Jets fans rejoice.
You have your husband.
Robert Saleh is all you wanted for your last coach.
Even when you were skeptical and sure the Jets were wrong when on Wednesday they let him leave New Jersey without a contract after his two-day visit, the Jets handed you your man.
You insulted Adam Gase from the time he was hired two years ago. You were wondering why Jets CEO Christopher Johnson was doing anything but driving Gase to Florham Park itself five minutes after he was fired for being too mediocre in Miami.
You had fun on social media in Gase’s wandering eyes during his introductory press conference. You hated how he coached quarterback Sam Darnold, who never became the quarterback in the franchise where he was recruited when Gase was hired to do exactly that, the supposed “quarterback whisperer” who sold out like when he arrived.
Before Gase, Todd Bowles never excited you either. Whether it was his field training or his bland personality shown at those press conferences he treated as dental consultations, he never seemed the right man for the job here.
Bowles never presented himself as a men’s leader, and the team’s poor results reflected his ability for the locker room and allowed some of the inmates to run the asylum (see Muhammad Wilkerson as Document A).
Saleh looks different from the last two Jets coaches. It’s a 41-year-old energy and intensity pack, a coach who has a secondary behavior that calls for his players to go through his brick walls.
Saleh, a Vin Diesel doppelganger, has a perfectly blue-collar NFL history, having made his way from the bottom of the league’s coaching barrel, from a low-quality control coach level that makes a few more shekels of the minimum wage to place the coach up to the defensive decoration. coordinator of the 49ers the last four seasons.
And now to the Jets head coach, 16 years from his NFL coaching trip. It is worth paying your dues and qualifying for your successes.
Saleh is all the Jets fans want, the perfect coach to excite a disillusioned fan base he’s been waiting for a decade since he saw his last playoff team.
Saleh is all he will want in the Jets ’locker room, a head coach who will energize him after a miserable 2-14 season.
Saleh, too, may be all Darnold wants, as his hiring will likely make Darnold look better with the team than one of the offensive coordinator candidates.
On Monday, after Doug Pederson was fired by the Eagles, I firmly approved of Pederson as the safest for the Jets ’next contract, because he only has three seasons left to win a Super Bowl for Philadelphia and is a head coach.
This column provoked a largely negative response from Jets fans via email and Twitter, because they didn’t want a “retreaded” coach with luggage. It was clear they wanted a fresh face, new blood, good luck, the next successful young coach.
I remain in my belief that Pederson will once again be a winning coach, despite problems with the regression of Carson Wentz and his inadvisable tank work in that end-of-season failure against Washington.
But Jets fans talked. They want their own first young coach to become a star on their team. They want what Sean McVay has contributed to the Rams, what Matt LaFleur has contributed to the Packers, what Mike Vrabel has contributed to the Titans, what Sean McDermott has contributed to the Bills, what Kevin Stefaski has contributed to the Browns.
The ownership and management of the planes delivered this man Thursday night.
Hopefully, they got it right.