Amid reports that Jets owner Woody Johnson is hesitant to surrender significant assets for Aaron Rodgers considering his public revelation that he was leaning towards retirement before his darkness retreat, BT says Johnson just needs to get out of the way.
“I honestly don’t want Woody Johnson anywhere near this,” BT said. “I think the stalemate is really derived out of Woody’s insertion.
“He is fully impacting it. he is the reason why there is no longer a discussion…it’s my fear that Woody Johnson is gonna complicate something that is really so simple.”
Tiki, on the other hand, understands the hesitancy from Johnson, especially considering Rodgers said he was “90 percent” leaning towards retiring before that retreat, where he emerged and decided he wanted to play for the Jets.
“If Aaron Rodgers plays a year, is OK and not great, they go 10-7 and make the playoffs and rules, and then he says, ‘OK, I’m good, I’m retiring,’ the Jets are now stuck,” Tiki said. “They don’t have the picks, they don’t have a way to recoup what they’ve given up, and now they’re stuck at quarterback, right back where they were before the Aaron Rodgers stuff happened.
“There are multiple reasons for having cold feet, and I don’t blame him for having cold feet. I’m not saying I wouldn’t do the deal, but I don’t blame him for having cold feet and thinking about this really strategically and long-term minded.”
The Jets are reportedly reluctant to surrender a first-round pick for Rodgers, and would like to make a second-round pick conditional on Rodgers playing two years in New York. Johnson is reportedly a key figure of the Jets’ reluctance to overpay, and BT just wishes the owner would let his front office take care of things.
“He’s not necessarily a football person,” BT said. “I am absolutely all in on that he must relent the temptation of getting his fingerprints on this, and allow…Joe Douglas to do what Joe Douglas does best.”
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