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Rico Cimini
Note: This story was originally published on Sunday. The jets officially announced that they will move from Rodgers on Thursday.
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Stephen A. says that the jets release Aaron Rodgers ‘the correct movement’
Stephen A. Smith reacts to the jets officially announcing that they are moving from Aaron Rodgers.
Florham Park, NJ – Aaron Rodgers era is over. Now what?
The New York Jets, which are expected to separate this week with the future member of the Hall of Fame, return in a place too familiar: the Quarterback purgatory. They do not have a young apparent heir, and there is no obvious response in free agency or draft. When Aaron Glenn’s era premiered in September, the Marshal of the Field Field will be … Well, it is a mystery of February.
It could be Tyrod Taylor, but that’s not sure.
Taylor, 35, has 58 race openings and has played well in its limited opportunities, but has a history of injury and has not started more than six games in a season since 2017. He played only 36 snapshots last season in two Mop – Uploading exits, throwing three touchdowns.
It can be a bridge field marshal, but that could be stretching. The Jets also have Jordan Travis 2024 of Fifth Round, but his whole rookie season was lost after a devastating lesion in the lower left leg in Florida State. At this point, it is seen as a development prospect.
Look for the jets to add a veteran and, possibly, a draft selection. This is not an unknown territory for the new general manager Darren Mougey, who experienced the same in his previous work when Denver’s Broncos cut Russell Wilson last year and absorbed a massive blow.
The 2025 free agents market is thin, with Sam Darnold, Wilson, Justin Fields and Daniel Jones currently among the main names.
Darnold, when leaving a professional year with the Minnesota Vikings, will generate interest throughout the League, but there are little chances of signing again with the jets. It was selected third in general in 2018, and the three -year marriage was not fruitful for any of the parties.
Kirk Cousins could free himself from Atlanta Falcons, who have committed to Michael Penix Jr. after making the change last season. Cousins is an interesting possibility because its former general manager of Vikings, Rick Spielman, is now the senior football advisor of the Jets. It would be profitable. The Falcons are in the hook for their base salary of $ 27.5 million (guaranteed), so the jets would have to pay only to the minimum of veterans, approximately $ 1.2 million.
Jets must be conscious of the lid. Release or negotiate Rodgers will result in $ 49 million in dead CAP positions. That can be extended for two years if they designate it as a cut of June 1, which can execute at the beginning of the year of the League March 12.
Rodgers has not publicly committed to play football next season, but CAP ramifications will be the same if he retires.
The draft offers few hopes to find a safe replacement. Choosing seventh, the jets will probably not have an opportunity in the first two consensus field marshal at Sheders or Cam Ward. The evaluators say that there is a significant fall for the next level of perspectives, directed by Jaxson Dart and Jalen Milroe. ESPN Draft Matt Miller analyst even projected the Texas Campo Marshal, Quinn Ewers, the jets in Round 2 last week.
What does Glenn want in his Quarterback?
“A winner,” he said. “Mental and physical hardness”.
Glenn experienced a situation similar to a Jet player in 1998, when the then coach Bill Parcells, in his second season, released Neil O’Donnell. He was a proven headline, and there was a great cap of a cap, but O’Donnell was not the cup of parcels tea as a leader.
It was a risky movement, but the jets ended with Vinny Testoverde, a trimmed after June of the Baltimore Ravens. Testoverde, 35 years old at that time, delivered a professional year in 1998, taking Jets to the AFC championship game.
Now, almost three decades later, Glenn needs to find his testaverde. Maybe it’s Taylor. Or perhaps they are cousins at 36. Cousins said last week that a previously revealed shoulder injury caused its fall of the season that led to Penix change.
Obviously, Glenn did not believe that Rodgers was suitable for his program. Several talent evaluators in recent days told ESPN that Rodgers can still be a productive holder, but they asked about their adjustment in Glenn’s culture.
“Aaron [Rodgers] It is not a bad guy, it is great, but personalities collide when you try to establish power, “said an opposite coach.
Rodgers launched for 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns, both third in the list of a single season of the jets, but this decision went beyond the numbers. It involved age, salary limit, scheme adjustment and culture adjustment. Glenn is expected to run a narrower ship than the previous regime, and made it clear in his introductory press conference that wants 53 players, not a mega -stress and 52 support actors.
“Friends, it’s not about Aaron Rodgers,” Glenn told reporters.
The jets were 5-12 last season: two victories less than 2023, when 16 games were lost due to its torn Achilles.
“They won five games with him and seven games without him,” former star of the Jets Keyshawn Johnson. “What brings to the table at 42? [in December] With a Achilles and a new coach and a new environment and a new culture?
“He threw a receiver [Mike Williams] Under the bus and ran it twice on him. He went to Egypt during the mini -family. He follows those things of Ayahuasca. It always points to [his coaches]. It is too much. In my opinion, if I was taking the job, he was not worth it. “
Now the jets say goodbye while they seek to rebuild as a field marshal once more.
