The New York Jets have fired head coach Robert Saleh, the club said on Tuesday after the team lost three of their first five games of a National Football League season they began with Super Bowl aspirations.
Saleh took over as coach of the Jets in 2021 after spending four seasons as the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator and the team have gone 20-36 during his tenure while failing to make the playoffs each year.
New York began this season with high expectations given the return of quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a Super Bowl champion and four-time NFL Most Valuable Player who came back this year from an Achilles injury suffered in the 2023 season opener.
“This was not an easy decision, but we are not where we should be given our expectations, and I believe now is the best time for us to move in a different direction,” Jets Chairman Woody Johnson said in a statement.
The decision marked the third in-season head-coaching change in Jets franchise history.
The Jets also announced that defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will serve as the team’s interim head coach for the remainder of the NFL season.
New York lost to San Francisco in their first match, then beat the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots before losing consecutive games to the Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings.
The Jets host AFC East division rivals Buffalo Bills (3-2) on Monday.
Author: Mujuni Henry
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