Aaron Rodgers is excited to make Jets’ debut on Monday Night Football
Goforitradio Staff
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The New York Jets come into the 2023 season with one of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game, Aaron Rodgers.
However, Rodgers did not look like himself last season. While he threw 26 touchdowns in 2022 with the Packers, the four-time MVP did throw 12 interceptions, which is the second-most he’s had in his career.
Many would say 2023 is an opportunity for Rodgers, who battled a thumb injury last season, to have a bounce-back year; however, he disagrees. Rodgers is not approaching this season with the idea that he needs to bounce back.
“I mean, every year you set personal goals and have an idea of how you would like to play and how it plays out; it doesn’t always work that way sometimes, its statically less than you think, sometimes its way more, just depends on how the flow of the game and what happens during red zone stuff and how good you are on situational football,” Rodgers said on Thursday. “But if you are doing well on third down and doing well in the red zone, everything kind of takes care of itself. But I do set little personal goals. I don’t share them publicly, but I am not looking at this like I have to bounce back or do anything; I just got to play the way I know how to play. I have to work my *expletive* off for the last six months to try and put a better product on the field than last year, and I expect to.”
For the last 18 seasons, Rodgers has played for one team. Now, on Monday Night at MetLife Stadium against the Buffalo Bills, he will be wearing a different shade of green; Rodgers is excited about the opportunity to start the season in primetime.
“Monday Night Football is great,” he said. “You play in the League long enough, you want a lot of one o’clock games, but you don’t grow up dreaming about playing the one o’clock games; you dream of playing Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football. So, it will be fun to start the season out on Monday night.”
The 39-year-old Rodgers appears to have a lot more left in the tank, and he can say whatever he wants, but he needs to bounce back and be better if he and the Jets want to have the success many think they could have in 2023.
