When Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn finished his second interview for a head coaching job—this one for his former employer, the New Orleans Saints—Lions head coach Dan Campbell was certain that was it. Glenn would be gone in Detroit after just one season.
“I really did (think he was gone),” Campbell said on Thursday. “Look, I have a tremendous amount of trust and confidence in AG. I just do. He is more than worthy of being a head coach, he’s more than qualified of being a head coach in this league.”
The Lions were in Mobile, Alabama the week Glenn interviewed with the Saints, and as Campbell wandered the city, a sense of dread came over him at the thought of losing Glenn.