Gio: Jets were fine until Aaron Rodgers, Woody Johnson took power from Joe Douglas

As the Jets losing streak reaches five, and the season seems more and more likely to be over already, Boomer and Gio spent parts of Monday morning trying to pinpoint where it all went wrong.

For Gio, it was when the general manager had his power plucked away from him by the quarterback and, eventually, ownership.

“Joe Douglas was doing fine turning the team around until other people started running the team,” Gio said. “First it was Aaron Rodgers, then it was Woody Johnson. Now look what you got. It’s pathetic.”

Douglas made some shrewd draft choices to get the Jets some promising young talent like Garrett Wilson, Sauce Gardner, and Breece Hall, but Gio believes that once Rodgers arrived, and the Jets began adding several of his former teammates, it was doomed.

Then, Johnson stepping in and firing Robert Saleh in the middle of the season only accelerated the team’s demise.

“That guy was a great general manager, made some good draft choices, and put them in  a good position, and Aaron Rodgers came in and started making decisions like who is offensive coordinator is gonna be, what wide receiver to get off waivers that he played with on the Packers back in 2008,” Gio said. “And then Woody Johnson comes in and fires the head coach.”

Of course, Douglas is by no means exonerated by what the Jets have become, as the Rodgers era was only necessitated because Douglas’ draft choice of Zach Wilson at second overall back in 2021 turned out to be an all-time whiff.

“When you blow it with the quarterback,” Gio said. “You’re done.”