I'll admit it, I was wrong about the Jets. I said that with even mediocre QB play they'd be a solid team.
Guess what? They've had mediocre QB play. Rodgers fits somewhere in the middle of the pack statistically for starting QBs. He's been much better after a terrible start.
Aggregate Jets QB rating last season (mostly Zach Wilson, but others too): 70.5. That is so, so awful it is hard to find a season-long comparison.
How about EJ Manuel's rookie season? 77.7. All-time draft bust JaMarcus Russell in his only (relatively) full starting season? 77.1. Taylor Heinicke (kind of the definition of the journeyman backup) career QB rating? 84.1
Hence my prediction that the Jets would be a competitor. Rodgers has a QB rating of 90.8 That's a huge improvement! They've scored almost 4 more points per game. Also huge.
And somehow they're even worse. Maybe there is something about "team culture" after all.