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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) calls out a play to his teammates during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the New York Giants, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
The New York Jets have always been the embodiment of Murphy’s Law: Whatever can go wrong, will.
It rarely mattered what decade you were in, who the opponent was, or how favorable things looked for Gang Green. It more often than not went wrong, feeding more fuel to the conspiracy theorists out there who believed Joe Namath might have sold his and the Jets’ souls to the devil for that famous Super Bowl III win.
The green side of MetLife Stadium has been waiting for a Super Bowl title — heck, even a Super Bowl appearance — for 54 years. They’ve been the butt of jokes around the NFL throughout that entire time, including this most recent stretch in which they haven’t made the playoffs in 12 years.
There’s been the butt fumble, the heinous whiffs of draft picks that could have seen them bring on the likes of Dan Marino or Jerry Rice or Warren Sapp or Anthony Munoz or Art Monk, the single-handed sparking of the Tom Brady New England Patriots dynasty, and the inability to develop a franchise quarterback since Namath.
Over the last decade alone the Jets were unable to find a legitimate passer despite spending top draft capital on the position. Mark Sanchez never panned out. Neither did Geno Smith, Christian Hackenberg, Sam Darnold, or at least for two years, Zach Wilson.
But one move can change everything — wipe away decades of despair and incompetence to provide a legitimate light at the end of what has felt to a lot of Jets fans like a ceaseless tunnel.
Aaron Rodgers is here and at 39 years old, is prepared to take Gang Green to new heights in 2023 while helping change the culture that had…
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