"FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- If he loses to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Aaron Glenn will be the first coach to start his New York Jets career with an 0-5 record. That covers more than 60 years, 18 full-time coaches and a lot of futility. Glenn didn't expect it to go like this, but he knew the inherent challenges in taking over a team that had experienced only one winning season in its previous 14."
""It's not fun being 0-8," Glenn recalled Wednesday. "Man, you get ridiculed, you get talked about. I mean, people are after you in the worst way." In navigating his current oh-fer, Glenn is relying on his own instincts, along with the knowledge he absorbed from working alongside Campbell, who started 0-10-1 in '21 before the Lions' historic turnaround. Glenn recently talked to Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dungy, who began his coaching career on an 0-5 skid with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers."
Aaron Glenn faces the possibility of becoming the first coach to start a New York Jets tenure 0-5, following a roster that had one winning season in 14 years. Glenn previously experienced an 0-8 start with the Detroit Lions in 2021 as defensive coordinator under Dan Campbell. He described the ridicule and scrutiny that accompany prolonged losing stretches. Glenn draws on instincts and lessons from Campbell, and he sought perspective from Tony Dungy, who began coaching on an 0-5 skid. Dungy recalled a pep talk from Dick Vermeil urging him to remain true to his convictions, advice Dungy passed to Glenn.
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