NFL thinks Jets ‘owe us one’ with primetime-heavy schedule after Aaron Rodgers injury disaster
NY Post
The NFL is looking for a do-over from 2023 with the Jets.
That is basically what Mike North, the NFL vice president of broadcast planning, said Thursday on a Zoom call with reporters about the league giving the Jets six primetime games in the first 11 weeks of the season, something that no team has ever had before.
“That’s an awful lot of primetime games early in the season,” North said, “but obviously we feel like the Jets kind of owe us one. We had this conversation a year ago. All of us were all in on the Jets. For that guy [Aaron Rodgers] to last four plays was disheartening for many of us.”
That comment that the “Jets kind of owe us one” is not going to go over well in Florham Park.
The Jets had five primetime games last season, plus a standalone game on Black Friday. Rodgers tore his left Achilles in Week 1 on “Monday Night Football” against the Bills and suddenly the Jets were a much less attractive team, but they were already in those primetime windows.
This year, North said the networks are all looking for a piece of the Rodgers return storyline and that led to the early scheduling of primetime games.
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