After four MVPs and a Super Bowl title, Aaron Rodgers chose to join the New York Jets two years ago in the hopes of turning around the franchise after 12 years of playoff-less football.
Even with Rodgers on the field (and in the locker room), New York won a collective 12 games during his tenure with the team.
Now, his time with the Jets is over, and he is hoping to join the antithesis of what the Jets were dealing with when he first arrived.
Jets Get Hilarious Explanation About Aaron Rodgers
Aditi Kinkhabwala of CBS Sports reported that Rodgers “is more likely to retire than sign with a team that’s not a Super Bowl contender.”
Rodgers has been tied to the Pittsburgh Steelers all offseason, but has reportedly not spoken to the team since March.
“Aaron Rodgers is 41 years old, has made nearly $400M and is intellectually stimulated by more than football,” Kinkhabwala said. “From every convo I myself had with him about trying to mold/shape/push a Jets team NOT on the brink of a Super Bowl to every convo I’ve had with execs trying to woo him this offseason, it’s extremely clear Rodgers is not going to play just for the sake of playing.”
That is where Rodgers is at right now. It’s why the Jets should be thrilled and filled with hilarity over this.
The mere fact there isn’t a single Super Bowl contending team willing to pay for a player like Rodgers is hilarious for New York. Throughout Rodgers’ entire run with the team, anonymous sources and complaints ran rampant with the organization.
It’s important to remember that the Jets believed themselves to be a quarterback away from truly contending for a Super Bowl following the 2022 season, which saw them start 7-4 and end with six straight losses.
Rodgers wasn’t the same player he was in Green Bay, though. And New York never was able to muster enough to be competitive with him not playing at an elite level.
31 other teams saw that reality over the last two years. The fact that there isn’t a single contending team willing to bring Rodgers in shows just how far the future Hall-of-Famer has fallen.
And it supports the much-criticized decision made by Aaron Glenn and Darren Mougey to let him go.
