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Jete (pron. jeet): 1. formerly Jets, New Jersey-based quasi-professional football team renamed by retired player Tony Richardson during the 2017 National Football League draft.
stank (pron. staynk): 1. a past of stink; 2. condition endemic to the New Jersey Jete, characterized by a mixed odor of burnt hair/used motor oil/rotting swamp flora accompanying feelings of despair and futility from on-field ineptitude.
savior (pron. sayv-yore): 1. one that saves from danger or destruction; 2. one who brings salvation; 3. New Jersey Jete designation for new quarterbacks assumed capable of delivering a championship. Seriously. That's how the poor souls think.
"This is our year!"
The Jete and their fans have been declaring that next to forever. But after a half-century plus of dashed hopes and dreams, management's wayward habit of collecting talent vs. building a team finally might pay off. Toss enough doo-doo at the wall over a few decades and odds are something will stick. Eventually. One would assume.
Some pundits even are calling the 2023 Jerseyites a (gasp!) "super team," citing last season's strong defense, promising youngsters via many years of high draft picks, pricey free-agent signings and yet another candidate in the line of purported franchise saviors at quarterback. Enter eventual Hall of Fame signal caller/Green Bay castoff Aaron Rodgers. You know, the guy who mulled retirement during his conspicuous darkness retreat last winter before deciding that $75 million guaranteed is worth two years of stank.
Rodgers, who turns 40 Dec. 2, was slingin' spirals in high school when preceding QB messiah Zach Wilson -- 2021's second overall draft pick -- was in diapers. Before Wilson came Sam Darnold, chosen third overall in 2018 and Mark Sanchez, picked fifth in 2009. Prior to that and in-between, the Jete pinned hopes variously on Rodgers' Green Bay predecessor/Hall of Famer Brett Favre, Chad Pennington (drafted 18th overall in 2000), veteran free agents Michael Vick, Teddy Bridgewater, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Josh McCown, plus additional homegrown duds Geno Smith (39th overall, 2013) and Christian Hackenberg (51st overall, 2016). Let's not forget veteran journeyman Mike White, who performed admirably in 2022 when Wilson faltered only to be dumped in the offseason. (Last November, ex-NFL star-turned-commentator Richard Sherman dubbed White, subsequently signed by Miami, a franchise quarterback in the making.)
Those are but recent names seen behind center since franchise icon Joe Namath sold his soul to Satan (legend says) for the team's lone championship in 1969. Whether Rodgers can strike a similar deal with the devil is TBD. Much will depend on sheer dumb luck -- including his ability to avoid injury after an offseason search for the man in the mirror, away from focused training. Otherwise, complementary parts appear set assuming a suspect offensive line jells and the goofball coaching staff doesn't muck things up.
Trading for Rodgers was exactly the sort of headline-grabbing move Jete owner Woody Johnson covets and an offseason sugar high for fans desperate to believe. The final question looms: will it be "Same Old Jets" redux, or what was needed to Just End The Suffering?

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