Thirteen Below
Cheesehead
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For some reason, I've always liked the Jets fan base, so yeah....I do feel kinda badly for them. They were in the wilderness for decades; other than the one Super Bowl, they've always been a mediocre team. Made it as far as the conference championship a couple of times, but an overall winning percentage of only .440.Gotta feel bad for Jets fans (or not). The GM finally put a team together that was 1) home grown and 2) loaded with talent just about everywhere but QB. Then they bring Rodgers in and allow him to dictate additional personnel moves and "infect" the team. That was dumb.
And over the last several years, they finally put together a team that had everything they needed but a quarterback. So we sent them Rodgers, and in 2 years he basically destroyed the franchise. He probably set them back a couple of years, and took them right out of their window.
That's got to be just heartbreaking.
I wonder if the achilles surgery hasn't affected him this year. Especially after seeing the way Cousins has been playing lately. He hasn't seemed to be throwing poorly this year, but not up to par.
I don't think there's any question of it. I've watched most of his games this year, and he's a very different player. His footwork is stiffer, he doesn't step up into throws as well, and there are some throws he just can't make at all - he can't push off on that leg as well, and he isn't as nimble in the pocket as he used to.
He seems a little slow in changing directions, and when the only way out of a collapsing pocket requires his first step to be a strong push-off with his left foot (and especially a change of direction at the same time), I've actually seen him stand there and simply take the sack - it's like he knows his tendon can't do that, so he doesn't even risk it.
It's pretty rare for any athlete to completely recover from an Achilles to 100% of their previous level, especially at his age. And it usually takes over a year to recover to whatever level you eventually reach.
There's almost always going to be some permanent loss of function, because an entire section of the tendon has been changed into scar tissue. The tendon will be stiffer, and somewhat weaker. At his age, I just don't think he's ever going to really get back to his old form.