The early read on the news that New York Jets coach Robert Saleh, general manager Joe Douglas and most of the important power players of 2023 will be returning next year (as reported by the New York Post) is a predictable one.
The easy take is that Saleh, Douglas and the lot are so intimately tied with Aaron Rodgers that there is no way to separate them. Rodgers plans to return next season and beyond, or at least that’s what he tells his weekly television partner during the Big Thinker Variety Hour. And with Rodgers coming back, so, too, must a group of people that has so aggressively kowtowed to his whims throughout this lost season in Florham Park.
But let me challenge you a little bit. After all, this is the season of believing in the kind of phenomena that we can’t necessarily touch or see. And I wonder just where the Jets would be had Saleh not taken the approaches that he did throughout his three years on the job so far.
