The New York Jets looked less than great in their season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers. While a lot of teams don't exactly enjoy their business trips to the Bay Area, very few have 40-year-old quarterback coming off catastrophic injuries and trying to live up to extraordinarily high expectations.
Aaron Rodgers did not set the world on fire with his long-awaited return, completing 13 passes for 167 yards. There was little evidence of the dynamic playmaker that led Green Bay for all those years while creating a Hall of Fame future. And at a certain point a person could begin to wonder if that huge portion of the media that's been hyping up this late-career marriage and throwing the word Super Bowl around is going to have absolutely nothing but hollow promises to show for it.
