{"id":210559,"date":"2025-01-15T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=210559"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:21:17","slug":"saints-head-coach-search-aaron-glenn-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/15\/saints-head-coach-search-aaron-glenn-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Head Coaching Search Receives Grim Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are still looking for their next head coach, although Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn appears to be the frontrunner. While he&#8217;s best known for his time with the Lions, Glenn spent his final year as a player with the New Orleans Saints and served as the defensive backs coach from 2016 to 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/10\/24\/new-orleans-saints-general-manager-mickey-loomis-is-on-the-offensive\/\" target=\"_self\">General Manager Mickey Loomis<\/a> likes to hire familiar faces, but Glenn&#8217;s resume gives more than enough reason to believe he can be a good head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Lions entered the season with one of the most stacked rosters in football but suffered an absurd amount of injuries throughout the season. Despite losing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/10\/15\/how-the-lions-can-recover-from-the-loss-of-aidan-hutchinson\/\" target=\"_self\">star players like Aidan Hutchinson<\/a>, Glenn&#8217;s unit remained one of the best in the league and helped guide the team to the top seed in the NFC playoff picture. Fellow head coach candidate Ben Johnson <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1879600663216415208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently said<\/a> that Glenn is &#8220;more prepared to be a head coach than maybe, anybody I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; which should increase his intrigue across the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach hires are difficult to predict, but all signs point toward Aaron Glenn being a solid hire for the Saints. The only problem is Glenn might not want to come to New Orleans. According to a recent report by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Jets<\/a> beat reporter Brian Costello, Glenn wants to land with New York. While the Jets have not yet hired anyone, New Orleans might have to pivot and hire a different head coach to replace Dennis Allen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Glenn has told people &quot;the Jets&quot; are his first choice for a HC job, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BrianCoz<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ivwf6ZnSOK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ivwf6ZnSOK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brgridiron\/status\/1879614956628512874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Aaron Glenn Might Not Want to Be Saints Next Head Coach<\/h2>\n<p>The New Orleans Saints are not the most attractive destination for head coach candidates. While teams like the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_self\">New England Patriots<\/a> could offer a young franchise quarterback and plenty of cap space, the New Orleans Saints are stuck with the unremarkable Derek Carr and a salary cap nightmare brought on by almost a decade of salary cap manipulation. No matter who the Saints hire, the team will struggle to build a sustained winner in this environment.<\/p>\n<p>With that being said, are the New York Jets a better fit? While nobody can deny the appeal of America&#8217;s largest city, the organization itself is in disarray. Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams probably won&#8217;t be back, they have no clear path to find a young quarterback, and owner Woody Johnson has made all the wrong headlines over the past month or two. From the outside looking in, neither place is a perfect landing spot, so perhaps the Saints could convince Glenn to change his mind and be their next head coach.<\/p>\n<h3>Plan B<\/h3>\n<p>Of course, if the Saints lose Aaron Glenn to the New York Jets, they could still land a good candidate. The Dallas Cowboys announced <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/15\/cowboys-micah-parsons-could-request-trade-mike-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_self\">Mike McCarthy will not be back<\/a> in 2025, and New Orleans is reportedly interested in the one-time Super Bowl champion. McCarthy isn&#8217;t the NFL&#8217;s best head coach by any stretch of the imagination, but he&#8217;d fit well with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Leading a locker room isn&#8217;t easy, and McCarthy has proven over most of the past two decades that he is up for the job. While they have different public perceptions, Mike McCarthy and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/11\/22\/accepting-the-fact-sean-payton-did-indeed-leave-the-building\/\" target=\"_self\">Saints legend Sean Payton<\/a> have <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaulHembo\/status\/1879191989012550105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remarkably similar resumes<\/a>. Glenn offers the promise of the unknown and should be the preferred option of the two. However, the Saints could do a lot worse than McCarthy, and the former Cowboy should keep the team afloat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Junfu Han &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints are looking for their next head coach, and their top choice might not be willing to join the Big Easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":210563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7463,7330,246,7659],"class_list":["post-210559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saints","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-new-york-jets-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-saints-featured"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210564,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210559\/revisions\/210564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}