Colin Cowherd believes the Jets ought to level the finger at themselves.
After vocally expressing their disinterest all through the offseason, the Jets had been chosen to be featured on “Arduous Knocks,” the annual documentary sequence by HBO, on Wednesday.
When the Jets had been included amongst 4 finalists for the present in early June, head coach Robert Saleh pointedly informed reporters that the NFL and community ought to look elsewhere.
However Cowherd, who hosts “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” on Fox Sports activities 1, thinks the choice was inevitable.
“You get Aaron Rodgers, that is what you get,” Cowherd mentioned on the present. “That’s the draw back to being Mr. Character. Mr. Vaccine.
“I don’t disagree with all the pieces Aaron Rodgers has mentioned about politics or vaccines. However if you change into Mr. Polarizing, you’re noisy within the offseason, you need to inform us the place you go within the offseason, condescendingly, kind of snarky, take jabs at a number of folks. That is what HBO needs.
“And now with Netflix within the recreation, you understand they’re searching for juice and heaters and gossip.”
Rodgers ripped the choice, claiming, “They compelled it down our throats and we gotta take care of it.”
The star 39-year-old quarterback, whose arrival offers the Jets as a lot hope because the crew has had in a while, will doubtless be the main target of this 12 months’s sequence each for his exploits on the sector and his extra colourful persona off the sector.
And with Netflix releasing a rival sequence titled “Quarterback” this week, an identical documentary sequence intently following three NFL quarterbacks, Cowherd is adamant HBO’s determination was clear, whatever the Jets’ sentiment.
“In order Netflix proclaims theirs, HBO needs to one-up them,” Cowherd mentioned. “And you understand what they’re searching for on this sequence in ‘Arduous Knocks.’ They need to be extra attention-grabbing than Netflix. They’re searching for juice and gossip and rumors and irritation.
“The A, B, C, D’s of this transfer: A, the Jets are essentially the most attention-grabbing crew now due to Rodgers. B, Aaron kind of likes to regulate narratives, gained’t be capable to right here. He could be prickly. C, the Jets didn’t need this. Groups which can be on it don’t have a terrific observe document of successful. The final 14 groups on ‘Arduous Knocks’ have one playoff win. I’m certain it’s only a coincidence.”
The Jets had been final on “Arduous Knocks” in 2010 once they had been coached by the charismatic Rex Ryan.
“The draw back of being a quarterback with an opinion on vaccines, an opinion on media, and wanting his personal voice, being considered as polarizing and constructing his model — that’s why the Jets bought it,” Cowherd mentioned. “That’s precisely why the Jets bought it.”
