Aaron Rodgers Does What He Can To Keep Jets Focused After Fast Start
On opening day, the New York Jets were wiped off the floor against the San Francisco 49ers. Since that loss, though, the Jets have quickly turned things around. Two straight wins, including a 24-3 blowout win over the New England Patriots last Thursday, have pushed the Jets to a 2-1 start to the season, and the excitement of being one of the better teams in the league to this point.
Even with that excitement, New York’s franchise quarterback is making sure no one gets too high off the wins. “When you perform like you do Thursday and you’re 2-1, and obviously you never know what can happen as the season goes on, but I think you realize how ridiculous some of these offseason storylines can be,” Aaron Rodgers said. “Is anyone talking about minicamp anymore? Does anybody feel like that is an important contributor in the season? The answer is no, it shouldn’t. Because it’s not.”
When Tua Tagovailoa crumbled to the ground and rolled over, his hands seized into a fencing posture, again, the Seahawk who best knows him shuddered. “I mean, it was awful,” Connor Williams said at his locker this week, before he and his Seahawks (2-0) practiced to play his former Miami Dolphins (1-1) Sunday at Lumen Field (1:05 p.m., channel 7).
Williams was Tagovailoa’s center the last two seasons in Miami. He’s seen up close what he saw on television from 3,300 miles away last week: The Dolphins’ quarterback sustaining the third confirmed concussion of his five-year NFL career. At the end of a scramble run in a game against Buffalo, Tagovailoa dived head-first. His head awkwardly struck the abdomen of Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Tagovailoa laid on the ground for several minutes after the hit but was able to walk off the field on his own. The Dolphins put him on injured reserve this week. The first game he will miss is Sunday in Seattle. Williams enters this game against his former team thinking of his former quarterback he snapped to in 2022 and ‘23, plus of Tagovailoa’s wife and their young children.
