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Jets head coach Aaron Glenn was rather mute when asked about New York’s Week 1 meeting against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Aaron Rodgers. For Glenn, it’s just like any other game.
“We have 17 really good games that we got to play,” Glenn said. “And I’m looking forward to playing every one of them.”
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Rodgers will be facing the team that spurned him earlier this offseason.
Rodgers was released by the Jets earlier this offseason, and the star quarterback was quite disgruntled by the way that exit was handled, he revealed in an interview with Pat McAfee in April.
Rodgers recounted flying to New York to meet with Glenn, and that meeting going very poorly.
“I think we’re gonna have this long conversation,” Rodgers said. “I’ve flown across the country. Twenty seconds in … I’m talking to the GM about something and [Glenn] leans to the edge of his seat and goes, ‘So, do you want to play football?’
“And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m interested.’
“Then he says, ‘We’re going in a different direction at quarterback.’”
Glenn is not worried about the media attention heading into the Week 1 game against the Steelers at MetLife Stadium.
“This is the NFL. And, to me, every game there’s a lot of noise because they’re so critical — as far as wins and losses,” he said. “We want to try and accumulate as many wins as we can, and I don’t care who that opponent is.”
Of course, the Jets will have a quarterback revenge game of their own on tap. The Steelers’ first choice at quarterback this offseason was to re-sign Justin Fields, but when the Jets offered a two-year contract with $30 million in guarantees, the Steelers balked at the price, letting Fields walk out the door and turning their sights on Rodgers.
Like his head coach, Fields had no reaction to seeing that the Jets are playing his former team, the Steelers, to open the season.
“That’s who we play Week 1. There wasn’t really a thought to that,” Fields told reporters.
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