Allen Lazard knows Jets’ expectation is Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers

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New Jets wide receiver Allen Lazard knows what it’s like to play with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and knows what the expectations will be for his new team once he links up with the longtime Packers star.

“I think with Aaron Rodgers as quarterback, the chances of winning are always a thing,” Lazard said during a Zoom call with reporters on Friday. “With that being said, it really is the Super Bowl. Especially in his career and everything, his ability, four-time MVP winner, won back-to-back MVPs two, three years ago.

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“His ability to play automatically instantly elevates the ability and potential of everyone on the field.”

Lazard signed his own four-year, $44 million contract on Friday, officially joining the Jets.

Now he is waiting for Rodgers to come along.

Rodgers said this week he wants to play for the Jets.

Allen Lazard knows what Aaron Rodgers can bring to a team — and how it changes expectations.

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They are now trying to make a trade with the Packers to make this happen.

As for Lazard, who played with Rodgers the past four seasons, he said the decision to come to the Jets was not based on joining the quarterback, but on doing the best he could for his career.

That doesn’t mean he won’t be happy to see Rodgers again.

Allen Lazard and Aaron Rodgers connected for six touchdowns last season.

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Lazard said, “It’s nice to know that 12 is going to be my quarterback again.” “Me and my decision to come here was purely based on that and making sure I’m doing the best I can for my career.

“Obviously, having him here definitely helps the whole organization take that next step that they need to make a deep run into the playoffs and win the Lombardi Trophy.”

Lazard said that he and Rodgers recently saw each other at a place in Los Angeles where they both work out.

He said they talked, but it was not as if they were planning to join in New York.

Lazard had 788 receiving yards and six touchdowns last year.

He added that Green Bay did not actually try to re-sign him, something he expected, as he did not extend his contract last season.

“It didn’t look like they were going to miss me much or anything,” Lazard said.

Regarding the Jets, he said the biggest reason he came (besides the $44 million) is that he wanted to be near a big city after growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, and then playing in Green Bay.

He also said that the coaching staff is a big reason for him being here. He praised head coach Robert Saleh and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.

He knows Hackett, a former offensive coordinator with both Jacksonville and Green Bay, since he signed as an undrafted free agent for the Jaguars’ practice squad in 2018 and then through his 2019-21 season with the Packers. Played for

“He’s the best teacher I’ve ever had in my life,” Lazard said. “He carries over from school to football. He just makes learning fun. … He lets you go out there and just play at a fast pace and not think. That’s what’s helped me a lot over the years.” Got it.”

Lazard said it hasn’t hit him yet that he signed a big-money, free-agent deal just five years after being drafted out of Iowa State.

He joked, “I still feel incomplete because the checks haven’t hit yet.”

Packers wide receiver Allen Lazard (13) catches a touchdown pass. — Lazard went from undrafted free agent to serious jet payday.

Lazard wore number 13 in Green Bay, but retired it for Don Maynard with the Jets.

Lazard said he is not sure what number he will wear yet, but is leaning toward the number 5 he wore in high school and college.

Jets fans won’t care what number he wears as long as he catches a touchdown pass from Rodgers and lifts a team that hasn’t reached the playoffs in 12 seasons.

Lazard said he prefers to be a team leader.

“I know how to win,” said Lazard. “I know what it’s like to work late game situations in tough situations. We’re going to have the same standards, the same expectations here.”

The Jets agreed to a deal on Friday with veteran P Thomas Morsted.

Morsted pitched in seven games for the Jets in 2021 when Braden Mann was injured.

He performed well, but was released by the Jets after Mann returned from injury. Now both will compete for the job.

The Jets also agreed to a deal with center Trystan Colon, who has started four games for the Ravens over the past three years and appeared in 20.

Coln is likely to be a depth signing for the Jets, who are still looking for a starting center.