The Jets are moving on from Aaron Rodgers, and Evan and Tiki are in agreement that it is what’s best for the franchise, even if it means being worse off next season.
Evan still maintains that bringing Rodgers back would have given Gang Green the best chance to win in 2025, but with a new regime at the helm, it has become about the big picture, and that means Aaron Glenn and company were right to decide to move on.
“This is not about just next year...if we’re thinking about the big picture, they had to rip the Band-Aid off. They had to,” Evan said. “I agree, even at 41, it would have been Aaron Rodgers. But next year is not our last year being Jets fans.
“Next year is darker than it could have been if Rodgers came back. But if Aaron Rodgers came back and had success, and the Jets won nine or 10 games, then what? Is he coming back in 2026 at 42 or 43? That’s where I always leaned towards them moving on, because we’re still gonna be here in 2026 and 2027.”
Tiki agrees that bringing back Rodgers would have been a short-sighted approach, and Glenn and Darren Mougey deserve praise for thinking beyond next year and doing what is best for the long-term health of the franchise.
“He’s probably the irrational approach. To believe he is gonna all of a sudden turn back into this elite quarterback that you saw four years ago, it’s probably not the case,” Tiki said. “The general manager is new, the head coach is new...the last thing you want is the distraction that Aaron Rodgers brings. That’s his Pat McAfee nonsense, his passive-aggressiveness, the aura of hero worship that follows him. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but I am saying that it’s a distracting thing. If you’re Aaron Glenn, you want no part of it.”