Davante Adams responds to rumors Aaron Rodgers could leave New York Jets amid disastrous season

Aaron Rodgers' teammate and adjacent person Davante Adams has spoken retired rumors that the backmost could beryllium connected his mode retired of the New York Jets.

The Jets are enduring a miserable play aft losing 8 of their archetypal 11 fixtures, with Sunday's last-gasp decision to the Indianapolis Colts each but ending their hopes of reaching the playoffs.

After Robert Salah's firing past month, interim caput manager Jeff Ulbrich has lone picked up 1 triumph successful the six games which person followed, and Rodgers' aboriginal successful New York is present successful large doubt arsenic a result.

An wrong root told ESPN's Rich Cimini earlier this week that it's highly improbable Jets proprietor Woody Johnson volition bring the 40-year-old back successful 2025. 

When asked if he's spoken with Rodgers astir those rumors, Adams - who reunited with his long-time buddy aft sealing a commercialized from the Las Vegas Raiders past period - told sports presenter Kay Adams that it's not connected their caput close now.

Nevertheless, helium refused to regularisation retired that it's precise overmuch a possibility. 

'At this constituent it's truly not thing that gets brought up day-to-day, 'cause we some person a affirmative mindset successful the mode that we privation to onslaught each week,' the seasoned wide receiver said connected the 'Up & Adams' show.

'So if we get to talking astir him being connected a antithetic team, oregon maine being connected a antithetic team, that's conscionable not what we request successful our heads close now. 

'We gotta enactment thing but affirmative vigor and thoughts retired determination and conscionable support working.'

Rodgers addressed speech of retirement aft their caller blowout nonaccomplishment to the Arizona Cardinals, saying erstwhile asked if helium volition instrumentality successful 2025: 'I deliberation so.'

The Jets presently beryllium 3rd successful the AFC East with a 3-8 record, meaning they volition request to triumph each of their remaining six regular-season fixtures to springiness themselves the slightest of chances of reaching the playoffs.

And Adams is not giving up anticipation of making it done to the postseason contempt their existent woes.

'We got six weeks near and, similar I said, we're not retired of it,' helium continued. 'The chances are truly low, we spot each the percentages and each that stuff, but astatine the extremity of the time each we tin bash is interest astir the adjacent game.

'Right present this week we've got a bye week, truthful everyone's gonna reboot hopefully and instrumentality our minds disconnected shot for a minute, walk clip with families and reconnect connected the things that truly substance successful beingness - due to the fact that with the occupation that we person it's casual to suffer show of that.'

Johnson is continuing to shingle things up successful New York amid their disastrous campaign, with wide manager Joe Douglas the latest to beryllium fired on Tuesday.

Douglas' declaration was acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of the season, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. But Johnson appeared unwilling to hold that agelong and pulled the plug connected his tenure successful Florham Park early.

Schefter is besides reporting that the squad has named erstwhile Browns wide manager Phil Savage arsenic interim wide manager. 

Douglas had been with the Jets since 2019 - joining the squad aft that year's draught process. Then-head manager Adam Gase conducted the drafting for the Jets successful that season.