The New York Jets have fired head coach Robert Saleh, making him the first coach to lose his job during the 2024 NFL season. The move comes in just four days “Jump right on,” Saleh told British reporters. [Jets] “Bandwagon” It looked like it was going to be full.
Sadly for Saleh and the Jets, the bandwagon broke a wheel, crashed into a pile of horse manure, and then burst into flames, sending smoldering fecal smoke into neighboring counties. New York was close on the scoreboard to the Vikings in London, but the game had a similar feel to it. Aaron Rodgers played the worst game of his career, the offense couldn't find its rhythm, and the team fell to 2-3 on the season.
That job will fall to defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich. he was named interim head coach. Ulbrich avoided the obvious mistake of replacing him with Rodgers' friend Nathaniel Hackett, and was the smartest decision the Jets could have made based on their coaching staff.
For Saleh, this is a shocking end to a disappointing era. Saleh, who is widely viewed as a home run pick in 2021, came to New York immediately after a Super Bowl appearance with the San Francisco 49ers and served as defensive coordinator. Saleh, one of the most coveted coaches on the market, believed he could bring back the solid defense that built the team's identity.
What followed was overwhelming mediocrity. The Jets had their backs on quarterback Zach Wilson from the start, leading to an offensive mess that the defense couldn't fix. Then, it was believed that signing Aaron Rodgers in a trade would put the team in contention for a Super Bowl appearance, but now the Jets are stuck in the same mediocrity they have been for most of the franchise's history. trapped in a state of
For better or worse, this is Aaron Rodgers' team right now. Only time will tell if Ulbrich has the ability to pull the team out of its doldrums, or if Saleh was just a scapegoat for the failures of the team's aging quarterback.
