Robert Saleh is asked if wearing Lebanese flag caused Jets firing – how did he respond?

Robert Saleh was seen pubically for the archetypal clip since being fired arsenic the caput manager of the New York Jets 

The erstwhile manager was seen buying astatine a section Whole Foods successful bluish New Jersey this week successful footage obtained by TMZ. 

In the footage, Saleh was asked if helium believes wearing the Lebanese emblem successful his past crippled arsenic caput manager played into him being fired conscionable 5 games into the season. 

Saleh did not respond to the question, and yet drove off. 

The Jets fired Saleh aft a nonaccomplishment to the Minnesota Vikings successful London. Jets Chairman Woody Johnson confirmed that helium made the determination by himself successful a connection connected Oct. 8. 

"This was not an casual decision, but we are not wherever we should beryllium fixed our expectations, and I judge present is the champion clip for america to determination successful a antithetic direction," the connection read.

During the nonaccomplishment successful London, Saleh was seen wearing the pin connected his jacket. The determination to deterioration the pin came amid ongoing attacks connected the federation by Israel successful the days anterior to the game. 

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New York Jets caput manager Robert Saleh astatine MetLife Stadium, Dec. 24, 2023. (Kevin R. Wexler/USA Today Network)

Saleh is of Lebanese descent and was the archetypal Muslim caput manager successful NFL history. Both of Saleh's parents were calved successful Lebanon and immigrated to the United States up of his commencement successful 1979. Saleh antecedently wore the Lebanese emblem connected his limb during a crippled against the Giants, conscionable weeks aft Hamas terrorists attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023.

Saleh wore that spot during the week that NFL enforcement vice president of nine concern Peter O'Reilly released a connection encouraging players to correspond their practice via decals connected the backmost of their helmets with their flags, portion coaches added a spot to their squad gear. 

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New York Jets caput manager Robert Saleh congratulates moving backmost Breece Hall and backmost Aaron Rodgers aft a touchdown against the New England Patriots, Sept. 19, 2024, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Shortly aft Saleh's firing, the Council connected American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a connection that called connected the Jets and Johnson to explicate aggregate reports that Saleh was allegedly escorted retired of the gathering by information pursuing his firing, and besides brought up the information that Saleh was fired conscionable days aft wearing the pin. 

"We commend manager Robert Saleh for making past arsenic the archetypal American Muslim caput manager successful NFL history. Although nary 1 should leap to conclusions astir wherefore the Jets fired Coach Saleh, the study that Jets information physically escorted Saleh retired of the gathering does rise concerns astir the imaginable motive for specified antithetic hostility – particularly fixed that Saleh wore a Lebanese emblem pin astatine a game just days ago."

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New York Jets caput manager Robert Saleh connected from the sidelines against the Denver Broncos astatine MetLife Stadium. (Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images)

Fox News Digital has antecedently reached retired to the Jets for remark connected CAIR's connection but has received nary response. 

Meanwhile, Saleh released his ain connection successful which helium thanked the Jets for his tenure with the squad connected Oct. 9. 

"To the Jets Organization, I americium grateful to person had the accidental to enactment with truthful galore unthinkable people. I volition ever beryllium appreciative of the emotion and enactment from everyone astatine 1 Jets Drive," helium said successful a connection to ESPN. "To the astir passionate instrumentality basal successful the NFL, convey you for embracing my family. It has been a pleasance calling New York our location and we volition everlastingly admit each of the memories that were created here. "

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