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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen. The Jets

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Speaker 1: coaching search is over ten twenty pm Thursday, January fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: The New York Jets tweeted that Robert sala has agreed

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Speaker 1: in principle to become the twentieth head coach of the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets. Yeah, it's an exciting time for the

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Speaker 1: organization for Robert's Salah, who gets his first head coaching

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Speaker 1: gig with the Green and White. Of course, most recently

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Speaker 1: he has been the San Francisco forty Niners defensive coording

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Speaker 1: in the past four years. But you look at his background,

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Speaker 1: really worked his way up in National Football League circles.

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Speaker 1: Uh considered a great teacher, excellent communicator, an outstanding motivator,

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Speaker 1: checked so many of the boxes the Jets had when

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Speaker 1: they started this. And I was not so prized at

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Speaker 1: all to hear that, you know, you hear from media

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Speaker 1: circles that Joe Douglas, who had never previously met Robert

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Speaker 1: Salab before, those guys hit it off immediately. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think there's been a couple a couple

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Speaker 1: of people out there they're like, well, now the Jets

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Speaker 1: are fully rocking the ball duo between Joe Douglas and

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Speaker 1: Robert Sala and intimidating duo as well. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that when you look at what Joe Douglas

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Speaker 1: and Christopher Johnson described as to what they were looking for,

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Speaker 1: I think Sala checks almost all of the boxes that

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Speaker 1: come to my mind. I mean when you think of

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Speaker 1: CEO type, seems like that guy brings energy. Everyone that

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Speaker 1: used to play for Sala has great things to say

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Speaker 1: about him. I mean, Richard Sherman tweeted about him. Joe Staley,

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Speaker 1: who's not even on the defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: he's a forty Niners left tackle for so many years.

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Speaker 1: He tweeted great things about him. Robbie Gould, the kicker,

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Speaker 1: tweeted great things about him. Then you roll on with

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Speaker 1: the media and how, how and what they think of

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Speaker 1: the Higher. I mean, right now, as we record this

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Speaker 1: on Friday, January fifteen, obviously there's ball left to be played.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't coached a single down for the Jets. It

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Speaker 1: still needs to become official as we record this, but

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Speaker 1: so far it seems like this is a home run. Higher. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we don't. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, you gotta put time to paper and

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Speaker 1: we'll have to see if he docu signs or signs

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Speaker 1: in person. And the other point of the matter is

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Speaker 1: it's early to say it's a home run higher, but

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Speaker 1: it's not too early to say that the Jets got

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Speaker 1: exactly who they wanted. They interviewed nine people in all,

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Speaker 1: casting a wide net. Two people came to one Jets

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Speaker 1: drive that was Sala and then Titan's offensive coordina offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Arthur Smith, and a couple of hours in fact,

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Speaker 1: after Smith finished up his interview, we heard the news

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Speaker 1: that the Jets had reached an agreement with Salo and

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Speaker 1: people to me they are saying that he targeted the

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Speaker 1: Jets as well. And Joe Douglas said that when the

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Speaker 1: search began, I want to find out what this person's

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Speaker 1: vision is for the New York Jets. Who am I

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Speaker 1: getting in a partner? And Salah he interviewed with a

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Speaker 1: number of teams throughout this process, So again both sides

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Speaker 1: seem like a perfect fit. Uh. Five of the last

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. So that's just an interesting nugget

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Speaker 1: for you. And you mentioned UH twentie coach and franchise history.

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Speaker 1: Jets going in a new direction here, but they moved quick. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they were extensive. They talked to people on the offensive

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Speaker 1: the ball. They talked to a former NFL head coach.

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Speaker 1: Of the nine people, they interviewed eight people currently. Of

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Speaker 1: the nine people, I should say they announced that they

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Speaker 1: interviewed eight of those folks were NFL assistance one Marvin Lewis,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people thought that Salo was

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Speaker 1: team next year, just didn't know where. And at the

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Speaker 1: onset of this search, you saw a lot of connections

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Speaker 1: in fact Salah interviewed with them. But the Jets pounce

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Speaker 1: and they have it right to be. I don't know

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Speaker 1: there's this whole even with you know, free agency and

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Speaker 1: Jets are the second team out of the seven vacancies

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Speaker 1: and Meyer becomes the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: and that was a candidate that the Jets didn't announce

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Speaker 1: an interview. I don't think they did interview Urban Meyer

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Speaker 1: just doing homework. But you know, the Jets interviewed nine people,

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Speaker 1: think I wanted to just bring up what you said.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really cool that it Joe Douglas and

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Speaker 1: think that's really cool for for someone, you know, a

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