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Joe Tippman had a full preseason with Aaron Rodgers for the second straight season, and after three games working with the 40-year-old passer, the Jets’ second-year center said it is a “great feeling” for the offense to see the quarterback “playing his type of ball again.”
“Maybe we’re not always gonna have a perfect pocket, but for him to be able to move like he’s 38 again it’s a good feeling,” Tippmann said Monday. “And just to be able to see him bringing that confidence back within his game, it brings a whole new confidence to our whole offense.”
Like Rodgers and third-year receiver Garrett Wilson needing a bit of time to get on the same page, it wasn’t always perfect between QB and center with snaps being an issue during preseason.
“There were times when he sat down with me, especially when I was having snap issues, and he said, ‘Just get it back there,'” Tippman said, adding Rodgers would joke with him about just snapping one to his feet. “For him to be able to recognize where my issue was with the snaps, just being able to recognize different aspects of my game and him being able to make those recommendations.
“I have all the trust in the world with him, especially with him getting me right, getting me on the same page as him. It’s a great feeling and something we can carry on going forward.”
Tippman said it was difficult as a guy who has “snapped a million balls in my day” for them to go from “being great to not,” and it was a time when he had to look inside to figure out what he was doing wrong.
“He stood by me all the way through,” Tippman said of Rodgers. “Never missed a beat, so to have that with him, it’s a good feeling.”
On Rodgers working with him, the center added: “Somebody who’s as seasoned a veteran as he is to kind of pick apart my game or even take the time, a young player like myself, to kind of make me better, it’s a great feeling and it gives me a lot of confidence knowing that he wants…
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Publish date : 2024-09-24 00:45:00
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