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On Tremendous Bowl weekend, credible reporting recommended the New York Jets wouldn’t retain Aaron Rodgers for the 2025 marketing campaign. The brand new management duo of common supervisor Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn evidently need a recent, Rodgers-less begin in The Huge Apple.
Jets Do the Factor to Gas Vikings Rumor Mill
A couple of days later, that reporting was confirmed.
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“Last week we met with Aaron and shared that our intention was to move in a different direction at quarterback,” the Jets’ brass formally revealed on Thursday. “It was important to have this discussion now to provide clarity and enable each of us the proper time to plan for our respective futures. We want to thank him for the leadership, passion, and dedication he brought to the organization and wish him success moving forward.”
Subsequently, Rodgers will presumably hit the open market and may start speaking to different NFL groups as quickly as now. And due to what Brett Favre did 15 years in the past — performed for the Inexperienced Bay Packers, turned disgruntled, departed for the New York Jets, and later joined the Vikings — Rodgers’ exit from New York will impression the Vikings rumor mill.
Regardless of using a quarterback twenty years youthful than Rodgers in J.J. McCarthy, some Vikings followers significantly consider Rodgers in purple and gold could be smart. Social media is rampant with Rodgers-to-Minnesota hypothesis, and sometimes enthusiastic about it.
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Fb, particularly, is an excessive haven for pro-Rodgers theories concerning the Vikings.
In fact, the theories have been boosted by ESPN’s Adam Schefter earlier this week. “My guess would be that he ends up playing,” Schefter stated on The Pat McAfee Present Monday. “He’s gonna want to continue playing. I would guess he’ll want to do it at a place that wants him. Here’s a guy that, I think he’s made more money than any NFL player in history right now. So that gives him the ability to sit back and be selective about what he does and doesn’t want to do.”
Then, he delivered the Vikings nugget. “It’s a fluid, moving thing. Is Minnesota gonna lose Sam Darnold, or are they gonna bring him back?” Schefter rhetorically requested.
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Furthermore, Draft Kings posted these odds for Rodgers’ subsequent group:
Pittsburgh Steelers: +200
Las Vegas Raiders: +300
San Francisco 49ers: +350
Minnesota Vikings: +750
Indianapolis Colts: +800
If Minnesota had no McCarthy for the long run, maybe signing Rodgers for a 12 months may make sense. Nonetheless, that’s not the fact, and onboarding Rodgers would possibly flip the Twin Cities right into a circus, doubtlessly detrimental to McCarthy’s growth.
On the entire, with Rodgers’ launch virtually official, don’t count on the Vikings-themed rumors to die till Rodgers indicators elsewhere or retires.
The Favre parallel is simply too intense for some to withstand.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL.
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