Jets fans cheer.
You have your husband.
Robert Saleh is everything you could want for your newest head coach.
Even when you were skeptical and sure the Jets had done it wrong when they let him leave without a contract on Wednesday after a two-day visit to New Jersey, the Jets gave you your husband.
You have scolded Adam Gase since the moment he was appointed two years ago. You wondered why Jets CEO Christopher Johnson did everything, but five minutes after he was fired for being too mediocre in Miami, Gase drove himself to Florham Park.
During his introductory press conference, you attracted fun on social media before Gase’s wandering eyes. You hated how he coached coach Sam Darnold, who never developed into the franchise full-back he was drafted when Gase was hired to do exactly that, the alleged “quarterback whisperer” he was sold to when he arrives.
Before Gase, Todd Bowles also never got you excited. Whether it was his coaching on the field or his feeble personality that appeared at the press conferences he treated like dental appointments, he was never the right man for the job here.
Bowles never introduced himself as a leader of men, and the poor results of the team reflected that the locker room enabled him to allow some of the prisoners asylum (see Muhammad Wilkerson as Exhibit A).
Saleh looks different from the last two Jets head coaches. He is a 41-year-old bundle of energy and intensity, a coach whose sideways attitude screams that his players will run for him through brick walls.
Saleh, a Vin Diesel doppelganger, has an NFL history with a full blue collar, after grinding his way from the bottom of the league’s coaching barrel, from a low-quality coach who has a few shekels earned more than minimum wage to place coach to decorated defense. coordinator for the 49ers the past four seasons.
And now to the Jets’ head coach, 16 years into his NFL coaching journey. Earn to pay his fees and qualify for his achievements.
Saleh is everything Jets fans want, the perfect coach to build a disillusioned fan base that has waited a decade since his last playoff team.
Saleh is everything the Jets locker room wants, a head coach who will make it happen after a miserable 2-14 season.
Also, Saleh could be anything Darnold wants, as his appointment is probably a better thing for Darnold to stay on the team than having one of the offensive coordinator candidates appointed.
Monday, after Doug Pederson was fired by the Eagles, I strongly supported Pederson as the surest thing for the Jets’ next loan, as he was only three seasons removed from winning a Super Bowl for Philadelphia and a capable head coach is.
The column provoked a largely negative reaction from Jets fans via email and Twitter because they did not want a “manageable” head coach with baggage. It was clear that they wanted a fresh face, new blood, hopefully the next successful young head coach.
I stand firm in my belief that Pederson will once again be a leading head coach, despite his problems with Carson Wentz’s regression and his untouched tanking in the fiasco of a season finale against Washington.
But the Jets fans spoke. They want their own young first head coach who becomes a star in their team. They want what Sean McVay brought for the Rams, what Matt LaFleur brought for the Packers, what Mike Vrabel brought for the Titans, what Sean McDermott brought for the Bills, what Kevin Stefaski brought for the Browns.
The ownership and management of Jets concerned the man Thursday night.
Hopefully they got it right.