New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh responded during an NFL game.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco and wide receiver Elijah Moore will live out their underdog dreams when they get a chance to play head coach Robert Saleh and the New York Jets on Thursday.
Saleh was asked this week about the possibility of facing Brown’s two starters, Flacco, who has never been contacted about returning to the Jets after three years together, and Moore, who was used sparingly before to leave for Cleveland, according to a Bulletin release. .with the condition.
The Jets coach said during the qualifier that Flacco is “awesome” and that he “respects him.” “I’ve said it before: He looks like a Ford pickup,” Saleh said of Flacco.
“You may not like the summer, but in the winter you start humming.”Robert Saleh has no regrets about ditching Joe Flacco despite the Browns’ success at QB.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco has spent the last three seasons on the bench for the New York Jets.
Flacco is now the starter on Cleveland’s playoff team, but the Jets have struggled through a parade of failed backup quarterbacks since the Week 1 Achilles injury suffered by Aaron Rodgers, New York’s latest savior.
Take your hapless franchise to the promised land. Those QBs include Zach Wilson, whom Saleh drafted second overall in 2021; This is his first season at the helm of the organization.
Still, Saleh told Newsday he doesn’t regret parting ways with Flacco, who has been an elite edge rusher through four starts in Cleveland (3-1).p
“I don’t think I’ve ever sent myself there,” Saleh said. “That’s a decision we made with our quarterback room and how we developed it during OTAs and training camp.
It was just a decision I made.”Flacco was asked by reporters Wednesday if he wanted Saleh to hold off on the phone calls until after the season.”he is. I’m happy to be where I am.
I respect a lot of guys in this locker room.” Flacco said, per Zach Jackson of The Athletic.
“The only reason I thought about it was because people were asking me, ‘Hey, are you going to get a call from the Jets?'” I asked.
Fortunately for Flacco, the Jets didn’t call, but the Browns did. According to Pro Football Reference, the QB threw for 1,307 yards, 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions (some of which were not his fault) in four starts for Cleveland.
The former Super Bowl MVP will soon start his first playoff game since playing for the Baltimore Ravens in 2014.Robert Saleh shut down Elijah Moore’s questions ahead of his revenge game.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Elijah Moore. Saleh praised Flacco in part for trying to cover his coaching mistakes by passing on QBs in favor of players like Tim Boyle and Trevor Siemian, but that’s how he addressed the questions about Moore.
They had some friction during their time together in New York.”Maybe that’s a story for another day,” ESPN’s Rich Cimini wrote at X on Wednesday about why Saleh didn’t work with Elijah Moore.
Moore played two seasons in New York before the Jets traded him to Cleveland, trading the No. 74 to the Jets with the no. 42 by the Browns in the 2023 NFL Draft.In his third pro season, Moore set career highs for Cleveland with 54 catches for 579 yards in 15 games, including 10 starts.
The receiver’s lone touchdown catch against the Browns this year isn’t a career high, but it matches the numbers he posted in 16 games with the Jets in 2022.Cleveland valued and used Moore much more than New York, as the Browns QB targeted 98 wideouts in 2023.
The Jets QB targeted Moore 77 times during his rookie campaign and 65 times last year.
The Browns, who are on the brink of an AFC playoff berth, host the Jets in their final home game of the season in Cleveland on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Max Dible covers the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns and Golden State Warriors for Heavy.com.
He covered local and national news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and was news director for BigIslandNow.com and the Pacific Media Group family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy.
