Aaron Rodgers fingerprints are all over Robert Salehs firing

It seems like an eternity ago that Robert Saleh was a part of the euphoric Jets traveling party that flew to Malibu to convince Aaron Rodgers that the twilight years of his career should be as a New York Jet.  Rodgers gushed about playing for “Rob.”But then his Achilles would not allow him to play more than four plays in 2023 for “Rob.”Five games and four plays proved to be enough for him.If Woody Johnson and GM Joe Douglas came to Rodgers to inform him that they wanted to fire “Rob,” Rodgers could have saved “Rob.” Because the Jets moved heaven and earth for Rodgers, he has enjoyed the same cachet as Tom Brady did for all those years, that Peyton Manning did for all those years.As Broadway Joe Namath did for all those years as No.

12.Randall Cobb? Let’s make him a Jet. Allen Lazard? Let’s make him a Jet.Nathaniel Hackett is the OC? How’d ya know I’d be in favor of that? Aaron Rodgers didn’t fire Robert Saleh.But you’d be naive if you don’t think his fingerprints are all over this.Rodgers came here to win his second Super Bowl and the Jets’ first since Jan.

12, 1969, and establish a lasting New York legacy.He has looked and undoubtedly felt like a battered 40-year-old quarterback the last two weeks, and it is on him more than ever now to Win Big in this 2-3 Win Now season.Johnson was overseas as U.S.ambassador to the U.K.

when brother Christopher hired Saleh to replace Adam Gase.But it was Woody who announced with three games left in the 2023 season that Saleh and GM Joe Douglas would get a mulligan and return in 2024. “My decision is to keep them,” Woody Johnson told The Post’s Brian Costello.

“I think we’ve had some very positive moves.The culture of the team is a lot better.

The defense is better.The offense needs a few pieces.”I believe it was the right move at the time and this was Aaron Rodgers on “The Pat McAfee Show:”“I believe in the leadership that we have here.” If Rodgers had uttered those wo...