FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Aaron Rodgers was supposed to be different. Unlike the other rent-a-legends that preceded him, he was going to be the one that flipped the New York Jets' culture, the one that turned them into winners.
And yet there he was on Wednesday afternoon, standing in the middle of the locker room with four games to play in a lost season, conceding that the job is too big to accomplish in one year, even for him.
"It might be some sort of curse we've got to snap," Rodgers said.
Football players aren't supposed to talk about curses -- that's taboo in their one-game-at-a-time world -- but Rodgers has seen a lot in his short time with the Jets, and he certainly has learned plenty about the star-crossed ways of the franchise.