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The New York Jets could follow the New York Giants in cutting their starting quarterback, with Aaron Rodgers’ place in the team now rumored to be under threat following Daniel Jones’ exit.
Rodgers is clearly not the answer to the Jets’ problems. The veteran QB was expected to be the team’s savior, but that experiment has turned out to be an abject failure, and it doesn’t appear that he has much of a future in NY.
The Athletic’s Dianna Russini broke the news that the team’s owner, Woody Johnson, wanted to bench Rodgers and play Tyrod Taylor but allowed coaches to change his mind.
“After losing to Denver, Woody Johnson suggested in a contentious meeting that they bench Rodgers because he felt the QB wasn’t playing well. The coaches pushed back and asked each other if he was serious,” she wrote in a piece earlier this week.
NFL Insider Suggests The Jets Might Part Ways With Aaron Rodgers This Year
Russini has since reported that the team could do away with the QB altogether and release him before the end of the season.
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The Jets won’t play this weekend as they’re in a bye, yet things might get interesting once the QB sits in front of reporters again.
Rodgers has indicated that he would like to keep going next season, however, it does not appear that it will be in a Jets uniform the way things have gone since they traded for him.
Bombshell Report Exposes Jets Owner Woody Johnson’s Shocking Plan For Aaron Rodgers Following GM Joe Douglas’ Firing
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New York Jets owner Woody Johnson’s early-season plan for Aaron Rodgers has been revealed, and it’s pretty shocking.
The situation at Jets HQ is quite messy right now. The team fired general manager Joe Douglas on Tuesday, just six weeks after parting ways with head coach Robert Saleh.
However, it appears that things are a lot worse than everyone thought.
A report from The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt and Dianna Russini claims Johnson wanted Rodgers benched after Week 4 and suggested that Tyrod Taylor should start.
The Jets were a manageable 2-2 back then.
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“The coaches had been called in to explain what happened with their units during the 10-9 home loss to the Broncos,” the report reads. “During the meeting, Johnson suggested to the coaches that they bench Aaron Rodgers in favor of Tyrod Taylor because he felt Rodgers’ performance was holding the team back. The coaches and Douglas, stunned at the suggestion, talked him out of it and convinced Johnson to stay the course and that benching Rodgers, with his pedigree, four games into the season would not sit well with the locker room.
“The coaches also felt it would embarrass Rodgers. The idea of benching the future Hall of Famer sounded so absurd that one coach asked whether the owner was serious — multiple sources from that meeting believed he was.”
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While the Jets coaches were able to get Woody to change his mind on Rodgers, the owner decided to fire Saleh a week later without consulting Douglas. Now Douglas is out of a job himself.
Fox Sports insider Jordan Schultz noted that the former GM lost control of the team’s affairs from that point. Higher-ups within the organization were credited with the decision to trade for wide receiver Davante Adams and rework edge rusher Haason Reddick’s contract.
Given this latest scoop, it appears that Rodgers could indeed be benched by New York at some point. Or maybe he refuses to play now that the news is out there, who knows?
