The Jets fired their coach to save their season. Except he wasn't the problem.

Aaron Rodgers, a four-time MVP and Super Bowl champion, has been unable to capture his past form in New York.

The New York Jets, 2-3 through five weeks, could have looked at the glass as half full.

In a 10-9 loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 4, New York missed a potential game-winning field goal late in the fourth quarter. And against the Minnesota Vikings the following week, the Jets were driving for a potential game-winning score until Aaron Rodgers threw an interception, his third of the game, to fall 23-17.

An optimist would say that New York was under .500 but that its last two losses had come by a combined seven points. It was a field goal away from being 3-2. One fewer bad throw away from somehow being 4-1. And despite their 2-3 record, the Jets entered Week 6 only one game behind the Buffalo Bills for the lead in the AFC East.  

Instead, New York decided to fire head coach Robert Saleh after the Vikings loss, a glass-half-empty move by a desperate team desperate to salvage a season under massive expectations. And the decision hasn’t worked.

In the five games since they fired Saleh, the Jets are only 1-4. And their season reached a new low in Week 10, as the Arizona Cardinals dominated them in all three phases of the game for a 31-6 win. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/nfl/jets-aaron-rodgers-miss-playoffs-rcna179636

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