{"id":456069,"date":"2023-08-23T02:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456069"},"modified":"2023-08-23T02:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:24:18","slug":"saleh-on-playing-aaron-cant-coach-frightened","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saleh-on-playing-aaron-cant-coach-frightened\/","title":{"rendered":"Saleh on playing Aaron: &#8216;Can&#8217;t coach frightened&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Jets boss Robert Saleh thinks it&#8217;s in the franchise&#8217;s best interest\u00a0to play QB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/aaron-rodgers\/\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> in the final preseason clash; history and injury risk didn\u2019t scare him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t coach anxious, you can&#8217;t play frightened,&#8221; the Jets head coach shared today, confirming that Aaron will start Saturday vs. the NY Giants. &#8220;You can slip out of your car and injure yourself. Knock on wood; everyone will be all right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jets<\/a> will start Aaron Rodgers against the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Mekhi Becton will protect him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ba2koQxKaH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ba2koQxKaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Connor_J_Hughes\/status\/1694080782061473847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rodgers (39), who for the last time appeared in a preseason match in 2018, sat out the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 3 preseason clashes. But now, with the 1<sup>st<\/sup> game from the new campaign less than 3 weeks away, the New York manager wants Aaron to get acclimated to MetLife Stadium and its atmosphere before playing in the opener against the Buffalo Bills on September 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of Aaron to appear in the final preseason game didn\u2019t surprise anyone because Saleh claimed that this would probably happen almost a month ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Jets boss Robert Saleh thinks it&#8217;s in the franchise&#8217;s best interest\u00a0to play QB Aaron Rodgers in the final preseason clash; history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456070,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18029,17056,17324,17170],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18163,18406,17873,21066],"acf":{"announce":"The Jets manager defended his decision to play Rodgers in the final preseason match.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456069"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456069"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}