Aaron Rodgers is listed questionable after taking a beating against the Denver Broncos. Nobody was expecting a 10-9 loss. After five false stars, the New York Jets head coach had to resort to blaming Aaron Rodgers’ cadence, saying that he’s confused whether “we’re good enough or ready to handle all the cadence.” But Saleh backpedaled soon enough.

In a video press conference later, Saleh clarified that Jets’ sloppy performance stems from “operational” and “communication” issues that they must “clean up.” Rodgers is not the one to give into the media stirring the pot. In fact, he assured that Saleh and he “have a great relationship,” on The Pat McAfee Show. But that doesn’t sit well with Mike Florio.

Florio played the audible from Rodgers admitting that “nobody deserves any c–p for that except the players.” In Florio’s mind, Robert Saleh was the one who made it controversial as he was “playing with the matches,” and said it’s something he shouldn’t have said in the first place. Rodgers was backing Robert Saleh and Nathaniel Hackett, but Florio begged to differ.

“Dude, your coach is the one that created this problem with cadence. We’re just reacting to what he said. He is the one that said ‘cadence.’ It wasn’t taken out of context. It wasn’t forced on to him. He wasn’t drilled under a hot light. Admit that it was the cadence,” Florio said on Pro Football Talk on NBC. He wanted Rodgers to admit that Robert Saleh messed up.

Maybe the 4x MVP doesn’t want to add more to the Jets’ quandary as they’re already a house of cards waiting to fall at any given moment. Talking about the game against the Denver Broncos, Aaron Rodgers had a subpar game, only completing 57% of his passes without scoring a single touchdown. The loss against the Broncos has left Garrett Wilson coping.

There’s no zing to the Jets’ offense, just the same old bland schemes. At least that’s what Wilson thinks. He went to the Bert and Hahn Show, and the host pointed out how the Jets trying new things. It’s not how the New York Jets WR sees it. “I don’t think we do a lot of different stuff to be honest,” Wilson said. “I watch football on Sundays, and I see a lot of teams mix it up and stuff like that. I don’t think we do that. I think we know our identity.”

It’s not hard to connect the dots after hearing Wilson talk like that. The Jets players seem to be running around in a frenzy, not communicating with A-Rod efficiently. Maybe that’s the reason for multiple penalties throughout the game against Denver.

The bad game against the Denver Broncos might be on Robert Saleh

It’s imperative to know that since Saleh took over in 2021, the Jets have committed fourth highest number of penalties. The game against the Denver Broncos recorded 15 penalties! That led to a loss of at least 90 yards and the Jets obviously couldn’t recover from that. More importantly, the New York players had been itchy throughout the game.

They committed 5 false starts in a single game. Major share of the blame went to the O-Line while Breece Hall also committed two false starts. But for A-Rod, this is not a “cadence” issue. Instead, he called this game an “outlier” and suggested that there are no changes need to be made in such an anomalous case.

By the time the game ended, Rodgers was beat up. He was seen limping after taking a sack late in the fourth quarter. Clearly, there are some problems with pass protection. Not only that, but the Broncos also came out with 14 QB hits in the end. That’s crazy. As said earlier, Saleh knows the blind spots of his team and is trying to fix it.

“We’re always going to push the envelope with cadence. Always,” Saleh said. “But with regards to operation, getting in and out of the huddle, getting to the line of scrimmage, the communication that’s being had, those are all things that we can continue to look at and clean up.”

There is some time left to “clean up” their act as the Jets head to London to play against the undefeated Vikings. Can they put a chink in the Minnesota team’s armor?