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Will Robert Saleh's firing save the Jets season? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: My ninety degree rule will be in effect for people
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  who fall a golf or play golf. They understand what
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  a ninety degree rule is. It's when you can take
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  your cart path down to the take your cart, your
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  golf cart down the cart path to a ninety degree
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  angle to where you hit your golf ball, and then
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  turn it at the ninety degree angle either left or
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  right to go out to your ball that still preserve
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  the fairway conditions and that sort of thing. I have
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  a ninety degree rule for our attire as broadcasters, and
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  that is if it's temperately climate, if it's a very
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  temperate club, like in the like when we were up
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  in Michigan and it was in the fifties when we
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  were started, we're wearing we were wearing sport jackets and turtlenecks,
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  that sort of thing. And we'll wear coat and tie
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  on occasion as well. But if the temper or the
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  heat indecks is forecast to reach ninety that day, we
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  just go and polosh or coaches polos. Is what makes
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  Roger Wallace very happy to me. He likes that. So
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  the forecast I for Dallas on Saturay, I think it's
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  ninety three, so we'll be in the Polos on Saturday.
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  I don't think there's any doubt about that. Yep, it's
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  not ninety or thereabouts. In New York, the Mets and
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  Phillies are playing Game three of their National League Division series,
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  and the Mets are out to a one nothing lead
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  as the Phillies beat on the top of the third inning.
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  Shanm and I on the mound for the Mets this afternoon,
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  so it's one nothing Mets again. That series is tied
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  at a game of piece. That best of five. Game
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  three of the other National League Division series takes place
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  tonight at eight o'clock in San Diego, with the Padres
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  and Dodgers tied at a game of piece. San Diego
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  with the decided edge and the pitching now because they're
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  starting pitching is really set up well. With Michael King
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  set to go for the Padres, the Dodgers are having
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  to go to Walker Bueller and hope, hope he can
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  dial it in. He's been, he's been better of late,
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  but he's not the old, you know, Walker Bueler like
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  he was before he had to have the first of
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  now two Tommy John surgeries. So uh, well, we'll see
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  about that how as it goes. And then and it's
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  a travel day for the American League Division Series. Cleveland
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  Detroit will play Game three tomorrow at Comerica Park in Detroit,
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  and the Yankees and Royals will play Game three tomorrow
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  Kaufin Stadium in Kansas City. Both those series tied to
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  a game apiece, all four Division Series one one going
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  into today's activity.
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  Speaker 2: How about Bobby Witt Junior hitless, hitless for the playoffs so.
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  Speaker 1: Far, hitless and the Royals finding a way to win
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  without that? What if he ever turns it on? And
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  you know, Aaron Judge hasn't exactly lit it up since
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  he's been going, so it's it's been other guys who
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  have made the difference so far for both of those
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  ball clubs. Salvador Perez a big home run last night.
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  You know, they've had other guys chip in and make
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  a difference on them. To the NFL, And you said
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  it at the top of the program, and I'm in
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  agreement with you. I did not expect the first coach
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  to be fired in the NFL this season to be
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  Robert Salah the Jets. I did not Woody Johnson is
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  the Jets owner, he said, and it kind of stung
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  to a lot of people. He named his defensive coordinator,
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  Jeff Ulbridge as the interim head coach. Sala was fired
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  Woody Johnson, his first in season coaching change in twenty
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  five years of ownership, and he said he consulted with
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  general manager Joe Douglass, but called it, quote my decision
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  and mine alone. Well that kind of has a Jerry
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  Jones play too a little. It was is my decision
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  and mine alone. And hypothetically I'm smiling when I say that.
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  But Woody Johnson and his brother, Christopher Johnson, the vice chairman,
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  broke the news to Salah in his office at the
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  team facility. According to sources, Sola was shocked and don't
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  you always love this?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: I escorted to the car by the director of security
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  as protocol, all that kind of stuff. Johnson said on
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  the conference call with reporters, quote, this is probably the
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  best team I've had in twenty five years. I just
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  felt that the best way to go forward was a
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  new direction, taking Jeff Ulbert and making him the interim
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  head coach. I thought that would get the most out
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  of this team and give us the best chance that
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  we all want to have, which is going to the playoffs.
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  So Sala finishes at twenty and thirty six in his
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  time there, and there was some discussion speculation that there
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  was a difference of opinion on how the offense was
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  to be run with Aaron Rodgers. But what he Johnson
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  said Rogers had no input into the coaching change. He
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  said he spoke to Rogers after Sunday's game, claiming solid
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  status or a potential move was not discussed. There had
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  been speculation of this rift between those two dating the
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  Sola's decision to find Rogers for taking a vacation to
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  Egypt during the mandatory mini camp, but publicly both men
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  denied any friction in the relationship. So he's done, he's gone,
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  and it'll be interesting to see what happens with the
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  Jets going forward on that now.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean they're still they're not out of the
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  playoffs at all. No, they have a I think a
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  fantastic defense now. Their offensive line, as if you watch
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  the London game, does need some work because Rogers was
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  taking a lot of shots in that one and I'm
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  not so sure about that. Daniel Hackett, as the offensive coordinator.
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  But if you're looking at the way things stand in
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  the AFC, even in the NFC, you know, with the
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  extra playoff spot, seven teams total, Jets only what a
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  game back from Buffalo, who has now lost two in
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  a row.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, let me get your thoughts on this, Okay,
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  if we were to go just just you know, like
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  I said, not quite a third of the wait in
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  the season five games. But if we were to look
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  at this right now, Kansas City's five and zero, we
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  think they're going to win the West, right Okay, Houston's
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  four and one. I think that's the weakest division in
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  the AFC. I think the Texans are going to win
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  the South, that the North is going to be a
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  dog fight. The Ravens and Steelers are both three and two. Now,
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  the Browns and Megals both won and four, but whoever
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  doesn't win is probably going to get in as a
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  wild card. And then you got, like you said, Buffalo's
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  three and two. The Jets and Dolphins are both two
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  and three. Broncos are the surprise of the AFC, don't
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  you think?
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sure?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So who has a better shot at making
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  the playoffs? Right now?
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos are the Jets. I would lean with the
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  Jets over the Broncos just because it's only been a
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  month of bo Knicks and Denver. If you're gonna tell
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  me I'm riding with Knicks to Rogers, I'm gonna ride
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  with Aaron Rodgers down the stretch and looks like Denver.
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  You got the Chargers twice. Still on the schedule, they
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  have the Bengals, they have the Chiefs twice, they have
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  the Ravens once. It's pretty tough there Indianapolis as well
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  Falcons on that schedule. I would think that Jets just
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  because the last two weeks, you know, I'm not totally
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  sour on them. They had the London trip. You got
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  Rogers forty years old. That can't be an easy trip.
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  That the field did not look like it was great
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  playing conditions as well, and then you know the Denver game,
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  awful weather. Can this be a catalyst for the Jets
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  turning the season around? Like, I wouldn't be surprised if
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  Rogers by the end of November, we're kind of back
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  to Oh, Rogers is back to being Rogers instead of
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  is he washed? All right?
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  Speaker 1: It's still a devil's advocate here. Look at the Jets schedule.
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  They have the Bills twice, they have to go to Arizona,
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  They have the Seahawks at home, they have the Texans
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  at home, they have to go to Pittsburgh. Those are
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  the most difficult games. And remember the Broncos hold a
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  tiebreaker on the Jets because they beat him had the head.
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  So I think it'll probably come down to the final
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  weeks between those two maybe vying for that final, that
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  seventh playoff position, and two.
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  Speaker 2: Of them may come back, and it's Miami. Miami just
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  wraps off five or six straight wins and it's a
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  misplayoffs with the Jets, and we had to the offseason
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  wondering what's next for Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: It could be all right. We'll be back to wrap
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  up today's show on Sports Radio. I'm thirteen under the Zone.