All through the offseason, NewYorkJets.com reporters Eric Allen, Ethan Greenberg, Randy Lange, Caroline Hendershot and John Pullano will give their responses to a sequence of questions concerning this 12 months’s Jets.
Immediately’s query: What do you anticipate from Jets QB Aaron Rodgers vs. 49ers in his return to motion?
EA: San Francisco HC Kyle Shanahan employed defensive coordinator in Nick Sorensen to guide a unit that options DE Nick Bosa, LB Fred Warner and CB Charvarius Ward. The Jets will counter with Aaron Rodgers, an improved offensive line and younger ability place stars along with intriguing vast receiver choices in Mike Williams and Malachi Corley. In 9 regular-season video games in opposition to the ‘Niners, Rodgers, a Chico, CA, native who performed collegiately at Butte JC and California, has accomplished 66.2% of his passes with 20 TDs and a pair of TDs whereas posting a QB score of 107.5 Whereas Rodgers is 40 and he is getting back from an Achilles tendon tear and he hasn’t seen sport motion in 364 days, he stays a gifted bodily expertise with a particular soccer thoughts. Rodgers was superior all through the summer season, and I anticipate he’ll have evening in opposition to the ‘Niners. If he is on the sphere, the Jets have an opportunity to win any sport they play – together with Monday – this season. Think about what All-Professional LB Warner stated this week of Rodgers: “He all the time had the savvy, the flexibility to increase performs, make the large performs, maintain management of the sport, make the performs within the big-time moments. So there’s nothing you possibly can pinpoint, like, ‘We obtained to cease him from doing this.’ It’s a must to put together for all of it, so we’ll have an enormous check forward of us.”
EG: I anticipate a formidable efficiency. I will not put numbers behind it, however I believe followers watching Monday evening’s sport will come away impressed with Aaron Rodgers, who has a profession 103.9 passer score in opposition to the 49ers, after he missed final season. He was definitely spectacular all through coaching camp throwing the ball and he confirmed his mobility coming off an Achilles tendon harm. The Jets have the items to be one of many league’s finest offenses, however the greatest query is how lengthy it’ll take the unit to jell. Groups with continuity take time to discover a rhythm. Virtually all of the Inexperienced & White’s starters on offense, which incorporates three new offensive linemen, didn’t play within the preseason. Robert Saleh stated the Jets elevated their reps all through coaching camp to simulate game-like conditions to hit the bottom working. Whereas Rodgers may very well be thought-about a brand new piece, given he has but to finish a go within the common season for the Jets, he already has chemistry with third-year WR Garrett Wilson and WR Allen Lazard, who was his teammate for 5 seasons with the Packers.