Aaron Rodgers had a realization about the Jets’ season before the team snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Texans 21-13 on Thursday night.
“I was just way off. I mean, I was about as bad as I could play in the first half,” Rodgers said during a postgame interview with Amazon. “And I realized our season is kind of on the line here. I gotta figure this you know what out or we’re planning our offseason.”
Rodgers figured it out and now there is at least some hope the Jets can turn their season around with a 3-6 record and a soft schedule ahead.
After trailing 7-0 at halftime, Rodgers completed 15-of-18 passes for three touchdown passes and 179 yards in a second-half resurgence.
Rodgers finished 22 of 32 for 211 yards with three touchdown passes.
Rodgers had plenty of help. Garrett Wilson caught Rodgers’ first two touchdown passes, with the second being a brilliant one-handed catch in the back of the end zone that brought Odell Beckham comparisons.
“I just kind of lobbed one up there, and he made an unbelievable catch,” Rodgers said. “That was a huge play. … That’s a game-changing play.”
It was initially ruled incomplete, but the Jets challenged it, and the call was reversed as referees determined Wilson’s shin was down on the ground in the zone.
It gave the Jets a 14-10 lead with 12:54 left in the game.
The Jets (3-6) face the Cardinals (4-4) in Arizona on Nov. 10.
