Another week of the NFL means, of course, another week of unparalleled drama, chaotic results and storylines more suited to third-swipe-across Netflix TV shows you’ve never heard of affecting franchises around the league.
The biggest one this week obviously comes in the form of the 2-3 New York Jets sacking head coach Robert Saleh following a trip to London that saw them fall to the Minnesota Vikings 23-17 (after being down 17-0).
To say it came as a shock would be a vast overstatement: the Jets are basically a chainsaw balanced on a sledgehammer balanced on top of a stack of folding chairs worth of volatility at the best of times, and after another disjointed performance,
The problem is, was it really his fault? Considering he’s a defence-first HC and his team had given up exactly one offensive touchdown over the last three weeks, it doesn’t exactly scream that it was all Saleh’s fault while Nathaniel ‘Mates With Aaron Rodgers’ Hackett watches ‘his’ offence fall flat time and time again.
The Jets being a dumpster fire is nothing new, but having a personality like Aaron Rodgers at QB – who has said he had nothing to do with the move, sure – that can swing sentiment, and organisational response to that sentiment, is.
It’s especially stark after Rodgers’ OC Hackett was reportedly on the hot seat and about to be demoted from play calling duties by Saleh, when 바카라사이트 Saleh himself was summarily fired… and escorted from the premises by security in another example of ‘everything is fine here, nothing to see’ from a dysfunctional Jets franchise that remarkably hasn’t made the playoffs since 2010.
But hey, anytime you can manoeuvre your entire franchise to cater to the whims of a 40-year-old quarterback coming off the most debilitating surgery a football player can have and who looked cooked three years ago regardless, you’ve gotta do it, I guess?
Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers’ subpar play just got another coach fired after seeing Mike McCarthy out the door in Green Bay back in 2018.
As Chase Daniels pointed out on ‘The Facility’, Rodgers might just be a ‘coach killer’ at this point.