Mike Florio

I don't think Rodgers wanted to stay with the Jets, but the Jets were the ones who told him no thanks.

And what occurred?

He put the Jets on blast when it came out that the Jets didn't want him and they made him fly cross country and they didn't want to hear his input after all his years of experience.

It was just, we're going in a different direction.

We're done here.

So I think they just need to be very careful, and they need to let him make a decision while they make plans for the future.

And it sounds like McCarthy really likes Will Howard.

So it seems that if Rodgers doesn't come back, Howard's going to have the chance to develop and play, and we'll see where it goes.

McCarthy's lucked into some very good quarterback situations in Green Bay and Dallas.

We'll see if they can develop a guy in Will Howard.

Well, Peter King put it best in words that we can't say lest we all be fined and or fired and worse, but it was stunning.

And I said something to Tom Curran who covers the Patriots for NBC Sports Boston on PFT Live when Belichick made it to the point where he was on the tee for consideration.

If this guy doesn't get in on the first ballot, it's a travesty to end all travesty.

And I guess at some level I sensed, given the way that they've operated in the past, Chris Carter got passed over for a couple of times because they didn't like him.

Terrell Owens got passed over once or twice because they didn't like him.

And the process is conducive to people acting out on whatever petty grudges they hold with someone.

So the process itself is a problem.

The way they vote now, I won't belabor the point and go into the details, but it was stunning that

he didn't make it.

Because if he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer, if he's not a Hall of Famer, there's a lot of busts in Canton that need to be melted down and turned into cufflinks.