Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets have worked all spring and summer to get to this moment. So has Damar Hamlin.
“One thing has happened almost every single day and it just reminds me how I’m in the right place and where I’m supposed to be,” Rodgers said. “And I’m really just loving what this opportunity has given me.”in a regular-season game for the first time since going into cardiac arrest and being resuscitated on the field in Cincinnati on Jan. 2.
And the expectations for a team that has the NFL’s longest active playoff drought at 12 straight seasons soared. All the way to the point some prognosticators have mentioned“Of course, it’s better than the alternative,” coach Robert Saleh said. “You work hard to be able to put yourself in position to have a realistic shot at something. Now with that said, we haven’t done anything. We still have to go do it.
Cook — whose brother James will be on the other sideline — spent his first six seasons with Minnesota and ran for at least 1,100 yards the last four years, but he was a salary cap cut this offseason. Since the NFL merger, the only other safety tandem to start seven or more consecutive seasons is the Steelers’ Carnell Lake and Darren Perry . Pittsburgh’s Troy Polamalu and Ryan Clark played together for eight straight seasons , though Clark missed the 2012 opener in Denver because he couldn’t play at a high altitude.
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