Aaron Glenn heads to the Jets as the brain drain in Detroit continues
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
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Summary
One week ago, the Lions were one of the favorites to win Super Bowl LIX. Now, they are an eliminated team that has lost both of its coordinators. Zack Rosenblatt joins Robert Mays to discuss Aaron Glenn signing on as head coach of the Jets on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Then, Colton Pouncy jumps on to dig into where the Lions go from here now that Glenn and Ben Johnson have left for head coaching jobs.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Zack Rosenblatt and Colton Pouncy
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.1 | Big news today, Aaron Glenn, heading to the Jets as their next head coach. |
| 0:11.6 | Our preview show is the next show that we had on the docket. |
| 0:13.9 | So I wanted to take some time and some space to actually discuss the Aaron Glenn move |
| 0:18.0 | and not step on the conference championship game previews that we're |
| 0:20.9 | going to have rolling out on Friday. So here to help me do that today are our two writers who cover |
| 0:25.6 | the teams involved. First off, it's our Jets writer at the athletic, Zach Rosenblatt, talking about why |
| 0:30.8 | the New York Jets landed on Aaron Glenn, what this means for the future of the franchise and some of the |
| 0:37.0 | other decisions that are still to come for the Jets here over the next couple months. |
| 0:40.6 | We also chat with Colton Pouncey, who covers the Lions for us here at the Athletic, to discuss what happens next in Detroit. |
| 0:47.8 | You move on from both coordinators, who are the candidates to fill those jobs? |
| 0:51.4 | Are they in-house? |
| 0:52.2 | Are they going to look outside? |
| 0:53.5 | And what role |
| 0:54.3 | does Dan Campbell have to play in all of this as the Lions retool really for the first time since |
| 1:00.4 | he took over? Before we dig into any of that, though, a little bit of breaking news happened right |
| 1:05.3 | before we started recording. Trent Balke is out as the Jacksonville Jaguars GM. I don't remember what sort of language they used in the statement, conscious uncoupling, something in that regard about them deciding to move on from Balke and him deciding to move on from them. |
| 1:22.5 | Better late than never, I guess. I think that's really the only place I land in this. The fact that now you've |
| 1:28.1 | missed out potentially on multiple head coaching candidates because you decided to retain a GM that |
| 1:34.0 | I don't understand the argument for retaining. This is now multiple cycles of trying to hire a head |
| 1:40.2 | coach where they kept a general manager who hasn't done an overwhelmingly good job. |
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