RODGERS WASN'T A VICTIM IN NY

Now that Aaron Rodgers beat the New York Jets and was the game's decisive influence, it's being painted as him getting revenge.

Why does it have to be revenge?

Why can't team and player just part ways? It happens all the time.

Rodgers had no legit reason to feel hard done by when he left New York.

Sure, he flew to New York from California to get cut after a brief meeting. The Jets wasted his time.

But Rodgers would have been mad if he'd been cut by phone, too. That would have been called disrespectful.

An article at The Athletic after Sunday's game saw Rodgers' departure from the Big Apple thusly: "No athlete likes to be told he's not good enough."

But that's not why the Jets ditched Rodgers.

Aaron Glenn got hired. It's his first head coaching job.

Glenn wanted to make a new start at quarterback and rightly felt no obligation to extend an experiment that had failed badly.

Rodgers got hurt in the first game of the 2023 season. Out for the year.

The Jets went 5-12 in 2024.

Rodgers is 41. Justin Fields, the new Jets QB, is 26. Starting Fields equates to moving forward.

It also means that Glenn is in charge.

Rodgers bigfooted the entire franchise during his tenure with the Jets.

He brought in Nathaniel Hackett to be the offensive coordinator. Incompetence personified.

He brought in a bunch of cronies from Green Bay to play for the Jets. Wideout Allen Lazard is still on the Jets' payroll. He was inactive Sunday.

Last season, Rodgers went to Egypt instead of mandatory minicamp.

Rodgers ran roughshod over the entire organization. He always got his own way.

The Jets paid Rodgers $75 million. He won five games for them.

Rodgers hurt the Jets a lot more than vice versa.

The Jets stink. It's in their DNA. Rodgers couldn't change that.

But he's not remotely a victim.

He wasn't wronged by the Jets, or by New York. Not even a little bit.

Rodgers has been the epitome of good, team-first conduct and verbiage since joining the Steelers. That's great.

Let's see what happens when Rodgers loses a few games.