It Sounds Like the Jets Benching Aaron Rodgers is Very Much Back on the Table
Everyone has something they cling to in times of distress. Some force for good in their life that gives them emotional support in their hour of need. Faith. Family. Friends. Art. Entertainment. Mind-altering substances. Promiscuity. Your source of comfort may vary, but everybody needs something to hang onto when times gets rough.
As for me? I suppose I fall back on All of the Above to varying degrees. (OK, not the last one. No matter how many women throw themselves at me, I'm spoken for. My desirability is both a blessing and a curse.) But when it comes to caring way more than is mentally, emotionally and physically healthy about a 3-10 team, there is only one place to turn.
The New York Jets are my shelter from the football storm. They always have been, and nothing has changed. If anything, this year has brought me the most joy when I've been most in need. As long as the Patriots struggle, I can always find peace and contentment in the warm, loving embrace of the Jets failures.
And just in case them blowing leads of 14-0, 21-7 and 21-19 with 5:31 to play wasn't enough, they followed it up with these tender mercies. Remember the reports that said ownership wanted Aaron Rodgers benched:
They're back. And better than ever:
Source - Things have gotten so bad for the New York Jets and quarterback Aaron Rodgers that the future Hall of Famer's job security might now be in jeopardy.
One day shy of his 41st birthday, Rodgers played one of his worst games of the season in a 26-21 loss to the Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, leading to a tepid postgame endorsement from interim coach Jeff Ulbrich.
Ulbrich punted when asked to give an assessment of Rodgers' performance, which included a red zone interception -- a game-changing pick-six in the second quarter. Ulbrich said he needed to watch the film before giving an evaluation.
It's highly unusual for a team official to give a "coachspeak" answer when discussing an all-time great. Ulbrich was asked if he's contemplating a quarterback change. Instead of shutting down speculation with a direct "no," he replied, "Not as of today." …
"Yeah, I don't know. We'll figure that out when we have those conversations," Rodgers said about the possibility of a change, adding, "I'll have a conversation with [Ulbrich] if that's what he's thinking."
Rodgers declined to comment on how he'd react, saying it's hypothetical.
Glorioski, does this ever feel good. Just exactly what I need to help every Patriots fan through this vale of tears. There's a quote often attributed to Helen Keller, Shakespeare or Gandhi that goes, "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet." And to that I add, "I felt sorry for myself because my team had three wins. Until I saw a team with three wins and no future because they squandered all their resources on a 41 year old quarterback, fired their coach and their General Manager. Then I cried laughing at their terrible misfortune."
I mean, the more you look at this, the more angles you examine it from, the better it gets:
I mean, imagine if they do bench him? I'll say about this what I said when it happened to Eli Manning. Name me another Hall of Fame quarterback who ever lost his job purely due to ineffectiveness. Don't cite me Joe Montana. He missed a season with an elbow injury as Steve Young turned himself into a Hall of Famer. Eli was the first. Rodgers might be days away from becoming just the second. And he and the Jets are swirling this toilet bowl together.
If you're a Jets fan (I feel for you), this is not the year to be looking to rebuild at quarterback, even if you had the resources. The 2025 draft is projected to have one of the weaker QB classes in years. Most consensus big boards don't have anyone going in the Top 10. Only Jalen Milroe (Alabama), Cameron Ward (Miami) and Shedeur Sanders (Colorado) going in Round 1. And no one until the end of the 2nd round or even the 3rd. There'll be no Drake Maye's sitting at No. 3, that's for certain. But there was last April, which makes the Patriots failure so much more tolerable than the Jets.
With that, let me just express my gratitude to their whole organization for existing in this current state. From the feckless empty suit owner Woody Johnson, down to the lowliest incompetent assistant, and everyone in between. Thank you for just being you. I'd add "Don't ever change," but 55 years after the last time they won anything and nine straight losing seasons, that's never going to happen. If Aaron Rodgers can't fix you and only makes you worse, what hope is there?