The Unused York Jets fired normal supervisor Joe Douglas on Tuesday, six weeks then the staff fired lecturer Robert Saleh. In step with a couple of staff assets who told to The Athletic concerning the staff’s interior workings, Woody Johnson instructed a extra drastic go previous within the season.
In step with the ones assets, the date then the Jets’ loss to the Denver Broncos on Sept. 29, there used to be a contentious assembly on the staff facility. It integrated Johnson, Douglas, vice president Christopher Johnson, staff president Hymie Elhai, and Ira Akselrad, an aider to Johnson. It additionally integrated a bunch of coaches: Saleh, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, then-defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich and particular groups coordinator Brant Boyer between the two of them.
The coaches have been known as in to provide an explanation for what took place with their devices right through the 10-9 house loss to the Broncos. Throughout the assembly, Johnson instructed to the coaches that they bench Aaron Rodgers in partiality of Tyrod Taylor as a result of he felt Rodgers’ efficiency used to be conserving the staff again.
The coaches and Douglas, surprised on the advice, talked him out of it and satisfied Johnson to stick the route and that benching Rodgers, together with his pedigree, 4 video games into the season would no longer take a seat smartly with the depot room. The coaches additionally felt it could embarrass Rodgers. The theory of benching the year Corridor of Famer sounded so absurd that one lecturer requested whether or not the landlord used to be severe — a couple of assets from that assembly believed he used to be.
Johnson used to be calmed that date, however that all set the sound for what took place a presen then. On Oct. 8, Johnson made the verdict to fireside Saleh with out consulting his normal supervisor (or somebody else within the group, for that topic).
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