The Jets wanted the old Aaron Rodgers — instead they keep getting an old Rodgers
NY Post
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.
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JJ Redick was discovered working overtime.
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It didn’t take long for Karl-Anthony Towns to impact his regular-season debut at the Garden, for Towns — the preseason blockbuster acquisition — to elevate toward the rim, slam the ball through the net, hang on for an extra second and then let out a roar.
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.
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Aaron Boone blew it.
Evan Neal might have angered the football gods somewhere along the line.