Despite calls from 49ers fans who want Robert Saleh to return to San Francisco, the now-fired Jets coach has no intention of taking another coaching job during the 2024 season, per Michael Silver of The San Francisco Chronicle.
Instead, Saleh is going on vacation with his family before preparing for the 2025 NFL hiring cycle, when he should be a popular candidate for teams in need of a new defensive coordinator. The Jets’ defense has consistently been one of the best in the league since Saleh’s arrival in 2021, ranking in the top three of points per drive, EPA per play, and success rate allowed, according to ESPN’s Benjamin Solak. That followed a strong stretch as defensive coordinator of the 49ers from 2017 to 2020, which earned Saleh the gig in New York.
Saleh’s firing was so sudden that he did not get a chance to meet with his players before he left the building, per Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz. However, Saleh’s departure from the building has, to a degree, been blown out of proportion by rampant speculation. He was not physically ejected from the Jets’ facility, merely escorted out by security in a common corporate practice, according to Peter Schrager of NFL Network.
Saleh’s defensive pedigree could likely land him a position with another NFL team this season if he wanted it, with the Texans (who employ ex-Saleh staffer DeMeco Ryans as HC) also looming as a natural fit. But the three-plus-year Jets HC seems content to collect the remainder of his 2024 salary from the Jets as he contemplates his future. One year remains on Saleh’s Jets contract, a five-year deal that ended up producing a 20-36 record.
Smart move taking plenty of time off on the Jets’ dime. He can enjoy some vacations, spend time with his family… and maybe kick back on Sundays and watch the Jets continue to fail miserably while the old, arrogant QB that got him fired hobbles around and overthrows WRs by 10 yards.
Quoting TO: ‘He can get his popcorn ready!’.
What would be epic is if he could go to Colorado and help out the Buffaloes Defensively … pay him under the table nice and quiet lol
Seriously that would be epic
However, he should enjoy his time off and you would think Johnson would have been a lot more professional in handling this
As Don Shula once said, always go first class and that he did!
He’s getting paid plenty to cool his heels and recover from this clusterf—- before being a sought after defensive coordinator this offseason. He’d make a great running mate for Ben Johnson.
They did this man dirty
Sitting front row Monday night, in an Allen jersey and a big blue foam finger singing Hey ay ay ay!
That is his only immediate plan.
Why would he? He’s pulling a huge paycheck to NOT work.