Quarterback Aaron Rodgers raised eyebrows when he seemed to suggest following the New York Jets’ 26-21 loss to the Seattle Seahawks that dropped Gang Inexperienced to 3-9 that he is not the one particular person accountable for New York’s offensive struggles.
“There’s 11 guys on the sector,” Rodgers mentioned in his postgame media availability. “Typically it’s my fault. Positively a number of occasions as we speak. After which typically the main points aren’t there in another spots too.”
Throughout SNY’s postgame present, former Jets offensive lineman and present NFL analyst Willie Colon ripped Rodgers over what might change into some controversial feedback.
“That’s who Aaron Rodgers is,” Colon mentioned, as shared by Reice Shipley of Terrible Saying. “That’s who he has at all times been. He’s simply lined that up due to the best way he has performed. You might be smug and cocky when you’re successful MVPs and you’re balling. You can also make each play on the sector, you might be smug. The issue is his smugness and his play aren’t matching up.”
Rodgers basically missed all of final season as a result of torn Achilles he suffered in September 2023, and he misplaced 9 of his first 12 begins of the continuing marketing campaign. In accordance with Pro Football Reference, Rodgers started Monday ranked twenty seventh within the NFL with a 48.5 adjusted QBR, twenty fourth with an 87.5 passer ranking and twenty ninth with a 62.5% completion proportion for the season. Per ESPN stats, the Jets are twenty sixth within the league with a mean of 18.8 factors scored per sport.
Jets proprietor Woody Johnson firing head coach Robert Saleh when the membership was 2-3 did not end in Rodgers turning the clock again to his finest days with the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Johnson has since additionally parted methods with normal supervisor Joe Douglas, and it was reported on Sunday that the Jets need “a recent begin at normal supervisor, head coach and quarterback” subsequent 12 months.
“If you’re a Jets fan,” Colon added, “burn the entire d— factor up. Burn the entire build up. Nothing is smart. …The whole lot is worse than it was earlier than.”
Rodgers accomplished 21-of-39 passes for 185 yards with two touchdowns and an interception that was returned for a rating towards Seattle. A number of reporters talked about after that sport that it could possibly be Rodgers’ final as New York’s full-time QB1 if backup Tyrod Taylor stays wholesome sufficient to play via Week 18.
