Jets are going down with Aaron Rodgers as they barrel towards trade deadline dilemma
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.– The Jets dropped their fifth game in a row on Sunday, this one a stunning 25-22 loss to the lowly Patriots.
Here are some thoughts and observations from the game:1.I thought the Aaron Rodgers trade was a good one in April 2023.
The Jets had to make a move because Zach Wilson was bust.It was a gamble to bring in a player about to turn 40, but it felt like it could work.It has not.Rodgers is now eight games into his second season with the Jets and his tenure has been a total disaster.
No one can blame him for the injury in his first season but his play in the second season has not been good.There have been flashes of the old Rodgers, but he has mostly looked just like an old Rodgers.The Jets were always taking a risk with an older quarterback.
Tom Brady has made people forget that, but he was an alien.Most quarterbacks fall off before they hit 40 years old or right after.
Brady was the only one who was able to have success at such an advanced age.Peyton Manning’s last season was not a good one for him but the Broncos defense carried them to a Super Bowl.There is a saying about quarterbacks that someone told me a long time ago and it sticks with me.
Good quarterbacks hide your team’s warts and bad quarterbacks expose them.When Rodgers was at his best in Green Bay all those years, it didn’t matter if the defense was not terrific or if he did not have the best supporting cast around him.Rodgers was so good, he hid the warts.
Rodgers is now on the other side.He is exposing the Jets’ warts.
The running game stinks.The offensive line is struggling and we overrated the weapons and the defense.There is nothing the 2024 Jets can do now.
They have to ride this out with Rodgers.There may come a point where he needs to sit down because of his injuries but you have no one waiting in the wings to take over as your quarterback of the future.
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