When the New York Jets scrambled to add another quarterback to their roster as Zach Wilson was pressed back into starter duty in the wake of Aaron Rodgers’ Week 1 Achilles injury, one of their calls was to the recently retired Chad Henne.
Henne, who won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs as Patrick Mahomes’ backup last season, first revealed in a September interview with his hometown newspaper the week of Rodgers’ injury in September that the Jets had approached him, and he had respectfully declined their offer.
He explained why to Colin Cowherd on Thursday’s edition of “The Herd”.
“It’s hard to say, ‘Would I be happy there?’ I just didn’t feel like that was the right situation,” Henne told Cowherd. “You see Aaron Rodgers go down, the offensive line doesn’t look great. I’d be away from my family. There’s just a lot of factors. And I didn’t train like I normally do to get ready for the season. So I would take a couple weeks to get my arm at least ready, and then you know Jets fans, they’d probably be cheering ‘Henne’ [when Wilson would struggle] just like when I was the starting quarterback [in Jacksonville] and they’d be cheering [for] the other quarterback.
“It would have been a tough situation, and I just didn’t feel like it was right for me at the time.”
When Cowherd asked about the Jets’ lack of a winning culture in their organization, Henne pointed out that he knows Jets head coach Robert Saleh and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett from their days as assistant coaches with the Jacksonville Jaguars when Henne was playing quarterback there.
Henne also defended Wilson, saying a big reason for the former second-overall NFL Draft pick’s continued struggles this season is that unlike Rodgers, who won two NFL MVPs with Hackett as his coordinator on the Green Bay Packers, Wilson is far less familiar with Hackett’s offensive system.
“Speaking with Nathaniel throughout the process, Aaron Rodgers knows, obviously, the system in and out,” Henne…
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