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Jets' 'mess' REVEALED: Aaron Rodgers 'served as de facto GM, his hand-picked offensive coordinator lost players' trust, and coach Robert Saleh obsessed over negative press'
UK Daily Mail ^ | Alex Raskin

Posted on 01/31/2024 8:15:36 AM PST by C19fan

The 2023 New York Jets could be encapsulated in two photos: The hopeful beginning, when the flag-waving Aaron Rodgers led his new teammates onto the MetLife Stadium field before the opener, and moments later, when the presumed franchise savior was helped off the turf with a season-ending Achilles injury.

But in speaking to 30 sources in and around the team, The Athletic is revealing deeper issues that further sabotaged the Jets' efforts to survive without Rodgers under center.

'It's just such a f***ing mess,' one Jets coach told The Athletic. 'Something has to change.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: football; nfl
Yes as expected Rogers brought the drama to the J-E-T-S. We all know Hackett is a hack and gets jobs because he is buddies with Rogers. Saleh is too thin skinned for New York.
1 posted on 01/31/2024 8:15:36 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Drama Queen gotta drama......................


2 posted on 01/31/2024 8:22:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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At least the people in Green Bay are happy with the Jets. When they need to trade in a worn out, slightly crazed QB, they know the Jets will give them something of value and take the prima donna off their hands. Knowledgable Jet fans have rightly concluded that the mess will not be resolved until the team is sold to rational people.


3 posted on 01/31/2024 8:23:53 AM PST by allendale
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The Packers were wise to let Rodgers go.


4 posted on 01/31/2024 8:24:03 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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If they had re-signed Flacco, they likely would have made the playoffs. The AFC was wide open.


5 posted on 01/31/2024 8:28:05 AM PST by montag813
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90% of the time, seemingly across all major professional sports, bringing in the the aging ‘star’ to put a team “over the top” is an expensive failure

The failure is even more pronounced when that “star” is expected to revitalize a failing team.

Of course there are examples of success, but IMHO, it usually starts with fan-base excitement “We got XYZ on the team!” sells tickets and jerseys, but ends with anger and disappointment.


6 posted on 01/31/2024 8:31:10 AM PST by PGR88
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My blocker keeps me out of DM, but here is a link to the original article. I imagine interviewing thirty people in any big shot team, or even organization, with a recent game-changing event, would generate some printable muck.

https://theathletic.com/5238599/2024/01/31/jets-aaron-rodgers-robert-saleh-season-collapse/


7 posted on 01/31/2024 8:56:38 AM PST by gloryblaze
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So true. 1993 KC Chiefs. Montana and Marcus Allen.


8 posted on 01/31/2024 8:57:09 AM PST by Dartoid
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The UK Daily Mail, from way across the ocean, seems surprisingly very interested in a US football team (it's not even a soccer team) and Aaron Rogers.

Weird.

9 posted on 01/31/2024 8:58:35 AM PST by FreeReign
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Wow! They interviewed 30 people “around the team!” I don’t care about the damn Jets but I don’t take anything at face value that the dickhead media spews.


10 posted on 01/31/2024 9:26:09 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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90% of the time, seemingly across all major professional sports, bringing in the the aging ‘star’ to put a team “over the top” is an expensive failure

It only takes one exception (Tom Brady to Tampa) to make idiots forget all the failed examples.

11 posted on 01/31/2024 9:33:08 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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It only takes one exception (Tom Brady to Tampa) to make idiots forget all the failed examples.

That is a perfect example of a exception.

In football, I was thinking of Von Miller to the Bills. Bills are paying him approx. $20 million/year, and while he had some initial success, was injured 16 months ago, and has been invisible since. Or Pablo Sandoval on the (baseball) Red Sox. $100 million for 5 years, and I think he made it 3 years.

12 posted on 01/31/2024 9:39:53 AM PST by PGR88
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In recent decades, the only team that seemed capable of making that operating model work was the New York Yankees of the 1990s. They had a solid core of young home-grown players (Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera), but one of the keys to their success was that they were able to bring aging veterans on board who still had some value and were more than willing to check their egos at the door and accept whatever role they were given.

Guys like Wade Boggs, Darryl Strawberry, Cecil Fielder, Dwight Gooden, Jimmy Key, David Cone, etc. all seemed to resurrect their careers and be important contributors to those teams.

From everything I've read about that teams, this was mostly attributable to the quiet managerial style of Joe Torre and the respect he commanded among his players.

13 posted on 01/31/2024 9:41:19 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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Look up video of Rodgers injury....he literally is following what the sideline is telling him...same with Trevor Lawrence injury...all fake as hell..."Jake the a""hole" has it all documented on his blog...

NFL is totally fixed.

14 posted on 01/31/2024 9:47:43 AM PST by cherry
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Vinny Testaverde is available.


15 posted on 01/31/2024 10:10:03 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: FreeReign

He’s a vocal anti vaxer . He must be destroyed .


16 posted on 01/31/2024 10:23:32 AM PST by katykelly
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I’m willing to give Rodgers a full season next year before I pass judgement on him.


17 posted on 01/31/2024 10:25:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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There is a simple way to avoid negative press…WIN!


18 posted on 01/31/2024 11:19:43 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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HBO’s “Hard Knocks” season 20 abruptly ends right before Rogers’s injury.


19 posted on 02/01/2024 12:37:54 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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