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Former NFL defensive end Chris Canty blasted New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Thursday during a segment on ESPN Radio’s Unsportsmanlike.
Canty, who spent 11 seasons in the NFL playing for the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, and Baltimore Ravens, revealed that he believes Aaron Rodgers is a “cancer” in the New York Jets’ locker room.
“The last couple of years in Green Bay, we suspected that Aaron Rodgers could be a little bit toxic, especially with a young team,” Canty told co-hosts Evan Cohen and Michelle Smallmon. “I had no idea that it would be this bad. I mean, this guy is like a cancer that has metastasized within the New York Jets organization. And I don’t know how they fix it.”
"This guy is like a cancer that has metastasized within the New York Jets organization and I don't know how they fix it." @ChrisCanty99 on Aaron Rodgers with the New York Jets pic.twitter.com/9M8zyPS2D4
— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) October 24, 2024
Chris Canty’s comments came after Evan Cohen tried to guess what Jets players answer would be to the choice between having Aaron Rodgers or getting fired head coach Robert Salah back?
Michelle Smallmon then reminded Canty and Cohen that one of the Jets’ best players, Sauce Gardner, said “we’re doing it for him,” referring to Salah right after he was let go.
For his part, Aaron Rodgers, who all but came right out and said he was going to help the Jets win their first Super Bowl since Joe Namath and crew did it in 1969, is, by far, having the worst statistical season of his NFL career.
The Jets are now 2-5, Rodgers has a career-low QB rating of 82.2, has thrown 10 touchdown passes and 7 interceptions, is completing the second lowest percentage of passes in his career (61.7%) since becoming a starter, and has been a lightning rod for controversy for off-the-field stuff that surely hasn’t helped with the cohesiveness of the Jets roster.
As Rex Ryan said earlier this week, “The biggest problem [the Jets have] is Aaron Rodgers.”