Jets player drops brutal truth bomb about Robert Saleh’s coaching staff

The most brutal indictment of the Robert Saleh era may have just come from one of his own former players, and it comes the same week multiple New York Jets players have fired indirect shots at the previous regime.

Jets safety Tony Adams spoke to reporters on Friday and didn’t mince words when asked about his team's penalty problems and overall concerns about discipline.

"The last coaches preached discipline and we didn’t listen,” Adams said, matter-of-factly. He added that it’s now on the players to fix that, but the damage was clearly already done.

Adams’ admission is stunning not because it’s surprising, but because it confirms what so many already believed. Saleh and his staff lost the locker room, and the players knew it.

He’s not alone, either. Alijah Vera-Tucker, Breece Hall, and others have all delivered similarly revealing comments this summer. They may not say Saleh’s name, but they don’t have to.

Aaron Glenn hasn’t even coached a preseason game yet, but his arrival has already begun to change the culture in Florham Park, as well as expose how far things had fallen before he got here.

Tony Adams just delivered a damning indictment of Robert Saleh's Jets coaching staff

Adams' words resonate with a frustrated fan base because they confirm what many already assumed. The Jets were an undisciplined mess under Saleh and the previous staff, and it became painfully obvious that the players were beginning to tune their coaches out entirely.

That’s how you end up leading the league in penalties two years in a row. That’s how you end up with star players skipping practices without consequences and backups blowing assignments without ever leaving the field.

And that’s why this summer feels different. Glenn is demanding discipline in a way Saleh never could, especially toward the end of his Jets tenure. Players are getting pulled from the practice field for committing penalties. Guys are held accountable.

There’s an actual standard now, and players are responding to it. Adams isn’t the only one who’s opened up about the changes, either. Vera-Tucker recently said Glenn holds players accountable in ways he hasn’t experienced before.

Hall talked about how much better the day-to-day operation feels this year. Jets players are communicating that this is what a real football team is supposed to look like.

It’s still early, and no one should be crowning Glenn just yet. But some of the comments we've heard from players this summer have come across as brutal truth bombs levied against their former coaches. They're evidence of just how badly the Jets needed a reset.

Turns out the writing was on the wall. The players just finally decided to read it out loud.

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