Firing Steve Wilkes is not going to fix everything for the Jets, but it's a move the team needed to make.

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Well, the Jets made a big move yesterday firing defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes. We're going to talk about all the implications of that move. We'll discuss some potential candidates to replace

Wilkes in 2026. We'll talk about why this move raises some uncomfortable questions

about head coach Aaron Glenn, but let's begin by talking about why this move was essential.

I think too often the discourse about keeping a coach or firing a coach is misguided.

I think that we ask the wrong questions. If a coach has a good season,

we say he should stay. It's a reward for performing well. If a coach has a bad season,

we say he should be fired. It's a punishment for performing poorly. Frequently, when a,

when a coach who has not gotten good results keeps his job, people complain that

there's a lack of accountability within the organization.

I don't think that that's the right way to judge things.

On the same note, I think too often we think that coaches either have 100% of the blame for

an issue or 0% of the blame for an issue.

And that's a very tempting thing, a very tempting way to look at the Jets coaching staff this year. You can easily look at the offensive side of the ball with Tanner-angstrand and say, well, look at his quarterbacks. How could anybody be expected to get good results? I think you could also, to a lesser extent, say that about the defense. You could say, you know, the Jets don't really have great personnel. They traded their two best players at the deadline. What are you expecting? The answer is that I'm

expecting the team to show some degree of professionalism. The Jets may be putting a very poor

roster on the field these next couple of weeks, and they may have put a very poor roster on the

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