Can Aaron Rodgers duplicate feats of Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford in Year 1 with Jets? Comparing each roster

The Jets are chasing a recent trend with Aaron Rodgers. In 2020 and 2021, the Buccaneers and Rams famously added Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford respectively, two established veterans in the late stages of their NFL careers, and parlayed those signings to immediate Super Bowl victories. 

Of course, the Chiefs snapped that two-year streak a season ago, but we’re all still keenly aware that the veteran-quarterback addition can provide a franchise an instant, seismic boost.

That begs the question — how similar are the 2023 Jets to the 2021 Rams and 2020 Buccaneers? Let’s dissect each roster. I’m using a three-answer scale for the verdict in each category: almost identical, similar, and not alike. 

Quarterback 

In Brady’s final regular season with the Patriots, he completed 60.8% of his throws, at 6.6 yards per attempt with a TD rate of 3.9% and INT rate of 1.3%. Rock-solid for many quarterbacks. Not exactly meeting typically Brady standards. 

Rodgers’ final season in Green Bay went as follows — 64.6% completion rate, 6.8 yards per attempt, 4.8% TD rate, 2.2% of his throws were intercepted. Darn close to Brady’s swan song season in New England. 

Considerably younger, Stafford was at a 64.2% completion rate with 7.7 yards per attempt, a 4.9% TD rate and 1.9% INT rate in his last year with the Lions. With a boost in offensive line play, Cooper Kupp and Robert Woods plus Sean McVay’s play-design brilliance, and yeah, no wonder the Rams went from 23rd in EPA per play in 2020 to 8th in that foundational analytics stat category in Stafford’s first season in Los Angeles. 

Brady and Rodgers were more similar in age and most recent season performance to Stafford, but altogether, this category earns an almost identical label. Right now, Rodgers feels somewhere between where Brady and Stafford were before joining their second teams. 

Verdict: Almost identical (advantage: Rams)

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Author : Chris Trapasso

Publish date : 2023-06-10 14:04:38

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