The Jets started the 2025 season 1-7 and decided to become the NFL trade deadline’s biggest sellers, trading All-Pro defenders Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams on Tuesday. It was a shocking turn of events. Even in the very likely scenario New York fails to win many games by the end of the season those two were thought to be cornerstones of the roster who would make up the foundation of rookie coach Aaron Glenn’s future plans.
Obviously that is no longer the case. Glenn, who just earned his first win in Week 8, will go to work for the rest of the year with a roster drained of its top talent by the deadline. He addressed the media on Wednesday and described what it was like to wave goodbye to his two stars. Then, when asked what he would say to Jets fans who just watched their favorite team offload what little talent the roster boasted, Glenn offered something of a brutal line about how he still wants fans to be proud of his team—but he never promised that that would happen right away.
