Greg Jennings as soon as gained a Tremendous Bowl with the Inexperienced Bay Packers alongside Aaron Rodgers. However since retiring practically a decade in the past, the previous Professional Bowl extensive receiver has typically criticized his former quarterback, who enters a pivotal 2024 season with the New York Jets as a 40-year-old recovering from a torn Achilles.
Rodgers made it clear he understands the stress on himself and the Jets when chatting with reporters Wednesday, saying, “If I do not do what I do know I am able to doing, we’re all most likely going to be out of right here.”
That is presumably in reference to move coach Robert Saleh and basic supervisor Joe Douglas, each of whom have staked their jobs on Rodgers’ means to steer a younger, gifted Jets staff deep into the playoffs. Which made it all of the extra notable when, after listening to Rodgers’ assertion, Jennings stated Tuesday on “The Carton Present” that the remainder of the NFL ought to take discover.
“Listening to Aaron Rodgers say what he stated, the league is in bother,” Jennings stated. “When he has this mentality, there isn’t any one higher. … I do know he is 40, I do know he is coming off of harm. However when [he has] this mindset, with how nice he’s — he is one of many smartest quarterbacks, he’ll be a fantastic decision-maker — if his [physical] means remains to be there, and he is taking this posture, be careful.”
To this point, the evaluations from Jets OTAs have been that Rodgers certainly nonetheless has the bodily traits that made him top-of-the-line quarterbacks of his technology and a four-time NFL MVP with the Packers. However to his and Jennings’ factors, Rodgers appears to consider that is maybe his final good likelihood to show what he can nonetheless do on a soccer subject.
The make-up of the 2024 Jets roster, very similar to its 2023 model, is formed round Rodgers. Younger stars like operating again Breece Corridor and extensive receiver Garrett Wilson are joined by veterans comparable to extensive receiver Mike Williams, offensive linemen John Simpson and Tyron Smith, and Rodgers’ former Packers teammates Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb. Saleh’s protection has remained top-of-the-line items within the league behind defensive lineman Quinnen Williams and cornerback Sauce Gardner.
However the Jets have nonetheless not made the postseason since 2010 (which can also be the final time Rodgers led a staff to the Tremendous Bowl). The stress is on each the staff and the quarterback to finish these droughts — and Jennings, for his half, appears to consider they will.
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