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Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed he hadn‘t heard what Patriots defensive tackle Davon Godchaux said about him Sunday night, after the Jets suffered an all-time nightmare of a loss in New England. Godchaux drew headlines for saying what everyone had seen with their own eyes: Rodgers looked more like the date of birth portion of his bio and his listing on the practice report leading up to the game – a 40-year-old, limited by knee and hamstring injuries – than the guy who will someday be enshrined in Canton on the first ballot. “A hall of fame quarterback like that? Just hate to see him go out that way.
” Godchaux said. “He definitely don’t look the same. He just don’t look like he can move back there.
S---, I can run him down and catch him. He don’t look mobile at all.” A reporter brought Rodgers up to speed on the remarks, but Rodgers cut off the recap around the part about Godchaux being able to catch him.
“He’s probably right,” Rodgers said. “I was hurting. But I feel better today.
” Rodgers and the Jets are obviously ready to turn the page on that disaster of game, and for good reason. But Rodgers didn’t just say he was feeling better, he vowed to move better on Thursday night against the Texans and their explosive pass rush. “I expect to be able to do a lot more this week,” Rodgers said.
“And I’ll be under center and hopefully be back to my faster than Godchaux speed.” It seems to defy logic that 48 hours after he was limited to catching snaps out of the shotgun, shuffling around, and getting rid of the ball as quickly as he could without getting hit, that Rodgers would be feeling so confident? So how is that possible? “That’s a good question,” Rodgers said, before revealing that punter Thomas Morstead, not too far behind Rodgers at 38-years-old, had been pushing an unconventional remedy on Rodgers. “T-mo gave me a little fountain of youth,” Rodgers said.
“He said he’s been taking [it] for a while – all legal, of course. ..
. He’s been taking like cayenne pepper and water, so he gave me some before the game. Felt pretty good.
But I’ve been gassing him up, ‘That’s why I’m feeling so good.’ I’m not sure how much that’s playing a factor." Rodgers said his recovery probably has more to do with how he spends his days at this stage of his career and with the way Sunday’s game against the Patriots played out.
“My schedule is basically: I’m here when I’m here and I’m doing rehab when I go home,” Rodgers said. “And then I do more rehab. So I’m kind of taking care of myself non-stop.
And if you look at the game, I only got hit a couple times, got sacked once, I didn’t really move a whole lot. So that was probably part of it.” So it was probably the rehab, but it might have been the cayenne pepper? Whatever it was, the Jets need Rodgers to back up his words and play better against the Texans.
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