The Jets have reached their byweek and they are out of the playoff race, so everybody's attention is turning to next season.

And one thing is clear.

Aaron Rogers cannot return to this team.

Part of this is performance-based, but his contract is also a financial ticking time bomb for the New York Jets.

Let's get into all this today on Lockdown Jets.

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Most fans are ready to look at how. The New York Jets are out there by week in a disappointing season. The team is three and eight. The team is out of the playoff race.

And most fans are ready to turn the page.

Most fans are ready to look ahead. And the Jets have some pretty big decisions to make this coming off season. On today's episode, we're going to get a jump start on the off season. We're going to take a look at some of the big decisions and what the Jets should do. And the biggest of these decisions comes at the quarterback position with one of the most high profile players in the league.

That's Aaron Rogers, a guy who... do. And the biggest of these decisions comes at the quarterback position with one of the most high

profile players in the league. That's Aaron Rogers, a guy who has been nothing short of a massive

disappointment for this team since they traded for him in 2023. Now, the first season's not his fault.

Of course, he got injured on a kind of a freak play on the first series of the season, missed the entire 2023 season. But the 2024 season has been nothing short of a disaster. This team talked big all offseason. This team's been talking big for two years about the impact Aaron Rogers would have. And they are three and eight. And part of the reason they're three and eight is they just have not gotten quality quarterback play from Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers is a future Hall of Famer.

He will go down as one of the top 15 quarterbacks of all time.

He might even go down as one of the top 10 quarterbacks of all time,

but he's past his expiration date.

There's really no way around it.

I mean, if you look at some of the key numbers this season,

Rogers ranks 29th in the NFL in yards per attempt, which is one of the best, we're talking

about just the normal stats. That's one of the best measures of efficiency because you can have

a high completion percentage, so throwing a bunch of short passes. You can have a low completion

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