Photo: Megan Briggs/Getty Images For the vast majority of their history, the New York Jets have employed bad starting quarterbacks. (Joe Namath was one of the few exceptions.) Sam Darnold, a first-round flop the team couldn’t get away from fast enough, nonetheless threw for the eighth-most yards in franchise history. Human beings named Falk, Siemian, Petty, Streveler, and Johnson have lined up behind center for the Jets the last five years, and I’m pretty sure none of you could tell me their first names if I spotted you the first four letters. The Jets’ most famous quarterback play of the last 40 years involved a player dropping the ball after running into a lineman’s rear end, a sequence so infamous that the words “butt fumble” will forever be connected to the franchise. More than 15 years ago, when Brett Favre signed on for his one (bad) season with the Jets, I wrote a piece for this magazine running down the 15 different people who had played the position for the team during Favre’s tenure with the Packers. They were all bad. So even if Aaron Rodgers, who announced Wednesday afternoon on sleeve-phobic podcaster Pat McAfee’s show that he plans to play…
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