Sean Payton Thinks The Jets Will Suck, Robert Saleh Responds
In case you missed it, Sean Payton took some serious shots at Nathaniel Hackett and the Jets franchise today. The new Broncos head coach pretty much thinks that Hackett is the worst coach in the history of football and that the Jets will suck because they hired him. Robert Saleh took a pretty classy route in his response to Payton’s comments.
“I’m not going to acknowledge Sean on that,” Saleh said. “He’s been in the league a while. He can say whatever the hell he wants.
“As far as what we have going on here, you know I kind of live by a saying that if you ain’t got no haters, you ain’t poppin’, so hate away. Obviously, we’re doing something right if you have to talk about us and we don’t play you until Week [5] and I’m good with it. The guys in our locker room, they’ve earned everything that’s coming to them.”
Great response by Saleh. If you don’t have haters, you’re probably doing something wrong. I can speak from personal experience on that. Amen to that.
The Hard Knocks comments by Payton were also pretty unfair. It’s common knowledge by now that the Jets didn’t want to be on Hard Knocks. Saleh also says that he loves everything he’s seeing from Hackett right now. Time will tell whether or not that proves to be a smart hire.
“I think Hackett’s doing a phenomenal job here,” Saleh said. “I think the coaching staff is doing a phenomenal job. We’re focused on us. I get it. There’s a lot of external noise. There’s a lot of people hating on us. There’s a lot of people looking for us to fail. There’s a lot of crows pecking at our neck. All you can do is spread your wings, keep flying high until those crows fall off and suffocate from the inability to breathe.”
