Sports Writing, Apr 8 (EFE).- The general manager of the New York Jets, Joe Douglas, asserted this Saturday that Aaron Rodgers, a four-time NFL Most Valuable Player, will soon sign with his team to play the 2023 season.
“He’s going to be here! He’s going to sign eventually, although there’s no hard deadline,” the executive said emotionally to a crowd during a special broadcast of the Boomer & Gio morning show that airs in New York City.
The hiring of the quarterback, who has spent his 18-year career with the Green Bay Packers, has become a puzzle that does not end up growing branches to fill.
First, the 39-year-old veteran quarterback indicated his intention to retire from the NFL at the end of the 2022 season after failing to make the playoffs with the Packers.
In mid-February Rodgers entered a four-day darkness retreat in a cabin located on a nature preserve to discuss his future. As he left, he said that he had decided to pursue his career, but it wasn’t until the middle of last month that he revealed his desire to do so with the New York Jets.
The problem is that the quarterback has one year left with the Packers, so the negotiation with the Jets has not been easy, since Green Bay hopes to obtain first-round or at least second-round picks for this year’s Draft and 2024 to release the quarterback who led them to win Super Bowl XLV.
Despite these difficulties, the Jets are already putting together an offense that Rodgers likes. They hired Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator in January, who worked in that position with Aaron at Green Bay from 2019-21.
In their next move they signed receiver Allen Lazard, one of Rodgers’ favorite weapons in the Packers, a team in which they lived from 2018 to 2022.
Last Thursday the Jets added to their roster quarterback Tim Boyle, who was Aaron’s backup in Green Bay from 2018-20, when he was also with Hackett, so he knows the game plan to work with this offseason. while Rodgers arrives at the team.
Finally, this Saturday it was confirmed that receiver Odell Beckham, champion in Super Bowl LVI with the Rams, will visit the Jets who are looking to sign him for the following season.
During the offseason Beckham was, along with Lazard, one of the requests that Aaron Rodgers made to decide to play for the Jets.
