The Jets are entering their Week 6 “Monday Night Football” matchup against the Buffalo Bills coming off of a tumultuous week in which they parted ways with head coach Robert Saleh.
Former linebacker Tedy Bruschi, who won three Super Bowls with the Patriots and is now an ESPN analyst, spoke on “Sunday NFL Countdown” about the way owner Jets Woody Johnson has handled this past week, and how that contributes to the way the league views the team.
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“Aaron [Rodgers] said, ‘We win, we’re great. We lose, we’re the Same Old Jets.’ Well decisions like this by the owner make you the Same Old Jets,” Bruschi said, via the New York Post. “He isn’t a bad coach. He’s a coach I believe that was learning on the job. He was a coach that dealt with a young quarterback in Zach Wilson, got them through that, and then Aaron Rodgers popping his Achilles, getting them through that, and now this week, getting fired.
“In my opinion, I think this was a knee-jerk reaction. I don’t think he should’ve been [fired.] … He was trying to do head coaching things. He wanted to demote Nathaniel Hackett, take the play-calling away, which is ironically exactly what Aaron Rodgers was asking him to do, provide accountability. Remember the cadence quote, and then maybe you have to make somebody be accountable? Well let’s make the offensive coordinator be accountable.”
Saleh was fired five weeks into the season after putting up a 20-36 record across three-plus seasons as head coach. Since then, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett lost his offensive play-calling duties to Todd Downing.
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