A 23-20 loss at home to the Buffalo Bills. A 23-17 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London. A pitiful 10-9 loss at home to the Denver Broncos. Do you know what these results have in common, other than being brutal Jets' losses?
In all three of these games, future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers has had the ball in his hands with the opportunity to either tie or win the game, and he's come up short in all three spots.
During the Jets' Monday Night Football loss to the Buffalo Bills, Rodgers had the ball with around two minutes left in the game, needing a field goal to tie and a touchdown to win.
Neither of those things ultimately happened, as the game instead ended on an Aaron Rodgers interception (on a play in which he had running back Breece Hall wide open for a first down).
Rodgers coming up short against the Bills marks the third straight week that he's failed to deliver for Gang Green in the clutch, and as a result, they've lost all three games and now sit at 2-4.
While the Jets have far more issues than just Rodgers, it's clear that the 40-year-old signal-caller is no longer elite enough to overcome his team's flaws, as he did so many times in Green Bay.
In their loss to the Bills, which saw the Jets fall to third place in the AFC East, Rodgers completed 23 of 35 passes for 294 yards, two touchdowns, and an interception.
"This is why you gave up the draft picks, this is why you paid all that money: you went out and got Aaron Rodgers for games and moments like this. One possession, late in the fourth quarter, ball in his hands with a chance to drive down the field and win the game, but for the Jets, yet again, they lost," said Jets reporter Connor Hughes of SNY.
"It's the same thing that happened against the Denver Broncos, it happened against the Minnesota Vikings, and now, with first place in the AFC East on the line against the Buffalo Bills, Taron Johnson picked off Rodgers to seal a 23-20 loss. It is starting to get late early for this team and you hope that the struggles of yesteryear don't start to creep into this locker room and plague this team with a feeling of 'Here we go again.'"
The Jets' will look to get back in the win column next week when they travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers for a Week 7 Sunday Night Football matchup.