For Aaron Rodgers & Jets, Bills Game Was ‘Like Our Season … It Just Got Away from Us’

Even in what formed up as being a tricky highway check in Orchard Park, NY, there have been some record-book numbers on the desk for Aaron Rodgers and the Jets to perform Sunday.

However in the long run, the one 500-ish metric that Rodgers addressed late in his information convention following the Jets’ 40-14 loss to the Payments was not landing passes however sacks. Did he know he had handed Tom Brady’s 565 sacks for essentially the most occasions sacked in an NFL profession (since 1982)?

“Yeah, I received Tom in that,” Rodgers stated with a small smile, not shocked by the stat as a result of, he stated, “I used to be instructed yesterday within the manufacturing assembly.”

However the numbers that Rodgers, Davante Adams, IHC Jeff Ulbrich and all of the Jets’ gamers and coaches cared about had been, sure, a fifth win on this wrestle of a season, but additionally the five hundredth regular-season TD move of Rodgers’ illustrious NFL profession. Nonetheless, that did not occur at Highmark Stadium as Rodgers, trailing, 40-0, gave approach to Tyrod Taylor for the Jets’ closing two drives, each ending with Taylor TD passes.

“This sport was form of like our season. It simply received away from us,” Rodgers stated somberly. “Too many video games received away from us and this sport received away from us. We had been transferring the ball nicely early, then we simply hit a wall.”

“I assumed the hassle was fairly good,” he stated in response to a different query. “The execution wasn’t superb.”

Rodgers was part of many of the afternoon, which did not have the rain forecast for the Buffalo space however grew darker and extra drab for the visiting group as the sport wore on. These first two drives held promise because the Jets drove 48 yards on 10 performs earlier than dropping a failed fourth-and-1 play on the Buffalo 24, then 62 yards on 7 performs earlier than Rodgers threw the primary of his two interceptions, from the Payments 12.

“We had it blocked up good,” Rodgers stated of the ball batted by DE Gregory Rousseau into the breadbasket of DL Jordan Phillips. “It will’ve been an explosive play. The man simply tipped the ball.”

From a 12-0 halftime lead, the Payments broke it open with 4 TDs in a loopy span of seven:36 of clock time. And Rodgers, enjoying behind a line that performed at occasions with its fifth and sixth tackles of the season, completed with 12-of-18 passing for 112 yards, no TDs, the two picks and 4 sacks and a 44.0 passer score.