There’s no must sugarcoat it.
The New York Jets, saddled with a declining 40-year-old Aaron Rodgers, are in hassle. With the Jets already a number of video games beneath .500 earlier than November, it’s extremely unlikely they’ll flip their 2024 season round and even play related soccer in December, not to mention speak about any playoff aspirations.
However Rodgers has a minimum of one other yr on his contract after this season. And it doesn’t sound like he needs to cease taking part in soccer. So, the Jets are kinda pressured to discover a method to make this entire scenario work transferring ahead whereas hoping their semi-washed-up quarterback doesn’t throw anybody else beneath the bus. It’s a troublesome bind and a fragile stability.
Let’s check out some worthy head teaching candidates for the Jets to contemplate and attempt to salvage one thing out of the already failing Rodgers period.
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Johnson has been the mastermind of one of many NFL’s best and better-coached offenses during the last three years in Detroit. He’s somebody who may make life very simple for Rodgers.
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The uncommon apple off Invoice Belichick’s rotten teaching tree, Vrabel turned the Titans (of all groups!) right into a constant, semi-marquee contender over his six seasons in Nashville. Vrabel would additionally hear none of Rodgers’ trademark nonsense (in a great way).
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An offensive coordinator who by no means strikes his receivers round (to the delight of stuck-in-their-ways quarterbacks) and is simply champing on the bit to be a head coach once more? Everybody needs to be making this Jets connection!
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Flores has remodeled a no-name Vikings defensive unit into one of many NFL’s finest. On the very least, he’d give the Jets their previously excessive defensive ground once more within the absence of Robert Saleh.
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Brady took over as Buffalo’s offensive coordinator on the 2023 midseason mark, and Josh Allen has solely been a veritable top-of-line MVP candidate ever since. That’s not a coincidence.
