AUDIBLES-Saleh doesn't cave on offseason work

Tom Brady might be wrong about this one.

- Robert Saleh

So might J.C. Tretter, the Cleveland Browns’ center and the union president.

Both have criticized NFL team offseason workouts such as OTAs and minicamp.

Brady said on a union conference call that the NFL is the only league with “overly competitive” offseason drills.

“There’s no f—ing pro baseball player that’s throwing 95 mph in mid-December,” Brady said.

Does the 43-year-old Brady or the 30-year old Tretter, a Cornell graduate and eight-year NFL veteran, need offseason workout programs at the team facility? Maybe not. However, young players, who need a ton of work on technique, conditioning and learning the system, probably do.

This situation isn’t complicated. Younger players need it, but older players, perhaps not as much. So maybe older players like Brady and Tretter shouldn’t rail against offseason programs. Maybe they can avoid the workouts, but not encourage young players to do the same.

Jets coach Robert Saleh recently addressed the importance of NFL offseason programs.

“I am biased, obviously, to our coaching and our performance staff,” Saleh said. “I think there’s no better or safer place to get better than at your home facility where everybody knows you and everybody knows what you need to reach your maximum potential to take advantage of your 2021 season.