the Jets need to sign Aaron Rodgers

It appears the New York Jets will have nothing of substance to show for Aaron Rodgers’ blitzing move entering the third year of the experiment. If they want to continue putting every available egg in the basket of a freakish 40-year-old quarterback in 2025, this will be one last chance to prove the haters wrong or, if things go south again, an unforced This mistake pushes a struggling franchise even further away from its goals. On the plus side, it will provide so much grist to the sports talk mill as one of the most polarizing figures in sports is discussed from every available angle.

Or the Jets could decide enough is enough and look elsewhere for relevance.

Nick Wright seems to think this would be the better option as he tried to mentally process the situation What’s Wright with Nick Wright on Thursday.

“I’m shocked that Aaron might want to come back and I’m even more shocked that there seems to be a general reaction in the media that the Jets want him back,” Wright said. “In what world is it good for the New York Jets to bring back Aaron Rodgers?”

“Aaron Rodgers’ retirement has nothing to do with them having to fire him. “He is a bad, old, injured and distracted player who has sucked the life out of that building,” he added.

Few pundits are willing to say that Rodgers is ‘terrible’ and ‘really bad’ as a footballer. But that certainly seems like a relevant data point for this discussion. Looking at Rodgers’ numbers this year and inability to pass the eye test, it seems like something an organization looking to build another winning culture could call an audible.

Of course, the thing about all of this that can’t be ignored is that it’s the Jets. In recent years, they’ve felt a lot like the Cowboys of the Northeast Corridor: there’s a lot of drama and an inscrutable owner in Woody Johnson. Since there is absolutely no prior knowledge, it is simply difficult to imagine them admitting their failures and cutting the bait. You could argue that they are more than just pot-committed and that the slim chance of Rodgers coming back next season and setting the world on fire with his play is worth the gamble. It’s clearly not a great situation and that could be the best of many possible bad scenarios for 2025.