Mike Tannenbaum, a founder of The 33rd Team, which consulted on and aided in the search with Chairman Woody Johnson and others on the hiring of Glenn and GM Darren Mougey, said: “To be candid, I just knew this is somebody that’s a first-round draft choice who obviously had great talent, but you’re not a first-rounder or play for as long or at as high as a level as he did without innate competitiveness, discipline, whatever. And again as Coach [Bill] Parcells said, start from a team-building standpoint, scouting, and obviously, the rest is history. And he’s paid his dues.”
For a defensive mastermind, a shutdown corner in his days on the field and a canny DC who played a pivotal role in helping the Lions become a force in the NFC Central, Glenn’s philosophy can be summed up in four words: Get to the quarterback.
“I mean, every defense has to start with, how are you going to affect a quarterback?” said Brian Baldinger of NFL Network. “Are you going to be a four-man rush team and are you going to try to win with your four the way the Eagles do and are doing right now? Or are you going to be a team that wants to bring a variety of different pressures, like Kansas City to get to the quarterback? I think it starts with, how are you going to affect the quarterback? Because we’ve all seen that it really doesn’t matter what the name of the back of the jersey is if you give those guys time and they’re not hit, they’re not affected – they all can be successful.”
As a former Jets player, and a current NFL analyst and newyorkjets.com contributor, Leger Douzable said that Glenn is the right man at the right time for the Green & White.
“I just think when you talk about a guy that’s been in the building, that’s bled green and white, I think we needed that in the building to change the culture, right?” Douzable said. “He’s a guy that also was an undersized corner; he’s got a scrappy mentality.”
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