(Editor’s note: This is excerpted from Mike Sando’s Pick Six of Sept. 30, 2024.) Are the Jets heading down the same road the Packers took late in Mike McCarthy’s tenure? Facing third-and-10 with 1:53 remaining in a game his Jets trailed 10-9, 40-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers fired a back-shoulder throw up the …
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