If you’re an offensive skill-position player in the NFL, the unfortunate reality is that your stats are largely contingent on factors that are outside of your control.
Wide receivers can get themselves open all day long, but if their quarterback cannot find them, they are not going to put up numbers, and they will be criticized by fans and media for their lack of production even though it is not their fault.
It goes the other way, too. Quarterbacks can only do so much if their receivers are struggling to get open or catch the ball.
For these reasons, Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets can be a beautiful match.