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The defensive coordinator of San Francisco 49ers, Robert Saleh, was part of his part in an post-match confrontation with the head coach of Jacksonville Jaguars, Liam Coen, Sunday.
After the Jaguars beat the 49ers on the road, 26-21, Saleh and Coen became viral because they had to be retained after having shown themselves on the ground. Coen was seen saying: “Keep my name out of your mouth.”
The altercation came from Saleh using the expression “theft of legal sign” at a press conference before their match. But he minimized what happened during his first time speaking with journalists.
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The defensive coordinator of San Francisco 49ers, Robert Saleh, talks with the secondary Fred Warner (54) in the fourth quarter against the Seattle Seahawks in Lumen Field on September 7, 2025. (Joe Nicholson / Imagn images)
“Everything is fine,” he said, via ESPN. “What happened on Sunday does not change what I feel. In my heart, I was really trying to make a compliment and I have the fact that I probably used the bad choice of words, but even if you want to say it, I mean, they are really, really good to put their players in position to succeed.”
Coen also minimized the situation after the match, saying it was not “a big problem” and “we will keep this between us”.
Liam Coen of Jaguars tells 49ers “ Robert Saleh to “ Keep my name out of your mouth ” in a time in post-Thregun
Saleh continued to rent Coen, saying he was doing a “work hell”.
“As trainers, we always chase the lever effect,” he said. “They try to have a winning lever effect. We try to remove the lever effect and everyone in the league tries to find all the avenues they can. As a coach, I look at their cassette, I recognize the number of hours to devote to a successful position. It is exhausting and each team does better. I said, Sunday does not change that.”
Jacksonville Jacksonville Jaguars, Liam Coen reacts in the second half against the 49ers of San Francisco in Levi’s Stadium on September 28, 2025. (Kyle Terada / Imagn images)
The theft of signs in the NFL is legal, as long as the limits are not crossed. The teams are authorized to use the television band and the film of all 22 to determine the signals on any side of the ball. Before the matches, while having their own staff in the press to try to break down signals in real time.
Here’s what Saleh said on Thursday during the match.
“Liam and its staff, a few guys from Minnesota, they have legally – a really advanced signal flight system where they always find a way to put themselves in an advantageous situation,” he said. “They are doing a great job with that. They are formed, they just try to find any nugget they can, so we have to be great with our signals and we must be great with our communication to fight against some of the Treats that we could give on the ground. They are almost elite in this regard, all this Sean of Sean’s Sean Tree [McVay] to Kevin O’Connell to all these guys. They all do it. “”
The defensive coordinator Robert Saleh of the 49ers of San Francisco is on the field before an NFL football match against the Cardinals of Arizona in Levi’s Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. (Images Brooke Sutton / Getty)
The 49ers had their sequence of three consecutive victories Sunday after falling to the Jaguars, which are also 3-1.
