The large information throughout the NFL on Tuesday is the New York Jets’ resolution to fireplace Robert Saleh after he had been their head coach for 3 seasons and alter.
Previous to being employed by New York for the 2021 season, he had spent 4 seasons because the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator beneath head coach Kyle Shanahan.
Shanahan admitted that he was “pretty shocked” by the Jets giving Saleh the axe, per 95.7 The Recreation.
“Yeah I was pretty shocked,” Shanahan stated.
Kyle Shanahan on the firing of Robert Saleh: “Yeah I was pretty shocked.” pic.twitter.com/8rNVy6SxWo
— 95.7 The Recreation (@957thegame) October 8, 2024
Saleh had beforehand spent a few years as an assistant for the Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks and Jacksonville Jaguars earlier than the Niners employed him previous to the 2017 marketing campaign.
Because the Niners introduced in expertise on the defensive facet of the soccer, Saleh made them into an elite defensive group, which was ok to get them to the brink of successful the Tremendous Bowl championship throughout the 2019 season.
As soon as he was fired on Tuesday, there was on the spot hypothesis about whether or not he could return to his prior publish in San Francisco, however it seems like that received’t be occurring.
The most recent on Robert Saleh and what his plans for the remainder of the season are based on @MikeSilver 👀#49ers || #FTTB pic.twitter.com/q7tbcy2OTu
— OurSF49ers (@OurSf49ers) October 8, 2024
There has additionally been hypothesis that Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers orchestrated Saleh’s firing, though there isn’t a concrete proof to assist that rumor, no less than not proper now.
New York is 2-3, and whereas it might be argued that a few performs going the opposite manner might’ve resulted in them being no less than 3-2 proper now, its offense is clearly struggling.
Rodgers merely isn’t the participant he was simply three or 4 years in the past, and operating again Breece Corridor, who was regarded as a rising star, is averaging a weak 3.0 yards per carry by 5 video games.
