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Aaron Rodgers – Age and Off-field Nonsense

Aaron Rodgers is another problematic dude, but for vastly different reasons. Let’s be clear about something, his vaccination status isn’t an issue. Him purposefully lying about it is. Cole Beasley isn’t vaccinated. Neither is Kirk Cousins. Neither man lied about it, people didn’t go in on Cousins. (They did Beasley but that’s because he’s an antagonist.) Rodgers purposefully mislead people. He can hide behind the “I didn’t say vaccinated, I said immunized” argument all he wants, but he was deceptive. He was purposefully vague. Tell us it’s none of our business. Tell us you don’t want to discuss it. That’s all fine.

That’s not what he did, however. That shows a lack of maturity, a lack of reliability, and a lack of integrity. No thank you.

Then there’s the constant drama that follows this man. His ex-teammates can’t stand him, Greg Jennings has made a point to address this quite often. There were the issues he had with the Packers for years like when they moved on from Jordy Nelson, which upset Rodgers. In hindsight it was the right call, Nelson was washed but that didn’t stop him from being mad about it. Then there was the whole Jordan Love debacle where Rodgers accused the Packers of never getting him weapons when that wasn’t true.

Then he held out in the 2021 preseason for no real reason. There’s the feud with his brother, a feud with ex-teammate Jermichael Finley and of course getting his former head coach fired (allegedly).

People slammed Baker Mayfield for saying the play calling had to be better, but Rodgers flat out accused McCarthy of “stupid f–k–g play-calling”. If it’s not ok for Mayfield, it’s not ok for anyone. So don’t tell me you want Rodgers when he does the same things Mayfield does.

There’s always something about him that just causes people to dislike him.

Then there’s his age and contract. He’s 38. He’s set to make $46 million next season and $33 million after that, assuming he doesn’t opt out of his contract. The Browns can’t afford to pay a quarterback, who isn’t known for winning in the playoffs mind you, that much money at his age. Five or six years ago, sure.

Rodgers is also not going to be on a team with Davante Adams after this year (more than likely) and that will surely affect his performances. Do you think he can be the same gunslinger throwing it to Donovan Peoples-Jones? I don’t.