The one historical past Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets are making this season is of the ominous selection — and Rodgers is doing his finest to have a humorousness about all of it.
In the course of the Jets’ 40-14 loss to the Buffalo Payments on Sunday, December 29 — New York’s sixth defeat in seven video games — Rodgers, 41, was sacked 4 instances, changing into essentially the most sacked quarterback within the historical past of the NFL.
Rodgers has now been sacked 568 instances, surpassing Tom Brady’s mark of 565.
“Yeah, I bought Tom on that,” Rodgers joked to reporters after the sport.
Rodgers achieved the doubtful distinction in his 247th NFL recreation. Brady, in the meantime, completed his profession with 335 whole NFL video games underneath his belt.
The drubbing by the hands of the Payments on Sunday was the most recent embarrassment in a string of them this season for the Jets. They dropped to 4-12 on the yr after opening the season with Tremendous Bowl aspirations.
Rodgers took out his frustrations throughout the recreation’s third quarter, when he was referred to as for an unsportsmanlike penalty for pushing Payments cornerback Christian Benford to the bottom after throwing his second interception of the afternoon.
AJ Epenesa #57 of the Buffalo Payments sacks Aaron Rodgers #8 of the New York Jets for a security throughout the second quarter at Highmark Stadium on December 29, 2024 in Orchard Park, New York. Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Photographs
“I don’t assume I pushed him very arduous,” Rodgers stated after the sport.
In the end, Rodgers stated the sport was indicative of how issues have gone all yr for the Jets.
“Yeah, I imply, it’s form of just like the season — it simply bought away from us,” he defined. “Too many video games bought away from us. This recreation bought away from us. We had been shifting the ball properly, after which we simply hit a wall. And that’s been form of the season, too.”
The Jets will shut out the common season on Sunday, January 5 towards the Miami Dolphins. What occurs after that’s anyone’s guess. Rodgers has indicated he’d like to return again and play for the Jets subsequent season, however no official resolution has been made by the staff.
Tom Brady (R) and Aaron Rodgers (L) Carmen Mandato/Getty Photographs for The Match
ESPN reported on Monday, December 30, that the franchise will interview Rex Ryan and Ron Rivera for the Jets’ head teaching job this offseason. After the Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh in October, Jeff Ulbrich has acted because the staff’s interim coach.
The Jets have solely received two video games because the firing of Saleh, 45, on October 8.
Throughout Aaron Rodgers’ rookie season with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, his relationship with teammate Brett Favre wanted loads of defrosting. Rodgers, 41, was drafted twenty fourth general by the Packers within the 2005 NFL Draft, a shocking tumble for a participant who was extensively anticipated to be drafted inside the highest 5. Whereas the Packers entrance […]
In the course of the CBS broadcast of Sunday’s recreation, play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz revealed what Rodgers stated to him when requested final week about his future with the staff.
“He seemed us proper within the eye and stated, ‘I actually don’t know. I’ll take a while,’” Nantz, 65, recalled.
Rodgers performed simply 4 snaps for the Jets throughout his first yr with the staff in 2023, struggling a season-ending Achilles damage on his first drive.
