The Basement View

  The New York Jets have themselves a new Head Football Coach. Aaron Glenn trades the Defensive Coordinator job in Detroit for the head seat with his old team, the New York Jets. The Jets will have to give up compensatory third round picks in the next two drafts to ink Glenn to a fresh five-year deal, but if the former Jet Defensive Back is who every Jet fan hopes he will be, the draft compensation will be well worth it. One thing that is particularly odd about the Glenn hire is not that this is his first Head Coaching gig following the Jets doing the same with Robert Saleh and Todd Bowles. Nor is it that Glenn is a defensive minded coach, that seems to be the only qualification at times to be able to have the Jets Head Coaching headset. It’s the fact that Woody Johnson, Christopher Johnson, and the 33 rd Team hired Glenn before hiring a General Manager. There are rumors that Washington’s Assistant General Manager, Lance Newmark, will be hired to fill the GM vacancy, but as of now...

  The Washington Football Team is doing it the right way with Josh Harris as the owner. He has hit every check point along the way without skipping a beat. The hard part, mostly, is over. Drafting Jayden Daniels helps a lot, but usually new owners tear down the existing structure of the organization and put in their own version immediately. Harris didn’t do this. He and his ownership group waited for the first year to complete and got to work at the start of the second year. Washington went out and got the right General Manager and Head Coach for this version of the organization. They got the right veteran players to instill a new culture in a place that was in desperate need of it. Yes, drafting Jayden Daniels helps expedite the entire process given his talent and his ability to be a leader as a rookie. However, that’s only the first part of completely reworking an organization. The next step is the success part. Getting the right people in place and setting them up for success is...