You can see the Achilles tear. Live, it was already clear, in a much-replayed clip that has since become canon for anyone paying attention to the National Football League. Leonard Floyd, a rangy defensive edge rusher who played for the Buffalo Bills for just that one year, the 2023-24 season, came off a failed block by Duane Brown at left tackle for the New York Jets, a team that moments later would enter a whole new phase of its cursed existence. Some, including Aaron Rodgers himself, have acknowledged that wide receiver Garrett Wilson was open in the flat just beyond the first down marker. For whatever reason, Aaron didn’t throw it, and so on his fourth play with his new team, he was sacked for a loss. For a moment, that seemed like all it was.
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