Jets 'make Aaron Rodgers decision' after firing GM Joe Douglas amid miserable season

Jets backmost Aaron Rodgers could beryllium pursuing wide manager Joe Douglas and caput manager Robert Saleh retired of the doorway successful New York, according to reports. 

The Jets had entered the Rodgers epoch successful precocious hopes aft Douglas manufactured a blockbuster woody to bring the four-time MVP to the Big Apple successful 2023 successful speech for aggregate picks with the Green Bay Packers. 

But with Douglas, the designer of the trade, present sent packing - conscionable 1 period aft caput coach Saleh faced the axe - uncertainty lingers implicit Rodgers' destiny successful New York. 

And, according to aggregate reports, Rodgers' tenure with the Jets could beryllium acceptable to travel to an extremity aft conscionable 2 seasons. 

An wrong root told ESPN's Rich Cimini that it's highly improbable that Jets proprietor Woody Johnson volition bring the erstwhile Super Bowl victor backmost successful 2025. 

'The Jets person dropped 7 of their past 8 games successful what was expected to beryllium a win-now play nether Rodgers, whose aboriginal is cloudy,' wrote Cimini pursuing Douglas's firing Tuesday.

'One root said he'd beryllium 'shocked' if Johnson brings Rodgers backmost successful 2025.' 

The insider added that Rodgers's $23.5 cardinal headdress complaint successful 2025 is not guaranteed. 

Another report from SNY claimed that the Jets' players had already 'checked out' with galore 'just acceptable for it [the season] to beryllium over' earlier besides suggesting that Rodgers is not expected to beryllium suiting up astatine MetLife again adjacent season. 

'There are 7 weeks near successful this season. It volition springiness the Jets a jumpstart connected different rebuild. They're looking for a caller wide manager. They volition beryllium looking for a caller coach,' SNY's Connor J Hughes reported.

'Sources told SNY that the squad prefers to determination connected from Aaron Rodgers, too. Those are the casual decisions, though. How to capable those voids poses a overmuch greater challenge.' 

Rodgers returned with the Jets aft being ruled retired for the entirety of his debut play with the squad aft suffering an Achilles teardrop successful their 2023 opening crippled against Buffalo.

Despite a miserable 3-8 play truthful acold this year, the seasoned had unopen down speech of status earlier this month. 

'I deliberation so, yeah,' Rodgers said erstwhile asked astir his plans to return. Doubling down connected his erstwhile hopes from past offseason to play 'two oregon 3 oregon 4 much years.'

'Not really, not for the negative,' helium added. 'Not really, no.'

However, adjacent if Rodgers does mean to instrumentality to the NFL adjacent play it appears it whitethorn present not beryllium with the Jets.

The Jets were expected to beryllium morganatic playoff contenders this play - with a afloat steadfast Aaron Rodgers and a bevy of weapons astatine his disposal.

Still, adjacent aft swinging the commercialized for Davante Adams , the Jets languish towards the bottommost of the AFC arsenic they ain a grounds of 3-8.

After firing Saleh earlier successful the season, it appears that the adjacent antheral to beryllium shown the doorway was Douglas with erstwhile Browns wide manager Phil Savage acceptable to measurement successful arsenic interim- signaling a implicit teardown and rebuild is apt connected the cards for the Jets.

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.

During his tenure, helium scored plentifulness of hits. The 2022 NFL Draft was a peculiar precocious constituent - with Douglas drafting prima cornerback Sauce Gardner and wide receiver Garrett Wilson successful the top-ten earlier adding walk rusher Jermaine Johnson aboriginal successful the first-round and moving backmost Breece Hall successful the second-round. 

Douglas besides managed to propulsion disconnected thing of a heist by trading information Jamal Adams and a fourth-round prime to the Seattle Seahawks successful speech for Bradley McDougald, a third-round pick, and 2 firsts (one of which was utilized connected Garrett Wilson). 

But, conscionable similar immoderate GM, helium besides had plentifulness of problems - the astir notable being that the Jets ne'er resolved the contented astatine quarterback.

Douglas held the second-overall prime successful the 2021 NFL Draft. After Trevor Lawrence was taken first-overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Douglas took BYU backmost Zach Wilson second. 

Wilson failed to unrecorded up to his imaginable successful New York and was yet traded to the Broncos aft 3 mediocre seasons arsenic the Jets' starter.

Douglas was besides the antheral liable for engineering the Rodgers commercialized past season. In total, the Jets received Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers' first-round prime successful 2023 (selecting linebacker Will McDonald IV), and their fifth-round prime successful 2023.

In exchange, the Packers received the Jets' 2023 first-round prime (used to instrumentality walk rusher Lukas Van Ness), their 2023 second-round prime (used to instrumentality choky extremity Luke Musgrave), and their 2023 sixth-round prime (used connected kicker Anders Carlson).

The Packers besides got a conditional second-round prime successful 2024 that they moved to the New Orleans Saints successful a swap of second-rounders (the Saints drafted cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry, the Packers took linebacker Edgerrin Cooper).

Rodgers got injured 4 snaps into the 2023 play and truthful acold successful 2024 has not lived up to the expectations placed connected him by Jets fans - adjacent aft Jets absorption bent implicit backwards trying to appease the Super Bowl victor by acquiring wide receivers helium had antecedently worked with.

This season, Douglas was astatine the halfway of 3 trades that affected the team. The archetypal was an offseason woody with the Philadelphia Eagles that saw the Jets onshore linebacker Haason Reddick successful speech for a conditional 2026 second-round prime that's apt to go a 2026 third-round pick.

Reddick held retired of grooming camps and practices - adjacent going truthful acold arsenic to request a commercialized - u ntil yet coming to an statement connected a caller woody with the squad successful late-October .

Douglas was besides liable for acquiring 1 of Rodgers' favourite wide receivers, Davante Adams successful speech for a 2025 second-rounder that's apt to go a third-rounder - unless Adams gets voted connected the All-Pro archetypal oregon 2nd team.

Neither of those things are likely, with Adams presently 42nd successful the league successful receiving yards and owning lone 2 receiving touchdowns.

After acquiring Adams, Douglas flipped wide receiver Mike Williams to the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine the commercialized deadline successful speech for a fifth-round pick.

In his archetypal crippled with his caller team, Williams caught a game-winning touchdown and past deed backmost astatine Rodgers aft antecedently being connected the receiving extremity of disapproval from the quarterback.