Jet fans are happy.
You have your man.
Robert Saleh is all you wanted for the latest head coach.
Even when you were skeptical and sure that the Jets was wrong when they let him leave New Jersey without a contract on Wednesday after his two-day visit, the Jets delivered, your man gave you.
You’ve offended Adam Gase since he was hired two years ago. You wondered why Jets CEO Christopher Johnson did everything but drive Gase to Florham Park himself five minutes after he was fired because he was too mediocre in Miami.
You had fun on social media through the wandering eyes of Gase during his introductory press conference. You hated the way he coached defender Sam Darnold, who never became the defender of the franchise he was elected to when Gase was hired to do just that, the alleged “whispering defender” he sold as when he arrived.
Before Gase, Todd Bowles never excited you either. Whether it was his coach on the field or his bland personality displayed in those press conferences that he treated as dental appointments, he never seemed the right man for the job here.
Bowles never presented himself as a men’s leader, and the team’s poor results reflected his ability to locker room, allowing some of the detainees to run the asylum (see Muhammad Wilkerson as Appendix A).
Saleh looks different from the last two Jets coaches. He is a 41-year-old energy and intensity pack, a coach whose secondary behavior screams that his players will run through the brick walls for him.
Saleh, a Diesel wine doppelganger, has a perfect blue-collar NFL history after stepping down from the bottom of the league’s coaching barrel, from the low-level quality control coach, to making a few more shekels. more than the minimum wage to position the coach on the defensive decorated coordinator for the 49ers of the last four seasons.
And now to the Jets head coach, at the age of 16 in his NFL coaching career. He deserves to pay his dues and has qualified for his achievements.
Saleh is all the Jets fans want, the perfect coach to excite a disappointed fan base that has been waiting a decade since he saw his last team in the playoffs.
Saleh is all he will want in the Jets locker room, a head coach who will energize him after a miserable 2-14 season.
And Saleh may be all Darnold wants, because his engagement is likely to make Darnold stay with the team better than one of the offensive coordinator candidates would have been hired.
On Monday, after Doug Pederson was fired by the Eagles, I strongly supported Pederson as the safest thing for the Jets’ next job, as he is only three seasons away from winning a Super Bowl for Philadelphia and is a coach. main accomplished.
This column provoked a negative response largely from Jets fans via email and Twitter, because they did not want a head coach “retreaded” with luggage. It was clear that they wanted a fresh face, new blood, hopefully the next successful young coach.
I rely on my belief that Pederson will once again be a winning head coach, despite his problems with Carson Wentz’s regression and his dishonest tank job in that end-of-season fiasco against Washington.
But Jets fans talked. They want their own young head coach for the first time, who becomes a star with their team. They want what Sean McVay brought to the Rams, what Matt LaFleur brought to the Packers, what Mike Vrabel brought to the Titans, what Sean McDermott brought to the Bills, what Kevin Stefaski brought to the Browns.
The ownership and management of the planes delivered the man on Thursday night.
We hope they succeeded.