Jets Q&A: How did Aaron Rodgers look? What did Robert Saleh say?

How did Aaron Rodgers look in his return to MetLife?

Pretty stinking good, actually. 

Rodgers moved quickly on his crutches and was wearing what looked to be a stiff ankle brace on his surgically repaired Achilles. Before the game, he spoke with Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce and watched his team during warmups before retiring to a suite. He also addressed the Jets the night before the game.

“He just came into the team room like Batman,” wide receiver Allen Lazard said. “It was a Hollywood-esque moment of Aaron Rodgers appearing, walking. I thought he was about to fly, quite honestly.”

The news got even better when NBC’s Melissa Stark revealed during the broadcast that Rodgers intends to return to the sideline in a few weeks. “His plan is to rejoin the team permanently after their Week 7 bye. And he told me his goal is to play again this season,” she said.

What did Robert Saleh say to the officials that earned him an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty near the end of the game?

We don’t know exactly, but it’s probably not printable. 

Saleh declined to reveal what he said, but he was seen gesturing and yelling at officials. He acknowledged that it stemmed from two questionable holding penalties.

A ticky-tacky holding call on Sauce Gardner with 4:29 left in the fourth quarter negated Michael Carter II’s interception and essentially sealed the Jets’ loss. A few plays before that, with Kansas City facing third-and-23, Mahomes scrambled for 25 yards and   the Jets’ C.J. Mosley   was dinged for illegal contact even though teammate Jermaine Johnson clearly was being held. That tacked on five more yards and Kansas City was given a first down at the Jets’ 30, stalling a comeback attempt.

“You can’t control it,” Saleh said. “You wish you could. You wish you could hit the replay button. You wish you could do anything, but you can’t, so you’ve got to focus on the moment. You’ve got to stay in it . . . It…