NFL is making an Aaron Rodgers assumption when making Jets schedule
Whereas the Packers and Jets haven’t but agreed on a commerce that can ship Aaron Rodgers to New York, the NFL entrance workplace is treating the transfer like an eventuality.
Mike North, the NFL’s VP of Broadcast Planning, just lately appeared on Audacy’s “It’s Always Gameday In Buffalo” podcast and revealed that the league is drawing up its schedule underneath the idea that the commerce will occur.
“All indicators appear to point that Aaron Rodgers goes to be the quarterback of the Jets and as such – clearly they play the Payments twice, they’ve bought an unbelievable schedule subsequent yr they play Kansas Metropolis, they play Dallas, they play Philly,” North mentioned.
“I imply if Aaron Rodgers is their quarterback we’re going to do one thing with these video games. If Aaron Rodgers isn’t the quarterback of the Jets we’re going to do one thing with these video games however possibly not as a lot.
“As we sit right here right this moment [April 18th], yeah, we’re assuming, for now, that he’s going to be the quarterback of the Jets and the schedule displays that. If we get via the draft and there’s any sort of indication that it might not occur, we’d hedge just a little bit and sort of shift a few of our focus – not totally. It gained’t essentially be a begin from scratch, but it surely is perhaps a pullback just a bit.”
Though we all know each group’s opponents for the 2023 season, the dates and home windows of the video games haven’t been introduced but.
If Rodgers is the Jets quarterback, the elevated consideration on the group would imply that the Jets would play extra continuously in standalone primetime home windows, or within the function matchup on late Sunday afternoon on the second half of doubleheaders that alternate between CBS and Fox.
Final week, The Put up’s Brian Costello reported that commerce talks between the Jets and Packers had broken down over Green Bay’s desire to receive the Jets’ 2024 first-round pick in a swap.
Over the weekend, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported that the groups had renewed talks after weeks of dormancy.