Unless he’s intent on being a collaborator in his personal teaching demise, there was no cause for Robert Saleh to drop his “receipts” bomb on the media, and eternally disgruntled Jets followers, throughout a Monday Zoom name with boss scribes.
A few days later, the faux-beleaguered coach tried explaining why he went down a dead-end road, saying it was a approach of defending his gamers. The downside was there was nothing to defend them in opposition to. Salah was tilting at windmills.
The media masking the Jets, together with Valley of the Stupid Gasbags, has been affected person (aka hands-off remedy) with the coach after his first season. If something, his message of hope had been embraced. Saleh needs to be referred to as Kid Charmin. If something, the media focus has been on the inevitable return of quarterback Zach Wilson.
Nonetheless, Saleh grew to become the second outstanding Jets worker to see ghosts when he stated: “I’m taking receipts [on Jets critics], and I’m going to be more than happy to share them with all of you when it’s all said and done.” His feedback made us marvel if somebody had serenaded Saleh with previous Jets rants voiced by the poster boy for Jets distress, and former WFAN yakker, Joe Benigno. Saleh’s alleged frustration boiled over throughout his paid section on ESPN-98.7′s “The Michael Kay Show.” Saleh stated he couldn’t wait “until it comes around and we shove it down everybody’s throat.”
Saleh has put himself in a field with the media. His “receipts” declaration makes Sunday’s sport in opposition to Cleveland greater than it needs to be. Unless the Jets media goes delicate, each evaluation of a loss ought to embody a reminder about having to attend yet one more day to ”shove it down everyone’s throat.” Around right here, when a coach factors fingers at (on this case Saleh threatened) the media, and isn’t profitable on the sector, buffoon standing will be “achieved” rapidly.
So, it’s value questioning how Saleh concluded it was a high quality thought to pop off. It doesn’t sound like one thing an skilled Jets PR employees would advocate. Does Saleh have a small circle of advisers (none who work for the Jets) who instructed he go on the offensive? Or did he arrive on the resolution by means of some solo soul looking out?
Get it? Saleh additionally leaves the door open to query his decision-making course of. If it may be questioned within the “receipts” case, a communications matter, how quickly will his on-field teaching selections come beneath intense scrutiny? Through one season, and one sport, Saleh has not precisely been put beneath a microscope.
And it’s not like all Gasbags lined up in opposition to Saleh. Some (together with 98.7′s Kay and Peter Rosenberg and ESPN/SNY’s Bart Scott) stated he had each proper — and was righteous — to fireplace off verbal missiles at followers and media. Still does a corporation, trying to escape from the woods of dysfunction into the open areas of stability really want a coach dishing irrational ravings?
Or ought to Woody Johnson & Co. stay up for caricatures of Saleh, and a flood of receipts, gushing out of the Jets Clown Car.
CBS SHOWS RESTRAINT
The NFL’s TV companions not often have issues replaying vicious hits or grotesque moments throughout sport protection.
That’s why it was uncommon to see CBS Sports’ crew present restraint in the course of the last two minutes of the Ravens’ 24-9 win over the Jets. As he was masking Jets wideout Elijah Moore, Baltimore cornerback Kyle Fuller went down. Viewers might see a distant digicam shot of Fuller holding his knee whereas his involved teammates moved in for a better look.
After a quick pause, play-by-play voice Andrew Catalon, working with James Lofton, stated: “We’ve been told we shouldn’t show a replay of this…” Catalon didn’t have to enter it additional. CBS’ crew made the precise name. The sight of Fuller, who suffered a torn ACL and is out for the season, happening was too ugly. Even on an NFL Sunday.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
While residents of the Mets and Yankees TV cubicles, and different Seamheads, had been analyzing MLB’s guidelines adjustments, together with whether or not the pitch clock will pace up the sport, they didn’t go deep on if industrial time between innings needs to be lowered.
If the variety of spots had been restricted to beneath two minutes (the present break between innings) the tempo of the sport can be accelerated. Recently, Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor puzzled if the TV fits, and baseball house owners, would sacrifice and take a industrial minimize to hurry up the sport.
”So, we’ll see how the variety of commercials change over right here [on Major League telecasts],” Lindor stated. “We make the adjustment, let’s see now with the TV stations and the owners how they are going to make the adjustment.”
Sounds like a problem, proper?
Why are the house owners included on this equation? If YES or SNY’s skill to promote between innings commercials was minimize to at least one minute, the worth of the TV rights to their video games would lower in worth.
BENIGNO BLITZ
It was a takeover, alright — extra hostile than docile.
Joe Benigno stormed onto the Monday version of WFAN’s “Tiki and Tierney” program and stole the present. Benigno was burning Jets gas. His mouth was all gasoline, no break.
Tiki Barber and Brandon Tierney, two mouths who love the sound of their very own voices, might hardly get a phrase in. At one level, Barber tried interrupting Benigno however was stuffed on the line of scrimmage. Benigno even got here armed with one in all his Jets conspiracy theories, suggesting the Jets received’t play Mike White at quarterback as a result of they ”worry” he’s higher than Zach Wilson. Of course, Benigno actually believes this.
Anyway, whoever booked Benigno for Monday morning appearances throughout soccer season deserves kudos. Mr. Misery can be doing a Saturday present with Evan Roberts.
AROUND THE DIAL
Twice, in NBC’s NFL Sunday Night Football studio, Tony Dungy talked about how impressed he was by the league’s new coaches, specifying all by title besides the Giants’ Brian Daboll. Dungy ultimately went on Twitter and talked about Daboll. One Peacock informer puzzled if Dungy watched Giants-Titans. … Daboll is relaxed on his MSG coach’s present, a lot calmer than the animated Joe Judge. … Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo gloms a lot hype for his weekly spots on “First Take,” however his personal regulars segments with Phil Simms and Steve Phillips on Doggie’s SiriusXM present are at all times compelling. During their latest one-on-one, Phillips stated Mets proprietor Steve Cohen’s days of taking part in by the proprietor’s unwritten guidelines are coming to an finish. “At some point, Steve Cohen is not going to play the ‘hands-off’ game, the former Mets GM said. Phillips said this could lead Cohen to make a serious run at Aaron Judge if he hits the free agent market. … Let’s hope that all mouths so eager to call Judge’s historic dingers that tie then break Roger Maris’ AL HR record don’t blow the calls. Lots of pressure involved in those moments. A miscue could stain a career. Anyone nervous yet? … The technical side has to tighten up too. On Tuesday (Yankees-Red Sox), TBS had a close call. The network returned from the commercial break about three seconds before Judge hit the first pitch of the sixth inning for a home run. … We know it’s too late for the Foxies to offer Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt any advice, but if they could they should’ve told them to pull-back down the stretch of the Alabama-Texas thriller. The two mouths would not shut up. … It’s early, but anyone else hoping Sean Payton, now working in Fox’s NFL studio, gets back into coaching — like tomorrow? … NBC Sports’ Fantasy Football Pregame with Matthew Berry will make its WNBC-TV Ch. 4 debut Sunday at noon. Berry’s show will go up against CBS (”The NFL Today”) and Fox (”NFL Sunday”) hour-long pregame studio reveals.
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DUDE OF THE WEEK: DOUG PEDERSON
The new Jaguars coach misplaced his first sport and he did the sudden. Pederson discovered his former quarterback, Washington’s Carson Wentz, and congratulated him on the Commanders’ 28-22 win. For Pederson, it was a show of sophistication/sportsmanship in defeat.
DWEEB OF THE WEEK: MICAH PARSONS
After a disappointing season opener, the Dallas star defender skipped out on his new weekly paid visitor spot on FS1′s Undisputed debate present. After a loss you could present your face and fulfill an obligation. Parsons sees it in another way, saying after shedding Dak Prescott: “I need to be a leader now and that’s not on TV.”
DOUBLE TALK
What Adam Silver stated: “There are particular rights here to someone who owns an NBA team as opposed to someone who is an employee.”
What Adam Silver meant to say: “I work for the owners. The grunts who keep the teams running? Not so much.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com