When it comes to picking a role model in his evolving career as a coach in the NFL, Jets HC Aaron Glenn is emphatic about who that guy is: Bill Parcells.

In many ways, Glenn absorbed what it takes to be a "Parcells Guy" during their encounters with the Jets in the late 1990s and later in Dallas after the turn of the century. So what makes a player an "Aaron Glenn Guy"?

"I will say again: smart, tough, aggressive and resilient," Glenn said earlier this week after practice, the first day in pads, at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center.

And when did he elbow his way firmly into the Parcells fraternity.

"It doesn't take long to become one of his guys now and when you have those traits," Glenn said. "I think Bill sees those traits in guys, and like he's attracted to that himself and there's some other things that he has, and you guys [reporters] are asking about those, but there are certain things you have. You have to be, you have to operate as I'm on the field and off the field to be a Bill Parcells guy.

"So I've always been glad he's been in my corner. He'll always be in my corner. He still coaches me to this day. But I appreciate that. I really do. I have no ego as far as being criticized by that man. So when he called, I answered and I'm here to listen to what he says. I talked to him almost once a week."

About what exactly? "That's between me and him."

Glenn is even beginning to sound like the guy.

At Camp, Praise for the 'Head Counselor'
A little more than a week into his first training camp as a head coach, Aaron Glenn has made an emphatic impact on his players, young and old, holdovers and newcomers, offense and defense.

CB Isaiah Oliver: "How you see him is literally how he is every day, which I think is the coolest thing. Just that super intense, all about ball, competitive guy. Knowing him from afar, just as a coach in the NFL, that's how I always saw him, but you never know if that's how they're walking up and down the building, but that's just how he is. So, I think that's really cool and I'm excited, for sure."

RB Breece Hall: "I just like the way he communicates. It's not passive, it's very to the point. He tells you what he needs from you, how he wants things done, and he doesn't sugarcoat anything because he's played before. He knows what we're going through, what we've been through, so it's cool to see how he goes about his business, how he treats everybody, how he acknowledges everything and everyone. As I said he's very straight and to the point."

RG Alijah Vera-Tucker: "He praises physicality, but even more, accountability. I think that's very important for a head coach to do. That's something I haven't seen as much of in my career.

QB Justin Fields: "AG is great, he's awesome, super personal when it comes to not only speaking to me, not only our relationship, but everyone's relationship. I've been saying this for a long time now, he's straightforward with it, he keeps it very blunt, but I think our relationship is very good when it comes to that, personally, and just being on the same page on how we want to lead this team, so he's great for sure."

WR Garrett Wilson: "I want to make sure I don't miss my moment while it's going on right now. Take it all in and try to make sure I'm really honing these details. At the end of the day he was a DB, so if he watches me and said you rose up or that route wasn't that, he's got the same mindset as the dudes I'm going to be going against, so it's valuable info and he's got a lot of them a lot of value info a lot of valuable nuggets that all of the guys are just trying to take in right now and see how he likes things done."

RB Braelon Allen: "It's been great. He's a great coach, great leader. I've enjoyed everything that he's about, I love everything he's about. I've enjoyed everything he's had us doing. I'm very excited to play for him."

Folk Back in the Fold
On Tuesday, the Jets re-signed kicker Nick Folk.

"Listen, he is a very established kicker in this league," Glenn said. "When you go back and you look at his stats from the last couple of years, man, they've been above board. And I've said this from the beginning, anybody that can help us win games we are going to take a look at that. Obviously, he was available, and the terms worked out. I thought Moug [GM Darren Mougey] and Nick [Nick Sabella, senior director of football administration] did a really good job, and I'm happy that he chose us to be a part of what we are trying to do."

Folk, 40, previously played 7 seasons (2010-16) for the Green & White, appearing in 104 games. Over that span, he converted on 175-of-213 field-goal attempts (82.2%) and made 204-of-206 extra-point attempts (99%). His 729 points are No. 2 on the Jets' career list, trailing only Pat Leahy's 1,470 points compiled over his 18 seasons (1974-91) and 260 games with the only NFL team he kicked for.