The New York Jets’ season retains discovering methods to get extra chaotic.
The newest story to emerge from the insanity is that group proprietor Woody Johnson reportedly urged the teaching workers to bench quarterback Aaron Rodgers following the group’s Week 4 loss to the Denver Broncos. In his thoughts, Rodgers was holding the group 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 group’s teaching workers.
From The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt and Dianna Russini:
“The coaches had been referred to as in to elucidate what occurred with their items through the 10-9 residence loss to the Broncos. Throughout the assembly, Johnson steered to the coaches that they bench Aaron Rodgers in favor of Tyrod Taylor as a result of he felt Rodgers’ efficiency was holding the group again. The coaches and Douglas, shocked on the suggestion, talked him out of it and satisfied Johnson to remain the course and that benching Rodgers, together with his pedigree, 4 video games into the season wouldn’t sit nicely with the locker room. The coaches additionally felt it will embarrass Rodgers. The concept of benching the long run 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 best way the group went out of its method to construct round him the previous two seasons does look like a completely huge overreaction. It’s made even worse when it comes from a meddling proprietor who cannot maintain his fingers out of the soccer side of the group.
However Rodgers is clearly an issue. Not just for his play on the sector, however for the best way he has been a relentless distraction off it and the best way the group has gone out of its method to herald his most well-liked individuals on the sidelines and on the sector.
The experiment has not labored out the best way anyone hoped, and now they’ve a multitude on their fingers that has already resulted in a head-coaching change and, on Tuesday, a normal supervisor change.
It appears doubtless that Rodgers would be the subsequent particular person to go when the season ends. Whereas that is likely to be a vital transfer (and a welcomed one for Jets followers given the circus that has unfolded right here), it’s not going to repair something so long as Johnson retains involving himself within the day-to-day operations of the group.
It’s an virtually equivalent state of affairs to what is happening in Dallas with Jerry Jones. An proprietor who retains making modifications, retains attempting to manage each side of the group and largely has no thought what he’s doing.
There’s a motive the Jets maintain dropping yearly regardless of what number of normal managers, head coaches and quarterbacks they rotate by means of. It’s the proprietor. He assembled this mess, and as he tries to scrub it up by eliminating all people, he’s simply going to make one other one. That’s what he does.
