Aaron Rodgers has always loved talking trash. He may pass himself off as an unassuming humble guy. That isn’t true. The guy disrespects opponents all the time. It’s not just the Chicago Bears. He does it to everybody. That is why it is extra delicious watching him choke in big games. Seeing villains falls will never not be funny. The Detroit Lions were supposed to be his latest victim. His Green Bay Packers had won four in a row. They had tons of swagger, thinking they were that team nobody wants to see in the playoffs. Detroit had been eliminated from the postseason after Seattle beat Los Angeles earlier in the day. Everybody assumed it would be a Packers romp.
They were mistaken. It was a tight contest throughout. Nothing about the game said Green Bay was ever in full control. Most alarming of all was how average Rodgers looked. He barely managed 205 yards passing at home against what is said to be one of the worst pass defenses in the league. To top it off, he threw a backbreaking interception with three minutes left, enabling Detroit to run out the clock in a 20-16 victory. After it was over, the Lions decided to rub some salt in the wound.
Aaron Rodgers may have played his final snap in Green Bay.
While the Packers have expressed a desire for him to return, the current narrative is this will go one of two directions. Either they will trade him to another team or he’ll retire. His bloated contract makes both options hard to digest. The fact an interception might be the final glimpse people have of Rodgers in a Green Bay uniform is so delightful. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. After years of raking in praise as the greatest QB of all time, people have started to realize he might be one of the greatest underachievers.
One Super Bowl in 15 seasons. For a guy that is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, that isn’t good enough. It wasn’t good enough for Brett Favre, either. It’s why nobody mentions his name as one of the five best quarterbacks ever. Aaron Rodgers is in that same boat. The lasting image of his career won’t be the Super Bowl triumph in 2010. It will be his NFC championship losses and that last interception to a rookie safety at Lambeau Field.
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