This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays, Really excited about today's show.

Jets head coach Robert Sala joined us to chat about, well, a lot of things.

We talked about the vision he and Joe Douglas had for the roster, how they align that vision,

some early impressions of Zach Wilson, how you put together a coaching staff, really enjoyed

the conversation with Coach Sala.

I think you guys will as well.

We will be here on Friday with me, Nate, and Deontay Lee from PFF, breaking down some

defensive trends in the NFL, some things that happened last year, some emerging schematic stuff

that might impact the 2021 season. Kind of similar to what me and Nate did on the offensive side of the ball a couple weeks ago. Deontay watches defense understands defense better than I do, certainly, and better than a lot of people do. So really excited to pick his brain on Friday. That's the cadence we're going to have for the next couple weeks here. A couple shows a week, and then it'll be training camp before you know it.

So really excited about this one.

Hope you guys enjoy the conversation with Coach Sala.

And I am thrilled now to be welcomed by Jets Head Coach Robert Sala, one of the people I definitely wanted to talk to when we were putting this together.

Coach, I really appreciate you taking the time. Thank you very much for doing this. Thank you for having me. It's pleasure.

So I was actually having a conversation with another head coach this week. And we were talking about

kind of what goes into that job when you eventually get into the chair and figuring out what kind of

head coach you want to be. Because it's something I'm sure you spent a lot of time thinking about

in other parts of your career.

And I'm curious throughout yours, whether it be from Gary Kubiak or Pete Carroll or even Kyle,

what would you say the most important lesson you learned from other head coaches was

when you plan on how you wanted to be when you finally got that job.

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