Aaron Rodgers shouldered much of the blame for the Jets’ woeful season after New York was officially eliminated from playoff contention.

On Sunday, The Jets appeared to be turning a corner while going toe-to-toe with the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium. Despite holding a three-point lead with less than one minute remaining in the fourth quarter of the contest, a 45-yard kick return by speedster Malik Washington set Miami up for a game-tying field goal in the closing seconds of regulation.

In overtime, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa connected with tight end Jonnu Smith three times for 44 yards – including a 10-yard touchdown catch that’d seal Miami’s 32-26 win.

As a result of the gutwrenching loss, Rodgers and the Jets were officially eliminated from playoff contention – thereby extending the longest active playoff drought across the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and WNBA to 14-straight seasons. The NHL’s Buffalo Sabres rank close behind, having failed to reach the postseason in 13 consecutive years.

Speaking to the media following the game, Rodgers refrained from diving into the Jets’ woeful performance over the last two decades. “I’ve started for one year, I’m a part of it for one year,” he bluntly stated. “Disappointing.”

Rodgers did, however, acknowledge that the Jets fell well short of living up to the Super Bowl aspirations that New York entered the season with. “Yeah the expectations were high, and we didn’t reach them. Not anywhere close,” he conceded.

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Aaron Rodgers and the Jets fell to the Dolphins, 32-26, on Sunday

Aaron Rodgers and the Jets fell to the Dolphins, 32-26, on Sunday ( 

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“We felt good three weeks in, that weekend off everybody felt real good and since then it’s been a lot of difficult games with opportunities to win. We just didn’t figure out how to win enough games, I didn’t play good enough in some crunch times, that’s why we’re sitting here with the record we’ve got.”

As for what factors he believes have caused the Jets’ meagre 3-10 record in the 2024-25 campaign, Rodgers added: “There’s a lot of reasons, lot of different ways we’ve lost these games. Everybody has some skin on that but, you know, we had our opportunities on offense. Whatever happens on defense doesn’t matter, we gotta get to 30. We didn’t do it.”

While Rodgers will certainly not be pleased with the end result of Sunday’s contest – or the Jets season as a whole – the four-time MVP has much to be happy about regarding his personal performance against the Dolphins. He completed 27-of-39 passes for 339 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions – marking the first time he’s surpassed 300 passing yards in a single game since December 12, 2021.

Upon finding wide receiver Davante Adams for a three-yard score in the third quarter, Rodgers and his longtime favorite target surpassed Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown for the fourth most touchdown connections by any quarterback-wide receiver duo in NFL history – including playoffs – with 79.