ALLEN PARK, Mich. — After more than 25 years of marriage, Devaney Glenn knew the drill. Sunday evening, she was having dinner at a restaurant with her husband, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, and after a disastrous showing by Detroit’s defense in a 48-45 home loss to Seattle that afternoon, he was more than a little worked up.
“I’m just bitching about everything,” Aaron Glenn recalled Thursday, before hitting the practice field in preparation for this week’s road trip to face the New England Patriots. “But after I finish, she’s like, ‘Are you done?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ And then she just said, ‘Well, go be A.G. Go be A.G. You’re built for this.’ And she’s right.”
And right or wrong, that’s where the confidence starts now. That’s where the surety lies, in spite of the ugly reality that Glenn’s defense ranks as the NFL’s worst — by far — a month into his second season on the job in Detroit.
