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The repetitiveness and stringency of NFL training camp will be fragmented for the Jets and Giants on Saturday when both play their first preseason games of the 2025 campaign. The Jets will face the Green Bay Packers on the road at 8:00 p.m., and the Giants will be upstate to take on the Buffalo Bills at 1:00 p.m.
Every play call, each snap, and all minute details will be highly scrutinized and dissected, not just by the respective head coaches — Aaron Glenn for the Jets and Brian Daboll for the Giants — but by fans who are beyond exasperated as the constant losing seasons have challenged their loyalty.
It’s been 14 years since the Jets have made the playoffs, the longest futility streak by a franchise of the four major North American sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL).
Jets running back Breece Hall and Giants rookie linebacker Abdul Carter are critically important players to team’s desired success. (Credit: Abdul Carter Photo AP/Adam Hunger)
The Giants have made it to the postseason just once in the past eight years, in 2022, Daboll’s first season as the head coach. Now in his fourth year, Daboll’s window to remain in the position is much narrower than Glenn’s, the Jets’ first-round pick in 1994 out of Texas A&M, whose long-term charge is to develop a sustained winning program, and immediate mission is day-over-day progress and consistent competitiveness week after week.
The 53-year-old Glenn, who came to the Jets after four seasons as the Detroit Lions’ defensive coordinator, has already put his imprint on an evolving culture.
“He wants a football player that’s smart, that’s going to give 110 [%] every play, and someone he can rely on,” said Jets running back Breece Hall via Jets.com this past weekend. “I think those are the biggest three things.”
Glenn is demanding that his players meld their mental acuity and physical attributes to limit mistakes, a central focus of the Jets’ training camp.
“It’s no secret that we were the most penalized team in the league last year, so that’s one of the things that I want to nip in the bud early,” Glenn said. “Making sure that the discipline part of what we do — we fix that now. You cannot win games in this league with an undisciplined team, so all the penalties that we had last year — we’re knocking those things out, and we want to make sure that we’re good at that.”
The Giants are hopeful that rookie first-round picks, linebacker Abdul Carter, chosen the No. 3 overall, and quarterback Jaxon Dart, selected at No. 25 in April’s NFL draft, will be cornerstones for years to come. In the case of Carter, his impact will be crucial to the team’s targeted success pronto.