SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Two days after getting into a heated postgame exchange with Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Coen, San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh reiterated that his comments last week about "legal signal stealing" were meant as a compliment but acknowledged he could have chosen his words better.
"It is all good," Saleh said Tuesday. "Whatever happened on Sunday doesn't change how I feel. In my heart, I genuinely was trying to give a compliment and I own the fact that I probably used the wrong choice of words, but however you want to word it. I mean, they're really, really good at putting their players in position to be successful. As coaches, we're always chasing leverage. They're trying to have winning leverage. We're trying to take leverage away and ev