So essentially he's picked right back up where he left off in his age 39 season in 2022. With a now further increasing int rate. Maybe the loud guy constantly arguing with everybody that you couldn't adequately explain away that (expected at his age) decline season on the week 5 thumb injury, which Rodgers himself at the time stated "doesn't make a difference", turned out to be right?
He shepherds an offense that is ranked 23rd in yards/ game and 24th in points/ game and which is the only offense in the bottom 8 in those categories in the NFL that's had the starting QB play all its games. He may not be the problem, but he's certainly been part of the problem.
I would say so far, it's very hard to argue otherwise. I still hold out a hope he can get better, coming off serious injury, two year lay-off, but studying the all 22 film, I see a lot of the same mistakes I saw during poor QBs play of last year - with better protection. Of course it wasn't as bad as last year's scrub QBs did, but running into pressure, hesitancy to pull the trigger, passing on open guys, locking onto a guy are happening at a much higher rate than anticipated. He needs to play better, that's the bottom line, it is not good enough. Otherwise we are looking at the tank to start in 3 days.
I think he plays better these next 4 heading in to the bye. Although if he's really banged up I really wish they'd sit him this week and let him heal up some. It's basically the perfect time to do that imo, and this team might benefit from that type of gut check. This roster really needs to be able to beat a league worst team without Aaron Rodgers to even justify all the sacrifices that have been made to have Aaron Rodgers as it's QB.
Rodgers OWES the Jets a much higher standard of qb play. The New York Jets organization has bent over backwards to give him everything & everyone he said he needs. It's on him. So far what I've seen is more of the crappy offense we're used to seeing around here, he got my head coach fired, brutal losses and they haven't really beat anyone yet. I question those rankings. I've seen Rodgers hold on to the ball too long at times and his ranking amongst QBs is likely inflated due to how he played against New England the first time? Because what I've seen the past several games there's no way that was middle of the pack QB play. NO FRICKIN WAY. 9 points at home against Denver. The pick six and game ending int. with a victory on the line against the Vikings, the pick before the half last week and only 15 points scored SHUTOUT after the team got to 15 early in the game. That's bottom of the barrel QB play. The Jets, WE deserve MUCH better than what he's given us so far.
It's football, he's a football player. This is the life Aaron Rodgers chose. The Jets need him out there. The way he and the rest of the team have been playing they're no lock to beat the Patriots WITH Aaron Rodgers in there.
Rodgers was brought in because he was suppose to improve the Jets. So far he's not even outperforming '23 Zach Wilson record wise.
I want to be fair in my assessment. And I think below average is a fair assessment, and I looked at all 22 as well. This is not bottom of the barrel. Rodgers had some good/solid games, like against the SF, Bills, Patriots, Titans. He had big crippling mistakes, but also some great plays. That's what a below average QB does. Bottom of the barrel is what we watched last year, and Rodgers is not it. He is below average, but not terrible. With that said, I do agree that he owes us a better play. You are not trading two second round picks and a 1st round pick swap (dumb ass JD) for a year of below average QB play. Rodgers so far has been a disappointment for these of us who wanted him here, and needs to step up, no question about that. If he still can...
Yet Rodgers did improve the Jets because he is a clear improvement over Zach Wilson. Nobody actually watching our games would dispute that. That isn't and was never going to be problem though. The very predictable problem, at least for anybody not choosing to willingly drink the koolaid, ultimately just came out of the fact that the fix answer to "terrible QB + young upstart OC being handicapped at QB" was never gonna be "good QB + league worst offensive coaching room handicapping the QB". Where you are basically just swapping one massively damning problem for another, and which is exactly what we did. Which on a side note is why I always hate hearing people going on about being "all in" btw. I mean own it and raise your virtual hand in this thread if you spent the last year making arguments that it didn't matter that we had Hackett and terrible offensive coaching room with Aaron Rodgers at QB. Anybody? Any "good job for at least trying" nods to the FO for giving you that failure recipe you were clearly championing for in all those pre-hindsight argument takes? Funny how fast that "all in" support evaporates away into the outrage void after-the-fact when it turns out to be both wrong and stupid looking.
Again, if this team has any real surrounding chance to make a last spot playoff run, I completely disagree with that. As I stated in various playoff chance threads that have popped up since the recent mass bubble burst, I do believe there is currently the possibility this team (with it's remaining schedule) has a 7-3 run in it. I would stop believing that today if I knew as a fact that this roster could not beat that NE football team without a hobbled Aaron Rodgers.
I will concede (and actually already did) Rodgers has disappointed and underperformed relative to what I thought he would bring, but I cannot concede the league worst OC being his doing. This is just not the fact. The fact is JD and Saleh hired incompetent Hack. Only months later Rodgers was brought in, and it was Hack who convinced him to come, not the other way. There is no evidence Downing and Carter also because of Rodgers, Saleh said he convinced them to come. These are the facts. If you are disputing that, I need to see some actual proof of under the table deal being made where Rodgers said he would come to the Jets if they hire Hack. Basically, my point was, and I said that at the time: we could and should have cleaned house last year and left the players, including Rodgers. If that happened I am sure we would have had a better record now even with Rodgers playing below average. Our QB is not top half, but it is significantly better than last year. And Rodgers might have actually played better with a better OC.
Investing into Aaron Rodgers is the worst mistake this franchise has made in my lifetime. There is not even close a second. Said it on day 1, said it multiple times over the last year +, and will say it one last time here today. Pretty much every free agent QB with an extensive starting QB experience in that post 2022 field of 1 year free agent flyers, plus a good OC hire and minus all the bs sacrifices that were made to get him here and make this "Aaron's team", would of of lead to a better overall outcome then where we ended up today. We had the chance to replace Zach and end up with something that could of been special...and we royally wasted it on this BS.
It makes no difference. If we didnt sign him we would still suck. Everything the Jets do is the wrong move. We draft terribly, we pick terrible coaches, and we play terribly. We sucked before Rodgers, we suck with Rodgers, and we will suck after Rodgers.
I haven't posted on this site in a long time but it's time. It's time. Rodgers wasn't the worst part of this team. Just end it. Just end the experiment. All of it. It's exasperating. I don't think this is reactionary. But what we have is not the team. We blew it up years ago and we need to consider that again. We have overpaid vets and rookie contracts coming up to get paid. It might not work well but I just don't care anymore. Just stop the charade. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk
The New York Jets have broken Aaron Rodgers. We didn't think it could be done but we have done the impossible.
