What the Jets need to know now that Aaron Rodgers’ season is over
It hadn’t been just a move for a quarterback. The New York Jets promised to do business in a different way when they signed Aaron Rodgers in April.
They based their entire team, strategy, and mindset on one player, and it all fell apart in a spectacular way.
Rodgers’ unofficial first year finished on Tuesday, when he said on “The Pat McAfee Show” that his bid to come back in 2023 is over. Saleh has a 16-32 record, with a 2-11 record in the month of January and December games.
Rodgers will be back in 2024 if he stays fit, but only a naïve person would think that an older quarterback who just had surgery on his Achilles could fix a team that has been in trouble for 50 years.
His.333 winning rate is the third worst in the team’s history among coaches who have been in charge for at least one full season.
Only Adam Gase (.281) as well as Rich Kotite (.125) are worse. Douglas, who took over as head of football two years prior to Saleh, is 25–55 as a manager.
People with those kinds for records usually get fired, but because of Rodgers, this is an individual case.
At the same time, fans are furious because their team hasn’t made the playoffs in 13 straight years, which is the longest current streak among each of the four major sports leagues.
It’s likely that Rodgers feels grateful to Douglas and Saleh for how they helped him get out of a tough spot in Green Bay and believed in him when no one else was at his February meeting in the dark.
Rodgers doesn’t want to take things over with a new boss and general manager now that his legendary career is coming to an end.
Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the New York Jets, is not fit enough to play. He will not play this season and is done for the year.
Johnson has put so much into Rodgers that he might want to get the most out of his investment. With their win on Sunday, the Dolphins took the Jets out of the running for the playoffs.
That’s why people at One Jets Drive think Douglas and Saleh are coming back. That might change if they lose, but for now, it looks like everyone gets a mulligan.
Rodgers tried to pull off a medical miracle and did a great job of providing his team something to work toward, keeping them in the running for the playoffs, and maybe even making a comeback this season.
However, let’s be honest: it was not ever going to take place. If he wasn’t feeling well, he wouldn’t been willing to play. What a great play! The Jets would not have played him even if you were still in the playoff hunt.
Rodgers did say that he would play for the Jets for two additional seasons and that the team does not need to rebuild but rather reload. It looks like Douglas, Saleh, or Hackett will all be back.
Rodgers was a very smart person who knows how to maintain himself current even though he couldn’t play again this season because of his health.
His is the Jets company, and he runs it. That’s why everyone is going back—not because they did a good job, but because they feel comfortable around him.
If you say that at home, that’s fine with me. He loves where he ranks with this group. I understand. It will actually take Rodgers a whole month to get almost fully healthy again, so the dog and cat show had to stop.
QB is the most important job in the NFL, and Rodgers will be in the Hall of Fame one day. This year, we saw what the situation was like for the Jets when they didn’t have a quarterback.
As time runs out, Douglas is under a lot of pressure to choose the right choices and build a team that can handle an injury to Rodgers in 2024.
As a result, the Jets’ inconsistent QB play cost them the season. Their defense had a top-five season, but they couldn’t score or keep the puck moving enough on offense.
The Jets pretty much fixed that problem once they traded for Aaron Rodgers in April. Rodgers will go into the Hall of Fame.
The Jets did not do anything fancy to deal with their other major offensive question mark: how to protect their soon-to-be-40-year-old quarterback.