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San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh owned his part in a confrontation after the game with Jacksonville Jaguar’s main coach Liam Coen on Sunday.
After Jaguars defeated the 49s on the road, 26-21, Saleh and Coen went viral as they had to be held back after screaming at each other on the field. Coen was seen and said, “Keep my name out of your mouth.”
The shift came from Saleh using the term “legal sign stealing” during a news conference before their games. But he neglected what happened in his first time talking to journalists.
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San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh talks with Linebacker Fred Warner (54) over the fourth quarter against Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field on September 7, 2025. (Joe Nicholson/Imag Images)
“It’s all good,” he said via ESPN. “Whatever happened on Sunday, I don’t change how I feel. In my heart, I really tried to give a compliment and I own the fact that I probably used the wrong choice of words, but no matter where you want to fix it, I mean they are really, really good at enabling their players to succeed.”
Coen also neglected the situation after the game and said it was not “a big deal” and “We hold it between us.”
Jaguars ‘Liam Coen asks 49ers’ Robert Saleh to ‘keep my name out of your mouth’ in fiery postgame moment
Saleh continued to praise Coen and said he is doing a “hell of a job.”
“As coaches, we always chase leverage,” he explained. “They try to have won leverage. We are trying to remove leverage and everyone in the league tries to find any path they can. As a coach who sees their ties, I recognize the amount of hours to be used to be able to build formations and define any small indicator they can give their players a chance to be in success.
Jacksonville Jaguar’s main coach Liam Coen responds from the sidelines during the second half against the San Francisco 49ers at Levis Stadium on September 28, 2025. (Kyle Terada/Imag images)
Sign sterns in the NFL are legal as long as boundaries are not crossed. Teams are allowed to use TV tapes and All-22 movies to find out signals on any side of the ball. Before games while also having their own staff in the press box to try to break down signals in real time.
Here’s what Saleh said Thursday in the game in the long run.
“Liam and his staff, a couple of guys coming from Minnesota, they have-lovingly-a really advanced signal-steel-type system, where they always find a way to put themselves in an advantageous situation,” he said. “They do a good job with it. They form you, they just try to find every nugget they can, so we have to be good with our signals and we have to be good with our communication to fight some of the telling us that we may be giving in the field. They are almost elite in that regard, the whole tree of sean [McVay] To Kevin O’Connell to all these guys. They all do it. “
Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh of San Francisco 49ers stands on the field before an NFL football match against Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)
The 49s had their three-game victory cracked Sunday after falling to Jaguars, who are also 3-1.
