I mean he was throwing the battle
all over the field when he had Tyreek Hill and
all those guys, a ton of explosive plays and then
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he ends again.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
But check going. I mean he's a.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Downhill, tough, run the ball between the tackles type of coach.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Now, you know. So I want to be that way.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I want to be a coach that makes sure that
I can adjust to whoever I have, and I'm going
to do everything I can to make sure I do that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Can you speak to something that you talked about earlier?
Moving in silence this offseason the New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Listen, and in the off season, everybody's everybody's a champ,
everybody's going to the super Bowl, all right, But when.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The season starts, that really tells you who you are.
So I'll tell our guys listen. We don't have to talk,
we don't have to say anything. The only thing we
need to do is get the work in.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And as the season progresses, as the season comes around,
then I'll talk and comes tout how we play, and
then we don't have to move in silence anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, then everything that we were doing right is
going to speak for itself. And that speaks bodence to me.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And that's how loud you speak, by what you what
you're records sending how you play. And we're doing all
this right now to.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Make sure we get to that you're the voice leading
this thing. But how important from a player perspective was
to get two quarterbacks done in free agency where you
guys go and target Justin fields and sign him, and
then on the defensive side of the ball, make sure
Jamie Sherwood isn't going.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A couple of things on that first off, Like I
think Moods did an outstanding job and his staff of
making sure that they understood exactly what I wanted to
coach and how I want us to start the maneuver
with this new era of Jets football. And to be
able to get Justin was huge for us because I
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believe in that man and I think he's ready to
break out to be a quarterback and we're going to
allow him to play quarterback and being to utilize his legs,
and then getting Surewood back.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Here's the one thing I want.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
To make sure we do as a Jets organization, of
the guys that we draft, we do a lot of
study on those guys, so we know those guys. We
want to keep those guys back in house. The best
form of free agency is signing your own players, and
we want to make sure that we're that type of team.
So getting the quarterback on the offense, getting the quarterback
on the defense was huge for us. And now we
start to put other pieces around those guys to make
(11:58):
sure we're a top notch team.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Can you envision Justin and you say, oh, have an
opportunity to break out as a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What do you mean by that? You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And this is just me watching from afar and I
played against him when he was in Chicago, US twice
a year. I think there were so many people talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
His legs as least as legs.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And when you go watch him at of Hohiwo State,
and I watched every game out of Ohio State, and man,
he was back there letting it rip now and he
was making plays. I mean, you look at Gart's numbers
when he was out of Hohiow State. You look at
those other receivers number with teams out of Higo State.
You look at the running back numbers when he was
at of Whigow State. Why can he do that? I mean, listen,
I know that he is a dynamic runner, but he's
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been a dynamic pass when he was in college too.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I'm going to let him go out there and
do that and use his legs.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Of course, it's gonna pull a lot of pressure on
the posting defenses. I mean, that guy's a dual thread is.
He's averaged more than fifty yards per game on the
ground throughout his career. I want to ask you about
Brandon Stevens. He said some interesting things about then that's
what we're looking for in terms of physical traits. I
don't want to pick a fight with you because you
take me out right here, but man, you played on
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the outside and you're talking about I like.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Having big guys on the outside. Listen this this game.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I really understand how this game has changed over the
years and to be disruptive on the edges and to
be able to be You have two corners, man, that
were well over six foot.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They both have they both have.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Long warns and they can run and to not let
receivers just get into the teeth of your defense. It's
critical to the success of how we want to play.
We want to be a tough, minded, physical, violent defense
to be able to put pressure on the offense to
where it. Man, your receivers are not just going to
be able to get up field. Man, you want those
type of corners that's out there. And that's what I
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just believe in.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Listen. I know Brandon, I know his weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I know, but the thing is my job as a
coach and the staff is to work on their weaknesses
and make sure that Weeks has become a strength of this.
And I know what those are and I'm gonna make
sure I do everything I can to help that player.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You had forty one interceptions throughout your career.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know how to take the football way.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
How do you teach it to guys maybe like Sauce,
who is a very talented guy. Obviously you're gonna use
them different than past coaching staffs to have. And then
also Stevens as well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, here's the one thing I know one of you
loves those guys. I want those guys to play man
cover because they're pretty damn.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Good at it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But there's also situations where they have to be able
to see the quarterback and they have to be able
to anticipate and be able to make jumps and balls
to go to go make those players. So I want
to be able to give those guys that there's other
ways to take the ball away. Also, I mean, we're
going to be a team that's going to be after
the ball no matter what every play. If you're not
after the ball, you're not going to fit in on
this team because there's gonna be so many people that's
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going to buy into that method.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
If you look at the defense over the years that I've.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Had, and that's one thing that we did a really
good job of, it's punching the ball out, so not
just interceptions, being able to punch the ball out and
getting population.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
To the ball. It's critical to us playing really good defense.
Maximum effort is one of the things that we're gonna
We're gonna.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Chat and the only way you can get the ball
back is playing.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
With maximum effort, and that's getting everybody to the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Speaking about taking the ball away, so you like the
history that you've seen from Cisco, and he's coming home
an interesting story. He grew up I mean he was
born in Queen's grew up in Valley.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Stream, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Listen, there's a lot of different stories, even my story.
You know his story.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Man. It's a reason why this.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Team was built the way it's built right now, and
everything is coming forward circle.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
To be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And you're right, he's a guy that's gonna help with
Cisco as far as taking the ball away. And he's
been a guy that's just caught you know, I don't know,
like eight or nine interceptions while he's been in this league.
So listen, I'm looking forward to how this secondary is
gonna play. He's got a big the physical they're intimidating,
and that's exactly what we want to.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Bring to this game. You've been gracious with your time.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I got two quick ones.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Youth movement. Is that something that you and Mooje talked
about from the get go? You a five players on
this roster who are thirty third north.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, here's the and again moved to the great job
of understanding exactly how I want this team to look.
And obviously we got the quarterback on both sides, and
then what we want to do is make sure we
rebuild our secondary and then the next thinglish managed to
get younger as a team, and right now I think
we might be one of the top in the top
ten as far as your youngest team in the league.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And that was by design.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I'm a huge component of knowing this a young man's game.
I'm a huge component that understand that. Listen, you have
to play the young player and understand it's our job
to mold, teach, and get those guys to understand exactly
how we try to operate. And there's nothing better than
that than having youth on the field because they're going
to sit there and listen to you and souk up
everything you say, not saying that veterans won't. Yeah, all right,
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but when you have those guys, you can mold them
how you want them as a team.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Final one, I'm not going to ask you who you're
going to take. Number seven options on the table. Right
after working on some depth and free agency, you get
some front like guys in here. The one thing that
struck me and coming full circle, is that you said
number one of my coaches, we got to be able
to teach done. Number two, you got to be able
to develop. Can you elaborate on it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Listen, As a coach, there's nothing better in this league
than number one, be able to make a complex game
like very simple.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And that's the teaching aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And then number two, if we end up getting a
free agent, can you make that free agent operate like
a draft pick. Can you make that six to seven
round to operate like a third round? Can you make
that third run to operate like a first round? And
can you make the first running around? I go jacket
at some time. And that's really the the crux of
who we are as coaches is development and making these
guys play above their draft status, of above who they
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thought who actually they thought they could play at because
that's when you get the trust of the players.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And when you get trust of the players, you get
the trust of the team.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now they will follow you no matter what the situation is.
They'll be behind you, hundrestand because they know that they
will get better. And to me, that's what you are
the coach.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
A g enjoyed it, man, I can't wait to speak
to you again.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I appreciate it, Buddon. I do looking forward to this
Welcome into the Official Jets Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I Eat, Breathe, and Sleep The New York Jets. My
team that is a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. That's
hard to do.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It's a name of inches, so finding that one little
inch to be successful, it all matters.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Ag Have you been enjoying the sun down here in Florida?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This has been a really good event, just being able
to meet new coaches, being meet older coaches, Guys that
that that I've always had a conversation with, even the GMS,
So it's been a It's been a really good experience.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can you talk about walking around here and seeing some
of the guys who fad major influences on you throughout
your career.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I mean you get a chance to see Andy Reid,
and I mean he's so called the goat right now
up the NFL. Get a chance to some of my
old coaches, Todd Bowles, which is crazy because he was
my position coach and now being a head coach and
I'm a head coach and this sorority now, and man,
just all the like Mike Tomlin and all those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Man, it's it's been a whirlwind. But get the chances.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just sit by those guys and you know, listen, they
just they're just regular guys. You can just talk football,
you can just talk about anything. It's been a bretty big,
prett outstanding to me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
TB actually was your position coach both with the Jets
and with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right, it's crazy and it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Now, how has this off season been completely unique? Because
I don't know if a lot of people know about
what you typically have done in the off season as
far as your individual study to get you prepared.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
For this point.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, listen, I would say this about eight eight to
nine years ago, I've actually been trying to think about
like switching actually from the.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Defense side to the to the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So what I did, knowing I couldn't do that, but
what I did was I went out and I visited
a lot of coaches on the offensive side and just
talk offensive And I would say that it prepared me
to actually be a coach of the football team and
not just the coach of defense. So when sometimes when
guys called me a defensive coach, me, I don't like
that because I am a coach and I coach offense,
(02:13):
defense and special teams, and I spend time make sure
I study and build my craft as far as being
pretty good at that. So it's been a good ride.
I would say that for these last eight years to
prepare me to be in this position, I would say
this also coach Sean Payton and Dan Campbell to the
really good job of putting me in positions to make
(02:33):
decisions to help me be in the spot right now too.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I give those guys a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, you quickly correct everybody when they say you got
a defensive background. You said, I'm a coach. Yeah, yeah,
it used to be on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But I'm a.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Coach absolutely, and listen, that's one thing I want to
be known for is listen, my offensive acumen is just
as good as my defensive avcamy and special teams Offso
I think all three parts is what. But you need
to be able to win a game. And I did
everything I could to be to learn and get really
really good at understanding all three phases. So, and I
(03:07):
think that's what a head coach is supposed to do.
You know, no matter what, when the game go ons offense, defense,
and special team, that's on me, and I accept that responsibility.
So I don't want to be one of these guys
where the defense is playing good, okay, the good defensive
head coach the offense playing right not good, and okay,
that's not his responsibility.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, it is my responsibility.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So I want to make sure that all three phase
of the game has my fingerprint on it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can you talk.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
About growing up in Bordersville, Texas, right outside Houston and
how that upbringing helped you prepare for your trajectory not
only in a professional realm, but also as a man.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Absolutely, now, Listen, that was a tough place to grow
and tough place to come out of. I don't know
if I was the first, but I know I was
one of the only ones that actually graduated out of
a high school out of that neighborhood and end up
going to college and get a degree. And I know
for a fact making to the NFL. So it's this
(04:06):
shape me as a man. Listen, I would not have
wanted in any other way, right, because there are some
things that I've learned quickly as a young man on
how to defend myself and then also how to create
relationships with multiple people from different backgrounds, And I think
that's the one thing that helped me more than anything.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Listen to any kid that coming to the NFL right
now that's coming on my team, Listen, I can relate
to you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I don't care if you're a guy that you came
from the slums, if.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You guy it was middle of the roads, and you
guys that was born into from a billionaire, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I can speak the language of.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Any of those guys, and and I've been fortunate to
be able to address all three.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, how would you describe being one of eleven brothers
and sisters.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm a football team. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And listen, my whole family was pretty athletic, from my
sisters and my brother.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Also, you guys know how to brother to play in
the NFL for eight years, nine years.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And just understanding that just how you operate together as
a family really looks like a football team because you
have to be on the same page. Everything has to
be in order. With my dad, may share that was happening,
things in order, and it made you appreciate people just
in general. And listen, my family is the same. You know,
(05:26):
I have three kids, I've been married for twenty eight years,
and we look at things the same way.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know, things have to be in order how we operate,
and listen, we got each other's back.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The same thing with my family. You can't say anything
bad about either one of us would jump into that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What do you think, Dad, I would think right now
at this moment, that man that you are in this situation.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Listen, if it's one thing that I wish could have
happened in my lifetime, my dad see me as a
head coach, and listen, he's experienced a lot of good
things within my life as far as making tenant.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
He was with me at the draft, he was with
me when I made my first Pro Bowl man.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
He was with me as I got into being a
defensive back coach and he didn't get a chance to
be a coordinated which I wish he would have, and
then being a head coach man that had been the
ultimate for him. Because listen, he is proud of his kids,
and anything that we did. He was the one that
was holding the flag for us, knowing that he was
behind us. Listen, everything that I got is from him.
(06:27):
I know that for a fact. But he is a
man of hard work and I said, this was going
my mom never work and he was the one that
supported eleven kids. Yeah, so man, he's an outstanding man
and everything that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Got from him a gd.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You take some lessons from him in terms of how
you deal with your players now, because it's interesting you
said it before. This is a different generation now and you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have to adapt to them.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, yes, Listen, when you have eleven kids, you have
to be able.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
To manage personalities.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I'm talking about six sisters, five brothers, so that's
a lot of different personalities that you have to I'm
just talking about kids and that you have to be
able to manage. And just being able to watch that
and see how he was able to do it was
outstanding for me because it actually taught me a lesson
of everybody's different and you can't talk to everybody the same.
(07:25):
Some people need more of a hug, some people need
more demanding and being on them, And it actually taught
me that I was just sit there and watched him
do that and the way he raised us as a
as a family.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I don't know if there's anybody better.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And you're right, it actually taught me how to just
deal with different type of personalities and be able to
teach look at each one as there's somebody different and
you have to treat them different.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
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Speaker 1 (07:59):
At kend Can you speak about having no excuses? Because
I think if any coach would have a reason to
feel bad for himself would have bet you last year
when you guys were walking Mashire on that defensive side.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Of the ball. But you guys just kept on going.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Listen, this league is not going to stop for anybody,
And to me, that is the good thing about facility,
and it's the good thing about being a coach because
you get a chance, no matter what the situation is,
get to display how good of a coach you are.
Just by situations like that. We had I don't know,
eleven guys, don't know. I think we had three guys
(08:37):
that actually our true starters or actually that played. But
you know what, who cares? Who cares another coach. I
look forward to those situations. I look forward those moments
to go out and show not just me who I
am as a coach, but the players that that's probably
out the top of the line. Players get a chance
to go out there and play. And the one thing
that we championed is listen, it's not about the playbook,
(08:57):
it's the play style. And our guys understand with that,
and they want to and played a style that listen.
No one else in the league play with us, and
that's just who we are. And I plan on bringing
that style into.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The Jets also.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, the one thing you made clear today was that, Hey,
you can ask me about scheme all you want, but
I'm gonna look at who I have here and none
We're gonna align the scheme with the players in the built.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Absolutely, and I think that's the best coaches do that.
And I've heard Andy Reid talk, I've heard Mike Tomlin talk.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Listen, I've heard Pete Carroll talk.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Man, those are some of the things that they talk about.
Everyone has a scheme and that's great, but when you
start to mix and match players within your scheme. Now
you have to build your scheme to who you have.
I mean, Andy Ree is one of the better ones
in the world. I mean he was throwing the battle
all over the field when he had Tyreek Hill and
all those guys, a ton of explosive plays and then
(09:55):
he ends again.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
But check going. I mean he's a.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Downhill, tough, run the ball between the tackles type of coach.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Now, you know. So I want to be that way.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I want to be a coach that makes sure that
I can adjust to whoever I have, and I'm going
to do everything I can to make sure I do that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Can you speak to something that you talked about earlier?
Moving in silence this offseason the New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Listen, and in the off season, everybody's everybody's a champ,
everybody's going to the super Bowl, all right, But when.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The season starts, that really tells you who you are.
So I'll tell our guys listen. We don't have to talk,
we don't have to say anything. The only thing we
need to do is get the work in.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And as the season progresses, as the season comes around,
then I'll talk and comes tout how we play, and
then we don't have to move in silence anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, then everything that we were doing right is
going to speak for itself. And that speaks bodence to me.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And that's how loud you speak, by what you what
you're records sending how you play. And we're doing all
this right now to.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Make sure we get to that you're the voice leading
this thing. But how important from a player perspective was
to get two quarterbacks done in free agency where you
guys go and target Justin fields and sign him, and
then on the defensive side of the ball, make sure
Jamie Sherwood isn't going.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A couple of things on that first off, Like I
think Moods did an outstanding job and his staff of
making sure that they understood exactly what I wanted to
coach and how I want us to start the maneuver
with this new era of Jets football. And to be
able to get Justin was huge for us because I
(11:25):
believe in that man and I think he's ready to
break out to be a quarterback and we're going to
allow him to play quarterback and being to utilize his legs,
and then getting Surewood back.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Here's the one thing I want.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
To make sure we do as a Jets organization, of
the guys that we draft, we do a lot of
study on those guys, so we know those guys. We
want to keep those guys back in house. The best
form of free agency is signing your own players, and
we want to make sure that we're that type of team.
So getting the quarterback on the offense, getting the quarterback
on the defense was huge for us. And now we
start to put other pieces around those guys to make
(11:58):
sure we're a top notch team.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Can you envision Justin and you say, oh, have an
opportunity to break out as a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What do you mean by that? You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And this is just me watching from afar and I
played against him when he was in Chicago, US twice
a year. I think there were so many people talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
His legs as least as legs.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And when you go watch him at of Hohiwo State,
and I watched every game out of Ohio State, and man,
he was back there letting it rip now and he
was making plays. I mean, you look at Gart's numbers
when he was out of Hohiow State. You look at
those other receivers number with teams out of Higo State.
You look at the running back numbers when he was
at of Whigow State. Why can he do that? I mean, listen,
I know that he is a dynamic runner, but he's
(12:37):
been a dynamic pass when he was in college too.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I'm going to let him go out there and
do that and use his legs.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Of course, it's gonna pull a lot of pressure on
the posting defenses. I mean, that guy's a dual thread is.
He's averaged more than fifty yards per game on the
ground throughout his career. I want to ask you about
Brandon Stevens. He said some interesting things about then that's
what we're looking for in terms of physical traits. I
don't want to pick a fight with you because you
take me out right here, but man, you played on
(13:06):
the outside and you're talking about I like.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Having big guys on the outside. Listen this this game.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I really understand how this game has changed over the
years and to be disruptive on the edges and to
be able to be You have two corners, man, that
were well over six foot.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They both have they both have.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Long warns and they can run and to not let
receivers just get into the teeth of your defense. It's
critical to the success of how we want to play.
We want to be a tough, minded, physical, violent defense
to be able to put pressure on the offense to
where it. Man, your receivers are not just going to
be able to get up field. Man, you want those
type of corners that's out there. And that's what I
(13:48):
just believe in.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Listen. I know Brandon, I know his weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I know, but the thing is my job as a
coach and the staff is to work on their weaknesses
and make sure that Weeks has become a strength of this.
And I know what those are and I'm gonna make
sure I do everything I can to help that player.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You had forty one interceptions throughout your career.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know how to take the football way.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
How do you teach it to guys maybe like Sauce,
who is a very talented guy. Obviously you're gonna use
them different than past coaching staffs to have. And then
also Stevens as well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, here's the one thing I know one of you
loves those guys. I want those guys to play man
cover because they're pretty damn.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Good at it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But there's also situations where they have to be able
to see the quarterback and they have to be able
to anticipate and be able to make jumps and balls
to go to go make those players. So I want
to be able to give those guys that there's other
ways to take the ball away. Also, I mean, we're
going to be a team that's going to be after
the ball no matter what every play. If you're not
after the ball, you're not going to fit in on
this team because there's gonna be so many people that's
(14:47):
going to buy into that method.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
If you look at the defense over the years that I've.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Had, and that's one thing that we did a really
good job of, it's punching the ball out, so not
just interceptions, being able to punch the ball out and
getting population.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
To the ball. It's critical to us playing really good defense.
Maximum effort is one of the things that we're gonna
We're gonna.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Chat and the only way you can get the ball
back is playing.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
With maximum effort, and that's getting everybody to the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Speaking about taking the ball away, so you like the
history that you've seen from Cisco, and he's coming home
an interesting story. He grew up I mean he was
born in Queen's grew up in Valley.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Stream, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Listen, there's a lot of different stories, even my story.
You know his story.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Man. It's a reason why this.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Team was built the way it's built right now, and
everything is coming forward circle.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
To be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And you're right, he's a guy that's gonna help with
Cisco as far as taking the ball away. And he's
been a guy that's just caught you know, I don't know,
like eight or nine interceptions while he's been in this league.
So listen, I'm looking forward to how this secondary is
gonna play. He's got a big the physical they're intimidating,
and that's exactly what we want to.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Bring to this game. You've been gracious with your time.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I got two quick ones.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Youth movement. Is that something that you and Mooje talked
about from the get go? You a five players on
this roster who are thirty third north.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, here's the and again moved to the great job
of understanding exactly how I want this team to look.
And obviously we got the quarterback on both sides, and
then what we want to do is make sure we
rebuild our secondary and then the next thinglish managed to
get younger as a team, and right now I think
we might be one of the top in the top
ten as far as your youngest team in the league.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And that was by design.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I'm a huge component of knowing this a young man's game.
I'm a huge component that understand that. Listen, you have
to play the young player and understand it's our job
to mold, teach, and get those guys to understand exactly
how we try to operate. And there's nothing better than
that than having youth on the field because they're going
to sit there and listen to you and souk up
everything you say, not saying that veterans won't. Yeah, all right,
(16:52):
but when you have those guys, you can mold them
how you want them as a team.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Final one, I'm not going to ask you who you're
going to take. Number seven options on the table. Right
after working on some depth and free agency, you get
some front like guys in here. The one thing that
struck me and coming full circle, is that you said
number one of my coaches, we got to be able
to teach done. Number two, you got to be able
to develop. Can you elaborate on it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Listen, As a coach, there's nothing better in this league
than number one, be able to make a complex game
like very simple.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And that's the teaching aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And then number two, if we end up getting a
free agent, can you make that free agent operate like
a draft pick. Can you make that six to seven
round to operate like a third round? Can you make
that third run to operate like a first round? And
can you make the first running around? I go jacket
at some time. And that's really the the crux of
who we are as coaches is development and making these
guys play above their draft status, of above who they
(17:53):
thought who actually they thought they could play at because
that's when you get the trust of the players.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And when you get trust of the players, you get
the trust of the team.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now they will follow you no matter what the situation is.
They'll be behind you, hundrestand because they know that they
will get better. And to me, that's what you are
the coach.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
A g enjoyed it, man, I can't wait to speak
to you again.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I appreciate it, Buddon. I do looking forward to this
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