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Rico Cimini
Florham Park, NJ-The marriage of the Jets-Aaron Rodgers in New York seems to be ending after two disappointing seasons, since it is unlikely that the future quartback of the Hall of Fame remains with the team in 2025, the sources told Adam Schefter of ESPN on Sunday.
Rodgers, 41, flew to New Jersey last week to meet with the new coach Aaron Glenn and the new general manager Darren Mougey, a source confirmed to ESPN. Fox Sports reported Sunday Rodgers was informed at that meeting that the team has decided to separate from it.
A jet spokesman refused to confirm the report.
Glenn has been in contact with Rodgers since he was hired, as part of an evolving discussion about the future of the field marshal. Glenn, at his introductory press conference on January 27, was not commitment to Rodgers. The coach said he wanted to meet with the veteran before choosing a direction in the Quarterback.
It is likely to be a formal ad in the next few days.
Rodgers said at the end of the season that he understood the circumstances, that the jets, with a new regime, could want to start again as a field marshal.
“Anyway, I will not be upset or offended whatever they decide to do,” he said.
Rodgers represented 18 openings, six victories, a very public Achilles tear and innumerable headlines in his two years with the jets. It is not clear if you will continue your career; He has maintained that he is undecided in a season 21.
The future member of the Hall of Fame has a remaining year in its contract, it does not have $ 37.5 million. He had to count $ 23.5 million at the limit.
The Jets will stay with $ 49 million in dead money, which can be extended for two years if it has designated a cut after June. In that case, they would have to carry their $ 23.5 million at the limit until June 1. At that time, it would count $ 14 million in 2025, a net savings of $ 9.5 million.
However, on the stage of June 1, there would be a charge of $ 35 million in 2026.
If you opt for retirement, the same accounting is applied.
Determined to finish their five decades Super Bowl, the Jets did the greatest trade in the history of the franchise on April 24, 2023, acquiring the four -time MVP of the Green Bay Packers for a draft selections package.
The expectations shot, since the jets announced Rodgers as the missing piece. His first season ended shortly after he began, with a torn Achilles left in the fourth click of the 2023 season.
Rodgers returned healthy in 2024, each game began despite some annoying leg injuries and delivered a vintage game of four touchdown at the end of the season, a 32-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins. There were not many games like that for Rodgers, whose performance during the season was unequal.
It happened for 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns, both third in the list of a single season of the jets, but also had 11 interceptions and ended with a QBR 48.1, which occupied the 25th of 32 qualified nfl pins. The jets underwent under the offensive, finished 24th in annotations, and were 5-12, in one of the biggest disappointments of the season.
Rodgers’ slow start was a great reason why coach Robert Saleh was fired only five games in the season. The closest confidant of Rodgers, the offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hachett, was degraded at that time. Six weeks later, Joe Douglas was fired as general manager.
Saleh, Douglas and Hackett were part of the contingent of the jets that visited Rodgers in his home in Malibu, California, in March 2023, persuading the field marshal to play for the jets. At that time, the Jets and the Packers began working on an exchange that took a month to end. By then, the Packers had decided to promote Jordan Love to the initial work.
Thus began five months of breathless hype for jets, highlighted by an appearance in Hard Knocks HBO. Rodgers debuted with the team on September 11, 2023 in “Monday Night Football”. During the presentations, he ran out of the metlife stadium tunnel that had an American flag, one of the best moments of his career, he said later.
In a matter of minutes, he wrinkled to the ground after a sack, his left Achilles broke.
The expected game of Rodgers will leave Tyrod Taylor, 35, as the only field marshal experienced in the list. The Jets are likely to pursue an initial caliber field marshal in the low season. They could also write a field marshal.
Rodgers’ imminent departure also means that they could free Davante Adams’s open receiver, who will have to renegotiate his prohibitive limit charge ($ 38.3 million) to remain on the list. Adams said after the season that his decision would be influenced in case Rodgers stays or leaves.
