'I'm going to get Dan back': Aaron Glenn ready to add to legacy in Jets-Dolphins rivalry

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Aaron Glenn vowed vengeance. It came aft 1 of his lowest moments successful nonrecreational football. He didn't archer reporters, and helium didn't denote it connected societal media due to the fact that that wasn't a happening successful 1994. He told 1 of his New York Jets teammates, Victor Green, and they kept it quiescent for years.

"AG had a mean streak to him," Green recalled past week. "He ne'er forgot the plays that were made connected him, and helium ever tried to get you back."

This was an all-timer, 1 of the astir memorable gadget plays successful NFL past -- and Glenn happened to autumn unfortunate to Dan Marino's wizardry.

Naturally, we're talking astir "the fake spike" play, erstwhile the Miami Dolphins legendary quarterback, successful the last seconds of a captious AFC East showdown, made the Jets judge helium was going to timepiece the shot lone to propulsion an 8-yard touchdown to Mark Ingram for a 28-24 victory.

Most of Glenn's teammates remained stationary astatine the snap, reasoning Marino was simply going to halt the timepiece by spiking it. Glenn, a rookie cornerback, was the defender connected Ingram's stop-fade route. It took him a 2nd oregon 2 to admit the ruse; the flimsy hesitation proved costly.

It's remembered arsenic 1 of the darkest moments successful Jets' history, starting a tailspin that lasted two-plus seasons. They mislaid 32 of their adjacent 36 games, reinforcing the three-word communicative that has haunted the franchise for a half-century and 1 that Glenn referenced aft the Jets suffered a last-second nonaccomplishment to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful Week 3.

Same Old Jets.

"It's a play I'll ne'er hide due to the fact that it went to my guy," Glenn told ESPN galore years aft the play, "but I retrieve telling Victor Green connected the sideline, 'I'm going to get Dan backmost for that.'"

He did.

Two years later, Glenn exacted his revenge with a 100-yard interception instrumentality for a touchdown against Marino. He high-stepped the past 20 yards, dancing successful the extremity portion with a shoulder-shimmy that resembled past week's viral sideline celebration.

Now, 53 years aged and gray, Glenn returns to this past AFC East rivalry arsenic a first-year caput coach. The Jets and Dolphins, some 0-3, volition conscionable for the 120th clip Monday nighttime (7:15 p.m. ET, ESPN) astatine Hard Rock Stadium. The all-time bid is into its seventh decade.

Once again, Glenn is the rookie. Once again, he's getting picked on, not by a Hall of Fame backmost but by a tortured instrumentality basal starving for a winner.

This time, helium vows to beryllium acceptable from the snap. And, arsenic always, there's getback connected his mind.

THE DOLPHINS HAVE provided symptom and euphoria for Glenn, who went from the fake spike to the pick-six to the "Monday nighttime miracle" successful 2000 -- 1 of the top wins successful Jets history. Oct. 23 volition people the 25th day of that game, a four-hour classical successful which the Jets prevailed successful overtime, 40-37, aft trailing by 23 astatine the commencement of the 4th quarter. It's tied for the second-largest 4th fourth comeback successful NFL history.

"That was an outstanding game," Glenn recalled past week. "Just erstwhile everybody thought the crippled was implicit -- and that's 1 happening that we speech astir now, conscionable the content that nary substance what the concern is, you tin ever travel backmost and triumph the game."

In immoderate ways, the afloat Jets acquisition -- the full star-crossed past -- tin beryllium framed by the fake spike and the Monday nighttime miracle. Glenn is 1 of lone six Jets that played successful some games.

The Jets were 6-6 aft the fake spike, inactive live successful the AFC wild-card race, but they lacked the intelligence toughness to retrieve from what then-coach Pete Carroll called "a staggering defeat." So staggering that Carroll, who would spell connected to large occurrence with USC and the Read Entire Article