Saleh seems different than the last two Jets head coaches.
And now to Jets head coach, 16 years into his NFL coaching journey.
Saleh is everything Jets fans want, the perfect coach to excite a disillusioned fan base that’s been waiting a decade since seeing its last playoff team.
Saleh is everything the Jets locker room is going to want, a head coach who’ll energize it after a miserable 2-14 season.
On Monday, after Doug Pederson was fired by the Eagles, I firmly endorsed Pederson as the surest thing for the Jets next hire, because he’s only three seasons removed from winning a Super Bowl for Philadelphia and is an accomplished head coach.
That column elicited a largely negative response from Jets fans via email and Twitter, because they didn’t want a “retread’’ head coach with baggage.
It was clear they wanted a fresh face, new blood, hopefully the next successful young head coach.
I stand by my belief that Pederson will be a winning head coach again, despite his issues with Carson Wentz’s regression and his ill-advised tanking job in that fiasco of a season finale against Washington.
But the Jets fans spoke
They want their own young first-time head coach who becomes a star with their team
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