Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets' final road trip of the 2024 season was a forgettable experience as they suffered a brutal 40-14 loss to the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium. As lopsided as the scoreline is, it flatters the Jets. They trailed 40-0 with over 12 minutes left in the game and were only able to get on the scoreboard after the Bills emptied their bench.
Rodgers, who was hoping to throw the 500th touchdown pass of his career, will have to wait until Week 18 to reach that landmark. The veteran quarterback had a dismal outing as he completed 12-of-18 pass attempts for 112 yards with two interceptions before being benched for backup Tyrod Taylor.
The Bills' pass rush harassed the 40-year-old the entire game and sacked him four times. The second of the four saw him surpass seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and become the most-sacked quarterback in NFL history. The New England Patriots icon was sacked 564 times in 333 games. Rodgers has been brought down behind the line of scrimmage 567 times in 247 career games.
It's not a pleasant record to own, and Rodgers' former teammate David Bakhtiari poked fun at the quarterback on X/Twitter:
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"Hell yeah! Congrats Aaron Rodgers. Another one for the record books."
Rodgers also saw the funny side of the situation. When he was told he surpassed Brady as the most-sacked quarterback in NFL history in the postgame press conference, he quipped:
"I got Tom in that."
Aaron Rodgers Stats: QB's disastrous year gets worse
The Jets' game on Sunday marked the 31st time Aaron Rodgers finished a regular season game with no touchdown passes. It was only the 25th time he did not throw a touchdown pass in 240 games since he became the starter in 2008.
Three of those have come in the 2024 season, making this only the third campaign in his career where he's had that many games without a touchdown pass. It also highlights what a dismal season it has been for the veteran quarterback.
At 16 games in, he has 3,511 passing yards, 24 touchdowns, eight interceptions, and a quarterback rating of 51.5, the second-lowest mark of his career since becoming a starter, trailing only the 41.3 he managed in the 2022 season.
Rodgers' first full season as the Jets' starting quarterback has been thoroughly disappointing. There are doubts about whether he'd play next season, making his team's Week 18 clash against the Miami Dolphins potentially the last time the four-time MVP steps foot on the field.
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