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 group will likely soon be eradicated from playoff rivalry.
For an article printed Wednesday morning, NFL insider Dan Graziano of ESPN recommended Jets proprietor Woody Johnson needs Rodgers out of the constructing a lot that the membership might primarily push the long run 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 tip of this season,” Graziano stated about Rodgers. “I am going to eat one among 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 price 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 % completion share 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 contemporary 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 all the group round the concept [he] can 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,” at the very least partially due to Rodgers’ presence and poor play.
It’s price 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 scenario or bridge free-agent alternate options.” Invoice Belichick thinks Rodgers has one thing left within the tank, however few believe Belichick would even think about accepting a name from Johnson for a number of causes.
