East Rutherford – Aaron Rodgers finished the Jets’ loss to the Indianapolis Colts with 22-29 with two touchdowns and a 114.7 QB rating.
And people think he’s the problem?
He was far from perfect, and they could have used a little more passing yards than 184, but wasn’t the reason they lost.
The reason they lost was horrific defense, just like in Arizona.
They allowed a QB, Anthony Richardson, who came into the game with a 44.4 completion percentage, to complete 66.7 percent, and lead his team on two 70-yard TD drives in the fourth quarter.
Richardson was coming off a two-game benching due to substandard play. The Jets’ defense made him look like Josh Allen.
Rodgers is still a solid QB, but at 40, not the transcendent talent he was in his heyday.
But you can still win with him, if you have a good defense and top-shelf pass protection, and the Jets have neither.
So the bottom line is if you give Rodgers a supporting cast, he’s still a good NFL QB, but if you expect him to put a team on his back, as he did in his prime in Green Bay, it’s not happening, and that is the position the Jets are putting him in right now.
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