America's favorite dystopian pastime - 'out of the darkness' NFL 2023-24

Let’s not overreact to what the Jets doctors tell us about Aaron Rodgers’ injury

Better to let Rodgers do his own research

— Justin Herzig (@JustinHerzig) September 12, 2023

Hard to think of a more convincing rebuttal to the power of manifestation than Aaron Rodgers getting his ankle mangled on his first series

— Samer (@Samer) September 12, 2023

Aaron Rodgers
Position: Quarterback
Born: December 2, 1983 (age 39) Chico, California, U.S
Teams:
Green Bay Packers (2005-2022)
New York Jets (7:21 PM-7:26 PM)

seriously though hope he manages to come back and play at least 60% of the snaps this season

Troy with a good observation they probably relied on Aaron to read the defense at the line and now Nathaniel Hackett has to call plays which is something he's very much not good at

feeling like i could also post a 39.6 RTG in the NFL

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HAHAHAHAHA

Josh Allen has been awful

Like how the fuck does he keep failing to make these coverage reads

of the 3 QBs in this game he's completed the most passes to the Jets

jets defense is so good, imagine they drafted literally anyone else with that #2 pick

Jets are totally gonna win this aren't they

Holy shit that catch

Jets winning this anyway would be so hilarious

Not least because I think both teams are the Antichrist, I want a tie

g. wilson was playing db on that fade route…and got the pick…but on offense

It's impressive how badly Zach got that pass wrong

Wow Josh Allen is having a mare

lmao this game is wild

does Allen have a concussion? he just seems completely out of it.

is breece hall the best running back in the league?

I think the Jets D is just better than he is at their respective job

Lol did he call bank

early contender for funniest game of the year

I might get my tie

This is like Shaolin Soccer

lmao what an ending

Holy fuck

Wild night o football there

ooof

Breaking: Robert Saleh says they fear a torn Achilles for Rodgers. “It’s not good.” MRI tomorrow. They expect it to confirm the tear. #Jets

— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) September 12, 2023

really cruel outcome since this team really did look good. who knows maybe they'll coax Brady out of retirement

surely he can fix it after doing his own research

75 million fully guaranteed

oh my god unbelievable

Zach Wilson will be the #Jets starter the rest of the season, Robert Saleh said.

— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) September 12, 2023

after all those moves (including getting a bunch of Packers), doing Hard Knocks and everything else, the dude might not even complete a single pass for them this year, idk if I've ever seen anything like this in sports

Shouldn't have expected another ARod to succeed in NY

Time for Zach to become the next Kurt Warner

Sadly he looks more like a Cleo Lemon

they have to bring in someone else for foster reasons and if wilson plays like he did last year, he’s getting benched.

so saleh is blowing smoke

*roster reasons

Surely Brady’s got to be at least thinking about it

mike white.... oh

I mean what's he supposed to say, this is your backup QB and the guy who's at least gonna start a couple games, gotta show a little confidence

but yea this team is too good for Wilson, who I'm reasonably certain is just an awful quarterback. wonder who the options even are, maybe Jameis? I know it won't happen but if Brady came out of retirement it would be the funniest thing ever and I'd be rooting hard for them to win the Super Bowl

jets are on primetime like every week too. enjoy

is there a more idiotic rule in pro sports than the touchback

I thought you couldn't fumble forward and play is dead at spot of fumble? Ooops

all I know is if a touchback is possible they will always rule it a touchback because they just love that rule

can't think of another rule in any sport that makes so many people go "what? that's so fucking stupid" at once

Eh, I think it just should emphasize that protecting the ball is important and on the 1 yard line, even more so. The offense has so many gimme rules that makes it easy, this is one that it don't.

Pretty much you fumble it into the end zone, yer fucted. At least the way the rule is written, if you recover the fumble, it goes back to where it happened. That was changed by the old famous Stabler/Caspar "holy roller" play.

sure but square that with the fact that the ball only needs to slightly cross the plane for a TD which is why so many players dive for it like that when they get close. having such a thin line between touchdown and turnover feels weird to me, I don't really like the idea of turnovers where the other team doesn't even have to touch the ball. it should be like a 15 yard penalty or something similar to what happens when the kickoff is out of bounds

Vikings got a fun of favorable calls (and non-calls) to keep them in it, kinda hard to overcome 4 fumbles though

I don't feel too bad for the Vikes on that because Jefferson didn't need to make that risky extension, they could have had an easy goal line play next down.

I understand the argument against making it a touchback, otoh it happens pretty infrequently and fuck fumblers

i guess joe burrow sucks now

hfs that’s a lot

a recipe for disaster, i hope

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40158448/nfl-executive-explains-jets-heavy-early-prime-schedule

The New York Jets landed a record number of prime-time games over the first three months of the 2024 season because the appeal of four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers was too great to ignore, the NFL acknowledged Thursday.

"Yes, it's an awful lot of prime-time games early in the season, but, obviously, I feel like Jets kind of owe us one," Mike North, the NFL's vice president of broadcast planning, said on a video conference with reporters.

The Jets have six night games in the first 11 weeks, the most for any team since the 1970 merger, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The NFL and its TV networks went big on the Jets last season -- five games in prime time -- but it backfired when Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles tear in Week 1.

"When we had this conversation a year ago, we were -- all of us -- all-in on the Jets, and for that guy to last four plays was disheartening for many of us," North said. "I feel like we could run it back, and certainly our broadcast partners, when they came to us early in the process talking about what storylines they want to focus on early in the season, obviously Aaron Rodgers' return was a key one for everybody."

'all-in' on a 7-10 team with a 40yo QB coming off an achilles rupture

much respect to the (patrik) elias sports bureau for knowing that The Jets have six night games in the first 11 weeks, the most for any team since the 1970 merger tho

Bengals (& Harvard)’s Pat McInally who was a WR/P and Danny White Qb//p for the Cowboys were really the last kickers that played on the field much.

Tom Tupa was also a backup Qb but primarily was a punter.

McInally did not play WR much later in his career but did play some early on. White was of course Roger Staubachs backup before replacing him.

Hatcat great Qb Joe Theismsnn returned punts early in his career, which I always thought was kind of novel.

Turn on ESPN radio and they are talking about Aaron Rodgers and the Jets Super Bowl chances. Ha.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/06/14/bill-belichick-dating-24-year-old-ex-cheerleader-jordon-hudson/

According to one of Hudson's former cheerleading teammates, Hudson first met the 72-year-old on a flight from the Boston area bound for Florida way back in 2021 ... and bonded over a philosophy project the student-athlete had been working on.

We're told they swapped contact information after landing, and stayed friendly through the ensuing months ... discussing her school work and the X's and O's of her cheerleading routines.

bill!!