New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh.
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Frustration is boiling over for the New York Jets and their fanbase.
A 30-0 loss on Sunday not only eliminated any hopes of ending their 13-year playoff drought but locked the team into their eighth straight losing season.
With another losing season in tow, and after an embarrassing loss on Sunday, all eyes look towards the potential future of head coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas. While Douglas does not talk following games, Saleh has been the one drawing the ire of thousands in the fanbase for the lack of improvements in the three years he’s been at the helm.
Even with calls for his dismissal being as loud as possible over the last 24 hours, the Jets coach has maintained his focus on finishing out the remainder of the season.
“I’m just coaching trying to beat Washington…We coach in the moment, we coach to win football games.”
Before Sunday’s loss to Miami, reports were stating that the team was going to stick with both Saleh and Douglas for 2024. The reports cited injuries along the offensive line, and of course to the Hall-of-Fame quarterback on the roster as reasons for the team not matching the high expectations that were given before the season.
Those reports were almost validated after the Jets dismantled the Houston Texans two weeks ago as well. The NFL, as Saleh has said, is a week-to-week league though. The way the organization lost to a reeling Dolphins squad did no one favors as they tried to keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
It also didn’t help that, after the game, several players within the locker room voiced their disproval at the way the team was “out-schemed” and “out-efforted” by the Dolphins – a sign that perhaps the coaching staff’s message was being ignored.
“They are warranted,” Saleh said of the locker room comments, and on the team’s loss. “We didn’t coach well enough, execute well enough…anytime you…
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