Correction: "As it stands today"...Joe Douglas has no contract in two months - he's out! What is gained by hanging on to Douglas for another year of status quo - losing football? Why would Pederson, or any other decent coach, come for a year knowing the GM will be gone at the end of the season to have someone else come in to begin a rebuild after the season - where would that leave the coach? Surely you're not proposing Douglas gets a multi-year extension? Who cares what Rodgers may or may not do? Seriously. The guy could say every day between now and the end of time that he's coming back, better than ever, of course then the next day awaken from another substance enhanced dream, emerge from his personal darkness and take off for the jungles of Borneo. He's washed up. Could he squeeze out a successful season? Maybe he could - stranger things have happened but all that would do is kick the can down the road for another block or another season. Exterminators don't treat half a house.
As it stands today as in what my current prediction is. As noted in the fire JD thread comment I made that prediction here is subject to us finding out at the end this year if JD has essentially been serving as a Rodgers yes man this whole time. My current guess being that he has, and as such will end up being subject to 1 more year of the same being fired immunity Hackett has until the Rodgers exit in 2026
Ah, okay - understand your use of "as it stands now." For the record: in my mind Hackett is a non-entity; discussing him here unnecessarily kills pixels.
A Douglas-final season Rodgers-Woody/Chris combo would be so doomed that it would be in Pederson's best interest to wait.
It all hinges on Rodgers. Y'all ever watch "Any Given Sunday?" Dennis Quaid gets back on the field after his back injury then runs that TD in and takes a major whack? The look on his face, his wife's face (Lauren Holly). In that moment he KNEW he was done. I've seen THAT look on Rodgers face at least 20 times so far this season. He's no spring chicken (in football years) and he's taking some big time shots. There's a whole half a season left. We're not in game 14 or 15 with a couple to go. There are EIGHT more games to go. Personally, I think Rodgers is done after this season. He doesn't NEED the money. Yeah, he might come back, but if I'm team management I don't take anything he has to say into consideration. Not the HC, GM hires nor what happens to Hackett. Unless this dude goes on the most unprecedented run in league history and this team lands as the AFC representative in the Super Bowl, his "input" into team building amounts to a pile of shit. 2025 brings a whole new team from top to bottom. New GM, new HC, new QB and on down. Personally, I give Tyrod Taylor a shot at starting next year and 2026 as the "bridge QB." This year's QB crop out of college is dog shit. At least, as far as I'm hearing. Which means they need to be thinking of positioning for 2026 and drafting the next young Jets QB. That or begin identifying a younger vet whom they think might take the next step soon but has been "less than good" with their current team. I can't go beyond 2025 because there are simply too many moving parts to speculate. Anywhoo...it's what I'd do.
the Jets will go on a bit of a run the rest of this season as a result everyone will come back for 2025 - it will be a complete disaster with Rodgers going down in the first 3 weeks - the Jets will get whatever records that means they do not have the #1 pick in the draft in 2026 and so miss out on Archie Manning.
I think Rodgers will want to play again next year because he will have something to prove. I know Woody won't be back. He's up for another ambassadorship. That means brother Chris will be running the show again which basically means SOJ for the next 4 years at least.
Prove what? That he can win a Super Bowl? That he can make that one play to put himself in the HoF? What does Aaron Rodgers have to prove? This is one of the arguments I keep hearing and I've yet to hear a solid explanation as to what Rodgers has to prove...
We don't even have to make predictions, we KNOW what is coming next year (and the decade beyond). It'll be another losing season, probably even worse than this one. There's not going to be the potential for another winning season until at least the coaching staff that succeeds the next one. The only real question is whether the playoff drought will reach 25 years. 20 years is a certainty at this point.
Even if the Jets got the pick to take him, there's no way he's coming here. He'll pull an Eli. It would be foolish for any top prospect to not do the same thing, either.
That he didn't make a mistake by signing with the Jets. I'm not defending him, just giving my 2 cents on his thinking.
This team is doomed now for real, jd traded away valuable picks for years to come and put us in cap hell, even if Rodgers comes back next year jd is a moron and doesn’t know how to fix the offensive line or has the capital to do so anyways, no offensive line means the offense will keep sucking and the defense is quickly regressing. Rodgers or not we are a 7 win team at best next season and it’s a shame because we have all these guys on rookie contracts set to get paid in 2 years or leave
This is an extremely optimistic view of where this team is going to be next year. As bad as this year has been, at it's been one of the worst, the future of this franchise is far darker than where we are now.
I think the jets are so bad, that they might out screw themselves and not even be able to do the typical win enough games to screw draft position. I want them to clean house and start completely over, and get the actual best hc/gm, not the lets try this coordinator crap. But as I said before, Rodgers and his “seniority” crap, Will scare away a new regime if he stays. There’s no way his ego takes a back seat to new guys
Rodgers really may just retire. $35M is a lot of money to walk away from but what a toxic, miserable situation to end a HOF career in! Best case for Jets is he retires, we hand the keys to Jordan Travis and/or a cheap vet. Tank the 2025 season and start yet another rebuild project.
I hope he does. When it was brought up as an idea of him coming here 2 years ago I hated it. But then when he actually was coming here I got exited about it. But now I see his presence could potentially cause years worth of damage. As far as Travis, I’m not so sure. Think I would like to build around a qb more highly touted.
