Reporter hints Jets could make huge Rodgers decision soon

New York Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich hinted earlier this week that Aaron Rodgers will stay the membership’s beginning quarterback by the top of the season despite the fact that the 3-9 group will likely soon be eradicated from playoff competition. 

For an article printed Wednesday morning, NFL insider Dan Graziano of ESPN prompt Jets proprietor Woody Johnson needs Rodgers out of the constructing a lot that the membership may primarily push the longer term Corridor of Famer out the door earlier than Week 18 arrives. 

“I nonetheless would not be shocked to see the Jets bench him or transfer on earlier than the top of this season,” Graziano stated about Rodgers. “I am going to eat one in every of my socks if Rodgers is beginning for the Jets subsequent season.” 

Rodgers has largely appeared like a participant previous his prime coming off the torn Achilles that value him all however 4 offensive snaps of the 2023 common season. 

Per Pro Football Reference, the 41-year-old started Wednesday ranked twenty seventh within the NFL amongst certified gamers with a 48.2 adjusted QBR, twenty fourth with an 87.5 passer score and twenty ninth with a 62.5 p.c completion proportion for the continued marketing campaign. In accordance with ESPN stats, the Jets head into Week 14 ranked thirty first total in whole offense (291.3 yards per recreation). 

Johnson dismissed head coach Robert Saleh and normal supervisor Joe Douglas in the course of the season. Multiple reports have since stated Johnson needs “a recent begin at normal supervisor, head coach and quarterback” subsequent 12 months. 

“A head coach and a GM have misplaced their jobs as a result of they tied themselves to [Rodgers] and constructed the complete group round the concept [he] could be the distinction,” Graziano defined. “He has been the distinction however fully reverse of what they anticipated and hoped. The group is horrible. The team culture is both horrible or nonexistent.”

That final level is attention-grabbing, as former Jets quarterback and present NFL analyst Boomer Esiason stated in November that he felt the group’s locker room was “fully fractured,” a minimum of partly due to Rodgers’ presence and poor play. 

It’s price noting that ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler added in Wednesday’s piece that the Jets may “rent a head coach who has an affinity for Rodgers or likes him over a draft-and-develop state of affairs or bridge free-agent options.” Invoice Belichick thinks Rodgers has one thing left within the tank, however few believe Belichick would even take into account accepting a name from Johnson for a number of causes.