Everybody already knows that on April 26, 2023, the New York Jets made a trade with the Green Bay Packers that bagged Gang Green (at least potentially) the greatest quarterback in franchise history in the person of one Aaron Charles Rodgers.
Not that “greatest quarterback in Jets history” is a very high bar. This is a franchise that has never had a quarterback with a career passer rating better than 88.2 with at least 500 passing attempts with the team, and the guy up top is Chad Pennington at 88.9. Not what you’d expect. Brett Favre, Rodgers’ Packers predecessor, threw 22 touchdowns and 22 interceptions in 2008, his one season in New York. Joe Namath, whose performances degraded severely as his body started to fall apart and all those late nights caught up to him, finished his Jets career with a 50.2% completion rate, 170 touchdowns to 215 interceptions, and a passer rating of 65.8.
Having failed over and over in era after era to find a truly defining modern quarterback, the Jets went all in on Rodgers, hoping that his extraordinary talent would finally change the luck of such a quarterback-bedraggled franchise…