It’s not just some friend speaking.
There is no excuse for it to NOT happen.
“I think for sure they make the playoffs,” former Green Bay offensive tackle David Bakhtiari said recently to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “I don’t think it’s wise for any betting man to say Aaron Rodgers isn’t going to make the playoffs.”
This isn’t some wild pie-in-the-sky statement from a close friend of Rodgers.
The Jets should be playing in the second season unless Rodgers gets injured.
Considering they have Rodgers, and a strong roster, combined with a ridiculously easy schedule, no playoffs this year is pretty much unacceptable.
Aside from a few games, like the two Buffalo contests, it’s not exactly a murderer’s row of signal callers on the Jets’ schedule. Rodgers should enter most games as clearly the better QB, and that’s important in a QB-driven league.
And the Jets could be favored in all their games, by the wise guys in Las Vegas, perhaps aside from their games at Buffalo and San Francisco.
So if Rodgers is under center the whole season, or close to it, Baktiari is right, the Jets should make the playoffs.
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