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While Aaron Rodgers entered the 2024 season largely saying that he plans on playing for the New York Jets for at least the next two years, one plugged-in Gang Green beat reporter is already speculating that Rodgers is going to walk at the conclusion of this campaign.
According to ESPN’s Rich Cimini, who has been covering the Jets for over 30 years (at ESPN since 2010), he believes this is going to be Rodgers’ “final” season.
Cimini’s reasoning is two-fold. The first reason is that he believes that the Jets are going to miss the playoffs this year and will subsequently blow the team up and start over. Cimini’s other reason is that he thinks Aaron Rodgers isn’t playing well and looks beat up.
“He’s just not playing well, I think his body is beat up, I think if the Jets miss the playoffs, which it certainly appears they will, the Jets will start over next year,” Cimini said on the Flight Deck podcast.
“I’m not basing that on anything Rodgers told me or anyone in his circle told me. I just think this is probably going to be his final season. Again, just gut feeling, reading the tea leaves, that’s what I see.”
Through the first 7 games of the season, Rodgers has completed 61.7% of his passes for 1,663 yards, 10 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions. He’s also engineered the recent acquisition of wide receiver Davante Adams, who was left so aghast by the state of the locker room that he delivered a speech to the entire team despite not even being in town for a week.
Currently sitting at 2-5, the Jets have ten games left to make a run at the playoffs, with matchups against the New England Patriots, Houston Texans, Arizona Cardinals, Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins (twice), Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Rams, and Buffalo Bills to close out the season.