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Alaina Getzenberg
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- Alaina Getzenberg is a staff writer who covers the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. You can follow her via Twitter @agetzenberg.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Aaron Rodgers lasted just moments into his New York Jets career before he suffered what is feared to be a serious left Achilles injury. But the Jets were able to stay in the game and squeak past the Buffalo Bills, 22-16 in overtime, after forcing four turnovers from Bills quarterback Josh Allen and getting a 65-yard punt return from Xavier Gipson to win it.
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Pure devastation. There’s no other way to describe it. Four plays into the Rodgers era and …
Worst. Nightmare. Ever.
Rodgers suffered a potentially serious injury in Monday night’s win over the Bills, temporarily draining the energy out of a sold-out MetLife Stadium and imperiling the Jets’ dreams of a Super Bowl.
Even for the Jets, who have a tortured history of quarterback calamities, this stretched the bounds of bad luck. Everything was built around Rodgers, 39, the four-time MVP whom they acquired in the offseason, and it all changed in a heartbeat.
The Jets rallied from a 10-3 deficit to pull out an emotional win — thanks to four takeaways by the defense and the overtime punt return –…
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