ATLANTA – Maybe Aaron Glenn isn’t a short time away from his debut as a rookie NFL head coach if he didn’t follow through on some pertinent advice from Bill Parcells.
Be a scout.
That was not exactly what Glenn wanted to hear in 2012, four years after retiring from a stellar 15-year career as an NFL cornerback, when the bug hit him to try getting back in the league to pursue a coaching career.
“He told me that he wanted me to scout first, because I had a chance to be a head coach,” the New York Jets coach told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. “And to be a good head coach, you’ve got to understand personnel. So, listen, I did not want to do it at all. I wanted to go straight to coaching.
“But man, that was the best advice I could have gotten.”
