As much as those four touchdown passes and the game-winning drive he engineered scream otherwise, Aaron Rodgers did not beat the Jets.

He may think he did, and he probably feels some vindication from his Steelers posting their 34-32 victory against a team that just a few months ago decided they would be better off without him. He said as much with his self-satisfied “happy to beat everybody associated with the Jets” line on his way out the doors of MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

But he was in that locker room with them for two years, he was on the field with them through all of last season and there were the half dozen of so games in 2024 in which he had a chance to lead them to late-game comeback wins the way he did with the Steelers in this Week 1 contest . . . but didn’t. So deep down he

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