Will Jets consider coaching, management changes this offseason?

It sounds like New York Jets owner Woody Johnson will retain head coach Robert Saleh, general manager Joe Douglas and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett this winter. 

"Internally, the Jets are operating as if the whole regime — Saleh, Douglas and even offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett — will be back in 2024," Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic reported on Tuesday. "That’s because Aaron Rodgers is their lifeline." 

The Jets hired Hackett, Rodgers' offensive coordinator when both were with the Green Bay Packers from 2019-21, this past winter, and Rodgers later accepted a massive pay cut presumably so he could serve as New York's starting quarterback across the 2023 and 2024 campaigns. However, the signal-caller suffered a torn Achilles just four plays into his Jets tenure, and the team lost all of its November games to drop to 4-7. 

Saleh possesses a record of 15-30 as Jets head coach, and Rosenblatt noted that Douglas' teams have thus far gone 24-53. Meanwhile, ESPN stats show the Jets ended Week 12 ranked 31st in the NFL with an average of 260.2 offensive yards per game and 30th with an average of 14.8 points per contest. 

Despite such unimpressive numbers, Rosenblatt wrote that "Rodgers has the power to ensure" everybody's job security through next year. 

"If he says that he’ll return only if this coaching staff remains intact, then it will be locked in and safe," Rosenblatt said about Rodgers. "Johnson values Rodgers’ opinion and it would be surprising if he didn’t seek it out. He also has the power to demand coaching change, though nobody expects that to happen at this juncture, especially if Hackett remains the primary play-caller."

Per Ryan Chichester of Audacy, former Jets quarterback and current "The NFL Today" analyst Boomer Esiason argued during Tuesday's edition of the WFAN "Boomer and Gio" program that Johnson shouldn't "rip it up again" and should instead "try to bring Aaron back next year and see if he can get this thing straightened out." It sounds like Esiason will get his wish, for better or for worse, unless Rodgers convinces Johnson to blow things up in January.