Aaron Rodgers Jets honeymoon is on its last legs

FOXBOROUGH, Mass — From the day he walked into their lives, there wasn’t a soul among the Jets, from top to bottom, who couldn’t stop telling the world how Aaron Rodgers raised the standard of everyone in the building, and how he elevated everyone with his football wisdom and the kind of magical right arm none of them had ever seen. The honeymoon is on its last legs. If Rodgers wants that rarefied New York legacy reserved for legends, he better start building it, and now. He has thrown six interceptions across his past three games and is the not-so-proud owner of a 40-year-old hamstring, a 40-year-old knee and a 40-year-old ankle. But it always has been folly to count him out, even if he has never been a 40-year-old Jet, and more help than anyone anticipated he would need has mercifully arrived. Rodgers tried as hard as he could to change the culture, but in a matter of days, the Jets tell us that it was Davante Adams, his all-time favorite receiver, who miraculously changed it. If that is the case, we should expect more energy and juice and joie de vivre and T-E-A-M from the Jeff Ulbrich Jets on Sunday against the Patriots, and more mental toughness in the face of adversity. And Haason Reddick, for however long he plays in his long-awaited Jets debut, will be helping Will McDonald and Quinnen Williams hunt Drake Maye if and when Rodgers can seize a lead and keep it this time. If Rodgers has any “savior” in him, he should recognize he needs to save a season in peril, and save it now. “I need to be a great leader,” Rodgers said this week.“It starts with me, and I’m going to set the tone this week.” It actually started with him from the start, that day 19 months ago when he walked into the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center and noticed the lonely Super Bowl III Lombardi trophy still desperate after all these years for a companion. This is no time to even utter the words Super Bowl.

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