Aaron Rodgers to the Jets rumor: Merged

[KINGDIRK]

How in the world hasn’t the compensation (or something close to what the comp will be) leaked yet?

[PS17]

7 minutes ago, FidelioJet said:

I don't have animosity toward either - I just find it funny.

This whole thing is ridiculous but I must admit I'm enjoying it.

Wouldn’t say I’m enjoying it. I understand that Rodgers wants control over the insiders but it’s kinda childish at this point. The whole universe knows it’s a done deal but we’re still playing twitter telephone.

[JohnnyLV]

I have to admit it would be the ultimate SOJs if Aaron just announces his retirement 

[win4ever]

1 minute ago, T0mShane said:

Well said. The Jets are going to get snidely ripped by the beat guys for the next six months because they’re all chapped by being shut out of this process and they’ll want their revenge. If Rodgers plays well and the Jets win, it’d be like Belichick v. Ron Borges all over again. 

Yeah, anything short of a MVP type season, and it'll be spun as a mistake.  The Jets beat basically rips them anyway, because that is what sells.  Create controversy, then sit back and watch people go nuts over it because reporters are still seen as journalists, instead of reality tv producers.  Look at Maycock, master draft extraordinaire reporter, complete idiot of a drafter.  I think that's why a lot of the good organizations are very keen on keeping news in-house, because then they can control the narrative.  Unfortunately, the Jets are trying that while sucking on the field, so they get jokes on jokes. 

Every year, reports like "Last year's Day 1 free agency winners, didn't get good deals, most sucked" yet every night after Day I "Here are the winners and losers on Day 1".  

To be honest, I hate most of the NY media.  I rather listen to podcasts or fan blogs that discuss issues instead of creating them.  

[SomebodytoAnybody47]

1 minute ago, David Harris said:

Can we all agree that once Rogers announces tomorrow we start a new thread.
 

I’ve been here for every page of this 220+ monster, so much angst and hope in here.  I can’t wait wait to turn the page ? 
 

 

Official Aaron Rodgers Retires thread seems unnecessary. 

[Beerfish]

17 minutes ago, FidelioJet said:

What's great is Schefter and Rap are going to have to report about the Pat McAfee show.  

Must kill them.

1 minute after the show which will have nice ratings this week but is hardly must viewing they will have their tweets out there and then the 95% of the football world that gets their news from them will learn about it from them.

[Pac]

5 minutes ago, dbatesman said:

positing Rodgers as some Q-like figure

Ok I lol'd

[Hex]

3 minutes ago, David Harris said:

Can we all agree that once Rogers announces tomorrow we start a new thread.
 

I’ve been here for every page of this 220+ monster, so much angst and hope in here.  I can’t wait wait to turn the page ? 
 

 

[FidelioJet]

Just now, Beerfish said:

1 minute after the show which will have nice ratings this week but is hardly must viewing they will have their tweets out there and then the 95% of the football world that gets their news from them will learn about it from them.

Yes, but every tweet will be - Aaron Rodgers tells Pat McAfee he's agreed to terms with the Jets.

[TuscanyTile2]

4 minutes ago, David Harris said:

Can we all agree that once Rogers announces tomorrow we start a new thread.
 

I’ve been here for every page of this 220+ monster, so much angst and hope in here.  I can’t wait wait to turn the page ? 

Sure, but I'm not willing to agree that he's going to announce tomorrow.

[TuscanyTile2]

1 hour ago, JoeNamathsFurCoat said:

LOL

End finally in sight 

Or another rug pull

Let's hope another rug pull.  That would be freaking hilarious.

[TuscanyTile2]

6 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Upon acquiring LeBron, Miami went to the finals 4 straight times, winning it twice.

Hopefully this is merely half as "pathetic" in comparison.

With our luck, we'll get the 2 Super Bowl L's.

[Vader]

[Sperm Edwards]

1 minute ago, TuscanyTile2 said:

With our luck, we'll get the 2 Super Bowl L's.

I'll take it. So will you. Twice. 

[Matt39]

2 minutes ago, TuscanyTile2 said:

Sure, but I'm not willing to agree that he's going to announce tomorrow.

If he were announcing on Mcafee I’m sure there would be that headline similar to the Lebron stunt. I doubt he announces anything meaningful about his football future tomorrow unless it’s retirement.

[prime21]

The Jets and Pats will have to announce a deal or Rodgers can only say that he asked for a trade to the Jets.
He’s not a free agent that can just say where he’s going until a done deal.


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[Beerfish]

3 minutes ago, FidelioJet said:

Yes, but every tweet will be - Aaron Rodgers tells Pat McAfee he's agreed to terms with the Jets.

Which means almost nothing, its frankly totally childishness and attention seeking.  You are tweaking two guys who will have moved on when the next story crosses their phone and will have tweaked the fans of the team you are going to.

[Hex]

I can't wait for him to go onto the pat mcafee show and announce his signing with the New England Patriots

[Embrace the Suck]

6 minutes ago, David Harris said:

Can we all agree that once Rogers announces tomorrow we start a new thread.

I’ve been here for every page of this 220+ monster, so much angst and hope in here.  I can’t wait wait to turn the page ?

Get a vote going for the new tread title.

 

[prime21]

Get a vote going for the new tread title.

 

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And here we go!

[SomebodytoAnybody47]

4 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Which means almost nothing, its frankly totally childishness and attention seeking.  You are tweaking two guys who will have moved on when the next story crosses their phone and will have tweaked the fans of the team you are going to.

Take a breath. It’s not that serious. 

[carlito1171]

14 minutes ago, Lupz27 said:

This is more about a platform for AR to thank GB I think more then anything.

It has to be more important the good bye that is then the hello to NY.

I know we all only care about the Jets aspect of this, but there is a 18 year history there with that fan base.

Which is exactly why the hysteria around the holdup and the want to give his goodbye his way is downright pathetic by our fanbase…..

[Axel Foley]

I hope Aaron Rodgers burns in hell. 

[Joe Willie White Shoes]

1 hour ago, Jetsfan80 said:

I'm not exactly firmly in favor of bringing in OBJ I'm just saying him being on Rodgers' wish list doesn't bother me much. 

Wilson is the WR1 and hopefully an improved Moore or an upgrade like Hopkins, Mike Evans, or a WR a tier below ends up the WR2.  

And WR is ALWAYS a need.  For every franchise.  

The Jets don't have a center right now.  They also need a reliable tackle and/or a guard. The OL is priority #1 now that they have a QB (and one they need to protect).  They can't bring in a 40 year old immobile QB and expect Brown, Tomlinson, AVT, and Becton/Mitchell to be the starting OL with a rookie center.   They need a linebacker and a safety.  They also need a DT.  They can't be spending $10-20 million a year (or even $5 million a year) on a 30 year old receiver coming off an ACL injury who has 60 receptions total in the past three seasons.  Hopkins and Evans are also luxuries that will cost too much in trade capital and salary at this point.  They are also both old by NFL receiver standards. If they are coming here on cheap one year contracts, fine - but that's not happening.  The Jets can't trade 2-3 top draft picks for Rodgers and Hopkins/Evans, pay Rodgers and Hopkins/Evans along with Lazard and fill those OL holes.  

[bla bla bla]

1 hour ago, CrazyCarl40 said:

This up there with LeBron “taking his talents to Miami” pathetic. 

Oo dude idk how you aren't loving every minute of Rodgers trolling Rap and Schef, it's beautiful

[FidelioJet]

4 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Which means almost nothing, its frankly totally childishness and attention seeking.  You are tweaking two guys who will have moved on when the next story crosses their phone and will have tweaked the fans of the team you are going to.

Of course it is childish.  Of course it's ridiculous.  But it's working and pissing them off.  Again, I have no problem with Schefy or Rapp.  I jsut find this whole thing comical.  

Any Jet fan paying attention knows he's coming here - that Wingo thing was a shoutout to the die hards letting us know he's coming.

Look, I know you want this to be all serious but I'm just having some fun with it.  Rodgers clearly is playing a game with these guys, he's clearly coming to the Jets - no one hurting anyone.  

It's just funny.  

[CrazyCarl40]

17 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Upon acquiring LeBron, Miami went to the finals 4 straight times, winning it twice.

Hopefully this is merely half as "pathetic" in comparison.

LeBron was like half Rodgers age and entering his prime, but go off I guess. 

[Bleedin Green]

7 minutes ago, win4ever said:

Yeah, anything short of a MVP type season, and it'll be spun as a mistake.  The Jets beat basically rips them anyway, because that is what sells.  Create controversy, then sit back and watch people go nuts over it because reporters are still seen as journalists, instead of reality tv producers.  Look at Maycock, master draft extraordinaire reporter, complete idiot of a drafter.  I think that's why a lot of the good organizations are very keen on keeping news in-house, because then they can control the narrative.  Unfortunately, the Jets are trying that while sucking on the field, so they get jokes on jokes. 

Every year, reports like "Last year's Day 1 free agency winners, didn't get good deals, most sucked" yet every night after Day I "Here are the winners and losers on Day 1".  

To be honest, I hate most of the NY media.  I rather listen to podcasts or fan blogs that discuss issues instead of creating them.  

Not by any means defending NY media here, but they've shown on multiple occasions in the past before it's not that they'll only rip the Jets, rather it's that it will always be one extreme or the other, always going for the headline-grabbers... there simply is no middle ground.

When the Jets get rolling and the hype gets real, it always sells big and can quickly take on its own life in sports media, and the local beat have shown they'll love every second of it.  Unfortunately, the Jets do a very bad job of that happening very often, which is the bigger problem.

However, we've seen moments like the Favre-led Jets beating the 10-0 Titans that immediately had stories talking Super Bowl, or the Jets playoff victory over the Pats and Bart Scott's subsequent "can't wait" rant being the only thing anyone could talk about for the entire week.  Those moments are few and far between, but if Rodgers really comes to town (I refuse to believe it until it happens) and ultimately has success, the beat will happily bask in every moment of it and hype it up as the biggest thing in sports.  That is, until something goes wrong and they'll certainly credit themselves for having known the whole time, but it would be nice if the Jets could limit the frequency of those opportunities being provided for a change.

[Barry McCockinner]

1 hour ago, extmenace said:

This has to be it, right? We finally get some confirmation?

Wingo confirmed yesterday. 

[AFJF]

Thought he'd surprise everyone and show up today.  Looks like tomorrow is it.

[Jimmy 2 Times]

12 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

I'll take it. So will you. Twice. 

Then Zach puts us over the top! 

[T0mShane]

15 minutes ago, dbatesman said:

Of all the handjobby myths you guys are inventing, positing Rodgers as some Q-like figure who will finally make The Media pay for their crimes is the weirdest. The Jets beat is full of tissue-soft kids and lazy veterans, and the second Rodgers gets here, they all get to spend a season at the center of the football universe. None of them will care that Wingo and McAfee broke the story, because they all have books to write. It’ll be six months of them making goo-goo eyes at Rodgers every time he makes a high school-level quip.

1. How dare you

2. You don’t live in the tri-state area and are thus missing the local tenor of the Rodgers conversation, which is almost universally “ughhhhhhhhhh this guyyyyyyyyyyyyy” 

3. The point about the beat kids and Cimini being cushy-soft weaklings is one that I’ve made repeatedly on here myself. I harbor no ill will toward them specifically, and some of them do reasonably good work covering the team, so I’m not rooting for Rodgers to come humiliate them or the like. 
 

4. That said, it’s been an embarrassing week for all of them, and their incessant proclamations of Rodgers fatigue is pathetic considering how little content they’re producing on the topic. It’s like, pipe down Rosenblatt, I’ve written 10x more stuff on Rodgers than you this week, and that’s *while* I’m doing my actual day job. 

[Jimmy 2 Times]

9 minutes ago, Embrace the Suck said:

Get a vote going for the new tread title.

 

 

Man, even Rodgers can't make that jersey look good.  

blah 

[SickJetFan]

1 minute ago, T0mShane said:

1. How dare you

2. You don’t live in the tri-state area and are thus missing the local tenor of the Rodgers conversation, which is almost universally “ughhhhhhhhhh this guyyyyyyyyyyyyy” 

3. The point about the beat kids and Cimini being cushy-soft weaklings is one that I’ve made repeatedly on here myself. I harbor no ill will toward them specifically, and some of them do reasonably good work covering the team, so I’m not rooting for Rodgers to come humiliate them or the like. 
 

4. That said, it’s been an embarrassing week for all of them, and their incessant proclamations of Rodgers fatigue is pathetic considering how little content they’re producing on the topic. It’s like, pipe down Rosenblatt, I’ve written 10x more stuff on Rodgers than you this week, and that’s *while* I’m doing my actual day job. 

hahaha now that is funny! and I am being serious for a change

[Jets4Life1979]

What a freakin idiot