Posted on 09/12/2023 9:09:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers' 2023 season is over before it ever really got started. After the quarterback was injured on his fourth play of the Jets' opening game, head coach Robert Saleh told reporters following the Jets' 22-16 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills that they feared that the four-time NFL MVP tore his Achilles tendon. That is what was ultimately discovered following an MRI on Tuesday, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jonathan Jones reports.
"It's not good," Saleh said.
The injury will be season-ending. On the Jets' first drive Monday night, Rodgers was injured and helped off the field by trainers. After a visit to the blue medical tent, he was carted to the locker room. After initially being labeled as questionable to return with an ankle injury, he was later downgraded to out. The Jets announced that his X-rays were negative.
Rodgers suffered the injury after being sacked by veteran pass rusher Leonard Floyd on a first-and-10 with 11:40 remaining in the first quarter. While it appeared at first that Rodgers was OK, he went back down to the turf while officials stopped play.
Check out what happened, here:
Aaron Rodgers was injured and helped off the field on the first Jets drive vs. the Bills. pic.twitter.com/vtKHRW566V
— ESPN (@espn) September 12, 2023 Trainers attended to Rodgers before helping him off the field while former No. 2 overall pick Zach Wilson replaced Rodgers under center. Coach Saleh told reporters after the game that Wilson will be the guy moving forward.
To me the trip was incidental and after the defender was falling down as was the blocker.
And it looked new. The players had those black pellets all over their helmets and uniforms.
I heard they changed the kind of turf in the off-season, after the criticism from last year.
If anything it looked even worse.
“I’m Back! I’m Back!.....Ohhh, My Back!”
It wasn't until 1979 that another QB passed for 4,000 yards in a season (Dan Fouts).
Usually, an Achilles tendon rupture is a non-contact injury — although the person experiencing it will think they got hit by a person running over them. That’s why a lot of the aging great players end their careers in that manner — Lawrence Taylor, Kobe Bryant, etc. It happens a lot in CrossFit when people jump on those boxes — because the muscle contraction is so sudden and hard that it tears the tendons, muscles, ligaments.
It is a well-known vulnerability of the human body — and why it is called the Achilles tendon. It’s the body’s way of telling us to slow down and move into more gentler activities and movements. As they say, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
He could probably have a whole leg replacement for about $10 million dollars.
They don’t like him for a number of reasons. He’s not particularly popular unless he constantly wins. Pretty high standards.
Haha! People have been saying that for 50 years
If only the players would form a union.
Cheese with that whine? Tripping call is a stretch and the “analyst” is full of it. You could also call holding on one player or another on every damn play but they don’t. But... but... butt...an asterisk!! waaah!!! The Bills didn’t lose! We wuz robbed!
So your team played like crap. It happens. Get over it and quit crying, Sallyann...
My respect for him increased as time went on...yes, back then, 2,500-3,200+ passing yards was top of the line.
LOL...I had to go look to see if my recollections are correct, and here were the top NFL passers that year:
Player Team Att Cmp Pct Yds YPA TD TD% Int Int% Lg Sack Loss Rate
Sonny Jurgensen WAS 508 288 56.7 3,747 7.4 31 6.1 16 3.1 86t 19 157 87.3
Fran Tarkenton NYG 377 204 54.1 3,088 8.2 29 7.7 19 5.0 70t 29 283 85.9
Roman Gabriel LA 371 196 52.8 2,779 7.5 25 6.7 13 3.5 80t 24 201 85.2
Johnny Unitas BAL 436 255 58.5 3,428 7.9 20 4.6 16 3.7 88t 25 198 83.6
Norm Snead PHI 434 240 55.3 3,399 7.8 29 6.7 24 5.5 87t 48 351 80.0
Frank Ryan CLE 280 136 48.6 2,026 7.2 20 7.1 16 5.7 49t 38 318 72.7
Don Meredith DAL 255 128 50.2 1,834 7.2 16 6.3 16 6.3 60t 21 143 68.7
Bart Starr GB 210 115 54.8 1,823 8.7 9 4.3 17 8.1 84 34 322 64.4
Gary Cuozzo NO 260 134 51.5 1,562 6.0 7 2.7 12 4.6 49t 33 236 59.8
Jim Hart STL 397 192 48.4 3,008 7.6 19 4.8 30 7.6 76t 22 219 58.4
John Brodie SF 349 168 48.1 2,013 5.8 11 3.1 16 4.6 63t 18 129 57.6
Billy Kilmer NO 204 97 47.5 1,341 6.6 6 2.9 11 5.4 96 18 147 56.4
Kent Nix PIT 268 136 50.8 1,587 5.9 8 3.0 19 7.1 66t 8 84 49.5
Joe Kapp MIN 214 102 47.7 1,386 6.5 8 3.7 17 7.9 85t 23 200 48.2
The AFL looked like this:
Player Team Att Cmp Pct Yds YPA TD TD% Int Int% Lg Sack Loss Rate
Len Dawson KC 357 206 57.7 2,651 7.4 24 6.7 17 4.8 71t 31 287 83.7
Daryle Lamonica OAK 425 220 51.8 3,228 7.6 30 7.1 20 4.7 72 37 334 80.8
John Hadl SD 427 217 50.8 3,365 7.9 24 5.6 22 5.2 72t 9 91 74.5
Joe Namath NYJ 491 258 52.5 4,007 8.2 26 5.3 28 5.7 75t 26 261 73.8
Bob Griese MIA 331 166 50.1 2,005 6.1 15 4.5 18 5.4 68t 25 240 61.6
Babe Parilli BOS 344 161 46.8 2,317 6.7 19 5.5 24 7.0 79t 29 250 58.5
Steve Tensi DEN 325 131 40.3 1,915 5.9 16 4.9 17 5.2 76t 39 350 54.8
Jack Kemp BUF 369 161 43.6 2,503 6.8 14 3.8 26 7.0 63t 38 380 50.0
Pete Beathard KC/HOU 231 94 40.7 1,114 4.8 9 3.9 14 6.1 43t 15 125 43.8
So my memory wasn’t far off.
Sonny Jurgensen was my favorite player back when I began watching...:)
Ugh. That didn’t tranlate well!
Bwahahahaha...!
Kaeperdork’s big chance??
Now that’s a Good One !! :>>>
No way!...............
Zach Wilson and Tim Boyle will be Jets #1 and #2...I wonder if Rodgers should played in ONE preseason game. As a Cheesehead, Aaron was good but not a team player...
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