On Tuesday, the NFL neighborhood was shocked that New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson fired head coach Robert Saleh roughly 48 hours after the Jets fell to 2-3 on the season through this previous Sunday’s 23-17 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London.
In accordance with Jets/NFL insider Connor Hughes of SNY, folks throughout the group have been additionally surprised by Johnson’s resolution to advertise defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich to interim head coach.
Saleh went 18-33 throughout his first three seasons as Jets head coach however held onto his job this previous winter primarily as a result of he, much-maligned offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and basic supervisor Joe Douglas were all backed by quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Nevertheless, former Jets signal-caller and present NFL analyst Boomer Esiason instructed as not too long ago as last week that there was a “main challenge” between Saleh and Rodgers amid the workforce’s offensive struggles.
ESPN stats present that the Jets started Tuesday ranked twenty seventh within the league with a mean of 286.6 offensive yards per recreation and twenty fifth with a mean of 18.6 factors scored per contest. In accordance with Dianna Russini of The Athletic, Johnson did not think about such manufacturing adequate.
“Johnson views this as a workforce able to compete now and wished to make a transfer to get issues heading in the right direction earlier than it was too late,” Russini reported in regards to the firing of Saleh.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter echoed such takes and reported throughout a Tuesday morning on-air phase that Johnson was discouraged by how the Jets appeared “off” in back-to-back defeats and did not need to “squander” what will be the last season of Rodgers’ profession as an energetic participant. Rodgers stated this past summer he wished to offer the Jets “two nice years” coming off the season-ending torn Achilles he suffered in Week 1 of the 2023 marketing campaign, however that was earlier than the longer term Corridor of Famer, who turns 41 this December, was hobbled by accidents to each of his knees and a low ankle sprain this fall.
Hughes shared over the weekend that Rodgers not too long ago acknowledged he and Father Time “are exchanging ‘physique blows'” and are “at present in a ‘stalemate.'”
On paper, firing a defensive-minded coach like Saleh alone will not repair all that’s wrong with the Gang Inexperienced offense. However, Johnson believed placing Ulbrich in cost forward of New York’s upcoming “Monday Evening Soccer” dwelling recreation in opposition to the 3-2 Buffalo Payments was the one solution to save a season at risk of spiraling uncontrolled.
