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Henry McKenna
NFL Reporter
Aaron Rodgers’ coup d’état is complete.
Robert Saleh — the guy who Rodgers shoved on live television — is no longer the New York Jets head coach. The team fired Saleh on Tuesday.
And Rodgers seems to have increased his influence in New York.
The Jets quarterback has steadily gained power over the organization since New York traded for him in 2023. First, it was in the additions of receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb, then offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.
And then there’s the transaction we’re all waiting for: the trade for Raiders star receiver Davante Adams.
Now, you’re probably thinking: This is silly, Henry. Rodgers didn’t get Saleh fired. Just listen to what Rodgers said about his former head coach.
“There’s always going to be messaging and narratives out there, and you have two choices,” Rodgers said on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “You can ride the wave — really, a roller coaster — or you can say, “F— it, I don’t care.’ And I’m the latter. I don’t get into what the conversation is going on outside the building around myself.
“The relationships that I have — the most important ones — are looking a guy in the eye, in the locker room or in a meeting room, and knowing he’s got your back, and you got his back.”
But during his appearances on McAfee’s show, Rodgers endlessly streams his truth — which is often factually inaccurate. So don’t mind my suspicion about his support for Saleh — especially with the Jets firing him just a few weeks after Rodgers shoved the man on television in front of an audience of millions.
It’s hard to imagine Saleh thinking that Rodgers has “got his back.”
If Rodgers did, Saleh would still have a job.
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Now, it would have been too obvious of a coup d’état if the Jets had put Hackett into the chair as interim coach — because that would simply mean that Rodgers…
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Publish date : 2024-10-08 17:37:32
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