Woody Johnson and team personnel leading the New York Jets franchise surveyed the drove of head coaching candidates they interviewed on what to do with Aaron Rodgers. The consensus from the interviewees was that the Jets should move on from the four-time MVP per NFL insider Diana Russini. “Most of the candidates that interviewed for this head coaching job with the New York Jets were asked the question directly from Woody: ‘Do you think we should stick with Aaron Rodgers?'” Russini said Wednesday on the Rich Eisen Show. “So there was a time that they considered it, and everybody said the same thing: ‘No. No. You guys need to turn the page on him.’ Rodgers, who has one year left on his three-year contract with the Jets, was informed that the team would be parting ways. “We have informed Aaron Rodgers that we will be moving in a different direction at quarterback,” the Jets wrote on X. Rodgers had met with eventual hire Aaron Glenn and new general manager Darren Mougey ahead of the decision, but the two parties subsequently could not come to terms on working with one another-the key terms being Rodgers’ off-field routine. “So while this new regime believed in it, almost every single candidate that interviewed for the job had the same sentiment,” Russini added. And I can tell you, around the league, nobody’s going, ‘Why would the Jets let him walk?'” Before naming Glenn as head coach on Jan. 22, the Jets interviewed at least 16 candidates for the job.
