Now that Aaron Rodgers beat the New York Jets and was the game’s decisive influence, it’s being painted as him getting revenge.<\/p>\n
Why does it have to be revenge?<\/p>\n
Why can’t team and player just part ways? It happens all the time.<\/p>\n
Rodgers had no legit reason to feel hard done by when he left New York.<\/p>\n
Sure, he flew to New York from California to get cut after a brief meeting. The Jets wasted his time.<\/p>\n
But Rodgers would have been mad if he’d been cut by phone, too. That would have been called disrespectful.<\/p>\n
An article at The Athletic after Sunday’s game saw Rodgers’ departure from the Big Apple thusly: “No athlete likes to be told he’s not good enough.”<\/p>\n
But that’s not why the Jets ditched Rodgers.<\/p>\n
Aaron Glenn got hired. It’s his first head coaching job.<\/p>\n
Glenn wanted to make a new start at quarterback and rightly felt no obligation to extend an experiment that had failed badly.<\/p>\n
Rodgers got hurt in the first game of the 2023 season. Out for the year.<\/p>\n
The Jets went 5-12 in 2024.<\/p>\n
Rodgers is 41. Justin Fields, the new Jets QB, is 26. Starting Fields equates to moving forward.<\/p>\n
It also means that Glenn is in charge.<\/p>\n
Rodgers bigfooted the entire franchise during his tenure with the Jets.<\/p>\n
He brought in Nathaniel Hackett to be the offensive coordinator. Incompetence personified.<\/p>\n
He brought in a bunch of cronies from Green Bay to play for the Jets. Wideout Allen Lazard is still on the Jets’ payroll. He was inactive Sunday.<\/p>\n
Last season, Rodgers went to Egypt instead of mandatory minicamp.<\/p>\n
Rodgers ran roughshod over the entire organization. He always got his own way.<\/p>\n
The Jets paid Rodgers $75 million. He won five games for them.<\/p>\n
Rodgers hurt the Jets a lot more than vice versa.<\/p>\n
The Jets stink. It’s in their DNA. Rodgers couldn’t change that.<\/p>\n
But he’s not remotely a victim.<\/p>\n
He wasn’t wronged by the Jets, or by New York. Not even a little bit.<\/p>\n
Rodgers has been the epitome of good, team-first conduct and verbiage since joining the Steelers. That’s great.<\/p>\n
Let’s see what happens when Rodgers loses a few games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Aaron Rodgers beat the New York Jets and was the game’s decisive influence, it’s being painted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1586,7,226,773,64907,1917,255,2321,2097,6,520,57,64909,64908],"class_list":{"0":"post-366310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-madden","12":"tag-mark-madden","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","20":"tag-sports-talk","21":"tag-super-genius"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}