It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted a real football critique. I’ve never been a “darksider.” I prefer an optimistic outlook to everything, football included. Our team has a few problems. Problems on the offensive and defensive lines. Thing's that I can see fixable in a week or three. That’s just ignoring the elephant in the room. I didn’t see anything from the qb1 that inspired the offense to make plays. I didn’t see the leadership on the field that’s being paid for. From my eyes to the television I saw a guy cashing a paycheck and shaking his head when he didn’t get bailed out by a receiver. I hope I’m wrong because it’s a long decade if I’m right.
What do you want him to do? Take pom poms out on the sideline and chant his teammates names to make them feel more inspired? I’m cool with the Aaron Rodgers is a douche narrative but I don’t get any of this at this point.
The Jets scored 19 points against the defending NFC Champions. Last season, they scored 19 points seven times the entire season. The offense was not the problem.
Defense couldn’t tackle back up running back. Pushed off the line of scrimmage five yards every snap. Whole defense played weak. All day to throw no pressure but didn’t need to bc d was blown off the line of scrimmage on every run gaping holes you and I could run through. Defense was terrible.
49 Snaps and 18 minutes difference in TOP - Defense couldn't get off the field. Gashed by power running game all night - that's not on Rodgers...
I understand what you’re saying, all of you. What I’m saying isn’t Rodgers supposed to elevate our offense to scoring more than 19 points a game?
Rodgers’ body language has always been shit. It’s who he is. Last night wasn’t particularly on him but he did not play very well
Rodgers only elevated them to 13 points, Tyrod got that other TD in garbage time. Hackett is a Rodgers problem and our dumbfuck HC thinks he's a magic voodoo doll that brings Super Bowls when the last time he appeared in one was over a decade ago. "WATCH ME" I was watching him. Purdy looked better.
Fun fact: Rodgers's passer rating of 82.9, if extrapolated over the whole season, would be the best by a Jets QB since 2017.
As well he should though, every other Jets QB since 2017 made peanuts compared to what Rodgers is making we should compare him to the rest of the league
I know. I'm just saying he wasn't "the problem." The problem was that the 49ers are a Super Bowl-caliber team and as I was saying all offseason, we never were.
I wasn't expecting Rodgers to be MVP Rodgers in game one (especially against the 49ers in his first full game in almost 2 years) nor was I expecting him to be MVP Rodgers for much of the season. We expected rust from the O and we got some. I wasn't excited about the O, but I'm more worried about the defense. No pass rush, poor run defense. 7 or 8 straight scoring drives? That's putrid. But it's only one game. And it was the hardest one on our schedule all year
The sad thing is, the entire league has a blueprint on film after one game to pick the Jets current defense apart completely. Thankfully the entire league doesn't have the weapons that the 49ers have.
Roger’s played fine. Most throws were right on the money. Out of the 8 incompletions, I’d say 3 were “bad” throws. The others were 2 drops, 1 lazy footwork by Garrett (he was still IN btw. Bullshit call), 1 miscommunication where he threw deep but Garrett cut the route short, and an INT where the DB made a nice play followed by an unfortunate bounce. QB wasn’t even CLOSE to being the problem last night.
19 points won't beat almost anyone. Plus all those 3 and outs are brutal on the defense. The offense WAS the problem, led by a 40 year old.
Here's what bothered me: We've been told that Rodgers acts as his own OC . In effect, he calls the plays and runs what he wants to run. Therefore, Hackett's incompetence doesn't matter. Last night, however, it seemed that Rodgers just went along with Hackett's unimaginative play-calling.
