A-Jetsing they will go

 Aaron Rodgers is finally a New York Jet, just like Brett Favre before him, and there is the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth in Green Bay, where he won a Super Bowl and became an icon just like Favre did. Thus the rending of garments, the gnashing of teeth, and the shedding of enough tears to make the Fox River overflow its banks.

Just kidding. The only thing making the Fox jump its banks in Green Bay this morning is likely champagne, because the Packers finally shed a massive pain in their ass and fleeced the Jets in the bargain.

That Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks of his generation is indisputable, but he's also a weirdo and a drama queen and a world champion complainer. The latter was tolerable as long as he wasn't 39 years old and entering the sunset years of his career. But now that he is?

Well. Both parties were sick of one another, is what it boils down to. And so off he goes to New York, and the celebration is on in Green Bay because in offloading him to the Jets the Jets Jets-ed it up as usual.

"But ... but we got AARON RODGERS!" Jets fans are saying now.

True. But you gave up your first, third and sixth-round pick in Thursday's NFL Draft for him, plus a conditional second-round pick in next year's draft that becomes a first-round pick in next year's draft if Rodgers plays 65 percent of the Jets snaps this season. Which he is almost certain to do.

That's a lot to give up for a guy who's essentially a rental, given that Rodgers will turn 40 before the season is over and realistically will not be the QB he was at 30.

The Jets, of course, are betting he has enough left in his arm to get them to the Super Bowl, just like Tom Brady got Tampa Bay to the Super Bowl. Difference is, Brady had already gotten his teams to nine Super Bowls (with six rings) before he took the Buccaneers home in 2021. Rodgers, in 18 seasons, has gotten his teams to ... one.

So for four draft picks, half of them likely first-rounders, the Jets get an aging superstar who's closed the deal all of one time in his career. And that was 12 years ago .

Maybe it will work. Or maybe the Jets have gone a-Jetsing again, and this will be the worst deal since that Swedish knob on "Succession" slicked the idiot Roy boys out of their daddy's business empire and made 'em think they won.

(Sorry for the spoiler, if you haven't seen it yet.)

(Although the real spoiler might be awaiting Jets fans.)