No coaches allowed: Aaron Glenn had his players lead a

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP)– Aaron Glenn was dissatisfied with the New York Jets’ performance in their preseason loss to the Giants last Saturday night and insisted his squad would get things cleaned up in a hurry.So, Glenn got his players together the next day for their walkthrough practice– however added a special twist.Advertisement There were no assistant coaches included. It was players only, with Glenn managing the session while quarterback Justin Fields led the offense and linebacker Jamien Sherwood the defense.”That’s a very first time for me,”security Andre Cisco,

in his fifth NFL season and first with the Jets, said Wednesday.Wide receiver Garrett Wilson first informed “Overtime “throughout an interview with the sports media company today that the group got together for the player-led session on Monday– the Jets later on clarified it was Sunday, an arranged walkthrough with no media gain access to– and” went at it” for about an hour.”Yeah,(an)ownership thing and likewise just us owning the calls, owning the defense and actually leaning into what is it that our coaches are going to be calling and why are they calling it, and can we even step in and kind of anticipate it as a defense?”Cisco stated.”So Sherwood type of took over those responsibilities on that day. And it was just player-led from that standpoint.Advertisement “So we gathered ourselves, we took ownership of how many representatives we were going to get, and after that just holding guys accountable, how we were getting to the ball, executing the calls

. Therefore it was effective.”Cornerback Michael Carter II said the practice was” nothing insane, “but echoed Cisco’s beliefs that the players delighted in being delegated the play calls during the session.”They have actually stated it, you understand,

the excellent groups are those player-led teams, “Carter said, referring to a commonly referenced vision shared by Glenn.”And the players are responsible and we understand what the standard

is and how we require to get things done and how things need to run. Therefore we got a possibility to head out there and type of prove it for the very first time, simply it being us.”Glenn is a novice head coach and a long time assistant who has bet Expense Parcells and coached under Sean Payton and Dan Campbell, among others, while working his method from being a player for 15 NFL seasons to being a leader on the sideline.Advertisement Glenn has actually acknowledged taking bits and pieces from some of the methods of his mentors and tweaking them to form his own coaching approach. He was Detroit’s defensive coordinator under Campbell in 2022, when the Lions held a similar player-led practice during training school

.”Yeah, it was personally various for me since I have actually never ever experienced that, just not having coaches out there,”said cornerback Brandon Stephens, who’s in his first season with the Jets after investing the past 4 in Baltimore. “But I believe it was fantastic for us to lead the groups by ourselves.

We didn’t have a coach to put us through like a little, sluggish tempo person(drills ).” So it was cool for us to similar to jell and simply head out there and do what we enjoy to do.”___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL