Aaron Rodgers is the kind of free thinker who doesn’t believe he’s the reason for any problems. So after the Jets got blown out 37-15 it was time to correctly focus his frustration on his own play, how to get better, and what the Jets can do to turn their season around he blamed the media for the Jets’ 2-5 start.
“Stop listening to you guys, number one,” Rodgers said, when asked about how the team needs to keep belief in the locker room. Now, he did also say he needs to play better and the team needs to find ways on offense to run the ball better, but those are both trumped by his belief that the media is the problem.
Indeed, if the Jets only stopped listening to the media Rodgers wouldn’t have thrown two interceptions on Sunday, or have seven on the season. If he didn’t listen to the media he wouldn’t have a career-low in completion percentage or yards-per-attempt.
If the Jets only ignored the media they wouldn’t have given up a season-high 409 yards of offense to a mediocre Pittsburgh unit, one week after firing their defensive-minded head coach who had led the Jets to being a Top 5 unit until this week.
I just wish the media would leave Aaron alone.
