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Amid a season complete of tumult for the New York Jets, one minute stood out above the rest and especially got under the skin of head coach Robert Saleh.
According to The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt and Dianna Russini, after it was dripped that quarterback Zach Wilson was reluctant to return to the lineup after being benched, Saleh was so peeved that he threatened to take the cell phones away from members of his training personnel.
“The coach held a conference with his personnel 2 days lateron where he asked the leaker to expose himself, according to numerous individuals in participation. ‘If you come forward now, you won’t get in problem,’ he informed them while threatening to take their cell phones,” Rosenblatt and Russini reported.
The persistence by Saleh to figure out who was the source of the leakage didn’t sit well with his personnel, as it was keptinmind that some members of the personnel were “bemused” by his “obsession” over the Wilson story and his response to it.
Rosenblatt and Russini reported along with Jeff Howe on Dec. 4 that Wilson was “reluctant” to take back the beginning function after he was benched in Week 11 in favor of Tim Boyle, who hadahardtime as the starter over the next 2 weeks before being launched by New York.
Saleh wasn’t the just individual in the Jets company worried with the leakages. Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who sat out practically the whole year after suffering a torn Achilles in Week 1, regreted the concern throughout an look on The Pat McAfee Show.
“That’s a issue with the company,” Rodgers stated. “W