The New York Jets are 1-1 after two inconsistent weeks of football. After being trounced by the San Francisco 49ers in their season opener on Monday night, the Jets pulled out a solid 24-17 win over the Tennessee Titans in Week 2. It wasn’t a perfect performance — in fact, Tennessee missed several golden opportunities — but it was a road win that featured Aaron Rodgers throwing a couple of touchdowns. You take what you can get.

The last few years in East Rutherford have been a whirlwind. The Jets signed Rodgers with great anticipation last season, but the four-time MVP tore his Achilles tendon seconds into his first start. That left New York with Zach Wilson, who trudged through a mediocre season, at the helm with an unpredictable and perpetually unreliable former top-3 pick.

Now Wilson is in Denver and has to play the role of third quarterback behind the worst rookie quarterback in the NFL and Jarrett Stidham. Some Jets fans will call that karma. Others are more forgiving and understand that Wilson was never put in the optimal position to succeed. This Jets roster is still severely flawed, but it was even worse a season ago. And much worse than the previous season.

Rodgers is certainly an improvement over Wilson, but the bar isn’t set very high. The 40-year-old gunslinger appears slow when applying pressure or moving outside the pocket. He can still throw the ball with incredible accuracy, but Rodgers is “more of a point guard who distributes at this stage,” as one AFC executive told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Rodgers’ Pro Bowl era may be over, but the Jets are still celebrating his arrival because nothing could be worse than what happened before Rodgers.

ESPN’s entire NFL team was asked to reflect on Rodgers’ first few weeks and gauge the mood around the league. It seems that despite some notable blunders in the season opener against San Francisco, Rodgers has gotten most people back on the hype train. Rodgers still has unmatched arm talent and a football IQ that might be enough to drown out criticism of his limited athleticism and apparent rustiness.

“They say the ball still goes exactly where it’s supposed to when he throws it, and that he’s given the offense a certain confidence it didn’t have last season,” writes ESPN’s Dan Graziano. “People readily admit he’s not very mobile, nor will he put up big numbers. But if a throw needs to be made this season, the Jets can reasonably expect it to be made. And while that may sound simplistic, it was something last season’s team lacked and could be enough to get the Jets into the playoffs.”

Again, that’s an extremely low bar for a player as hyped and well-paid as Rodgers, but we have to consider what New York fans (and team executives) have gone through to get to this point. Just making the playoffs with a competent signal-caller would be a huge step forward compared to the constant agony and uncertainty of watching Zach Wilson throw the football every Sunday.

Rodgers may not have the explosive offense he once did in Green Bay – at least not at his usual pace – but he won’t make half as many silly mistakes as Wilson. The Jets’ offense will be much more efficient with Rodgers at the helm, even if he’ll mostly be passing touches to Garrett Wilson or Breece Hall and doing a lot more dinking and dunking than we’re used to from the 2011 Super Bowl champion.

Did the Jets make the right decision by investing so much time, money, effort and mental strength into the Aaron Rodgers experience and everything that comes with it, on and off the field? Maybe, maybe not. What the Jets don’t miss, however, are Zach Wilson’s double coverages or fumbles in the red zone.