The Jets shockingly fired head coach Robert Saleh on Tuesday after a 2-3 start to the season.

Saleh was 20-36 when coaching the Jets five games into his fourth season on the job. The Jets entered the 2024 season with Super Bowl aspirations when quarterback Aaron Rodgers returned from a season-ending injury in 2023.

However, the Jets haven’t looked good early in the season and have dropped their last two games. The final straw was a 23-17 loss to the Vikings in London on Sunday, a game in which Aaron Rodgers threw three interceptions and the offense looked lost for much of the game.

Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will be the interim head coach.

“This morning I informed Robert Saleh that he will no longer serve as Head Coach of the Jets,” owner Woody Johnson said in a statement. “I thanked him for his hard work over the past three and a half years and wished him and his family a good future. This was not an easy decision, but we are not yet at the place where we should have our expectations, and I believe this is the best time for us to move in a different direction.

“Jeff Ulbrich will be our interim head coach for the remainder of the season. he is a tough coach who has the respect of the coaches and players on this team. I believe that together with the coaches on this staff, he can get the most out of our talented team and achieve the goals we set this offseason.

Saleh had one year left on the contract he signed in 2021.

This marks the first time Woody Johnson has fired a head coach during the season and the first time the Jets have had a midseason coaching change since 1976, when Lou Holtz retired.

Saleh’s tenure was marked by good defense and terrible quarterback play.

He inherited a team that went 2-14 in 2020 under Adam Gase. The Jets drafted quarterback Zach Wilson with the No. 2 overall pick in 2021 and went 4-13 in Saleh’s first year. Wilson never progressed and the Jets went 7-10, losing their final six games of the season in 2022. Wilson was benched for Mike White late that season.

The Jets made the big move to trade for Aaron Rodgers in the spring of 2023, and expectations were high for Saleh’s third season. But Rodgers tore the Achilles tendon in his left leg four games into the season and the Jets again went 7-10 with Wilson, Tim Boyle and Trevor Siemian at quarterback.

With the return of a healthy Rodgers this year, expectations were once again high.

The Jets lost to the 49ers in Week 1, but then rebounded with two wins over the Titans and Patriots, the latter on “Thursday Night Football.”

But then the Jets hit rock bottom with a terrible loss to the Broncos at home. The Jets committed 15 penalties, 13 of which were accepted, including five false starts. The Jets looked like they weren’t ready to play and the penalties reflected poorly on Saleh. After the game, Saleh seemed to pin the false starts on Rodgers’ cadence.

The Jets then went to London and fell behind 17-0 early to the Vikings before rallying to make it a one-score game. They fell short when Rodgers threw his third interception of the game on the final series.

The loss certainly irked Johnson, who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom under Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. It also came with former Jets first-round pick Sam Darnold playing quarterback for the Vikings.

Ulbrich, who has been with the Jets under Saleh since 2021, will get his first crack at proving he can turn the Jets around.

If he doesn’t get the job full-time, there are intriguing options available for next year, including former Titans coach Mike Vrabel and former Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who resigned as Jets coach 24 years ago without ever coaching a game.