Aaron Rodgers wasn’t prepared for his Jets divorce.
Involved that his profession might finish with a whimper, Rodgers, 41, aggressively urged the Jets to stay with him for an additional season or two over the course of a number of conversations final week, a well-placed supply informed The Publish.
When the Jets determined to maneuver on anyway, Rodgers accepted his destiny “like a person going to the gallows,” the supply mentioned, and slipped into the darkness for a couple of days.
The writing already was on the wall by the point Rodgers, who was in New Jersey for an unrelated purpose, was requested to come back to the crew’s Florham Park facility for his first face-to-face assembly with the newly employed regime of common supervisor Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn.