By Alfredo Echenique
01 Sep 2023, 22:08 PM EDT
Aaron Rodgers is days away from starting a new NFL season with a team other than the Green Bay Packers. Well, the 39-year-old veteran will wear the New York Jets uniform this year.
The experienced quarterback will seek to guide and make the New York franchise competitive, where he has also expressed that he feels very happy to be.
“Being here has been like waking up from a dream. A beautiful dream. Sometimes you have a dream, you wake up and think; I want to go back there, but you don’t go back to the dream,” the quarterback commented in an interview for ESPN.
In addition, Rodgers showed his intentions with the New York team, which is none other than the Super Bowl “I woke up in that dream and it has been really special because I really believe that we are a team with a chance of reaching the Super Bowl”, express.
At the end of the 2022 season, Rodgers had to make a very difficult decision. Whether to continue playing or withdraw. It took him three days to decide, but in the end he chose to continue and he will do so in totally different airs than the ones he was used to since 2005, when he debuted with the Packers.
“The change has been easy for me because almost every day something happens that reminds me that I am in the right place, that I am where I am supposed to be and I love that for all that this opportunity gives me,” said the veteran player. .
Rodgers’ challenges with the Jets
The four-time NFL MVP winner joins a young, rebuilding team led by Robert Saleh that will be looking to get competitive in the league again.
The New York franchise hasn’t finished the season with a positive record since 2015, and it hasn’t been in the playoffs since 2010, and added to the 26 years without winning the American Conference East division title, the new quarterback of team field will have a lot of work to do.
The Jets will open the 2023 campaign in front of their fans at MetLife Stadium against the Buffalo Bills on September 11, where veteran Aaron Rodgers will also make his debut.
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