Can the Jets Salvage This Season?

After dozens of reports, press conferences, and carefully crafted statements, we still don’t know exactly why (or even how) the Jets abruptly fired head coach Robert Saleh on Tuesday morning. There are plenty of conspiracy theories out there, which should elate the man at the center of most of them. But team owner Woody Johnson’s version of events is that Johnson chatted with Aaron Rodgers on the eve of Saleh’s axing, but that the 40-year-old was not made aware of the move at the time, nor did he request it himself. No matter what the motivation for the firing actually was, though—perhaps Saleh was planning to move on from Rodgers’s hand-picked offensive coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett—the decision was either directly or indirectly influenced by the Jets quarterback.