Robert Saleh is best known American football coach who is the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League.
A defensive coach for much of his 20-year coaching career, Saleh has served as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, and San Francisco 49ers from 2005 to 2020, holding his first defensive coordinator position with the Niners from 2017 to 2020.
Is Robert Saleh related to Matt LaFleur?
Robert Saleh and Matt LaFleur are never related in any way, they are just co-coaches and friends. Matt’s younger brother Mike was a coordinator when he joined Saleh and the Jets in 2021. He was an offensive intern with Cleveland in 2014 before serving as an offensive assistant with Atlanta under coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who brought Mike with him to San Francisco when he was hired as head coach in 2017.
Mike was the 49ers’ passing game coordinator for four seasons, while Saleh was the defensive coordinator before leaving to join Saleh’s staff as the Jets’ offensive coordinator.
Saleh said he was planning to hire a senior offensive assistant to help improve the offense and to work with Wilson. Greg Knapp, who was hired in 2021 for that role, died before that season when he was struck while riding his bicycle at home in California. Saleh brought in Matt Cavanaugh and John Beck, Wilson’s quarterback coach, last season but then chose to not have a veteran offensive assistant this season.
Saleh and Matt LaFleur served as graduate assistants at Central Michigan in 2004 and the two would often stop by the LaFleur family’s home during lunch breaks — and Mike, then in high school, got to know Saleh through those visits.
Saleh brought Mike LaFleur with him from San Francisco when he was hired by the Jets two years ago, excited about having a friend and one of the NFL’s top young offensive minds on his staff.
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