Robert Saleh getting HC buzz is a damning indictment of Woody Johnson and NY Jets

The New York Jets moved on from the Robert Saleh era midway through the 2024 season, with Woody Johnson emphatically declaring that Saleh had not performed as well as he expected. His inability to get the Jets' offense turned around seems to have been his biggest flaw.

The rest of the league does not see Saleh as that same sort of miserable failure, as they are willing to give him a second chance. Saleh might be able to bypass his sabbatical as a defensive coordinator and jump right back into the head coach realm.

Of the six non-Jets head coach vacancies on the market, Saleh is attracting interest from three of them. Saleh is on the Las Vegas Raiders' short-list, has been getting a ton of positive feedback from the Jacksonville Jaguars, and found his way onto the Dallas Cowboys' initial list of Mike McCarthy replacements.

Saleh's interviews could be a damning indictment of what Woody Johnson has built in New York. The fact that Saleh is getting so much interest after that disaster in New York shows that the league believes Johnson is primarily at fault for how things went down with the Jets.

Former Jets coach Robert Saleh getting head coach buzz is bad look for Woody Johnson

Saleh is getting intense interest as a defensive coordinator, so much so that the San Francisco 49ers have essentially offered him their vacant DC job if he doesn't find work elsewhere. Saleh seems like an ideal candidate to take over an organization that isn't as chaotic as the Jets right now. '

The Raiders might be a tough ask for Saleh, but he would have Brock Bowers and Maxx Crosby alongside motivated Tom Brady-led ownership. Jacksonville, where Saleh was a linebackers coach previously, has Trevor Lawrence and some solid offensive pieces. All he has to do is fix that defense.

The Cowboys could give him a very talented roster, a high-end quarterback in Dak Prescott, and a solid floor he could use to get Dallas to the postseason. Both these jobs may actually be better than the Jets right now, as New York can't draft a quarterback and may need to sell off top veteran talent.

Saleh is a smart defensive mind, and the fact an already tense situation split apart at the seams the second he left the building only serves to further illustrate how toxic the Jets are to the rest of the league.

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