Aaron Rodgers & New York Jets schedule is “as TOUGH as you can make it” | Colin Cowherd NFL

Colin Cowherd and ‘3 & Out’ host John Middlekauff disagree over how Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets will fare this season, following the release of their 2024 NFL regular season schedule. Colin & John also talk Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears.

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welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin coward podcast go on hit the Subscribe button there you go right down there if you want to be among the first to hear my weekly takes NFL college football more right there oh give me give me a team individ give me a couple teams individually that jumped out to you well I I heard your theory in you talking about the Roger situation I I I think it’s is simple and I I know coaches and Executives like GMS you know the league all they care about is money I mean that’s their job right so the ratings I think Rogers is still a massive massive needle mover and like the week one I thought when I was looking at the potentials because I thought the ners were going to get Sunday night or Monday Night Football you kind of feel once you knew Thursday night you had the we already knew the Friday night game we didn’t know the Sunday night game but I was like I think the Niners are getting one of those you looked at their schedule it’s like I could see them throwing the Cowboys or the Jets and then once it was reported that the Cowboys did the Brady thing which is genius I mean how many people are going to watch that game 35 million people on Sunday afternoon the ners I mean the ners when they’re winning are a top two or three brand in the league rating wise and Aaron Rogers by himself especially coming off this injury you know controversial to some but he’s just a polarizing player and the Jets are a New York major brand I don’t know if the Jets are going to be very good I’m sure we’ll dive into but you put that thing on just like they did last year I I remember like all of us around the country sitting there Jets bills it’s going to feel really big and do a huge number but tough game for him it does get a little easy off the bat then he goes to the Titans then he plays the Pats who I think are going to be terrible Denver rookie quarterback mcclin is their right tackle the Jets have a good pass rush Minnesota we’ll see they’re in little transitional period so the Monday night game if they can just get through that healthy I do think they could rattle off a couple wins I saw the opposite my take was that you can only do so much because the Jets the schedule is what the schedule is right you you you’re if you you know the team yeah and a lot of it’s baked in you play the bills twice Miami twice New England twice your conference your division plays certain divisions but I thought they made Aaron’s season as tough as you could make it so they start it’s weak right so first of all the last thing you want to do in a rebuild o line is face the Niners defensive front in week one that’s a tough draw three games in 11 days to start again with a rebuilt a line they have five short weeks in an international game in weeks 1 through 11 so the schedule the quarterbacks they face isn’t daunting they could have done them way more re best favors older quarterbacks and older people tend to be creatures of habit I as I’ve aged you know I really like pton Manning hated Sunday Night Football games hated you’re waiting around all that Aaron Rogers they give him three games in 11 days to start five short weeks an international game and ners with an o line rebuild the quality of the opponent isn’t great it is Will Levis and said I I will acknowledge that the games are the games but old quarterback rebuild o line and a lot of short weeks that’s it’s like for older quarterbacks like Brady would tell you like I want to get going those old quarterbacks love one o’clock caves they love them what and there is not a harder travel that than playing Monday Night Football if you’re a coastal team but on the east coast to the West Coast and flying home cuz what time are they you know the game ends at 8:15 by the time they get out of there they’re getting home at 56 in the morning hey football fans if you’re looking to dominate your fantasy league next year then we’ve got the channel for you from the NFL draft through training camp in week one to Super Bowl Sunday fantasy pros is the home of football content you cannot afford to miss subscribe today your team will be in Championship form in no time so it is and then it’s difficult on your coach it’s it it’s a very very difficult stretch but if you had to draft if you knew you were playing the ners a cross the country Monday Night Football I I think we could all acknowledge the Titans might be a top five team you would pick right just independently so and then the Pats on a short week your home opener I mean I think the Pats are going to be pretty bad plus you just have a lot of I mean your divisional opponent and then you get Denver rookie quarterback off that kind of mini buy so if they can find a way to be two and one I think they’re in pretty good shape going to Denver though and I I’ve been I would say very hesitant and I was very bullish on them last year like you said a lot of older players and these aren’t just like older accomp these are older off than injured players and I I I listen clearly modern medicine and these surgeries have improved greatly I mean my dad had the same injury Chris Finch had in the mid 90s and he did it in New Zealand fishing and they told him he would never walk straight again now he’s like send me back to America but still it was it was a much different procedure in 1996 than it is for him I mean he’s up on the bench a week to weeks later not saying that he can walk but my point is I I think we just accept cousins and Rogers I mean both these guys are old and Rogers is really old because he’s been playing a lot longer and his game is much more predicated on moving around so maybe modern medicine is just incredible we won’t notice it as much but I I would be hesitant I say the same thing with Atlanta I I think most people that follow football like Atlanta’s going to win the division they are I I like Raheem Morris but we have no clue what he’s going to look like as a head coach cousins coming off the Achilles the weirdness with the penics their defense is more than a question mark and there’s a there’s a healing proc remember Tom coming off the ACL that next year he was very hesitant and he’s Tom Brady so we’re talking now Rogers is much more comp than cousins so if he is just I think we would both agree if he’s playing at a b or B+ level they would be a real team but if he’s a C+ is level and not the movement wise the other factor with them is and I know I think we’ve both talked about it on our shows that leak about the the coordinator situation like regardless the Jets are always a mess because of the ownership their coordinators is not very good so I know Aaron’s friendly with them but it’s not like he’s Shawn McVey or KY Shanahan or Andy Reid I mean that’s that’s a huge part about the sport right who’s calling the place maybe Aaron just ends up essentially calling the place so I said I think the NFL wants to see Jim Harbaugh get up to a good start they open with arguably the two easiest games on their schedule Raiders at home and Panthers that’s that’s about that you know Raiders aren’t good they get them at home and then the Panthers so those are good that’s a two- 0 start probably I also looked at the NFL with Chicago again Fox would love Chicago to pop I mean just huge bucket so would I what do they get with a rookie quarterback Tennessee at home to start new coach new STA and then week five home Carolina a very winnable game against Washington early they get a buy into it so two weeks to prepare for a very winnable game those feel like wins to me for Chicago I do think again you could have stacked Green Bay on the road early you could have stacked this schedule you know Detroit open at Detroit because though you know Chicago is a Big Brand they gave them a couple of layups early I do think when it comes to a rookie quarterback let’s use Jaden Daniels and B Nicks for for example they’re playing the long game Shawn Peyton’s not going anywhere this new operation in Washington’s so if there’s up and downs and you guy loses his confidence takes him a couple weeks to gain it back whatever we’re we’re okay winning six games this first year there is tangible pressure on the coach in Chicago right he can’t afford to go seven and 10 or he’ll be fired I agree with you on the Titan situation but then their next three game for a Young quarterback who is extremely talented like it’s not like he’s coming off an 11 win season I mean it was it was a lot at the Texans at the Colts I think both those teams are going to be really good they both loaded up you know Indie just drafted a pass rusher in the top 15 the Texans added one during free agency and then you play the Rams like that’s just a tough early stretch I don’t care how talented you are young people confidence can e and flow and the pressure Chicago the hype I I do think that’s just a tough early stretch now if all of a sudden they’re three three and two I mean we might be looking at a 10 10 or 11 win team did you notice with the Cowboy schedule um and we know in the last month mostly the NFL wants division games you know you you want your Miami Buffalo although Miami Buffalo especially your good you’re good teams you think are going to be the play pretty early but Dallas has three you know out of division games that are pretty tough the ners the Ravens and Alliance they’re done with all of them by week eight so so with Dallas again McCarthy uh Dak this is an experienced team they they don’t backload it you because you know the Giants and Washington won’t be great they get their three toughest to me the three games that you look at and go the three best rosters they play will probably be San frinco Baltimore and Detroit and those are all done by week eight so if you if even if you you go one and two on those they they could have stacked a couple of those you know week 14 week 13 so you go into these tough brutal cold weather road games in division no they got rid of their tough games early again what do I like Harbaugh getting a two and0 start listen Dallas is I thought it went in their favor that was my take I do think that Cleveland I’m not expecting the same what we saw last year I mean obviously they’re all in DeShaun Watson his cap hit has really kicked in the roster I don’t think going to be as good good just moving forward obviously and I I’m not sure he’s still a good player uh but even if they take a huge step back we all know week one is tough right you could play the worst team in the league in week one everyone has the same hopes and dreams they’re everyone’s 0 and0 especially at home and Cleveland is a tough place to play and the hype on that game with Brady calling it that’s a sneaky big game because then all of a sudden like I think most people think the saints were really shitty last year they did go nine and eight and their offense was mainly putrid well they had kubak kid who comes from Shanahan I think the Saints are going to be better and then you got Baltimore it’s just a tough little early stretch for a team that I don’t want to say they’re walking on eggshells but the McCarthy story The Dak they don’t extend them it could get weird and it could get weird fast I I just got that Cleveland game circled I I think that is going to be very I can see Cleveland winning that thing and Cleveland being a six7 win team yeah you know speaking of Cleveland in that division I I’m going to make an argument that the toughest schedule in the league I saw was the Pittsburgh Steelers okay hard so you start you have better rosters than these teams but they load them up at Atlanta at Denver at Indie and Harbaugh that’s a rough start I mean again I agree you have better rosters than Atlanta Denver the Chargers Indy three of the four on the road and you come out of that road streak with Dallas two weeks later Aaron roders like that’s rough and did you see the last six quarterbacks Pittsburgh faces burrow deshun Watson Jaylen Herz Lamar Jackson momes and burrow like Mike Tomlin is gonna be on a network broadcasting and and by the way I I predict he’ll be great I’ve talked to two Network exacts who would hire Mike Tomlin tomorrow are you shorting the Steelers this year I am shorten them I mean did you have to put at the end of the year the last three quarterbacks Lamar Mahomes and burrow in the last month did did you see the story though about Burrow’s hand surgery the percentage of it keeping you know most surgeries are 90 to 95% that risk hand surgery is like 70 to 75% success rate and then it no matter how well it goes there’s basically guaranteed inflammation it’s a little trickier than just your ACL or your broken leg I I I do think that’s something to keep a heavy eye on now if play 17 games I think we’d all acknowledge they’re going to be one of the better teams in the NFL but if that thing crops up where it is I mean it would be a major problem [Music]