Aaron Rodgers’ regularly scheduled appearance Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” has been pushed back a day in the wake of the Jets stunningly firing head coach Robert Saleh.
The Jets canned Saleh just five games into the 2024 season, in which the team has gone 2-3.
Rodgers, who appears weekly on the ESPN show on Tuesdays, will be on at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday.
“Tomorrow, 12:10 eastern, Aaron Rodgers will be joining us to chit chat about everything happening with the New York Jets, coach Saleh, himself going forward,” McAfee said on his show Tuesday afternoon.
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“So, for the rest of the world right now, it’s Tuesday. In the New York Jets football operation, it’s Monday because there is one week until the next game or six days until the next game. This firing happens and then boom, the schedule goes crazy. And then it’s like, hey, tomorrow, probably much smarter and much better and much more couth for the entire situation, especially for a coach he has a lot of respect for.”
In a season with Super Bowl expectations with Rodgers back under center after a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 1 of 2023, the Jets haven’t looked as expected under the fourth-year coach.
They dropped their last two games, including a 23-17 loss to the Vikings on Sunday morning in London that saw Rodgers throw three interceptions.
It proved to be the nail in the coffin for Saleh.
Saleh, who had one year remaining under the contract he signed in 2021, will be replaced by defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich as interim head coach.
