The 2025 NFL regular season has come to an end, and when the regular season ends as always for the last 15 years so does the New York Jets season.
It was an abysmal season for the Jets, maybe their worst season ever based on statistics. Head Coach Aaron Glenn in his first season led the team to a 3-14 record.
It was a season where both sides of the ball were horrendous. Just to set the scene, New York lost its final five regular season games and they lost every one of those game by 23 points or more, making it the first time that has ever happened in NFL history.
On the offensive side of the ball, outside of Breece Hall who became the Jets first 1,000-yard rusher since Chris Ivory last did it in 2015, New York was terrible. New York started three different quarterbacks this season in Justin Fields, Tyrod Taylor, and Brady Cook and none of them threw for 10 touchdowns or more.
New York didn’t even have a wide receiver break 400 receiving yards this year. To make it crazier, Garrett Wilson was the team’s leading receiver with 395 yards and he only played six games this season due to injury.
The Jets ranked 32nd in point differential, turnover differential, and yard differential. They are the only team to ever finish last in all three categories. Speaking of turnovers, New York’s defense produced zero interceptions for the entire season. Once again. The first team to ever do that in NFL history.
It is safe to say this was a historically bad year for a franchise that has had plenty of bad seasons in their history, but the 2025 season might just take the cake.
What makes it most concerning is coach Glenn is supposed to be a defensive minded coach who played Defensive Back in the league. Yet, he could not coach his team to get one single interception all year.
Yes, this Jets roster is bad, yes they traded away their two best defensive players at the deadline in Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner. But should it ever be this bad? It wasn’t just bad, it was historically bad. To the point you could make the case that Aaron Glenn should have been one and done.
It seems that will not be the case though. Glenn seems to be safe for at least another season. It doesn’t look as if head coaching candidates like John Harbaurgh and Kevin Stefanski will tempt owner Woody Johnson into firing Glenn after one season. It is understandable to not want to fire a coach after just one year especially when you knew it was a rebuilding season. But if there was ever a valid time for a coach to be fired after one year, Glenn would perfectly fit that description.
However, here are two positives from this Jets season. The moves they made at the deadline look to be good deals. They traded Gardner to the Colts who missed the playoffs, and now the Jets own their next two first round picks. They acquired the Cowboys’ second round pick for the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft when they traded Williams to them and Dallas as well missed the playoffs. The draft capital New York gained this season is positive.
The other positive to the season is that New York was at least bad enough to get the second overall pick in the upcoming draft. Normally, the Jets would ruin their draft position by winning a meaningless game or two late in the year. Luckily this team, New York, was too historically terrible to even come close to winning a fourth or fifth game.
As far as a short-term look into what is a huge offseason for the organization and this current regime, as of right now, barring any moves the team makes, the Jets have roughly $66 million in cap space to work with in free agency.
For the draft, which once again is an organization-changing draft that will make or break this team for the next few years, New York currently has two first rounds picks at second overall, and No.16 overall. They also have two second round picks currently sitting at No.33 and No.44 as well as a bunch of other picks to fill the later rounds.
It’s an understatement to say the Jets have a lot of work to do on fixing both sides off the ball. They need to overturn and rebuild the entire roster if they want any shot of coming closer to snapping their streak of missing the playoffs next season as well as this current regime keeping their jobs.
They have plenty of money, and plenty of draft capital to have a significant turnaround from this abysmal three win season. There is no excuse for them going into the 2026 season. But as we all know, it doesn’t matter what pieces around the offense or defense they bring in this offseason to improve this team if they can’t find the right quarterback to run this team.
Quarterback will be the main focus and priority of this team’s offseason and if they do not find one that can play at a competent level then we will be back here in 2026, once again talking about another bad Jets season as well as who will be their next head coach. Glenn’s job desperately depends on this offseason.
