After the Jets’ loss to Seattle, Jets coach Jeff Ulbrich was asked how Aaron Rodgers played in the game.
“I always want to go back and really watch the tape, and I have to watch the tape with Todd (Downing),” Ulbrich said. “A lot of times, he’ll give me all the nuance and intricacies within the game plan and footwork and the timing and all that. That will be a better question for tomorrow.”
He was then asked if he was considering a QB change.
“Not as of today,” Ulbrich said.
That second answer made some think he might make a change. Some people played a semantics game with that answer.
Ulbrich announced on Monday they are not making a change.
Why make a change? To go to a journeyman back with a .500 lifetime record?
Now, if you had a rookie or first-year developmental quarterback you wanted to evaluate and see some game action, that would be another story.
But that person, rookie QB Jordan Travis, a 2024 fifth-round pick, is still rehabbing a broken leg suffered at Florida State last year.
So why make a change for change from Rodgers, who has 19 TDs and 8 picks in 12 starts?
How about trying to provide better pass protection for him? Why not try that?
Or put players out there who know how to line up right.
Look, there are many things Rodgers can do better, but to scapegoat him for the Jets’ problems is perhaps shortsighted.
And to replace him with a 35-year-old backup, who is on his seventh team, what exactly would that accomplish?
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