The New York Jets’ season retains discovering methods to get extra chaotic.
The newest story to emerge from the insanity is that staff proprietor Woody Johnson reportedly urged the teaching employees to bench quarterback Aaron Rodgers following the staff’s Week 4 loss to the Denver Broncos. In his thoughts, Rodgers was holding the staff and its offense again, and he ought to have been changed with backup Tyrod Taylor.
That report comes from The Athletic on Tuesday night time, referencing a contentious assembly that concerned Johnson, former normal supervisor Joe Douglas and the staff’s teaching employees.
From The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt and Dianna Russini:
“The coaches had been known as in to clarify what occurred with their models throughout the 10-9 house loss to the Broncos. In the course of the assembly, Johnson urged to the coaches that they bench Aaron Rodgers in favor of Tyrod Taylor as a result of he felt Rodgers’ efficiency was holding the staff again. The coaches and Douglas, surprised on the suggestion, talked him out of it and satisfied Johnson to remain the course and that benching Rodgers, along with his pedigree, 4 video games into the season wouldn’t sit properly with the locker room. The coaches additionally felt it might embarrass Rodgers. The thought of benching the longer term Corridor of Famer sounded so absurd that one coach requested whether or not the proprietor was critical — a number of sources from that assembly believed he was.”
On one hand, the considered benching Rodgers 4 video games into the season after the way in which the group went out of its approach to construct round him the previous two seasons does seem to be a completely large overreaction. It’s made even worse when it comes from a meddling proprietor who can’t preserve his arms out of the soccer side of the staff.
However Rodgers is clearly an issue. Not just for his play on the sector, however for the way in which he has been a continuing distraction off it and the way in which the group has gone out of its approach to usher in his most well-liked individuals on the sidelines and on the sector.
The experiment has not labored out the way in which anyone hoped, and now they’ve a multitude on their arms that has already resulted in a head-coaching change and, on Tuesday, a normal supervisor change.
It appears probably that Rodgers would be the subsequent particular person to go when the season ends. Whereas that could be a essential transfer (and a welcomed one for Jets followers given the circus that has unfolded right here), it isn’t going to repair something so long as Johnson retains involving himself within the day-to-day operations of the staff.
It’s an nearly an identical scenario to what is happening in Dallas with Jerry Jones. An proprietor who retains making adjustments, retains attempting to regulate each side of the staff and largely has no thought what he’s doing.
There’s a motive the Jets preserve dropping yearly regardless of what number of normal managers, head coaches and quarterbacks they rotate by. It’s the proprietor. He assembled this mess, and as he tries to wash it up by eliminating all people, he’s simply going to make one other one. That’s what he does.
