Jets' Robert Saleh Threatened to Take Away Coaches Phones Over Aaron Rodgers Leaks?
What is impossible to know: Did New York Jets coach Robert Saleh treat his assistants like teenagers because he knows no better way? Or did his staffers act like teenagers because they know no better way?
oldest play in the book — but not on the field. This time, in a quasi interrogation room.
According to an expose via The Athletic that paints the picture of a wildly dysfunctional 2023 Jets team lead by an insecure and overmatched Saleh - well, and led by "de facto GM'' Aaron Rodgers, too - the head coach responded to Rodgers' national-TV announcement on team info "leaks'' by threatening to make his assistants stand in a corner and go to bed without any dessert.
No, not really. But close.
First came Rodgers, speaking on "leaks'' by ... well, leaking.
“That’s a problem with the organization,” Rodgers said on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “We need to get to the bottom of whatever this is coming from and put a stop to it privately, because there’s no place in a winning culture … and this isn’t the only time. There’s been a bunch of other leaks.”
In the immediate aftermath, Saleh responded - maybe because in a sense, Rodgers' word - despite his season-ending injury - set the franchise tone.
So the head coach held a meeting with a staff. He asked that the leak offender come forward, at one point offering to grant him immunity. ...
“If you come forward now, you won’t get in trouble,” Saleh said, according to The Athletic.
And when that failed?
Saleh threatened to take away his staff’s cell phones. And to cut off their allowance and ban them from watching TV for a week.
No, not really. But close.
