{"id":61041,"date":"2022-10-31T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=61041"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:44:01","slug":"saleh-stumped-on-most-important-question-surrounding-wilson-and-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/10\/31\/saleh-stumped-on-most-important-question-surrounding-wilson-and-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Saleh Stumped on Most Important Question Surrounding Wilson and Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was nothing out of the ordinary about Jets head coach Robert Saleh&#8217;s post game press conference.\u00a0 There he stood, fielding one question after another from a Jets beat that peppered him with questions about his team&#8217;s latest loss.\u00a0 This time a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/10\/30\/wilson-jets-fall-on-face-lose-ugly-to-patriots-22-17-jetnation-game-recap\/\"><strong>22-17 heartbreaker<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Most of questions Saleh fielded were in regards to the poor play of quarterback Zach Wilson.\u00a0 The presser followed it&#8217;s usual pace; question&#8230;answer, question&#8230;answer, question&#8230;pause&#8230;longer pause&#8230;longer pause&#8230;coachspeak answer.\u00a0 The question that had Saleh have to stop and gather his thoughts before speaking spoke volumes?<\/p>\n<p>Having said earlier in the presser that he believed Zach Wilson would eventually &#8220;figure it out&#8221;, Connor Hughes of SNY followed up by asking Saleh at the 6:45 mark; &#8220;What you guys have shown over the last five or six weeks is that you have a team that&#8217;s pretty good and is capable of winning in the NFL now.\u00a0 So how do you balance waiting for Zach to be ready versus the pieces that are around him that are showing they&#8217;re ready now&#8221;?\u00a0 It was the most important question Saleh faced, because if Wilson makes wasting outstanding efforts from the team&#8217;s defense a habit, Saleh could lose the locker room.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Saleh Postgame Press Conference (10\/30) | New York Jets vs. New England Patriots | 2022 | NFL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYAzh-XWo3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Saleh realized he had to tread lightly.\u00a0 He couldn&#8217;t say the other 52 guys on the roster will just have to wait on Zach.\u00a0 That would be too much to ask of the roster publicly and would make Wilson&#8217;s scrutiny by the media and fans that much stronger.\u00a0 He couldn&#8217;t tell a fan base that has witnessed the NFL&#8217;s longest playoff drought that they may have to sit through a wasted season for the benefit of a quarterback who looks to have regressed from late last season.<\/p>\n<p>So all Saleh do was put the heat anywhere but on Wilson.\u00a0 After five to six seconds of only a blank stare, Saleh\u00a0 replied, &#8220;We just gotta&#8217; rally around him.\u00a0 You know, coaches, we gotta&#8217; find a way to make it, not necessarily simpler (translation, make it simpler) but just help him continue to progress and evolve&#8221;.\u00a0 So as one\u00a0 might expect in today&#8217;s NFL, and this is no fault of Saleh&#8217;s, no real answer to the question was offered.\u00a0 It was a great question from Hughes and one that had to be asked.\u00a0 And all Jets fans can do is that hope that in the coming weeks won&#8217;t have to be answered in reality vs a press conference hypothetical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was nothing out of the ordinary about Jets head coach Robert Saleh&#8217;s post game press conference.\u00a0 There he stood, fielding one question after another from a Jets beat that peppered him with questions about his team&#8217;s latest loss.\u00a0 This time a\u00a022-17 heartbreaker to the New England Patriots. 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