The New York Jets looked less than great in their season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers. While a lot of teams don't exactly enjoy their business trips to the Bay Area, very few have 40-year-old quarterback coming off catastrophic injuries and trying to live up to extraordinarily high expectations.
Aaron Rodgers did not set the world on fire with his long-awaited return, completing 13 passes for 167 yards. There was little evidence of the dynamic playmaker that led Green Bay for all those years while creating a Hall of Fame future. And at a certain point a person could begin to wonder if that huge portion of the media that's been hyping up this late-career marriage and throwing the word Super Bowl around is going to have absolutely nothing but hollow promises to show for it.
Mike Greenberg, host of , has been optimistic about Rodgers and Gang Green—though his situation is a bit different because he's a loyal fan and proud owner of a No. 8 Jets jersey. Already down bad this morning, he was driven to the brink when he made the in-segment realization that someone had replaced the framed Rodgers hanging on set with a Brock Purdy number.
This man is going through it on national television and you're laughing? You're playing pranks? Hasn't he suffered enough?
