Tuesday Whispers – Sounds like he didn’t have a chance

Sounds like he didn’t have a chance.

Long-time NFL Insider Josina Anderson reported for Bovada.com, “A league source did tell me that there was internal talk regarding desires to move on from Aaron Rodgers at least one week before Aaron Glenn even became head coach and Darren Mougey became general manager of the Jets.

“Of course the organization was going to let prospect candidates for the aforementioned roles voice their preferences during the interview period and ultimately give them final say, but the reality is that strong opinions of Rodgers’ fate preexisted the aforementioned hires, and there is no need to feign otherwise.”

So the concept that the new regime was evaluating the roster, including Rodgers, when they took over, on January 27, was perhaps window dressing.

As we have pointed out before, do you think a QB, who took shots at the owner, and his son, publicly, was going to be back with the team?

First, Rodgers went after Woody by saying in December: “I think it’s an important part of ownership to hire the right guys, set the vision, and support them when the outside world is trying to tear them down.”

That soundbite was taken off the team and SNY websites and off the transcript provided to the media.

Then he took a shot at Woody’s teenage son, Brick, who “The Athletic” reported was involved in team personnel decisions.

“I’ve never been released before, so being released would be a first – being released by a teenager, that would also be a first,” Rodgers said, also in December.

So the owner is going to want a player back who not only went after him, but his son? Highly unlikely.

So Anderson’s report isn’t far-fetched that the decision was made before the new regime took over.

But also, remember, Dianna Russini reported that most head coaching candidates who interviewed for the job told the team they wouldn’t want Rodgers back if they got the job.

And there is a chance Glenn was one of them, especially based on what his friend Keyshawn Johnson said right after Glenn took the job.

“He will not start off his career — now I said this first, nobody else is saying this — he will not start off his career with Aaron Rodgers as his quarterback in September,” Johnson said on FS1.

So if they were leaning towards Glenn, a week before they made the hire, which they were, Anderson’s report makes perfect sense.

That’s fine. Glenn just got a truckload of money to coach the Jets long-term, so he should be able to pick his QB.

But he put himself in a position of having an answer at QB this year, to possibly not having one, and if you don’t have one in this league, you aren’t going anywhere.

An unnamed Jets official told Anderson in the same article:

“Look, we have talent, we just have to learn how to finish games. When you watch how the best teams progressed through the playoffs, they didn’t f*ck themselves by constantly shooting themselves in the foot, and we have to stop that sh*t,” said the source.

And not having Rodgers, who threw 28 TDs last year, and wasn’t even near the top of the reasons for their 5-12 record, will that help them not “shoot themselves in the foot” as much?

Maybe if they stopped the run better and didn’t commit so many penalties, they wouldn’t have “shot themselves in the foot” so much, and what did Rodgers have to do with that stuff?

So it sounds like Rodgers might have been done with the Jets before the new regime even took over.

December 25, 2025

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