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Final week, Zack Rosenblatt, Dianna Russini and Michael Silver of The Athletic dropped a bombshell exposé on the New York Jets and staff proprietor Woody Johnson, outlining the assorted examples of dysfunction throughout the group.
That report included quite a few particulars concerning the growing involvement of Johnson’s teenage sons, Brick and Jack, throughout the group. The pair reportedly are invited to conferences in staff services; ship articles to their father concerning the staff which might be believed to affect his decision-making course of by some throughout the group; are allowed into the locker room on recreation days (and allowed to ask mates); and Brick even offered a recreation ball to Garrett Wilson after an October win earlier than quarterback Aaron Rodgers might current one to interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich after his first win upon taking on for the fired Robert Saleh.
With that report making the rounds, Rodgers joked on Monday throughout his weekly look on The Pat McAfee Present that he would not be upset if he was launched this offseason by Brick Johnson:
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“I’ve by no means been launched earlier than, so being launched can be a primary. Being launched by a young person, that might even be a primary,” he mentioned. “Hey, you already know, I am open to all the pieces, and I discover the comedy in all of it. If that occurs, it is a fantastic story.”
It would not be shocking if the Jets reduce ties with Rodgers, specifically as a result of he would be due a $35 million possibility for 2025 and would carry a useless cap cost of $63 million into the 2026 season.
Reducing him this offseason, in the meantime, would carry a useless cap cost of $49 million, which they probably would unfold out over two seasons by making him a post-June 1 designation—$14 million in 2025 and $35 million in 2026.
Costly, little doubt, however much less restrictive than what they’d be dealing with in 2026 by retaining him round. It can in the end depend upon when, precisely, Brick Johnson is snug absorbing the useless cap cost.