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New York Jets players aren’t necessarily being subtle about their glee over moving on from the disastrous 2023 and 2024 seasons into a new era under rookie head coach Aaron Glenn. According to Jets fans, the team’s players seem to be publicly reveling in that fact every chance they get.
Speaking to the media at training camp, running back Breece Hall didn’t even put his happiness in football terms, but rather, simple employment terms — according to Hall, it “feels a lot better” going to work this year compared to last year.
Most of Gang Green nation took Hall’s comments — the latest in a pattern from Jets players this offseason — as a shot at former head coach Robert Saleh and therefore former quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who very evidently took control of the franchise during his two miserable seasons in New York City and populated the team with his washed-up pals such as offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and wide receiver Allan Lazard.
New York Jets players are seemingly loving life without Robert Saleh and Aaron Rodgers
Breece Hall says “it feels a lot better” going to work every day, compared to last year. He says there was “a lot of instability around the whole operation” last year. Adds that players have bought into the new coaching staff. #Jets
— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) July 26, 2025
“Man, it’s so clear how much the team all collectively hated Saleh, Rodgers, Hackett, and Keith Carter,” the top reply to Cimini reads.
“Like 80% of the quotes from Jets players talking about last season are just vaguely shading everything about the organization and likely Aaron Rodgers. What a mess 2024 was,” another Jets fan added.
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Saying the quiet part out loud. He’s right and not the only one who feels that way https://t.co/MGEH5CWw40
— Will Parkinson (@Willpa11) July 26, 2025
Saleh continues to catch strays
Well deserved https://t.co/mor1giEoaj
— Joe Blewett (@Joerb31) July 26, 2025
After the bottom fell out on the Jets last year, the moribund AFC East franchise — the current owners of the longest playoff drought in American professional sports — cleared house, as they fired head coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas. Then, in March, they had Aaron Rodgers fly out from California to New Jersey for a meeting, where they decided to ultimately go in a different direction.
Luckily for football fans, Rodgers’ new team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, will be traveling to MetLife Stadium to take on the New York Jets in Week 1.