After an especially miserable decade of football, even by their standards, the Jets finally nailed the draft in 2022 and ended up with a young core of players that put them in a position to contend for a Super Bowl if they could just get their quarterback situation straightened out. We finally seemed to when we landed Rodgers and all indications from training camp were that he was poised for a great year.
But then, the worst case scenario — just four snaps into his Jets career, he went down with what appears to be a ruptured Achilles tendon. He will at least be out for the season, but at his age, it’s questionable whether he’ll ever play again.
The Jets dramatic comeback victory over the favored Buffalo Bills demonstrated the massive talent on both sides of the football that gave fans reason to hope that even a competent quarterback could make them a contender.
[To some extent this was just bad luck, but really, this was not a great decision by either Rodgers or the team. At 39 years old, even a QB with most of his other skills remaining still will have lost a step on quickness. You want to look for a team with a solid O-line rather than a fat checkbook. The Jets should have looked for younger talent or at least a more nimble QB to deal with its O-line deficiencies. Other teams have gone down the same old-great QB road only to have to deal with an injury, although the speed in which this happened could only have happened to the Jets. However, the gutty, scrappy comeback was a great sign that the franchise may have turned things around otherwise. — Ed]
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