After publicly showing his support for Zach Wilson since Aaron Rodgers went down with an Achilles injury, Robert Saleh is now starting to “separate himself” from the Wilson devotion, according to Gio.
“Rob Saleh, for the first time ever by the way, was trying to very subtly separate himself from him being the person that kept trotting Zach Wilson out there supporting him,” Gio said, looking back on Saleh’s Monday press conference. “Someone asked him, ‘what could you guys have done differently during the draft process that ended up with Zach Wilson,’ and Rob Saleh goes, ‘yeah, I had my thoughts on all of that, but I'm not gonna share them with you right now.’
“It was almost like he was gonna say, ‘I actually really didn't want to draft the guy,’ but he stopped himself and was like, ‘I have my thoughts on that. I'm not gonna share them with you.’”
Gio says it seems like Saleh is now trying to make it known that he wasn’t unconditionally behind Wilson as the Jets were continuing to run him out there despite poor results, and that maybe the head coach is starting to listen to the postgame texts he receives from Joe Benigno every week.
“It sounds like Rob Saleh, for the first time, is trying to remove himself from this Zach Wilson thing,” Gio said. “Because he’s starting to believe what his buddy, Joe Benigno, has been texting.”