It seems there’s no love misplaced between Sauce Gardner and his former Jets teammate, Chiefs large receiver Mecole Hardman.
Hours after the star Jets cornerback seemingly implied that Hardman, 25, leaked the crew’s offensive gameplan to the Eagles in a since-deleted publish on X, Gardner, 23, shaded the three-time Tremendous Bowl champ in a separate message Wednesday evening.
Reacting to a 2013 publish from Hardman that learn, “Individuals say don’t snitch ? Ion see it like that . ! In case your life on the road im telling on everyone .. !” Gardner wrote, “Lol.”
Hardman, whose Jets tenure didn’t final the complete 2023 season, drew the ire of his former teammates after unloading on Gang Inexperienced this week throughout an look on “The Pivot Podcast.”
“You simply acquired a brand new [offensive] teaching workers that got here in and there’s no normal there. Everyone does what they need to do,” stated Hardman, who signed a one-year cope with the Jets final offseason.
“Granted, the protection has extra of a stabilized normal with the teaching workers on that aspect, so the protection has a typical.
“However the offense is rather like, ‘We’ll simply determine it out. It’s Aaron’s present. Let Aaron do what Aaron does.’ Then when Aaron goes down, it’s like, we don’t know what to do.”
The Jets employed former Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett — who labored with four-time league MVP Aaron Rodgers in Inexperienced Bay — earlier than they acquired the quarterback from the Packers in an April 2023 blockbuster.
Regardless of coming into the 12 months with playoff expectations, Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles damage simply 4 performs into his Jets profession in Week 1.
Embattled quarterback Zach Wilson, who was meant to function Rodgers’ backup following two shaky seasons, was then thrust underneath middle.
Hardman solely tallied one catch for six yards earlier than he was traded in October again to the Chiefs, with whom he gained his third Tremendous Bowl following a game-sealing landing in opposition to the 49ers on Feb. 11.
“It’s the lies and the way in which they dealt with me. I didn’t prefer it in any respect,” Hardman stated of the Jets. “You possibly can’t try this to a participant. A participant that you simply paid at that. … I play one play, oh hell no. One thing acquired to shake bro, like what we speaking about bro.”
Gardner and punter Thomas Morstead have been among the many Jets who fired again on Wednesday.
“We ain’t gon discuss how our offensive gameplan acquired leaked vs. the Eagles tho,” Gardner wrote in a message that has since been scrubbed.
Morstead, 37, additionally posted a cryptic message with out addressing Hardman by title.
“Watch out getting data from disgruntled former workers. Getting beat out by a rookie free agent after being assured thousands and thousands of {dollars} is hard to cope with,” Morstead started, referring to rookie large receiver Xavier Gipson.
“Entitlement is a killer of alternative. It’s important to earn it yearly.”
