Aaron Rodgers’ time because the New York Jets beginning quarterback could also be coming to an finish. Rodgers desires to “end the season the proper approach” and be on the sector together with his crew, but when issues do not flip round for the longer term Corridor of Famer, the Jets might need to half methods within the offseason.
Regardless if the Jets preserve Rodgers on the roster subsequent season or not, they’re more likely to draft a quarterback, in keeping with the NFL Community. At 3-9, the Jets would have the No. 6 choose if the season ended right this moment.
Some prime quarterback prospects embrace Miami’s Cam Ward, Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Texas’ Quinn Ewers.
Rodgers must play higher to stay on New York’s roster, a notion the veteran seemingly resents. Jets proprietor Woody Johnson reportedly needed to bench the Tremendous Bowl champion after Week 4 and there are experiences that Rodgers is an extended shot to spend a 3rd yr in a Jets uniform.
Even when Rodgers desires to stay in New York, the Jets might not really feel the identical approach, contemplating the struggles from this season from the ageing quarterback. Rodgers believes his repute precedes him and ought to be sufficient for a crew to purchase in.
“I feel it’s ridiculous, with all due respect,” Rodgers informed the media on Wednesday, responding to the experiences that he must play nicely these final 5 weeks to avoid wasting his job. “If they need me to remain, incredible. If it takes these 5 video games, perhaps they do not know what I convey to the desk, however that being mentioned, I might like to play actually friggin’ nicely the final 5 video games.”
Rodgers is definitely among the many prime quarterbacks in latest historical past, however the Jets cannot use his earlier victories to spice up their rating among the many different NFL groups, they want him to win now.
The Jets completed 7-10 the final two seasons, each with out Rodgers, and will not be more likely to meet that mark this yr. They nonetheless need to face the Miami Dolphins twice, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Payments. Whereas they might rack up one or two extra wins, successful out, and even successful nearly all of these remaining video games, can be troublesome.
The Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh and normal supervisor Joe Douglas — two individuals who introduced in Rodgers now not there. New York has a number of work to do that offseason, and the brand new coach and GM might need to begin recent with a quarterback they carry in, moderately than a veteran coming off a dropping season.
The crew can even be coping with the unknown way forward for extensive receiver Davante Adams, who Rodgers helped herald. Adams may get out of his present Jets deal if he desires to, per the report, as he made positive to take care of his leverage if he desires to be “free” on the finish of the season.
Adams hasn’t dominated out staying with the Jets, however admitted there are numerous components concerned, together with his contract and whether or not Rodgers, who he performed with in Inexperienced Bay as nicely, stays.
