The excitement and hype that surrounded the long-suffering New York Jets when they traded for future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers prior to last season now seems like a distant memory.
Plenty felt they had become legitimate Super Bowl contenders at the time, but Rodgers tore his Achilles during the Jet’s first offensive series of 2023.
He has been healthy this season, but the team is just 3-10, and there is now a chance he will be playing for a different team next September.
Many people now feel that perhaps the Jets are simply cursed, and Rodgers may agree with them, per the New York Post.
> “It might be some sort of curse we’ve got to snap as well,” Rodgers [said](https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/sports/aaron-rodgers-thinks-jets-may-have-to-break-curse/). “Whatever the case, this team, this organization is going to figure out how to get over the hump at some point.”
Ever since Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath led them to the Super Bowl championship in the 1968 season, the Jets have been mostly a laughingstock across the NFL.
They did reach the AFC Championship Game in 2009 and 2010 under head coach Rex Ryan, but they haven’t even made the playoffs since.
Overall, New York has a fairly talented roster, especially on defense, but they haven’t been able to put it all together, and two men in the organization became casualties of their struggles this season.
Robert Saleh was fired after three years as their head coach, and Joe Douglas was axed after he had been their general manager starting in 2019.
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