Aaron Rodgers received a warning before training camp.

He knew that coach Robert Saleh wanted a tougher, more difficult summer that would test the Jets – and especially their core players.

This approach involves risks.

One view, said Rodgers, is that it puts pressure on players. It can be blamed for injuries.

However, it is argued that this strategy could make the Jets better prepared.

Rodgers called this the toughest training camp “in the last seven or eight (years) of my career,” and Saleh recently told him that the regulars at this point in camp had done “about 300 more reps” than they will in 2023.

“And that’s how it feels,” Rodgers said Tuesday. “But it’s good. I think it will maybe prepare us a little bit better. We’ve been lucky with injuries. We haven’t had a lot of injuries so far, so I like it. It’s great. When you talk to the older guys, there aren’t many complaints from any of them. The young guys don’t know any better.”

The results of Saleh’s strategy may not be clear until the end of Week 1, when the Jets face the 49ers on September 9.

It could take until the end of the regular season, until the end of the playoff round – if there is one – or until the time of year when the Jets look back and evaluate what went right and, perhaps more importantly, what went wrong.

Meanwhile, Rodgers and the starters were the focus of camp sessions.

They had efficient games that showed the potential of a unit with Rodgers, Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall.

They also had others who tended to repeat the disjointed stretching exercises that characterized Monday’s workout.

The key point, however, was the sheer number of repetitions.

That remained the same during the joint practice with the Panthers – Rodgers did not participate in the joint practice with the Commanders due to the weather – and will likely remain the same on Wednesday when the Giants travel to Florham Park.

So Rodgers has completed as many rollouts and pump fakes as he could have wished for.

He extended plays, gained a few extra yards, and repeated virtually everything he wanted to repeat in a preseason game, except for taking a hit.

This will remain the last hurdle every season.

But that may be even more significant this summer, as Rodgers is in the final stages of his recovery from a torn Achilles tendon, which – so far – has gone as smoothly as the Jets could have imagined.

Still, Rodgers said Tuesday that he had no preference to play against the Giants on Saturday.

This is up to Saleh, who has not yet announced a decision.

“The first time you kind of get shaken up, it feels like, ‘OK, I’m good,'” Rodgers said. “In the preseason, you don’t really get shaken up because even if we play a series or two, there aren’t going to be any plays where I’m holding onto the football for a long time or anything like that. So there’s probably a bigger risk of getting shaken up in practice.”

With the team’s regular players resting during Tuesday’s break, the offense had no chance to respond after Monday’s brutal performance. Rodgers completed just 11 of 27 passes and ended the day with an interception of safety Tony Adams.

It was rare this preseason that countless repetitions – up to 300 additional – were not reserved for the starters.

But Rodgers said the Jets needed a practice like Monday’s. Sometimes it helps to make mistakes that you can correct — “a coach’s dream,” he said — and then draw on in the future. They are “anchor points,” Rodgers said.

And a training camp that may ultimately be defined by the number of reps completed by the starters has given them plenty of opportunities to develop.

“Some (of the errors) are things I think we should know about,” Rodgers said of Monday’s meeting. “We could make a lot of excuses, like the 4 a.m. bedtime on Sunday morning and all that and pads and all these different things.”

“But at the end of the day, we’re more stressed than we old people have been in a long time. I think that’s good for us.”