Did the Jets find an answer, or merely a scapegoat, by firing Robert Saleh?
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We're used to big news dropping on Tuesdays, but this one was entirely different. The Robert Saleh firing—especially the timing of it—surprised the NFL world, and that's where Robert Mays and Diante Lee of The Ringer begin this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also recap the Chiefs' win over the Saints on Monday Night Football, dig into the Seahawks' run defense and the deteriorating situation in Cleveland, and bat around questions for three good offenses—the Texans, Bengals, 49ers and Bills.
Then, John Shipley from Sports Illustrated joins to engage in some franchise counseling for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Rundown
- Jets fire Robert Saleh
- Saints-Chiefs recap
- Upon Further Review: Seattle's run defense
- Upon Further Review: The nightmare in Cleveland
- The Ball Knower
- Houston's early down problems
- San Francisco's passing game
- Buffalo's recent struggles
- Franchise Counseling: Jacksonville Jaguars
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime |
| 0:07.9 | Video. I'm Robert Mays, another midweek show for you guys today. Got a couple different guests. |
| 0:12.5 | A little bit later in the show, John Shipley is going to be joining us to chat Jags. John is a |
| 0:16.1 | fantastic Jaguars writer who knows that team very well. I just wanted to get a sense of where things |
| 0:20.4 | stand right now. After that 014 star, I know they won on Sunday, but how are we feeling about Trevor Lawrence's culpability in all this? How are we feeling about where this team exists under Doug Peterson? We laid out like a three or four-prong plan to potentially, if not fix the Jaguars, then send them in a slightly better direction over the |
| 0:38.8 | next year or so. Before we dig into that, though, our old buddy Deont-A Lee joined us to chat |
| 0:43.4 | about a few different things. We did the ball knower, upon further review, all of our midweek |
| 0:47.3 | segments, but also we had some big time news to dig into. Before we started recording the show, |
| 0:52.6 | Robert Sala fired by the New York Jets. |
| 0:55.2 | We broke down every bit of that. |
| 0:57.7 | Why now? |
| 0:58.6 | What this means for the Jets? |
| 0:59.9 | Where they go from here? |
| 1:01.3 | We also talked a little bit about Monday Night Football, |
| 1:03.3 | but obviously the big news of the day is the Robert Sala firing. |
| 1:07.3 | So let's get to that with De Yante right now. |
| 1:16.3 | Thank you. all firing. So let's get to that with Deaute right now. Joining us now, it is our old friend from The Ringer. It's DeAte Lee. |
| 1:19.8 | Jante, how you doing, man? |
| 1:21.0 | Feels good to be here. It's a little weird looking at these graphics again around the screen |
| 1:25.5 | for the first time in a little while but i mean i've been i've |
| 1:29.2 | been eagerly waiting to talk ball with you again for you know after a long while of not doing so so i'm glad to |
| 1:36.0 | be back we had an idea that we wanted to do today it was a defense-centric idea which shouldn't surprise |
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