(Editor’s be aware: That is excerpted from Mike Sando’s Choose Six of Sept. 30, 2024.)
Are the Jets heading down the identical highway the Packers took late in Mike McCarthy’s tenure?
Going through third-and-10 with 1:53 remaining in a sport his Jets trailed 10-9, 40-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers fired a back-shoulder throw up the left sideline towards Xavier Gipson, a 23-year-old who entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent. Gipson stored operating up the sideline. Rodgers’ move sailed behind Gipson, falling incomplete out of bounds.
This play in a important second recalled the disconnect between Rodgers and a few of his a lot youthful, a lot much less skilled teammates towards the top of the quarterback’s run in Inexperienced Bay. As a former Rodgers-era Inexperienced Bay coach would later say, “Aaron was so good on the line of scrimmage, he wished to be in that mode on a regular basis, however it may possibly stress the opposite 10 guys, particularly in case you have a younger workforce.”
The same battle flashed after the Jets misplaced Sunday. Coach Robert Saleh — citing 13 penalties for 90 yards, together with 5 false begins — advised the Jets won’t be able to deal with Rodgers’ numerous cadences. Rodgers pushed again, suggesting his cadence has been a weapon, not an issue, for the Jets earlier than Sunday.
Robert Saleh talks in regards to the cadence on offense and the way that has been an issue with regard to penalties for the Jets pre-snap pic.twitter.com/WQJCLHGi3Z
— Jets Movies (@snyjets) September 29, 2024
Aaron Rodgers appears to get aggravated when requested about Robert Saleh’s feedback about dialing again the cadence on offense. “That’s one approach to do it. The opposite means is to carry them accountable.” 😳#Jets pic.twitter.com/PUbM2WvCsK
— Optimistic Jets (@OptimisticJets) September 29, 2024
The Jets have a mixture of younger and outdated on offense. Their starters Sunday: Rodgers (40), deal with Tyron Smith (33), tight finish Tyler Conklin (29), receiver Allen Lazard (28), guard John Simpson (27), guard Alijah Vera-Tucker (25), tight finish Jeremy Ruckert (24), receiver Garrett Wilson (24), middle Joe Tippmann (23), operating again Breece Corridor (23) and deal with Olu Fashanu (21).
None apart from Lazard has performed a lot with Rodgers, and it generally reveals.
The Rodgers-era Packers appeared to search out the appropriate steadiness beneath Matt LaFleur. Do the Jets have the time, and the teaching, to do the identical? Their offensive coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett, was with Rodgers and LaFleur from 2019 to 2021. The Jets’ offense flopped in its 10-9 defeat Sunday regardless of Rodgers delivering an array of spectacular passes.
informed ya!#DENvsNYJ on CBS & @paramountplus https://t.co/YUrMvkOybJ pic.twitter.com/NkyUsr9Sch
— New York Jets (@nyjets) September 29, 2024
The Jets’ offensive EPA for this sport (minus-18.8) was the seventh-worst for any workforce with Rodgers within the lineup, rating 243rd out of 249, counting Rodgers’ Inexperienced Bay years. That was an enormous swing from the Jets’ efficiency of their 24-3 victory over New England final week.
“The Jets at residence blow out a rival who is just not superb, after which they’ve 10 days to prepare for his or her subsequent opponent, they usually appear to be that?” a veteran coach mentioned.
The chart under is an up to date model of 1 printed final week. It reveals the Jets’ offense perking up with Rodgers initially, then falling again Sunday.
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