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When you Google the Jets these days, the results can often be loaded with nonsense.
So often it’s people writing articles on somebody else’s wild take.
Like today, somebody wrote the Jets should make a trade for Devante Adams so that lead to other bloggers to write blogs about that. This happens all the time. Hot take from one person leads to myriad blogs about the hot take.
But something that popped up today, along with the Adams’ trade scenario blogs, actually caught my attention, because it made a ton of sense, and it came from a shock jock.
Headline: “Rodgers mini camp absence ‘has zero impact on the Jets winning a Super Bowl.'”
That was from FS1’s Craig Carton
And I could not agree more.
Rodgers’ two-day minicamp absence should not impact the Jets’ fortunes this year.
Zero.
The other day we wrote about Julian Edelman’s comments ripping Rodgers for missing the camp.
Remember Edelman said, “I guarantee there’s four or five guys — six, seven, eight, nine guys in that locker room — sitting there like, ‘Where’s he at?’”
Once again, they might have been wondering where he was at the time, but I don’t think there is anybody in the locker room mad at him.
Don’t get the sense at all.
On June 13, Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner tweeted, “Are y’all really making a big deal because a 15+ year Hall-of-Fame quarterback missed two days of practice after being with the team all throughout Phase 1, 2, & 3 of OTA’s??”
Now, if Rodgers had missed OTAs, or had been in and out of them, and also missed the mandatory minicamp, then that might have been a problem, and caused some players to be bothered.
But his attendance this spring was excellent before the mandatory camp, so they certainly got in enough quality work on offense, with their star QB under center, to mitigate the impact of him missing the two-day minicamp.
Was it “a bad look” for Rodgers to miss the mandatory camp,” as Edelman put it? One could certainly make that argument, but will it impact the Jets’ chances of challenging for a Super Bowl this year – nah.
And considering we still don’t know for sure what Rodgers was doing those two days, it’s hard to totally judge his absence just yet.
There is speculation about him going on another Ayahuasca retreat, or maybe going to the Middle East.
Surely we will find out soon, or maybe we will never find out, because he will never tell us.
However, one thing to consider. If he feels, whatever he did, was something he needed to do, to help him have a great season this year, then, in a way, maybe his absence wasn’t the end of the world.
This guy truly is in touch with himself in terms of understanding what he needs to do to get ready for a season.
He has a team out in Los Angeles (and Montclair/Cedar Grove), that he uses to cover the gamut from nutrition to conditioning that helps keep him fine-tuned up like a team working on an expensive Indy car.
So while a lot of people viciously attacked Rodgers and the Jets for the QB’s minicamp absence and how it was handled, I agree with Carton, it’s likely not going to impact how they do this season, one way or the other.
June 28, 2024
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