Decent seats are available in Section 412 for as little as $11 on StubHub.com for the Jets-Jaguars contest this week. And don’t snicker at Aaron Rodgers for suggesting some sort of curse lurks in the stalls of the New York locker room. How else would one explain all the curse words hurled in the Jets’ direction since Joe Namath guaranteed and delivered a Super Bowl victory in 1968. After all, the Jets haven’t appeared in the game since that day 56 years ago.
Brian Gaine is a protégé of the head coach that nearly got them there in 1998, Bill Parcells. And, according to Sports Illustrated insider Albert Breer, Gaine and Aaron Glenn – a starting cornerback on that ’98 Jets team — would make a nice fit as the respective general manager and head coach with the Jets.
“I do think experience will be a factor,” Breer wrote in his weekly mailbag segment Thursday. “Gaine has been a GM. Glenn hasn’t been a head coach, but played 15 years of pro football, and has coached for a decade.”
Gaine starred in high school at Don Bosco Prep, 20 miles from Giants Stadium. After signing with the Jets out of college as a non-drafted free agent, he also spent time with the Giants and Chiefs before launching his scouting career with the Jets in 1999. He ascended to general manager of the Houston Texans in January 2018 and spent 17 months in that role before Houston fired him in a stunning move prior to the 2020 season. Two years later, he earned a promotion to assistant general manager of the Bills, replacing Joe Schoen.
“I feel like the fit is going to be a big piece of the puzzle,” Breer added. “So, maybe you bring in a couple of guys who’ve been in the market.”
Glenn will certainly be in the market, the head-coaching market. Selected 12th overall by the Jets in the 1994 draft, Glenn played his first eight seasons with the franchise. Now Detroit’s defensive coordinator, he has not only held together a Lions unit decimated by injuries, he’s excelled in that role. Since losing edge-rusher Aidan Hutchinson in Week 6, the Lions are 8-0 with the league’s third-best scoring defense (17.88 points allowed per game) and third-best defense on third down (32.2 percent) in that span.
As for Rodgers under center in 2025, Breer said he wouldn’t venture a guess, saying that prospect is “wildly unpredictable.” Rodgers and the Jets (3-10) square off with the Jaguars (3-10) on Sunday at EverBank Stadium (1 p.m. ET, FOX).
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