While the Packers and Jets have not yet agreed on a trade that will send Aaron Rodgers to New York, the NFL front office is treating the move like an eventuality.
Mike North, the NFL’s VP of Broadcast Planning, recently appeared on Audacy’s “It’s Always Gameday In Buffalo” podcast and revealed that the league is drawing up its schedule under the assumption that the trade will happen.
“All signs seem to indicate that Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback of the Jets and as such – obviously they play the Bills twice, they’ve got an incredible schedule next year they play Kansas City, they play Dallas, they play Philly,” North daid.
“I mean if Aaron Rodgers is their quarterback we’re going to do something with those games. If Aaron Rodgers isn’t the quarterback of the Jets we’re going to do something with those games but maybe not as much.
“As we sit here today [April 18th], yeah, we’re assuming, for now, that he’s going to be the quarterback of the Jets and the schedule reflects that. If we get through the draft and there’s any kind of indication that it may not happen, we might hedge a little bit and kind of shift some of our focus – not entirely. It won’t necessarily be a start from scratch, but it might be a pullback just a little.”
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Although we know every team’s opponents for the 2023 season, the dates and windows of the games have not been announced yet.
If Rodgers is the Jets quarterback, the increased attention on the team would mean that the Jets would play more frequently in standalone primetime window, or in the feature matchup on late Sunday afternoon on the second half of doubleheaders that alternate between CBS and Fox.
Last week, The Post’s Brian Costello reported that trade talks between the Jets and Packers had broken down over Green Bay’s desire to receive the Jets’ 2024 first-round pick in a swap.
Over the weekend, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported that the teams had renewed talks after weeks of dormancy.
