New York Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich hinted earlier this week that Aaron Rodgers will stay the membership’s beginning quarterback by means of the tip of the season despite the fact that the 3-9 workforce will doubtless quickly be eradicated from playoff rivalry.
For an article revealed Wednesday morning, NFL insider Dan Graziano of ESPN steered Jets proprietor Woody Johnson needs Rodgers out of the constructing a lot that the membership might basically push the long run Corridor of Famer out the door earlier than Week 18 arrives.
“I nonetheless would not be stunned to see the Jets bench him or transfer on earlier than the tip of this season,” Graziano mentioned about Rodgers. “I will eat certainly one of my socks if Rodgers is beginning for the Jets subsequent season.”
Rodgers has largely regarded 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 Professional Soccer 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 ranking and twenty ninth with a 62.5 % completion share for the continuing marketing campaign. In keeping with ESPN stats, the Jets head into Week 14 ranked thirty first general in whole offense (291.3 yards per sport).
Johnson dismissed head coach Robert Saleh and common supervisor Joe Douglas throughout the season. A number of studies have since mentioned Johnson needs “a contemporary begin at common 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 your complete workforce round the concept that [he] can be the distinction,” Graziano defined. “He has been the distinction however fully reverse of what they anticipated and hoped. The workforce is horrible. The workforce tradition is both horrible or nonexistent.”
That final level is fascinating, as former Jets quarterback and present NFL analyst Boomer Esiason mentioned in November that he felt the workforce’s locker room was “fully fractured,” at the very least partially due to Rodgers’ presence and poor play.
It’s value noting that ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler added in Wednesday’s piece that the Jets might “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 alternate options.” Invoice Belichick thinks Rodgers has one thing left within the tank, however few consider Belichick would even take into account accepting a name from Johnson for a number of causes.
