Robert Saleh Offers First Comments Since Abrupt Split From Jets, Aaron Rodgers
The New York Jets axed head coach Robert Saleh quickly following the team’s 2-3 start to the season, ending the 45-year-old’s run at three seasons and some change before appointing Jeff Ulbrich as the interim coach at the helm moving forward.
Saleh and the Jets were extremely hopeful and optimistic about the present time once future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers joined the program. But just four plays into the 2023 campaign, Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles injury which left Saleh and New York to bite the bullet of watching Zack Wilson for a mediocre 17-week stretch. Now left unemployed, Saleh doesn’t seem too bothered about the split.
“Living the dream, brother,” Saleh told TMZ when spotted at a grocery store in New Jersey.
Shortly after showing Saleh the door, a week later in fact, the Jets acquired star wideout Davante Adams to help bolster the roster’s offense — and reunite Rodgers with his former Green Bay Packers right-hand man. It likely added salt to Saleh’s wound in watching the front office land a potential season-altering talent, days after being fired less than halfway through the season. Nevertheless, Saleh isn’t convinced that he won’t return to an NFL sideline at some point in the future.
“God willingly,” Saleh responded when asked by TMZ.
Saleh finished an almost four-year run in New York going 20-36 as head coach of the Jets while the team followed his departure up with a 23-20 loss to the division-rival Buffalo Bills, dragging New York down to third in the AFC East at 2-4.