Aaron Rodgers is officially a failed Jets savior

ESPN Radio analyst Chris Canty believes Aaron Rodgers is the polarizing quarterback causing issues for the New York Jets as he fails to address any of them.

Actually, Canty believes the Jets quarterback is a “cancer,” which would be the most negative evaluation of a player as they relate to their locker room. Rodgers is indeed worse than a problem. And maybe that reflects the necessity to stop using the word “cancer” so carelessly in sports conversation given what it stands for. But Canty visited there Thursday morning on ESPN Radio’s Unsportsmanlike with co-hosts Evan Cohen and Michelle Smallmon.

“The last couple of years in Green Bay, we suspected Aaron Rodgers could be a bit poisonous, especially with a young team,” Canty said. “I had no notion it would be this severe. This person is like a cancer spreading into the New York Jets team. And I have no idea how they address it.

Rodgers was meant to save the Jets. Recall his first press conference comment, “that Super Bowl III trophy is looking a little lonely?” Recall when the Jets were 2-1 this season and Rodgers advised it would be appropriate for them to learn how to manage success?

But instead of Rodgers acting as the Jets lifeline, dragging them from the doldrums of being serial losers, the four-time NFL MVP has apparently fed into the negativity of this team. He looks much like an old Aaron Rodgers than the old Aaron Rodgers, so his divisive performances on The Pat McAfee Show are not helping and his on-field performance is definitely not helping. Other players have been blamed, the media has been blamed, the coach has been blamed; perhaps Rodgers should be faulted as well.