It's been different pugnacious week for New York Jets caput manager Robert Saleh.
The fourth-year manager was spotted connected the sideline, caput successful hands, pursuing a CJ Ham rushing touchdown successful the 2nd 4th of the Minnesota Vikings' Week 5 triumph implicit the Jets, 23-17.
The Jets stumbled to a 2-3 play grounds aft their decision successful London, contempt precocious hopes for the team's archetypal afloat twelvemonth with backmost Aaron Rodgers astatine the helm.
Rodgers, the Jets QB, spent overmuch of the week defending his estimation alongside the beleaguered Saleh and didn't present his champion performance. He completed conscionable 29 retired of 54 passes for 244 yards, scoring 2 touchdowns but throwing 3 interceptions.
One of those interceptions resulted successful a pick-six for Vikings linebacker Andrew van Ginkel. When questioned astir his starting quarterback's performance, Saleh responded: "Obviously up and down. The biggest happening that we talked astir going into this crippled was playing cleanable ball.
"Minnesota had been feasting connected pick-sixes and putting their discourtesy successful positions to get casual layups. Unfortunately, that pick-six was the large quality successful the game."
Following his 2nd interception conscionable 1 bid later, Rodgers appeared to disregard his caput manager arsenic helium made his mode to the sideline. Rodgers appeared to enactment his under-fire caput manager aft the game.
He said: "There volition beryllium a batch of radical extracurricular the gathering who won't beryllium sticking with the Jets. If we instrumentality unneurotic -- and I inactive person a batch of assurance successful this squad -- we deliberation this is simply a squad that's going to marque a run.
"Whether that tally starts adjacent week, the pursuing week, oregon whenever it mightiness be, I'm assured successful our guys [and] I'm assured successful enactment that we'll get this figured out."
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Naomi Baker/Getty Images)Earlier successful the week, Rodgers was questioned astir Saleh portion astatine the squad hotel. "I deliberation there's immoderate driving unit trying to enactment a wedge [from] extracurricular the installation betwixt Robert and me," helium revealed.
"We're truly bully friends, We bask each other. We walk clip astir each time successful his bureau talking astir things and talking astir the vigor of the team."
However, not each the seasoned voices successful the Jets locker country shared this optimism. Linebacker Quincy Williams was brutally frank erstwhile asked to measure the team's performance.
"People get bushed of proceeding the aforesaid s---," Williams admitted. "People gotta commencement taking accountability from the apical to the bottom...that's the main thing."