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If ulbricht plans to get more involved in the offense it sort of makes sense but then you risk taking away from the one thing that has been working for them. The new line of thinking seems to be coaches giving up playcalling duties to oversee the whole team and that would be doing the opposite to a rookie hc taking over midseason

And it’s not like Saleh hasn’t had us sweating in MetLife numerous times…were 1-2 there in his tenure and the one win was when they were in full rebuild mode year 1 the risk of dumping everything on ulbricht makes no sense. If they had started 0-5 sure I get it

I get the vibe that this is exactly what happened of course it’s a complete guess though 🤣. Their season so far has been classic fire your oc results then Saleh gets the axe first…its very odd i was just suggesting one way it could involve Hackett that Saleh got fired initially

His mcafee appearance was ‘rescheduled’

Kind of matches what I’ve seen, the guy gets a lot of snaps so anyone saying Reid is holding him back is full of it imo. You’re not gonna trot a guy out there that often that you have no real intention of using properly. Home run threat that isn’t particularly well rounded was the concern in the draft and nothing has alleviated that yet.. doesn’t mean he won’t develop to be great though

It’s possible for sure…we’re obviously all dealing in guessing at what’s possibly going on behind the scenes. I don’t think it can be anything other than complete locker room dysfunction though whether Rodgers was the primary driver of it or not so comparing it to some of these other teams who had coaching changes is pretty disingenuous too

They rarely turn it over in the playoffs. Seems like Allen is making better decisions when things are at least going somewhat well but he got a little careless in the Texans game so I can see the concern. i do think some of this is Allen’s bad luck on defenders never dropping his ints reverting to the mean again too.. it was absolutely crazy for awhile haha like I’d watch a chiefs game and mahomes was hitting defenders between the numbers and they’d drop it. Allen was getting diving/toe tapping ints pulled off against him with regularity 🤣

I’ve never liked a post faster 🤣

We would be absolutely destroying the bills franchise if we fired our defensive head coach who’s defense is playing really well 6 days before a huge division game for first place that that coach has a lot of success against and an absolutely terrible offensive coordinator gets to keep his job. Straight up destruction on these boards which I’m imagining is what’s happening in jets land. it is the second dumbest move I have ever seen made by a franchise whether they win the game or not with number 1 being the browns Watson contract I think they should stick with him and fire him in the offseason if it doesn’t work out 100% absolutely irrefutable fact. Better late than never doesn’t mean mid season in the midst of a division race 😂 there is no universe where Saleh should’ve been fired before Hackett it’s sheer stupidity on unheard of levels. Even if ulbricht is great he still has the Hackett problem that Saleh has…the defense is pretty much at maximum output as it is what do you gain what they’ve done is forced a good defensive play caller to now have more responsibilities on top of what he’s good at for absolutely no reason leading up to their biggest game of the year

This is kind of a self defeating argument based on your assumption the Saleh jets were not going to win this game. I’d argue the Saleh jets should’ve been favored in this game and very well could’ve been sitting as the division leader on Monday night. Why add all this upheaval into the mix and risk that? They have literally everything to lose lol it’s not like Saleh has struggled against buffalo in the past

Have they? They have huge X’s and O’s deficiencies on the offensive line who can’t protect their qb who has lost most of his mobility. The defense has been great and is second in the league in yards allowed despite their offense not helping them out at all because it is lacking talent in key areas. I think they’re right where they should be and probably could’ve lost that titans game too

I think we have the easiest strength of schedule remaining in the league I just read somewhere I’ll investigate lol. SF just lost to Arizona and Seattle lost to the giants and probably should’ve lost by more. Also our home/road split was pretty lopsided early yea there’s some hard games that we 60/40 lose but there’s a bunch of layups too jets have Seahawks also so that one is kind of a wash…they get tua dolphins one extra time too he’s rumored to be back week 8

I’m pretty curious as to why to be honest 🤣. Qb forcing his head coach out which in all likelihood is what happened is not gonna inspire a team to play hard. Totally respect your differing opinion I’m just curious what it is lol I’ve seen quite a few of these team playing hard for a new head coach games and it’s a tanking team pulling out all the stops and upsetting somebody most of the time that they win.. usually the team feels responsible for letting their coach down but that’s not really the case here

Must win for the jets yea but losing the road away game isn’t the end all be all for the bills. Same sort of thing happened with Miami a few years ago. our schedule lightens up quite a bit soon

It’s apples and oranges…the jets are not tanking and will not be pulling absolutely unexpected plays out of their butts because why the heck not 😂. Severely doubt whatever happened behind the scenes did anything but divide the team further too. If they played their normal jets football they had a very good chance to win this one. There’s no way this move did anything but hurt their win percentage. we may lose it anyway but it won’t be because they fired their coach a team firing their defensive coach who’s defense was performing well in the midst of a division race is completely unprecedented…teams are 0-0 in this situation

It was a game the jets had a very good chance of winning with their current coach though…usually what you’re thinking of is a tanking team with nothing to lose pulling out all the stops and upsetting somebody that was not the case here

That feels like a gm thing more than a Saleh thing and I don’t think Rodgers can get him fired mid season but who knows 🤣 if Saleh didn’t want Adams it’s pretty doubtful Douglas does. And if Douglas wanted him and Saleh didn’t it probably happens anyway

They are reportedly ‘shocked’ Is this sarcasm? Haha I mean wait to see if the jets go on a run at least before this post because this shock firing is getting universally panned right now 😂 ulbrich will probably do a decent job but that upheaval in a division race makes no sense

Hearing he got escorted out I don’t see why mcd wouldn’t try that 🤣. They’re clearly worried it pissed him off enough that he’d take something with him

Yea their performance the last two games seemed like the right time to bounce Hackett but they fired Saleh so the whole thing is pretty interesting

Nobody cares about defense even though there seems to be a big time swing back towards it the last year or so. I think the second mcd goes we quickly realize a lot of our defensive players are extremely well coached scheme fits and the defense completely falls apart when a new coach brings in a new system. Maybe the offense improves but I don’t personally think it’ll be enough to improve the team in the short term 3 or so years of a new coach then maybe you’ve got a shot to outperform mcd if you get the hire right. Just doesn’t seem worth it until our playoff exits stop being extremely narrow losses to the chiefs while missing our most important defensive talent. Once that changes though and we start seeing more of that bengals playoff game then yea pull the trigger

Maybe Saleh wanted Hackett gone but Rodgers stepped in and woody sides with Rodgers? Just spitballing here but it’s possible

Yea that definitely could be and I’m not sure how the flight fiddles with things either. I don’t think they knew they were firing him until very recently but maybe the announcement timing isn’t solid evidence of that its coming out now he got escorted out by security, wasn’t allowed to address the players, and the defense is shocked by it which is all really interesting

Yea that’s possible…do the coaches completely take Monday off though? I’m genuinely not sure. Tuesday at 11 seems like it puts you a bit behind the 8 ball I feel like where I’d probably wait til after the big division game coming up to do it. I think there was probably some big Saleh vs rodgers showdown that happened today that caused it anyway and they did it as early as they could but my main point was it doesn’t make a lot of sense that it was specifically game performance related

Compounding dumb mistakes…i still think he’s a good coach but he’s so old and rodgers is so old…maybe you’re good for a year or so before they both retire? 🤣