NFL News today Wednesday; audience record for Jets vs Bills; How are things with the Jets after Aaron Rodgers’ injury? Is Jerry Jones racist?
Jets vs. Bills generated record ratings for ESPN
Even without playing the entire game, the presence of QB Aaron Rodgers was attractive enough to draw a large audience on the last Monday night broadcast between the Jets and Bills.
The party generated an average audience of 22.615 million between platforms ESPN y ABC. With this they surpassed the reunion game between Brett Favre and the Packers, being the most watched Monday night game on the network. ESPN.
Jets-Bills was ESPN’s most-watched Monday Night Football game EVER.
It averaged a record 22.6 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2. pic.twitter.com/rNqWeKrrbr
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) September 12, 2023
In October 2009, the Vikings vs Packers achieved 21.8 million viewers, although it was only seen on ESPN. The game between Bills and Jets was also seen on the network. ABCwhich must have helped enormously the final figures.
To put the enormity of this achievement into context, the Bills-Bengals game in January of this year was watched by an average of 23.8 million viewerslargely because of what happened with S Damar Hamlin.
However, the most-watched Monday night games in NFL history remain as follows:
What did you think of the game between the Jets and Bills? It was worth it?
The Jets today will not throw in the towel without Aaron Rodgers to seek the NFL title
Many thought that with the arrival of QB Aaron Rodgers there would be a huge possibility that the New York Jets would become Super Bowl champions for the second time in their history, but things were complicated by his injury.
After tearing his Achilles tendon, A-Rod will have to undergo season-ending surgery since it was known he would need it.
“[Aaron Rodgers] “He is dejected,” Saleh said, via a live broadcast on YouTube. “He is, as you can imagine with everything he has invested and it having lasted four plays, he is obviously a little disappointed.”
However, HC Robert Saleh believes that is not the end of his team’s aspirations this year. Especially when his team was able to win the previous game without the star quarterback in overtime.
“Concerned with his Achilles. MRI is probably gonna confirm what we think is already going to happen. So prayers tonight, but It’s not good.”
– Jets head coach Robert Saleh on Aaron Rodgers pic.twitter.com/4CIBk5gV12
— NFL on CBS ???? (@NFLonCBS) September 12, 2023
Although Caesars Sportsbook moved the Jets’ Super Bowl odds from 16-1 to 35-1, the team’s locker room isn’t crestfallen.
“I don’t know why people are trying to put an obituary on our team’s name,” Saleh said. “Aaron is an incredible piece in all of this, and we love him, but I think there are 52 other guys in the locker room, besides the 16 on the practice squad, that believe we can do a lot of good things here. We have a championship defense. We have great skills on the offensive side of the ball. Our offensive line continues to consolidate and improve. We are excited about our group. We’ve worked hard over the last two years with players, coaches, scouts, the GM, building a very good organization, so there’s a lot of faith in the locker room in the things we can still accomplish this year. While the outside world can go ahead and write whatever story it wants, the real story is still being written in this organization.”
Saleh went from commenting on the future of QB Aaron Rodgers, instead talking about the present with QB Zach Wilson, who will now have the opportunity to once again lead his team.
“I feel more sorry for Aaron than anyone,” Saleh said. “He has invested so much in this organization, so much in this journey that he has taken and wanting to be a part of what we have here, and how much he has invested not only in this organization, but also with his teammates, in himself, in this hobby, in this city. I feel a lot of emotions for him. Everything revolves around him. I don’t see it as a ‘woe is me’ for the organization. I think the guys are excited to be able to take a step forward and continue with the things we’ve been building. But a lot of pain for Aaron.”
How far do you see these Jets going without Aaron Rodgers this season? Can you win the SB without it?
New lawsuit accuses Cowboys owner of racist comments
Reporter Jim Trotter launched a lawsuit against the NFL that accuses secondhand racist comments to Bills owner Terry Pegula. While in the case of Jerry Jones, owner of the Cowboys, he accuses him of inappropriate and racially charged comments firsthand.
In accordance with ProFootballTalkIn paragraph 110 of the civil complaint, Trotter explains that, following Jon Gruden’s departure from the Raiders in 2021, due to several inappropriate emails, he planned to share a racist statement from Jones toward him during the Pro Football Hall of Fame game. between Steelers and Cowboys.
Trotter met with other reporters before the game and the document details the following:
“At one point, Mr. Trotter was talking to Will McClay, the Cowboys’ Vice President of Player Personnel, about the fact that NFL teams don’t typically recruit many players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and whether this could be due to the lack of black people in personnel decision-making positions, i.e. CEOs. Mr. Jones joined the conversation, and Mr. Trotter asked why the teams have so few black decision-makers.”
From the Jim Trotter complaint against the NFL. Note the quotes attributed to Jerry Jones and Terry Pegula. pic.twitter.com/mAQz27QxuR
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 12, 2023
“In response to Mr. Trotter, Mr. Jones dodged the question and stated that the players take a large percentage of the league’s revenue and that the majority of the players are black. In effect, Mr. Jones was asserting that blacks should ‘be content with what they have’ and not seek further advances in their rights, positions in society, or equality.”
“Mr. Trotter reiterated his question, and Mr. Jones responded, ‘I’m starting to feel a little defensive.’ However, despite Mr. Jones’ previous response or his history of conduct, Mr. Trotter made it clear that he was not attacking him, not even talking about the Cowboys, but just asking about the league in general. .”
Mr. Jones finally responded: ‘If black people feel any way, they should buy their own equipment and hire whoever they want to hire.’ Mr. Trotter responded by asking whether the NFL was going to change its rules requiring buyers to acquire at least 30% of the team and finance the deals with no more than $1 billion of debt. Mr. Jones ignored the question.”
Trotter alleges that the administration of NFL Network told him not to mention Jones’ comments on air.
For his part, this was answered by Jerry Jones through Clarence E. Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
“Diversity and inclusion are extremely important to me personally and to the NFL. “Jim Trotter’s depiction of a conversation that occurred more than three years ago with me and our VP of Player Personnel Will McClay is simply not accurate.”
Jones’ comment could end up being key to the case Trotter is building. If the allegations can be proven it may strengthen, if not it will probably weaken the claim. In the end, it’s something we have to keep in sight.
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