The New York Jets landed a record six prime-time games over the first three months of the 2024 season, and the league admitted that the return of star quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the primary reason.
"Yes, it's an awful lot of prime-time games early in the season, but, obviously, I feel like Jets kind of owe us one," Mike North, the NFL's vice president of broadcast planning, said on a video conference on Thursday, referring to Rodgers missing the entirety of the 2023 season, per ESPN's Rich Cimini.
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