Robert Saleh has been out of an NFL head coaching chair since the Jets fired him five games into the 2024 season, and his first extended sit-down since landing the Titans job was, fittingly, on Pardon My Take. Big Cat and PFT Commenter brought him on for the full treatment: ping pong tables, the Titans mascot, head coaching hypotheticals, and the kind of loose banter you don't get from a press conference podium.
“How does your body feel now that you’re away from the substation?” -Big Cat “There’s gotta be somethin to that… There’s a reason why in real estate if you live next to a power line you’re probably not getting a premium” -Robert Saleh
That 'substation' line is a joke about just how fried Saleh looked by the end of his Jets run, and he leaned into it instead of dodging it. It's the kind of self-aware answer that's made this appearance spread across timelines all week, well past the usual PMT bump.
The interview also dug into the part of Saleh's Jets tenure nobody's forgotten: the 2023 opener, when Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles on the Jets' first offensive series and torched a season that had been sold to the fan base as a Super Bowl run. Saleh was the head coach in the building that night, and PMT got him talking about what it was like managing that locker room in the immediate aftermath.
Robert Saleh and the Jets went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows with the Aaron Rodgers injury
Saleh went 20-36 across three-plus seasons with the Jets, a stretch defined by a strong defense that couldn't outrun a broken quarterback situation. Now he's back as a head coach for the first time since, running the Titans after a year as San Francisco's defensive coordinator, and PMT wasn't shy about needling him on how the new gig stacks up against old AFC East grudges.
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Then there's the bit that's actually been the most-repeated moment out of the whole episode. Right after the interview wrapped, PFT Commenter cracked that the segment was 'brought to you by Nutrafol' — a nod to the show's actual hair-growth sponsor landing suspiciously close to a bald head coach getting grilled about stress. It's a dumb, perfect PMT joke, and it's been floating around Stoolie corners of the internet since it aired.
3 seconds after the Robert Saleh interview… “Robert Saleh was brought to you by Nutrafol” -@PFTCommenter #Assault 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
None of this changes the fact that Saleh still has to actually win games in Nashville, where the Titans have posted four straight losing seasons. But an hour of him laughing about substations and Nutrafol is a reminder that a guy who spent 2025 out of the spotlight can still command a full podcast news cycle. The Titans' 2026 opener will tell everyone a lot more than this interview did — but for one week, it's Saleh's clip game that's undefeated.