Jets stuck in ridiculous Aaron Rodgers ‘Groundhog Day’ loop

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Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasnt one today.

Phil Connors

They say our love wont pay the rent

Before its earned our moneys all been spent

It fels that way, doesnt it? Feels like were trapped inside a time-space continuum vacuum (and yes, I believe that is the first sports column in sports column history to use consecutive words with double-us.)

It feels like Punxsutawney Phil is taking his sweet time finding his shadow. And while were on the subject: has anyone ever seen Robert Saleh and Ned Ryerson in the same room at the same time?

Welcome to Groundhog Day. Welcome to the Aaron Rodgers Jets. We are officially out of the dark, and officially through the looking glass all at the same time. The Jets are officially going to run all of this back. This is all happening earlier this time around, Rodgers talking about next season at Christmas time rather than near St. Patricks Day, the Jets spinning everything ahead to 2024, 11 full days before the ball does that in Times Square.

And so we are back. Back to assessing the Rodgers Era on spec. Back to watching the Jets try to construct a balanced roster with that equilibrium based less on the logic of building with the best available players than on assessing those players compatibility with the franchise centerpiece who has spent exactly four snaps center-piecing the franchise.

Jets_stuck_in_ridiculous_Aaron_Rodgers__Groundhog_Day__loop 3Aaron Rodgers watches the Jets’ loss to the Dolphins on Sunday. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConIts a hell of a way to run a football team.

Actually, its a ridiculous way to run a football team.

But that, in essence, is the only out the Jets have left themselves. They have invested so much capital, so much energy, so much oxygen into the Aaron Rodgers Experiment that they have given themselves little choice but to stay the course no matter that the course is filled with more potholes than the West Side Highway after a blizzard.

As long as Rodgers wants in, so do the Jets. So must the Jets.

And Rodgers wants in for 2024. At least.

I dont think next year will be my last year, he told Pat McAfee on Tuesday. I feel like I can play more years and I can be effective into my 40s.

He isnt the only one whos happy. Robert Saleh, who in the kindest possible terms has done a poor job this season, is delighted that he gets another year despite a record that presently sits at 16-31. Joe Douglas, who committed borderline malpractice by refusing to sign a solid backup behind his 39-year-old star then doubled down by failing to take advantage of the fact that Rodgers calamitous injury came early enough in the season to allow a mulligan on that misstep has to be ecstatic. Hes been here even longer than Saleh.

And any NFL veteran out there who can sell himself as a Rodgers crony to be next years Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb and Tim Boyle has to be blissful waiting for their agent to whisper in Woody Johnsons ear.

The only ones not happy, as always, are Jets fans who, as always, are asked to invest in the year to come and forget the one theyre in. Which they will. Soon enough Rodgers will start doing real quarterback work again if not in the next few weeks, surely by OTAs, and those images will be dutifully beamed to the world.

Jets_stuck_in_ridiculous_Aaron_Rodgers__Groundhog_Day__loop 3The Jets will be running it back with Aaron Rodgers next season. Getty ImagesSummer will arrive, and with it a familiar litany of hopes, most of them attached to a 40-year-old with a bum wheel, the rest endowed in trusting that the GM can build a whole new offensive line, get another receiver and keep as much of his defense intact as the salary cap allows. Rodgers will be kept in Bubble Wrap probably the whole way this time.

And then itll start all over again.

In a lot of ways, if the Jets were headed for catastrophe this year, theyd have been better off seeing Rodgers looking as old as his birth certificate, waiting until the 40th or the 400th snap before something snapped or broke instead of the fourth. Then they could start over. There is a certain nobility in taking a big swing, then conceding it whiffed.

Jets_stuck_in_ridiculous_Aaron_Rodgers__Groundhog_Day__loop 3Jets coach Robert Saleh Bill Kostroun/New York PostInstead, the Jets got limbo, a football purgatory that has been torturous to watch, and because of the way the season started they expect fans to ignore what has to be a haunting question: Even if Rodgers had stayed healthy, how good could this team really have been?

Theyll never know. Neither will you. So its a full reset. Its a full runback. Its Groundhog Day for Jets fans, without even Andie McDowell around to serve as a consolation prize.

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