Jets coach Aaron Glenn turns to analytics, science and rest to reshape training camp schedule

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Glenn and the New York Jets took an unusual but well-researched approach to Day 3 of training camp practice.

They rested.

Glenn mapped out the team's practice schedule this summer by incorporating analytics and sports science, trying to maximize the production on the field while also giving his players ample time to properly recover physically off it.

“What my job is as a coach is, I understand the acclimation from the NFL as far as you go from the offseason, then now you’re in no pads to try to get into pads, and I truly understand that,” Glenn said Thursday after the Jets' second practice of camp. “But my job is to acclimate our players to get ready for the regular season.”

The Jets reported for camp on Tuesday, then had two practices and were off the field Friday, although the team was still doing classroom work and meetings. They'll be back on the field Saturday, then the players will have a full day off Sunday before returning for two more practices.

It's a far cry from the rigorous two-a-day camp practices the 54-year-old Glenn endured during a 15-year NFL playing career.

To kick off Glenn's first training camp as a head coach last summer, the Jets practiced the first four days after reporting, had one day off, practiced two days, had another day off and then were back on the field for three straight days.

But it's becoming more common around the league for teams to lean on analytics, artificial intelligence and sports science to try to improve, prepare and avoid injuries.

“I showed (the players) a graph to where the first week, the highest amount of reps we get is 24 reps and then we’re going to recover, then we’ll bring it down,” Glenn said. “So, we had two practices on (the field) and then we bring it down for recovery, and then it jumps back up. So, the next week, the highest amount of reps we’ll have is 32, all right, and then we’ll recover again. Then the next week, the highest amount of reps will be 40.

"So what I’m trying to do is get our guys to be ready to play 65 to 75 plays a game and that’s my job as a coach to be able to do that.”

The Jets, looking to bounce back from a 3-14 season, hired Iwao Fusillo as their chief data and analytics officer in January to help, along with director of analytics and strategy Sean Clement, unify football analytics, business intelligence and application development throughout the organization.

General manager Darren Mougey is already seeing the benefits of using analytics and artificial intelligence to help evaluate the Jets' roster, along with those of the other teams around the league and college players.

“It’s a different lens,” Mougey said. “It’s been very helpful, it’s important. On the AI front to this point is what it’s helped with the most is the automation of things. We’re saving a lot of man hours being able to automate information and systems and spit it out quickly. So, it’s been huge and I look forward to the continued growth as an organization with the AI and analytics.”

Meanwhile, Alexander Carnall, the team’s sports science coordinator since 2024, collaborates with Erik Korem, the Jets’ director of player performance, and head strength and conditioning coach Corey Smith and their staffs and the trainers to maximize the on-field work.

The Jets are scheduled to have at least 15 full practices in training camp, including hosting two joint sessions with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before their preseason opener on Aug. 14. New York will be at Pittsburgh on Aug. 21, then host the Giants on Aug. 28. The Jets open the regular season on the road against former coach Robert Saleh and the Titans in Tennessee on Sept. 13.

“So each week, you’ll start to see those reps go up, you start to see that yardage that they have to have, and that’s the analytics part of it, yardage will go up also,” Glenn said. “And that’s what I try to create. So when you see the day off and the days on, you’ll see it go like this here (points up).

"And that’s the reason why, man, I’m trying to get max reps, then I’m trying to recover. Max reps, then recover.”

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New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Jets' Darrell Jackson Jr (78), center, and others participate during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Jets' Garrett Wilson, right, talks to teammates during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Jets' offensive coordinator Frank Reich, left, and Garrett Wilson participate in a drill during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn talks to staff during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — Jurors walked through the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, a rare visit Friday that let them see firsthand the place where an outwardly ordinary family life unraveled into tragedy.

After being driven past two businesses relevant to the narrative of the January 2023 killings, jurors were escorted in groups of six to view the inside of the house, including the basement where the children died. During the roughly 40-minute visit, the jury also saw the yard where Clancy was found after jumping from a second-story window.

Journalists were kept away by a police barricade, but court officers could be seen through the trees escorting jurors to and from the bus along the site of the Clancy family’s former driveway. The home now has a new owner.

Clancy herself did not attend the visit to the home, which she hasn't seen since the day of the killings. Her lawyers argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

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Jurors in U.S. criminal cases often are expressly told not to visit the scene of the events in question. There are a number of rationales for not doing so — among other things, the site may have changed in the interim between an alleged crime and a trial.

But courts sometimes allow juries to make a supervised excursion as a group, for reasons that can include assessing distances or features that aren’t thought to come across fully in photos.

Such excursions have happened in a number of high-profile cases, including the 2023 murder trial of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, the 2022 sentencing trial of Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz, the 2015 Massachusetts murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez and the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson.

Jurors in Clancy's trial retraced the route her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, took when she asked him to pick up takeout food and medicine for daughter Cora on the night of the killings. He returned to find the children dead and his then-wife badly injured and bleeding in the yard.

The panel was driven past the restaurant — about 5.5 miles (9 kilometers) from the family’s former home in Duxbury, a town south of Boston — and the pharmacy, about a mile (1.6 km) from the house.

Prosecutors say the errands were a ruse to get her husband out of the house. They say Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible for the deaths of children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months.

Her lawyers don't dispute that she killed the children, but they say she had bipolar disorder and her condition worsened while she was on antidepressants prescribed after the birth of her third child. She believed a voice was telling her to “kill the children so you can kill yourself,” according to her lawyers.

Lindsay Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down after using multiple methods to try to end her life that night.

If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

Defendant Lindsay Clancy awaits the start of proceedings during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, July 30, 2026. (CJ Gunther/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool) CORRECTION: Source is The Boston Herald, not The Boston Globe.

Kevin Reddington, defense attorney gestures as he cross-examines a witness during the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, July 30, 2026. (CJ Gunther/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Duxbury fire department Capt. PJ Hussey points to photograph as he testifies during the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, July 30, 2026. (CJ Gunther/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Defendant Lindsay Clancy listens during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, July 30, 2026. (CJ Gunther/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

A police barricade stands outside the former home of Lindsay Clancy in Duxbury, Mass., on Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)