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Can Firing Robert Saleh Save the Jets Year?

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One season, one achilles injury, and a meager two wins in 2024 is all the Robert Saleh - Aaron Rodgers pairing has to show for itself with the Jets. Saleh is out as head coach of Gang Green after a rough start to the season. But for Saleh, his team, and pundits everywhere, it came as a surprise. Especially considering that with a win tonight, the Jets would be in first place in the AFC East. So today, ESPN NFL Nation reporter Rich Cimini, who’s covered the Jets since the first Bush administration, explains: how it all went down, what, if anything Rodgers had to do with Saleh’s dismissal, and wonders if there’s time left, to save the Jets season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rich Samini, sadly, the New York J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets,

0:06.0

looking like an M-E-S is not an unfamiliar site,

0:10.0

so it felt pretty on-brand when the news broke last week that they were firing head coach Robert Sala.

0:15.6

They started the season two and three, but where does this rank on your what moments of the last three decades that you've been covering this team?

0:25.0

Well, I mean, it's unprecedented.

0:28.0

I think everybody's heard the news, I just want my opening statement is that this is one of the most talented teams that has ever been assembled by the New York Jets.

0:42.0

The change that we made today that I made,

0:44.8

I believe will bring new energy and positivity that will lead to more winds starting now. The Jets had never fired a coach in season over the last 25 years and

0:57.6

it's up there I mean I was sitting in the auditorium the day Bill Bellichette walked

1:02.2

to the microphone and said I'm residing as the

1:05.2

HC of the NYJ.

1:07.2

Due to the various uncertainties surrounding my position as it relates to the team's new ownership,

1:11.8

I've decided to resign as the head coach of the New York Jets.

1:15.0

I was there when some fans were flying planes over the practice field saying they needed to fire their GM John It'sick.

1:22.0

You know, it was the early part of practicing them there and I looked up and I'm like,

1:25.0

oh man, we know why our fans are frustrated.

1:28.0

They had every right to be frustrated and disappointed in the way the season is.

1:32.0

There's no question about that.

1:34.0

I was there when Gino Smith got punched in the jaw

1:37.0

by a teammate and was out for six weeks,

1:40.0

essentially losing his job to Ryan Fitzpatrick.

1:43.6

You know, there was a brief exchange between Gino and the N. I. K. in a Polly and maybe something

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