The New York Jets' decision to trade for Haason Reddick, only to watch him hold out all summer and demand a trade in an effort to get a new contract, has been a wonderful bit of schadenfreude for other AFC East teams and a relatively spicy subplot during an otherwise boring stretch of the NFL calendar. With the regular season around the corner, though, it's becoming a real problem for the Jets. Any defense will miss a double-digit sack artist like Reddick, but New York's own double-digit sack artist Bryce Huff left in free agency and Reddick was specifically acquired to replace him.
But the contract situation has thrown everything into doubt. On Thursday, head coach Robert Saleh was asked about Reddick's availability for Week 1 and he had a quite frank response that likely doubles as a message to Reddick.
"I don't know," Saleh told reporters. "I haven't really thought about it."
