With Aaron Rodgers, the Jets will become a high

The last time the Jets traded with the Packers for a future Hall of Fame quarterback, the schedule was set for the coming season. This time, the transaction likely will happen well in advance of the attachment of the "when" to the "who" and "where" of the 272 regular-season games.

The arrival of Aaron Rodgers will make the Jets a major draw. Their games against division rivals — Bills, Patriots, Dolphins — instantly becoming compelling. Beyond those six contests, the Jets host the Eagles, Chiefs, Chargers, Commanders, Falcons, and Texans. The Jets visit the Cowboys, Giants, Broncos, Browns, and Raiders.

That's A LOT of intriguing games. Chiefs, Eagles, Cowboys, and Giants? Holy crap. The networks are surely already lobbying for one or more of those.

The Jets would basically become last year's Broncos, slotted into many high-profile spots, whether in standalone games or the popular 4:25 p.m. ET window.

Of course, Denver's schedule from last year becomes a cautionary tale. We assume it will work and work well. If it doesn't (or if Rodgers gets injured at some point), the networks will be stuck with some clunkers, as they were with the 2022 Let's Ride! Broncos.

At least one member of the New York coaching staff has experience with so many big-platform games. Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett coached Denver last year, with a blowout loss to the Rams on Christmas Day becoming Hackett's final act with the Broncos.

This year, the guy who called the plays for the Broncos will be calling the plays for the Jets. So, yeah, maybe the networks should think this through before they start clamoring for a full slate of Jets games.

Meanwhile, anyone who assumes that the Aaron Rodgers Jets will get to the playoffs a year after the Aaron Rodgers Packers didn't should take a closer look at that schedule. Both Super Bowl teams will visit MetLife Stadium. In all, the Jets will play nine games against playoff teams from 2022.

They will also be a high profile mess.

ESPN is reporting that the Jets are hoping to sign Jake from State Farm..

That would be great. The Jets getting more attention and exposure would hurt some feelings in the Northeast.

Great. More Aaron Rodgers … not!

I want to know what the excuses will be if the Jets don't bring home a Super Bowl. It can't be because the defense wasn't good enough. It can't be that he didn't get the weapons he wanted. So what will the excuses be?

So sick, and tired of hearing about Aaron Rodgers, and Lamar jackson!

I hope they go 0-17.

What could possibly go wrong?

As if we don't hear about the New York teams enough even when they’re losing.

Breaking News! Aaron Rodgers has come out as an alien from another planet!

Has anyone watched Rodgers play these last few years? He is going to be a high profile TV disaster!

He will not be able to handle the New York media. It will be fun to watch his meltdowns.

Jets have almost zero national draw, even with Aaron no one cares if they play or not. GB, Dallas and Pittsburgh are the only teams, even when they suck like the Cowboys have for the past three decades, that draw large TV audiences. Jets and Aaron on prime time would be more try to find a hockey game/ or anything else to watch instead unless it is GB vs the Jets. Every other game of the Jets should be at the early spot only for the Northeast on Sunday morning.

The NYC/NJ media love a diva, but no one have ever accused NYC/NJ media of being smart or intelligent. AR will have a field day playing mind games with the media. As someone who is sick and tired of everything being about NY, I welcome the chaos there.

mrbigass says:March 15, 2023 at 9:52 amESPN is reporting that the Jets are hoping to sign Jake from State Farm.——This is evidently THE key sticking point as A-Aron has said definitively that there is no deal without Jake and Jake is holding out for a fully guaranteed three year deal in the $15M range.

The Jets will have the best QB in the AFC East since the start of the century not named Josh Allen.

No I didn't forget anyone, QBs suspended for cheating and with losing records without elite coaching don't count.

In the same way people like watching car wrecks. I find it hilarious anybody believes they’ll actually be good. Did people just not watch him last season when he looked totally washed? And have they missed the fact Nathaniel Hackett is the Jets’ OC?

Of course it would be a major draw. Just like all the people who slow down to get a long look at a big wreck on the freeway. People tuning in to watch the Jets would mostly be Gawkers.

More people will get to watch him flame out 😂

Whenever Woody Johnson takes control of these things when he can't help himself, the end result is one of gloriousness and hilarity beyond belief. From Rex Ryan, to Mark Sanchez, to the Buttfumble, to the deluded expectations, and then the eventual aftereffects for years and years to come.

I love it!

A comedy of sorts which will be much better and bring in higher ratings than the final Seinfeld episode.

Am I the only one who realizes this is basically a reboot of Farve going to to Jets near then end of his career?

The coverage and everything is uncanny.

The Jets become marginally better under Rodgers, maybe make the playoffs. Then Rodgers retires, and leaves the Jets right back where they started.

If you’re getting the best QB since Namath you’ve got to go back to the classic helmet and uniform.There's nothing but bad with the others.

bullcharger says:March 15, 2023 at 9:58 amI want to know what the excuses will be if the Jets don't bring home a Super Bowl. It can't be because the defense wasn't good enough. It can't be that he didn't get the weapons he wanted. So what will the excuses be?

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The thumb injury hasn't fully healed.

Yeah it’ll be just like those 2 clowns Harry & Meghan's "Us against the World" story – another match made in heaven! Lol

Aren't you putting the cart before the horse, here? After all, it's the Jets. They have to show the ability to make the deal in the first place.

The roster the Jets have around Rodgers is a lot better than the one that's been around him in Green Bay. It may not turn the Jets into a Super Bowl contender, but missing the playoffs would be a huge disappointment.

Yes, Hackett looked bad with Russ, but they had never worked together, and the jury is still out on Russ overall. Rodgers may be a diva but he's also one of the best QBs of all time, and the last time he worked with Hackett, he won an MVP.

There are lots of ways this could go sideways, but it won't be because of Hackett.

Rodgers vs The New York Media might end up being the most entertaining thing for the season.

James Cameron can direct;

Titanic II

Has anyone watched Rodgers play these last few years? He is going to be a high profile TV disaster!==========

You weren't watching, obviously.

2 MVPs, and 2020 was arguably his best season.

I never see anyone mention this, but quarterbacks that have the worst season of their career at age 39 don't tend to rapidly improve at 40. Sure the Jets currently have much better skill players the the Packers but if they really go after Cobb and Marcedes Lewis then they will negate some of the progress they made there.

itsunclepauley says:March 15, 2023 at 10:26 amThe roster the Jets have around Rodgers is a lot better than the one that's been around him in Green Bay. It may not turn the Jets into a Super Bowl contender, but missing the playoffs would be a huge disappointment.

There are lots of ways this could go sideways, but it won't be because of Hackett.

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How so? The last 4 years, GB had the best record in the NFL. Offensively they had Adams, MVS, Lazard, Tonyan, and 2 monsters at RB. In 2020, the defense picked Brady 3 times in the second half of the NFC Championship game, but offense did nothing. Offensively are you saying that 2nd year Garret Wilson is better than prime Adams? Defense might be better than GB, but GB defense wasn't shabby. In 2022 at home against 49ers, the offense couldn't score more than 10 points. Defensive, even with the special teams blunder, held 49ers to 13 points. Rodgers just missed a wide open Lazard for the tieing score or lead.

If I recall, the Jets became a high-profile TV attraction when Brett Favre joined them, too. That was "fun"?

GoodellMustGo says:March 15, 2023 at 10:08 amThe Jets will have the best QB in the AFC East since the start of the century not named Josh Allen.

No I didn't forget anyone, QBs suspended for cheating and with losing records without elite coaching don't count.———————————————————-Same elite coach that has never been to a AFC Championship game in his 10 total NFL seasons as a HC without a future HoFer behind center?

Instead of BennieIt would Aaron and the…

What the hell has Aaron Rodgers ever won? He won 1 Super Bowl in his entire career. He has choked in the playoffs against the Seahawks, against the Giants, when the Packers were the better team. And that was with great Green Bay teams. This Jets team has far less talent than those GB teams

Still wont win a championship.

The roster the Jets have around Rodgers is a lot better than the one that's been around him in Green Bay.==========

Watson looks like a game breaker. The Packers have had really good receivers, never a blow the top off a defense guy like this. The line was one of the best, everyone is healthy again. Good RBs.

The Packers have 7 1st rounders on their defense, and invested some serious FA coin. I don't think they are a top 10 group, but stranger things have happened.

In this trash parity era, I could see this blind squirrel finding a nut.

Another spectacular failure.

Defensive, even with the special teams blunder, held 49ers to 13 points. Rodgers just missed a wide open Lazard for the tieing score or lead.===========

If they convert the field goal its a 10 point lead, under 5:00 to go.

The defense gave up 3 points at that point of the game.

.. Lazard? the guy that whiffed on the tying score in the 2020 Title Game? Yeah. I wouldn't look his way either.

the bottom line, ‘cuz Stone Cold says:March 15, 2023 at 10:38 amHas anyone watched Rodgers play these last few years? He is going to be a high profile TV disaster!==========

You weren't watching, obviously.

2 MVPs, and 2020 was arguably his best season.

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It's 2023 and Rodgers has taken his narcissism cues from drama Brady. That ship has long since sailed like it has for Brady who made it about him.

Rodgers thinks he can copy Brady, go to a horrendous organization, call all the shots, and it somehow can magically work.

I hope Rodgers wins a SuperBowl for the Jets simply as a benefit to Jets fans. They deserve one after all that has transpired. As a Packer fan I’m glad to see Rodgers go. I believe him to be a self-centered, selfish person with low character traits (see "Favre.") As an athlete, he still has what it takes to win. The Jets need to sign people around him that can be called upon and get it done in the postseason, because he can't.

It’ll be the most watch Jets team since the butt-fumble! I will attempt to contain my eye-roll. And with Randall Cobb joining him, they’ll be UNSTOPPABLE!! LOL

Meanwhile, on a tropical beach somewhere, Mahomes rolls his eyes.

jeff7763 says:March 15, 2023 at 10:03 amHas anyone watched Rodgers play these last few years? He is going to be a high profile TV disaster!

Yes. Wasn't he a league MVP during the last few years. And your point is ?

I can see it now, Aaron trying ayahuasca with the NY press watching. What a circus.

He's done. If the Jets were smart, they’d walk away and let the Packers eat the contract they gave him.

Rodgers thinks he can copy Brady, go to a horrendous organization, call all the shots, and it somehow can magically work.’==========

Jilted Patriot fan…

If Rodgers is trying to copy Brady, he's doing it wrong.

Brady worked his way to free agency. He got to pick his team. He got to bring his buddies along for the ride.

Rodgers isn't in a position to control any of that.

Will they?

Are there a lot of Aaron Rodgers fans out there?He seems pretty hated.

If you weren't watching the Jets already, are you watching just because of Rodgers?

Anyone else getting the flavor of 2016 Buffalo.Rex Ryan "WE WON THE OFF SEASON"As he proceeded to compile a 7-9 reg season

End the DRAMA, choose Love.

candlestickkid says:March 15, 2023 at 10:00 amWhat could possibly go wrong?___________

Outstanding Timmy Turner reference, well done!

As a long suffering Jet fan this looks likea season that could epically go wrong. The schedule is brutal, Rodgers could get injured, BB has a way of always embrassing us on national TV. Add in a very insecure and unlikeable person like Rodgers and we could really see things fail in a large way resulting in mass firingas, tear down and complete rebuild which willbe hampered by how much money the Jets will have to push into future years.

60 years of being a Jet fan waiting for the next disaster. This Rodgers signing if it blows up might be my final straw. What do retired Jet fans do?

The Jets need to sign people around him that can be called upon and get it done in the postseason, because he can't.==========

5th highest rated post-season passer of all-time.

Well over a seasons-worth of Playoff games, so it not a small sample size that can be easily skewed.

Why? Nobody cares about the Jets.

Joe and Troy never shut up about him during games.

But Aaron won't be a NY Jet unless Woody Johnson quits playing games with GB on trade compensation.

He is not i repeat not signing with the Jets. He has a brain in his head and 60 million reasons to play with the Pack this next year.

Everyone likes to see a train wreck live and on TV, IF he were to play well.Viewers will drop to the previous low level it's been for decades. If they make the playoffs he will be a counter culture god in NYC.

Too bad it's only a pipe dream! Rodgers to the Jet's! Ha,ha

Anything is better than Zach Wilson.

Everyone is piling on with negatives but the reality is that the Jets have a very good Defense and the addition of Aaron Rodgers makes them a decent team. It has been too long since the New York Jets were serious contenders. This is actually good for the NFL.

Until he announces that he's taking his talents to NY/NJ, he is still a Packer, or retired. He still has time to pull the rug out from under the Jets. I just can't picture the Jets games being the big draw on Sundays…

This isnt a done deal yet.

On this week's Thursday night football…… The prince of darkness vs the evil empire.

williamshatnerstoupee says:March 15, 2023 at 9:56 amThat would be great. The Jets getting more attention and exposure would hurt some feelings in the Northeast

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Naw, the Bills will still be the team that commands the most attention of the pack. The other three are still just the other three. It's been that way for a while now and Rodgers wont change that.

I foresee them going to a playoff appearance but not likely to go to the Super Bowl as they will eventually succumb to their strong opponents in that conference. They won't get past Chiefs, Bengals, nor Bills. It will be a drama filled season for sure. Rodgers can still sling it but his subpar leadership will unravel the team. Time will tell.

Only all the commentary will be on THE VUE new segment – Drama Queening

Trey Wingo said that it was a done deal as of last Friday , we will find out today on the Pat McAfee show what A-rod says , both teams are dotting the I's and crossing the T's

The Jets have a lot of young talent and a Rodgers addiction most likely results in prime time games. As the article states, Denver has how many prime time games adding Wilson last year? It doesn't mean success, but definitely exposure.The funniest part is the increasing insecurity from Pats fans who call them New Jersey while continually sliding into the basement of the AFC East.

"mrbigass says:March 15, 2023 at 9:52 amESPN is reporting that the Jets are hoping to sign Jake from State Farm.."-–––They’d be better off with Flo. Or that dweeb with the Emu.

Welcome to the bucket of crabs that is the Jets. The ceiling is also the floor.

Has anyone watched Rodgers play these last few years? He is going to be a high profile TV disaster!——You mean the two years he won mvp? As in 2020 and 2021. I swear sometimes y’all don't even think about the things you say.

Football says:March 15, 2023 at 12:16 pmwilliamshatnerstoupee says:March 15, 2023 at 9:56 amThat would be great. The Jets getting more attention and exposure would hurt some feelings in the Northeast____________________________________________________________________________Not really…the Jets may get more attention for all the wrong reasons.

Prime time schedulers should consider the Denver debacle last season before scheduling any Jets games.

Rodgers > Brady

It's not close.

Football says:March 15, 2023 at 12:16 pmwilliamshatnerstoupee says:March 15, 2023 at 9:56 amThat would be great. The Jets getting more attention and exposure would hurt some feelings in the Northeast

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Naw, the Bills will still be the team that commands the most attention of the pack

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The Bills peaked and fell short again. Diggs is already wanting out. They are yesterday's news

For a few weeks until people get tired if watching Rodgers throw balls away and yell at receivers.

nhpats2011 says:March 15, 2023 at 1:08 pmFootball says:March 15, 2023 at 12:16 pmwilliamshatnerstoupee says:March 15, 2023 at 9:56 amThat would be great. The Jets getting more attention and exposure would hurt some feelings in the Northeast

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Naw, the Bills will still be the team that commands the most attention of the pack

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The Bills peaked and fell short again. Diggs is already wanting out. They are yesterday's news——-Nah. Their window is still open.

He will be high profile because we will watch with glee as he fails miserably and gets boo’d like he has never felt. This clown will get his karma payback.

bullcharger says:March 15, 2023 at 9:58 am

Simple: Saleh. Then Rodgers will get his choice of head coach.

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Naw, the Bills will still be the team that commands the most attention of the pack

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The Bills peaked and fell short again. Diggs is already wanting out. They are yesterday's news

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I don't think all is well there by any means. But they are not all done and for now do remain the team to beat in the NFCE with the other three looking up. I’m a fan of one of the other three so I personally wish you were right. But I’m not going to embarrass myself trying to talk around facts is why Im just admitting it.

My own guess is Rodgers comes in, plays amazing QB because like him ir not he is indeed that talented, and its still not enough difference to make up for the Jets needs. By later in the year Rodgers is actually saying that in comments.

GoodellMustGo says:March 15, 2023 at 1:07 pmRodgers > Brady

It's not close.

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Probably in some category sure. But bottom line results is not the category.

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