The Super Bowl hopes of the New York Jets rest almost entirely on the performance of quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers infamously snapped his Achilles tendon in Week 1 of the 2023 season, an injury that condemned the Jets to mediocrity.
This is a new year, of course. But Rodgers can count a former Jets executive as one of his doubters entering the season.
Mike Tannenbaum, speaking on ESPN, according to jetsxfactor.com, is skeptic about Rodgers maintaining his skillset in the twilight years of his career. Tannaenbaum doubts Rodgers will return to the level of play that won the Green Bay Packers their most recent championship in franchise history.
“When you’re over 40 years old and you’re coming off an Achilles tendon injury … what I’m really curious to see [is] training camp. We’ll see what he does in the preseason.”
“How quickly he gets rid of the ball and short-area quickness with his feet,” listed Tannenbaum. “I’ve been around other quarterbacks from Vinny Testaverde, Brett Favre … I worked with Dan Marino in Miami. They always talked about losing that little quickness [and how it] really was the beginning of the end and that’s something that we really have got to watch carefully really just in a couple of weeks.”
Rodgers did not immediately respond to the comments. But knowing him, he heard them.
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