Woe to NY Giants that now will live in the shodow of Rogers across the river from the media capital of the World….
Oh, and the Expectations?
The Green Bay Packers traded quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the Jets on Monday, ending a three-year power struggle between the Packers and one of pro football’s greatest passers.
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Since quarterback Joe Namath led the Jets to their only Super Bowl appearance, a victory in January 1969, the franchise has struggled to find another long-term successor. The team has used first-round picks to try to fix the position: Richard Todd in 1976, Ken O’Brien in 1983, Chad Pennington in 2000, Mark Sanchez in 2009, Sam Darnold in 2018, and Zach Wilson in 2021.
In the promising 2022 season, the Jets began 6-3 behind one of the best defenses in the league and a talented offense. But lackluster quarterback play was the team’s most glaring deficiency, and it ultimately kept the Jets out of the playoffs for the 10th straight season. Now the Jets get Rodgers, who should position the Jets as championship contenders.
Rodgers, 39, spent 18 seasons in Green Bay, where he won the league’s Most Valuable Player Award four times, most recently in 2020 and 2021. But he had grown increasingly discontented with the franchise’s direction and his lack of input on personnel decisions…
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As reports of Rodgers’s interest in the Jets hit social media in the weeks leading up to the trade, Jets players openly vied for his services. Ahmad Gardner, the Jets cornerback known as Sauce, wore a Packers fan’s cheesehead hat after the team beat Green Bay last season. He burned the hat alongside other Jets teammates on a video meant to recruit Rodgers.
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