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A lot of people don’t understand my point, and that is understandable.
I keep writing articles about how the Jets need to listen to Aaron Rodgers, and lean on him heavily to help them fix their culture and end their 13-year playoff drought.
Whenver I write this stuff, I get responses like this all the time – “They listened to him and got Lazard, Hackett, Turner, Cook, Cobb and look how that turned out.?
That was from a fan named Xavier.
I totally understand where these fans are coming from.
It’s hard to make a nuanced point on Twitter.
I actually don’t think Rodgers should have a lot of input on personnel. That should be very, very limited.
My point is related to something else.
I really talking more about culture, practices habits, things of that nature, not really the roster.
Look, if you are going to pick a receiver in the draft, why not ask a 40-year-old QB, who knows a thing or two about the receiver position, to look at the cutup and ask, “What do you think?”
Nothing wrong with that.
But if he pushes for a close friend, like Tim Boyle, who wasn’t that good in college, or when he started for the Detroit Lions, that is something you ignore.
But I’m talking about improving the focus, improving the discipline and practice habits things like that.
Rodgers isn’t going to put up with the bleep in practices, and the Jets need him to be like an assistant coach in practices, and get on players who are screwing up.
Rodgers needs to help them with cultural fixes, like less focus on things that have nothing to do with winning, like asking players their favorite pizza topping walking out to practice, for some kind of social media post.
“Anything in this building that we’re doing that has nothing to do with winning needs to be assessed,” Rodgers said after the season. “Everything that we do has to have a purpose … the bullshit that has nothing to do with winning has to get out of the building.”
So that is the kind of guidance I’m talking about – not running the personnel department for the team.
He needs to be a winning consultant, not a personnel consultant.
You see where I’m coming from here?
The man is 148-75-1 as an NFL starting QB, so he’s essentially won twice as many games as he’s lost. He has a master’s degree on what it takes to win games in the league.
He’s 4-time NFL MVP. He knows what it takes to be elite.
They need to be all ears listening to Rodgers’ sage advice on on how to tweak the program, the practices, the meetings, and so on.
This man can be a messiah for the Jets, not just with his work under center, but giving them some of his secret sauce on how to produce a consistent winner.
So I hope people don’t misinterpret what I’m saying.
Yes, they should ignore him pushing for friends to be signed. They’ve got to get away from that.
But when comes to fixing the football culture, they should be all ears.
January 18, 2024
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