On Wednesday, Robert Saleh addressed the media and provided the first New York Jets injury report of the week. The full report is available below, along with updates on Duane Brown, Aaron Rodgers, and several other players.
So, today is a walk through. Billy Turner refuses to practice. Chazz Surratt refuses to practice. Sam Eguavoen will not practice due to a hip injury. Then you’ll see a bunch of guys on the injury list who are either limited or fully recovered. That will be revealed later, but everyone else will participate in practice.
Will Duane Brown be activated this week?
I’m not sure. I know we have until Thanksgiving with him, to make the decision on him, but again with him just communicating and just seeing where he’s at.
Aaron Rodgers; How do you figure out where you guys are?
God, your guess is as good as mine. Oh, you’re talking about like the-
The decision on whether to allow him to return this year. If the doctor says he’s healthy, do you say, ‘OK, he’s our quarterback,’ or do you say, ‘Hey, he’s 40 years old, coming off an Achilles, whatever the record is, then we have to evaluate and think about, as you say globally? Right?
Yeah. No, you’re right, but Aaron’s a big boy, a grown man, and no one’s going to know Aaron’s body like Aaron knows his body, and if he feels, after all the doctors clear him, and I’m sure there’s a million of them, I have no idea, but if Aaron says he wants to play, he’ll play.
Is there like a pressure to keep this afloat for that possibility?
The pressure is to keep it afloat for the sake of keeping it afloat. The pressure to make the playoffs is always present. It’s not for anyone or any possibility; it’s because we’re competitors who want to win football games, and Aaron is just icing on the cake.
He said yesterday that he’ll be back with the team full-time soon, probably next week. What does this imply? I mean, what does it mean for the team to have him here every day rather than just once a week? Also, does he attend meetings, and if so, how does that work?
Yeah. I would imagine he’s going to want to reacclimate to meetings and all that and reconnect himself, so there’s been a lot of changes to the system since he’s been out and just trying to figure things out with the guys that we have. Obviously, I’ve said it before the, I have an admiration for him, we’re very young on the offensive side of the ball and his veteran presence is always welcome, but for him personally speaking, for Aaron not to speak for him, but just to get himself back in the building, reacclimated around his teammates, reinvolved in meetings and then whenever his clock starts, it starts. If it’s able to at all.
You’ve spent a lot of time discussing how you had a system for Aaron that had to be changed for Zach (Wilson). Can you go back to that system for Aaron?
Yes, an entire system does not have to change, but there are a lot of nuances that are followed in terms of just trying to recalibrate the offense for where you are and for the strengths that the individuals have, whether it’s pulling back or whatever. Things are obviously different with Aaron, and things that we’d been working on for six months prior to the injury, yeah, some of that stuff gets revisited and brought back to the table.
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