Jets’ Robert Saleh sees growth ‘learned through adversity’ of rough season

Robert Saleh stated the obvious when summing up his third season as Jets’ head coach, a year that began with Super Bowl aspirations and will end with the franchise’s eighth straight losing campaign.

“It’s been a grind,” the head coach said Monday, a day after he improved his record in New York to 17-32 with a win over the Washington Commanders.

“Everybody closes their eyes and imagines success right away, but we knew there was going to be a process. Obviously, we all felt great coming into this year with all the expectations and hype that’s around the football team — and that was awesome,” Saleh continued. “It hasn’t gone the way we obviously wanted, but it doesn’t mean that the goal of winning championships is over.

“I still think we’ve got a really good football team. I’ve said it before: I think we’ve built a championship roster.”

Entering the season on paper the defense appeared stout and, they have produced some stretches of stubbornness. The offensive plan was built around veteran Aaron Rodgers smoothing out the inconsistencies of years past and turning flashes of promise of wide receiver Garrett Wilson and running back Beece Hall into constant success. But that never came to pass.

“There’s a lot of things that we’ve learned through adversity over the last three months since Aaron’s injury that will help us, not only as coaches – myself, from our process in how we do things – to players and areas where we can improve,” Saleh said. “…there’s a lot of growth that has happened over the last few months. And it’s going to be our job to make sure that we attack it in every facet.”

He added: “There’s going to be tweaks all the way across the board.”

One of the changes won’t be at head coach and general manager as owner Woody Johnson confirmed on Sunday that Saleh and Joe Douglas would return for 2024. But looking to the future, could there be a lesson learned for next season about putting all of the team’s eggs in one basket in…

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Publish date : 2023-12-25 21:35:20

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