That's exactly right. When people talk about getting rid of Rodgers because of the CAP hit, you need to consider that his contract is not guaranteed for next year. Meaning no one will be paying him 38 mii. The additional CAP number that the Jets will have to incur is whatever they agree for 2025. And it will not be 38 mil. Rodgers right now is below average 10-15 mil range QB. If we sign him for that much, that's the number that will be added to the CAP we already kicked down the road. These CAP savings we achieved with him in last two years are going to have to count against us in the future either way, whether we sign him for 2025 or not. The only additional CAP hits will be his new salary. No different if we sign another QB, that salary will also be added to CAP. So, if he stays say for 10 mil, and you still see a huge CAP # against him, it's not because we decided to keep him. It's because we saved on CAP before, and either way it will count either again him if he stays or against dead CAP. So keeping him say for 10 mil in 2025 has the same CAP equivalence as signing another veteran QB for 10 mil.
Neither does anything else the Jets do. If Douglas had done his job and gotten a kicker and not gutted the D-line, we'd be in the playoff race right now. The QB play is not the reason we're at 3-8. It hasn't been great (but it's still on pace to be one of the better season by a Jets QB), but it hasn't been a total disaster either. It's Joe Douglas and this abysmal coaching staff he put together that has us at 3-8.
I have a hard time believing that Russini came up with the whole article and yet didn't at least approve the headline even if someone else came up with it. It has her name on it. She could have vetoed it if she didn't like. But really the headline pretty accurately depicts the actual article so there was no need to veto. Russini and Zack proved to be very unreliable reporters who are willing to report whatever their sources tell them, if that means a bombshell article, even if logically the sources (what's up JD) make absolutely no sense and are likely full of shit for their own benefit. She is already walking back some of it. Original report was that basically Woody was so insane he wanted to bench Rodgers after one bad game, in spite of putting up MVP like performance a game before, and that coaches were asking if he was serious and convinced him otherwise. After people pointed out logical fallacies above and on top of it Adams trade, she now changed the story that Woody thought Rodgers may not be able to play the next game because he was injured again Denver. Two completely different situations. Last year she had a similar BS report. It's about making a big splash, not the facts. The bottom line is, to me she cannot be trusted at all. A definition of fake news.
Yes he is. He is immobile and he is a shell of his former self. He is 25th in QBR, 17th in PFF, 88.9 passer rating. A below average QB, but also not the worst one like we had in year past. He did put up 27 points in the last game, which for a below average QB is not bad. There is plenty of blame to go around. To me the biggest problem was and still is coaching. That should have been changed last off-season. Other than that, you have below average QB (while better than last year this is still not amazing), DL talent worse than last year, special teams were bad all year, particularly with Greg kicking while it mattered. Plenty of blame, but we need to finish the year and get a new GM and coach, and hope they will be better than what we had. We also need a young promising QB at some point. If Travis is not it, we have to draft one. Just not sure when as next year's class sucks.
