{"id":556666,"date":"2026-03-31T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:46:07","slug":"aaron-glenn-geno-smiths-going-to-lead-us-to-the-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556666\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Glenn: Geno Smith&#8217;s going to lead us to the promised land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jets head coach Aaron Glenn has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/aaron-glenn-names-geno-smith-the-starter-hes-our-guy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">already named<\/a> Geno Smith the team\u2019s starting quarterback and he\u2019s not letting Smith\u2019s down year with the Raiders in 2025 dim his expectations for what Smith will do in his return to the AFC East club. <\/p>\n<p>Glenn met with reporters at the league meeting in Arizona on Tuesday and said that he believes \u201cthere\u2019s something about a quarterback with a chip on his shoulder\u201d while discussing Smith\u2019s ability to bounce back from what happened in Las Vegas last season. Glenn touched on Smith\u2019s play over the previous three seasons in Seattle while saying that the quarterback \u201cfits exactly what we\u2019re trying to do\u201d and that he has high hopes for what Smith will do now that the \u201cfoundation of our offense\u201d is in place. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like he\u2019s the guy who\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PDvYQZLe1EM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gonna lead us<\/a> to the promised land,\u201d Glenn said. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long search for the promised land for the Jets and Smith being the guy to get them there after flaming out as a second-round pick in his first stint with the team would make for quite a story, but it\u2019s a long way from Glenn\u2019s guy feeling in March to the finish line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets head coach Aaron Glenn has already named Geno Smith the team\u2019s starting quarterback and he\u2019s not letting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-556666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}