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The New York Jets, 2-3 through five weeks, could have looked at the glass as half full.<\/p>\n
In a 10-9 loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 4, New York missed a potential game-winning field goal late in the fourth quarter. And against the Minnesota Vikings the following week, the Jets were driving for a potential game-winning score until Aaron Rodgers threw an interception, his third of the game, to fall 23-17.<\/p>\n
An optimist would say that New York was under .500 but that its last two losses had come by a combined seven points. It was a field goal away from being 3-2. One fewer bad throw away from somehow being 4-1. And despite their 2-3 record, the Jets entered Week 6 only one game behind the Buffalo Bills for the lead in the AFC East.<\/p>\n In the five games since they fired Saleh, the Jets are only 1-4. And their season reached a new low in Week 10, as the Arizona Cardinals dominated them in all three phases of the game for a 31-6 win.<\/p>\n Where has the Jets’ season gone wrong? It starts with Rodgers.<\/p>\n Rodgers, 40, who played only four snaps last season before he tore an Achilles tendon, has looked like a shell of the player he used to be. A four-time MVP and Super Bowl champion, Rodgers has been unable to capture his past form in New York.<\/p>\n Starting with when he became a full-time starter in 2008 (and excluding his four-play-long 2023 campaign), Rodgers\u2019 current passer rating of 86.8 would be the lowest of his career, as is his average yards per attempt. He hasn\u2019t thrown for 300 yards in a single game. His completion percentage is his third worst. And he has thrown seven interceptions in 10 games. (For context, he didn\u2019t throw more than eight in a single season from 2011 to 2021.)<\/p>\n Surrounding Rodgers with familiar faces hasn\u2019t helped.<\/p>\n Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, who worked with him in Green Bay from 2019 to 2021, was stripped of his play-calling duties after Saleh was fired.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New York Jets, 2-3 through five weeks, could have looked at the glass as half full. 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<\/picture>\n\n\n\nInstead, New York decided to fire head coach Robert Saleh after the Vikings loss, a glass-half-empty move by a desperate team desperate to salvage a season under massive expectations. And the decision hasn\u2019t worked.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n