Jan 24, 2025 · Many Detroit Lions fans and media outlets have suggested that head coach Dan Campbell should pursue former New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh as the team's next defensive coordinator. However, those hopes have now been dashed. According to recent reports, Robert Saleh will not be joining the Detroit Lions. Instead, he has decided to return ...

Oct 8, 2024 · According to several sources, the New York Jets have fired head coach Robert Saleh just five weeks into the team’s 2024 season. Hired in 2021, Saleh’s record over his Jets reign was just 20-36.

Lions' choice of Dan Campbell over Robert Saleh looks even better now. The Lions have gone from 3-13-1 in Campbell first season, and a 1-6 start to his second season, to a 23-8 record since as ...

20 hours ago · Robert Saleh is back as the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers, ... which ranked tied with the depleted Detroit Lions for 23rd in football.

Oct 8, 2024 · The Detroit Lions' decision to hire Dan Campbell as head coach was one that came as a bit of a surprise to some at the time.. Campbell was hired as part of a cycle that included Robert Saleh. A ...

Oct 8, 2024 · Saleh finished his Jets coaching career with a 20-36 record and failed to record a winning season. Campbell, meanwhile, is 27-27-1 but has gone 24-14 since his first season. Read all the best Lions coverage at the Detroit Free Press and Lions Wire .

Oct 8, 2024 · On Tuesday morning, somehow surprising and not surprising simultaneously, the New York Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh.The Detroit Lions choosing Dan Campbell over Saleh when both teams were in ...

Oct 8, 2024 · Many wanted Robert Saleh, a Detroit-area (Dearborn) native who had been the very successful defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers at that time. Saleh was a very popular and accomplished candidate, one supported by the Michigan legislature at the time. He was a primary choice for the gig.

Jan 7, 2021 · NFL job log: After coaching at Michigan State, Central Michigan and Georgia in the early-to-mid 2000s as a defensive assistant, Saleh entered the NFL coaching ranks with the Houston Texans in 2005 as a defensive intern. He moved up the coaching ranks in Houston to become the assistant linebackers coach during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. He became the defensive quality control coach under Pete ...

Jan 24, 2025 · However, the team disclosed only three formal interviews for defensive coordinator: Saleh, in-house candidate Brandon Staley and Detroit Lions defensive backs coach Deshea Townsend.