Keyshawn Johnson rips Aaron Rodgers for quitting on Jets in loss to Payments

Keyshawn Johnson let Aaron Rodgers have it for what he noticed because the Jets quarterback benching himself throughout Sunday’s blowout loss to the Payments. 

On FS1’s “Communicate” on Monday, Johnson ripped his former staff’s quarterback after he admitted to suggesting he go away the sport because the Jets went down 40-0 in the beginning of the fourth quarter. 

“You determine to take your ball and go residence since you wasn’t getting your manner,” Johnson mentioned. “… You give up in your staff, man. I’m not going to be good to Aaron Rodgers like that. I assumed he was on a mission to persuade them [the Jets] that he ought to come again. Based mostly on what he did yesterday I don’t wish to be nowhere close to him.

“He took his ball and went residence!” he continued. “That’s precisely what he simply did. He took his ball and went residence as a result of he wasn’t getting his manner and the Payments was kicking his rear finish. What the hell is improper with Aaron Rodgers.”

Throughout a postgame press convention after the 40-13 loss, Rodgers revealed that it was his thought to herald backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor as the sport acquired out of hand. 

“I imply it was 33-0, we had been sitting there & I mentioned sooner or later most likely go to Tyrod right here, huh? Then the following play [the Bills] threw a display for a landing. So it was 40-0,” Rodgers mentioned. 

Taylor finally went into the sport and led two Jets landing drives.

Johnson in contrast Rodgers’ actions to 49ers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell’s refusal to play in a recreation early this month. The previous star vast receiver didn’t give in when fellow pannel members Paul Pierce and Pleasure Taylor tried to say the conditions had been totally different as a result of Campbell walked out whereas Rodgers stayed on the bench.

“He took his ball and went residence! That’s precisely what he simply did,” Johnson retorted “He took his ball and went residence as a result of he wasn’t getting his manner and the Payments was kicking his rear finish. What the hell is improper with Aaron Rodgers?”

Within the week main as much as the sport, Rodgers performed up the significance of the divisional matchup although the Jets had lengthy been eradicated from playoff competition, calling the final two weeks towards the Payments and Dolphins “an audition for all of us.”

The loss dropped the Jets to 4-12 and 2-9 since Robert Saleh was fired in late October. 

Requested about his future with the Jets after the sport, Rodgers mentioned: “I’m going to take pleasure in subsequent week after which take some psychological and bodily relaxation.”