Aaron Rodgers details what Jets need after disappointing season

Injured New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers sounds confident the 6-10 club is a solid offseason away from competing for more than just a playoff berth next year. 

"Offensively I think we need to shore up the offensive line a little bit," Rodgers explained during the Prime Video pregame show that aired before New York's 37-20 loss at the Cleveland Browns on Thursday night, per Christian Arnold of the New York Post. "Obviously, we had a lot of injuries. … A lot of moving pieces. A lot of different offensive lines throughout the year, so we have to shore that up a little bit."

Rodgers joined the Jets from the Green Bay Packers via a trade completed this past spring, and he later accepted a pay cut presumably to help New York build around him through at least 2024. The 40-year-old then went down with a torn Achilles four offensive plays into the regular season on Sept. 11, and StatMuse shows that the Jets enter the weekend having surrendered the second-most sacks (63) for the campaign without having Rodgers in the lineup. 

According to ESPN, the Jets began Friday ranked 31st in the NFL with an average of 269.5 offensive yards per game and 30th with an average of 15.7 points scored per contest on the season. Despite such woeful numbers, Jets owner Woody Johnson is expected to retain head coach Robert Saleh, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and general manager Joe Douglas. It's widely believed Rodgers has at least some say in such personnel decisions. 

Along with praising punter Thomas Morstead and placekicker Greg Zuerlein on Thursday evening, Rodgers insisted he likes "the pieces that are in place moving forward" and simply thinks the Jets need to "maybe add another skilled player on the outside." 

That's all well and good, but the numbers combined with so-called "eye tests" indicate the Jets need much more than whatever Rodgers will be next September if they plan to end the longest active postseason drought in the four major North American sports leagues in January 2025.