{"id":39773,"date":"2025-11-14T19:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39773\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:23:40","slug":"former-jets-stars-call-out-aaron-glenn-for-justin-fields-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39773\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Jets stars call out Aaron Glenn for Justin Fields fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some ex-Jets linemen are accusing the team of becoming the living embodiment of the famous \u201cArrested Development\u201d line, \u201cBut it might work for us\u2026,\u201d<\/a> when it comes to Justin Fields.<\/p>\n

Both Willie Colon and Damien Woody called out their former team and head coach Aaron Glenn for how the Jets have handled Fields, the embattled starting quarterback who had another rough passing night in a season of disappointment in Thursday\u2019s 24-14 road loss to the Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough, man,\u201d Colon said on SNY\u2019s postgame show after Fields tallied just 116 passing yards. \u201cBecause Aaron Glenn is going to sit up here and talk about how he needs to watch the tape. You don\u2019t need to watch anything. Justin Fields is not an NFL quarterback. Let\u2019s be honest.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you can\u2019t sit here and tell your team before games, I want them to rally, I want them to give you all they got, when you\u2019re not giving your team everything they need to be successful. I mean, he shouldn\u2019t have played in the second half, right? Especially when you have a defense \u2026 who played, all in all, scrappy. They were in this game, and this is a game where if you win this game, you\u2019re on a three-game winning streak, and you really start to rally the troops because now they start believing in each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jets are becoming yet another team that became mesmerized by Fields\u2019 potential due to his dual-threat skills only to realize that doesn\u2019t translate to production.<\/p>\n

The Bears and Steelers each moved on from Fields for this reason, and it\u2019s possible the Jets may have done so if Tyrod Taylor didn\u2019t suffer an injury before the Week 8 upset win over the Bengals.<\/p>\n

\"NewJustin Fields struggled in the passing game Thursday. AP<\/p>\n

The simple but brutal reality is that Fields cannot guide an acceptable passing offense, a major sin in today\u2019s aerial-focused NFL.<\/p>\n

Or, as owner Woody Johnson said about the offense: \u201cIf we could just complete a pass, it would look good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fields completed 15-of-26 passes for 116 yards and one touchdown in Thursday\u2019s divisional clash, while adding 11 rushes for 67 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n

He now has failed to clear 120 passing yards in five of his nine starts, notching games with 27, 45, 26 and 54 passing yards.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the Jets have lacked a second receiver all season and star playmaker Garrett Wilson did not play Thursday due to a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glenn, who isn\u2019t helping the situation with his \u201cI won\u2019t name the starting quarterback\u201d shtick, praised Fields after falling to 2-8.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some good things,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are some really good things. I thought he put some balls out there and we got to have some guys make some plays for him too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woody wasn\u2019t having that, though.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Jets offensive lineman Damien Woody in 2022. Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/p>\n

\u201cCmon AG\u2026.,\u201d he quote tweeted a post with Glenn\u2019s quotes.<\/p>\n

Colon explained that by continuing to play Fields, Glenn risks losing the locker room.<\/p>\n

Taylor won\u2019t suddenly transform the Jets into a juggernaut, he could potentially lead a more competent offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like, from a ballplayer standpoint, if I\u2019m sitting in that locker room, and he\u2019s talking to us and he\u2019s talking about what we should do, I\u2019m like, \u2018No, what should you have done?\u2019\u201d Colon said. \u201cDamn what I should have done. The tape don\u2019t lie. I\u2019m on the field. We watch missed throws, bad mechanics, he doesn\u2019t trust his feet. We said it in the pregame, he needs to see it and throw it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that some Jets were open and using their hands to indicate that the ball should come to them, indicating Fields did not read the field well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not the NFL. You got to see it and go. And it\u2019s redundant. And it\u2019s tired. And I feel bad for those guys, because you can tell they\u2019re still playing with pride \u2026 This offensive line came out ready for a fight,\u201d Colon said. \u201cI\u2019m more frustrated with Aaron Glenn, because it\u2019s not about the ballplayers, it\u2019s about Aaron Glenn. What he did tonight was nonsense, it\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn and his staff have extra time to decide if they still want to stick with Fields before they return in Week 12 for a road game against the Ravens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some ex-Jets linemen are accusing the team of becoming the living embodiment of the famous \u201cArrested Development\u201d line,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[429,23158,6768,837,9,11,430,10,22,319,2085,23159],"class_list":["post-39773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-damien-woody","tag-justin-fields","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-willie-colon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39773","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=39773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}