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Why Jets coach Robert Saleh expects Aaron Rodgers to make his job 'easier'

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- A look at what's happening around the New York Jets:

1. Different kind of QB: Twenty years ago, Robert Saleh was a graduate assistant at Michigan State when he heard a nugget of coaching philosophy that has stuck with him. It actually came from the school's basketball coach, Tom Izzo, who said, "The best-coached teams are the teams that coach themselves."

Saleh believes the 2023 Jets can be one of those teams, in large part, because of one player: quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He describes Rodgers as a proven winner (147-75-1 career record) who can "champion [the] message" from the coaching staff and "control the standard" in the locker room, something that takes a rare kind of player.