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Aaron Rodgers says on “The Pat McAfee Show” he plans to play next season and wants to play for the Jets, requiring a trade from the Packers.
It must be exhausting to be Aaron Rodgers.
A calculated business decision by the Green Bay Packers will now be used as the next slight to fuel him. It’s the story of his entire career, one that’s made him one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.
But my God, has it grown tiresome.
The quarterback insisted Wednesday there are no hard feelings with his soon-to-be-former team and said he understands why the Green Bay Packers want to move on. But his not-so-subtle digs at the organization – an organization that has increasingly indulged him in recent years, I might add – and his explanation for why he now wants to play when just a few weeks ago he was certain he didn’t, told a different story.
“There isn’t a bad guy in the situation as long as everything gets resolved the right way,” Rodgers said during his hourlong appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
“They want to move on, and now I want to play.”
The NFL is a business. An unrelenting one that leaves no room for sentimentality or indecision. At 39, Rodgers has already cheated Mother Nature by a season or two. Tom Brady aside, most quarterbacks his age are more suited for a headset and a clipboard, not another season as a starter.
Rodgers might only be a year removed from his fourth MVP award, but he also just had the worst season since his first as a starter.
