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When the Jets brought in Aaron Rodgers before the 2023-24 season, it came with an assumption that the future Hall of Famer would elevate the team from perennial loser to Super Bowl contender.
Things didn’t quite work out that way in his first season in New York after a torn Achilles kept Rodgers off the field for all but four plays on the season.
However, fully healthy for the 2024-25 season (albeit another year older at 40 years old) with a star-studded roster on both sides of the ball gave the Jets and the veteran quarterback reason to believe that this was the year to contend for a championship and that last season was simply bad luck.
Yet, seven weeks into the season and New York is 2-5 and riding a four-game losing streak while firing its head coach in the process. For some perspective, at this point last year the Jets were 4-3, in the middle of a three-game winning streak, with impressive wins over the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles.
New York’s most recent loss came at the hands of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football – after the team had traded for wide receiver Davante Adams who suited up and played for the first time in three weeks.
Adams, of course, was also Rodgers’ longtime teammate with the Green Bay Packers and remains a good friend with the quarterback making it a perfect match for a team looking to get off the schneid and flip its season around.
When that didn’t happen, interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich told the media that after the game Adams (who had been with the team for six days) decided to speak up in the locker room.
“It’s not really my personality to see something that’s not right and to just let it go on,” Adams said. “Obviously it was a lack of energy and urgency out there and it was apparent, especially [because] I’ve played on teams that have that winning culture. Basically, I just took a moment to let them know [that] I had reservations about speaking up too early and being too vocal too early, but I…
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Author : SNY
Publish date : 2024-10-23 22:05:34
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