Robert Saleh's Week 1 catastrophe was a rerun of his worst Jets problems

The New York Jets' dominant Week 1 victory against old coach Robert Saleh and the Tennessee Titans was not only some sweet revenge for Aaron Glenn and company, but it also seemed like a replay of many Jets losses from yesteryear, albeit with the losers in Columbia blue instead of green.

Saleh's press conference after the Jets' victory was fairly subdued, with him calling the Titans a "young group" and promising better days ahead. Jets fans have heard variations of that 36 times after a Saleh-led team went down in defeat, which could be a sign that his reinvention in Nashville may not be very different from his New York tenure.

The only ones who seem surprised that a Saleh-coached team with a half-dozen of his former Jets players and many of his assistants are moping whenever things don't go their way and struggle to look buttoned-up as a roster are Titans fans. Saleh may have lit much of his goodwill with the fanbase on fire.

New York Jets' Week 1 win vs. Tennessee Titans was a classic Robert Saleh game

Saleh did some good things in New York, and it is an inarguable fact that many of the problems that sank him with the Jets had nothing to do with him, However, whenever the Jets were hitting the skids, they looked an awful lot like what the Titans put on display in what was supposed to be the first game of a new era in Nashville.

Poor quarterback play has been a hallmark of Saleh-coached teams, as Cam Ward doesn't appear to have made the Year 2 leap that many expected of them. The Titans committed a few procedural penalties, the offensive line was overwhelmed, and they never managed to get pressure on the opposing quarterback despite a ton of investment in the defensive line.

To make matters worse, many of the players who underperformed were those who Saleh went out of his way to back up the Brinks truck for. Saleh traded for Jermaine Johnson and signed John Franklin-Myers to a huge contract, and they may as well have been invisible.

Robert Saleh's Titans moped like his old New York Jets teams

However, the biggest mark against Saleh's teams is something that doesn't show up in the stat sheet. Jets fans may call it "mope." Whenever things start to go wrong or start to snowball, Saleh is not able to bring that momentum to a halt, leading to many frozen stares on the sidelines.

Things spiral from there, as Saleh's teams feed off the energy (or lack of it) he provides. Mistakes lead to unraveling; plays that should be run normally end up being incorrect, and the whole team carries a very defeatist attitude. Saleh's Jets teams were the kings of this despite some talent at key positions.

Saleh appears to have bought into the "LOLJets" mindset. In his mind, he was done completely unfairly by an organization that saddled him with Zach Wilson (whom he helped pick) and had so much drama going on behind the scenes that it ruined his perfect plan.)

As has been proven, Saleh needs to make a few more changes before he can start proving the doubters wrong.

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