Unbelievable Aaron Rodgers stat shows just how 'down bad' the NY Jets are

The NY Jets believed that Aaron Rodgers would be the answer to all their prayers — the savior of a football team desperate for competent quarterback play. Rodgers was brought in to replace the young QBs who had failed in New York, most recently Zach Wilson and Sam Darnold.

But Rodgers hasn't made the Jets Super Bowl contenders. He doesn't have them on the verge of ending their league-worst 13-year playoff drought. In fact, he's not even close.

The Jets have somehow gotten worse with Rodgers as their quarterback. The future Hall of Famer unbelievably has a winning percentage of just .273 as the Jets' starting QB following his team's 28-27 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Week 11. This excludes Week 1 of 2023 in which Rodgers started but played four snaps.

That record is somehow worse than what Wilson and Darnold each "accomplished" in New York. Wilson had a winning percentage of .364 while Darnold finished with a winning percentage of .342 in his Jets career. Rodgers is worse than both.

How are the NY Jets worse with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback?

Even the staunchest of Rodgers critics and Jets doubters couldn't have seen this coming. It's one thing for the Jets to be out of playoff contention with Rodgers. It's one thing for Rodgers to predictably regress coming off an Achilles tear at age 40.

It's another thing entirely for the Jets to move on from statistically one of the worst quarterbacks in modern NFL history, replace him with one of the greatest QBs to ever play the sport, and miraculously get worse. That shouldn't happen. There's no logical explanation for it.

Of course, despite his struggles this season, Rodgers has played at a higher level than both Wilson and Darnold in New York, although that's not saying much. This isn't to say Rodgers has been good, but at least statistically, he's on pace for one of the better seasons by a Jets QB in recent memory.

The bar has been set ridiculously low, but that statement still holds true. Rodgers isn't the only reason the Jets are 3-8 starting at a potential top-five pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.

But that really isn't the point here. The Jets brought Rodgers in to solidify their Super Bowl hopes. The expectation was that Rodgers would provide the team with competent quarterback play, allowing them to reach heights they weren't able to reach with Darnold and Wilson.

The opposite has been true. Rodgers has fallen well short of expectations and the entire organization around him is in shambles. Again, this should not be possible. It's almost unfathomable.

It shouldn’t be possible for the Jets to take such a leap at quarterback and yet find themselves in an even deeper hole, but the Jets somehow always seem to discover new ways to spiral downward. Every time you think they've hit rock bottom, they find a new way to dig even deeper.

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