Former Pittsburgh Steelers safety and Super Bowl champion Ryan Clark ripped into quarterback Aaron Rodgers for his lack of success thus far with the New York Jets.

Clark, who is now an NFL analyst for ESPN, said further Get up that Rodgers doesn’t deserve to have his name mentioned alongside other legends at the position like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning as he has yet to prove himself in the twilight of his career.

“The Aaron Rodgers we knew was in a fantasy land and was a figment of our imagination,” Clark said. “The Aaron Rodgers we call Tom Brady and Peyton Manning was a catfish.”

Rodgers was traded to the Jets in April 2023 after spending 18 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, where he won four MVP Awards and Super Bowl XLV, which coincidentally came against the Steelers during the 2010 season.

The future Hall of Famer made just four appearances last season before suffering a season-ending Achilles injury. At age 40 this year, Rodgers has led the Jets to a 2-3 record while throwing for 1,093 yards, seven touchdowns and four interceptions.

New York fired head coach Robert Saleh earlier this week and also stripped play-calling duties from offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, who worked with Rodgers in Green Bay.

These moves have no positive effect on the Jets or Rodgers himself, as this season promised to put the team in contention and help them break a thirteen-year playoff drought, the longest streak in the league.

Clark elaborated on Rodgers’ comparison to Brady and Manning, as they joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos, respectively, at the end of their own careers and immediately took the rest of the organization to the next level, something Rodgers has yet to achieve.

“The spirit, reverence, attention to detail and respect of these organizations were immediately enhanced by the addition of these two quarterbacks,” Clark said. “That’s not what happened in New York.”

There is still time left for Rodgers to live up to expectations and turn things around in New York, but the current outlook is certainly not positive.

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