"I was there for one season -- it was a very difficult season -- and I almost wanted to waver on some of my thoughts and my beliefs and my optimism. So I can't imagine being there for year after year after year after year and not seeing the results that you wanted, and it tainted people."
"because my coach is going to get fired, my teammate's going to get fired, I'm going to be a free agent, I might get fired, I have to play for me, I have to make sure my tape is hot regardless of what the system is asking me to do, what the scheme is telling me to do. 'Then young players come in and see, 'Oh, that's my vet, that's how they're acting, so that's the way I'm going to act, too.' It's a long chain of things and it can't be fixed like that."
Harrison Phillips called the Jets' locker-room culture 'cancerous' and 'truculent,' saying first-year coach Aaron Glenn inherited a deeply toxic environment after a 3-14 season. He explained that repeated losing seasons shifted player priorities toward individual tape and self-preservation amid fears of firings and free agency. Phillips warned that young players emulate negative veteran behavior, perpetuating the problem. He cited 10 straight losing seasons and 15 consecutive years out of the playoffs as evidence of an entrenched mindset. Phillips emphasized the issue is systemic, not individual, and that cultural repair will take multiple years.
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