The New York Jets’ season retains discovering methods to get extra chaotic.
The most recent story to emerge from the insanity is that group proprietor Woody Johnson reportedly urged the teaching workers to bench quarterback Aaron Rodgers following the group’s Week 4 loss to the Denver Broncos. In his thoughts, Rodgers was holding the group and its offense again, and he ought to have been changed with backup Tyrod Taylor.
That report comes from The Athletic on Tuesday night time, referencing a contentious assembly that concerned Johnson, former normal supervisor Joe Douglas and the group’s teaching workers.
From The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt and Dianna Russini:
“The coaches had been known as in to elucidate what occurred with their models in the course of the 10-9 house loss to the Broncos. In the course of the assembly, Johnson instructed to the coaches that they bench Aaron Rodgers in favor of Tyrod Taylor as a result of he felt Rodgers’ efficiency was holding the group again. The coaches and Douglas, shocked on the suggestion, talked him out of it and satisfied Johnson to remain the course and that benching Rodgers, together with his pedigree, 4 video games into the season wouldn’t sit effectively with the locker room. The coaches additionally felt it could embarrass Rodgers. The thought of benching the longer term Corridor of Famer sounded so absurd that one coach requested whether or not the proprietor was severe — a number of sources from that assembly believed he was.”
On one hand, the considered benching Rodgers 4 video games into the season after the way in which the group went out of its method to construct round him the previous two seasons does look like a fully large overreaction. It’s made even worse when it comes from a meddling proprietor who cannot preserve his fingers out of the soccer facet of the group.
However Rodgers is clearly an issue. Not just for his play on the sphere, however for the way in which he has been a relentless distraction off it and the way in which the group has gone out of its manner to herald his most popular individuals on the sidelines and on the sphere.
The experiment has not labored out the way in which anyone hoped, and now they’ve a large number on their fingers that has already resulted in a head-coaching change and, on Tuesday, a normal supervisor change.
It appears seemingly that Rodgers would be the subsequent individual to go when the season ends. Whereas that is likely to be a essential transfer (and a welcomed one for Jets followers given the circus that has unfolded right here), it isn’t going to repair something so long as Johnson retains involving himself within the day-to-day operations of the group.
It’s an nearly equivalent state of affairs to what is happening in Dallas with Jerry Jones. An proprietor who retains making modifications, retains attempting to regulate each facet of the group and largely has no concept what he’s doing.
There’s a purpose the Jets preserve dropping yearly regardless of what number of normal managers, head coaches and quarterbacks they rotate by means of. It’s the proprietor. He assembled this mess, and as he tries to scrub it up by eliminating all people, he’s simply going to make one other one. That’s what he does.