\u201cI want this to be a team that the fans are proud of. But again, I never said that they were going to be proud of them right now,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cAt some point, I want this to be a team that the fans are proud of. I still stick with that. I will still say that. This is a team that the fans will be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glenn\u2019s message about delaying fielding a team that fans could be proud of was consistent with the team\u2019s actions at the trade deadline. The Jets punted on the present with an eye on the future. <\/p>\n
They received three first-round picks and a second-round pick in exchange for Gardner and Williams, a nice haul that sets the Jets up in the 2026 and 2027 offseasons.<\/p>\n
But the Jets still have nine games left this season. Glenn said he told his players that the NFL is a league of change, but the mission remains the same and they want to win games this year, starting Sunday against the Browns.<\/p>\n
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Aaron Glenn talks to reporters on Nov. 5, 2025 after the NFL trade deadline. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won a game last week with Sauce not there,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cWe know how good of a player he is. We know how good of a player Quinnen is. But man, we\u2019re moving forward. We have a good amount of draft capital that we\u2019re looking forward to. When that time comes, we\u2019ll handle that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jets are 1-7 and going nowhere this season, but it has to be a tough message for the locker room that the team traded away two of its best players.<\/p>\n
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The Jets traded away Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Glenn said the players are upbeat, though.<\/p>\n
\u201cReady to play Cleveland. That\u2019s how they responded,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cThey understand the opportunity that\u2019s ahead of them. Ready to play Cleveland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glenn has praised Williams and Gardner repeatedly since he took the Jets job in January. After the team signed Gardner to an extension in July, Glenn called the cornerback a foundational player he wanted to be here for a long time. What changed?<\/p>\n
\u201cOpportunity,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cNo one goes into this thing to try to get rid of players, especially good players like that. But when these things come across your table and you sit there and you talk about it and you get the type of compensation that you get, man, you really have to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
General manager Darren Mougey was the one working the phones, but Glenn was heavily involved in the trade discussions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty intense day,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cWhen the opportunity presents itself for us to be able to build this team, it\u2019s hard to pass it up. Those two guys are great players. We all know that, all-pro players. The one constant in this league is change. I\u2019ve said that all our players, not just today, but throughout this season. This is a fluid game, fellas. Players come and go. Coaches come and go. The one thing that I do know is with change comes opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
One player who was not traded was running back Breece Hall. Glenn reiterated that he wanted Hall to remain a Jet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve said this many times over and over that Breece was not a guy that I wanted to get rid of,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cMan, he\u2019s a damn good player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets coach Aaron Glenn said before the season that he wanted to field a team that fans could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[429,7062,9,11,430,10,22,4280,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-30091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-ahmad-sauce-gardner","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-trade-deadline","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}