Jets' Saleh walks back concerns over Rodgers' cadence

New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh said Sunday that the New York Jets need to determine if they can handle Aaron Rodgers' cadence. On Monday, he changed his tune, instead pointing out the team's execution and communication.

"We're always going to push the envelope with cadence. Always," Saleh said Monday, according to ESPN's Rich Cimini. "But with regards to operation, getting in and out of the huddle, getting to the line of scrimmage, the communication that's being had, those are all things that we can continue to look at and clean up."

He added: "But from a cadence standpoint, that's part of what makes us who we are."

Cadence, the sequence of words and numbers that indicate when to snap the ball, has been one of Rodgers' signature strengths due to his ability to get defenses to jump in the neutral zone.

However, the Jets committed five false start penalties and were held out of the end zone in an ugly 10-9 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Saleh said postgame that the team needed to figure out "whether or not we're good enough or ready to handle all the cadence," though he noted that it had not been an issue throughout training camp.

Rodgers disagreed with the notion that dialing it back could be the best way forward.

"That's one way to do it. The other way is (to) hold them accountable," Rodgers said Sunday. "It's been a weapon. We use it every day in practice. We rarely have a false start and to have five today it seems like, it seems like an outlier. I don't know if we need to make mass changes based on kinda an outlier game."

New York is off to a 2-2 start in 2024 with its next matchup coming against the undefeated Minnesota Vikings in Week 5.