Report suggests Jets' Darren Mougey, Aaron Glenn were split on Aaron Rodgers decision

While speaking with reporters at the NFL’s annual fall meeting on Tuesday, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson insisted he didn't regret the club's decision to move on from quarterback Aaron Rodgers this past offseason. 

Throughout 2025, outsiders assumed that Johnson, general manager Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn were all on the same page regarding the Rodgers call that was made shortly after Johnson hired Mougey and Glenn. However, NFL insider Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk/NBC Sports snuck in an interesting update in his latest post on the subject. 

Did people within the Jets want to run it back with Aaron Rodgers this season?

"As we hear it, there was a difference of opinion as to who did and who didn't [want Rodgers back for another season]," Florio wrote about the Jets. "GM Darren Mougey wanted to keep Rodgers, we’re told. Coach Aaron Glenn wanted to move on."

In November 2024, one report claimed that Johnson had decided that the Jets needed "a change at quarterback" during the offseason. Multiple Jets players publicly defended Rodgers after it became clear the club was going to go in a different direction, and he later revealed that he learned about his fate during a Feb. 6 meeting that lasted "less than 15 minutes." 

Subsequent reports mentioned that Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson and Rodgers "never saw eye-to-eye" last season and that Rodgers' relationship with longtime teammate Davante Adams "frustrated people" within the Jets. The Jets ultimately signed Wilson to a lucrative contract extension in July. 

Who is to blame for Jets' failures this season? 

The Jets replacing Rodgers with Justin Fields has thus far been nothing short of a disaster for the club. While the Jets are 0-7 and possibly already done with Fields, Rodgers won four of his first six starts with the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

On Wednesday, Glenn told reporters that everybody involved was "on the same page" regarding the club's current situation. Florio indicated that hasn't always been the case. 

"Moving on from Rodgers is only part of the problem," Florio added. "The other part is the guy they picked. By title, that was Mougey’s move. It’s possible, however, that others in the organization had their fingerprints on the move, up to and including Woody Johnson himself."

History shows somebody will eventually have to answer for the Jets' failures if the club doesn't experience a drastic turnaround before January. For whatever reason, it sounds like at least one source within the Jets wants it known that Mougey isn't to blame for the fact that the Steelers landed a locker-room favorite in Rodgers earlier this year.