Aaron Rodgers already making Jets’ dreams feel attainable
NY Post
You can find 1,000 things to dissect from the first nine practices of Jets training camp, but there is really just one thing that matters: Aaron Rodgers looks like Aaron Rodgers.
Will it translate in the regular season? We’ll see. But for now, through these early weeks of training camp, Rodgers has dazzled at times with incredible throws, matched wits with the defense by changing plays at the line of scrimmage and, most importantly, shown durability.
The 40-year-old quarterback coming off a torn Achilles has been on the field for every first-team snap in camp. There have been no concessions made to the fact that he is 11 months removed from such a devastating injury.
“He looks like he never missed any time,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said Saturday.
Saturday’s “Green and White” practice was a particularly grueling one, played in ridiculous heat. The Jets scrimmaged for 90 minutes. Rodgers led drives of 11 and 17 plays. He went 19 of 30 in the scrimmage and was out there for 42 plays. He did not throw any touchdown passes, but he was undermined by mistakes from others like a bad snap from center Joe Tippmann inside the 10 and a fumble by rookie Isaiah Davis.
Everything about this Jets season is riding on No. 8. In many ways, this training camp feels like a continuation of last year and the expectations that he brought with him from Green Bay are back. In other ways, things feel different. Rodgers feels more like a part of the team than a superstar dropped into the middle of the Jets.
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