HarveyWallbangers
02-05-2011, 01:34 AM
The Next Great Quarterback (http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/02/04/the-next-great-quarterback/?eref=sihp)
Interesting tidbit from the article.
Before this season began, Aaron Rodgers went to Mike McCarthy and asked him to put photographs up of the Green Bay Packers championships in the team meeting room and leave an empty space up there for the 2010 team. It’s fair to say that nobody who plays for Green Bay is unaware of the team’s history. Lombardi and Starr and Nitschke are not underrepresented in Green Bay. And it’s also fair to say that everybody who played for the Packers in 2010 wanted to win a championship.
Still, Rodgers thought it might be good to have a little bit of that history in the meeting room and an empty space to get the players thinking big. How much did this have to do with the Packers being here? I would estimate 0.0%. But that’s not the point. Maybe it did help crystallize the goal in a few players’ minds. Maybe it inspired a whole bunch of guys. We can’t really know.
What we can know is that this is how Aaron Rodgers thinks … he is looking for every edge. He is thinking always, every single day, about becoming a great quarterback for a great team. And maybe that’s how he emerged from the huge casting call of talented young men who wanted to be the next great quarterback. It’s like he has never stopped auditioning.
Interesting tidbit from the article.
Before this season began, Aaron Rodgers went to Mike McCarthy and asked him to put photographs up of the Green Bay Packers championships in the team meeting room and leave an empty space up there for the 2010 team. It’s fair to say that nobody who plays for Green Bay is unaware of the team’s history. Lombardi and Starr and Nitschke are not underrepresented in Green Bay. And it’s also fair to say that everybody who played for the Packers in 2010 wanted to win a championship.
Still, Rodgers thought it might be good to have a little bit of that history in the meeting room and an empty space to get the players thinking big. How much did this have to do with the Packers being here? I would estimate 0.0%. But that’s not the point. Maybe it did help crystallize the goal in a few players’ minds. Maybe it inspired a whole bunch of guys. We can’t really know.
What we can know is that this is how Aaron Rodgers thinks … he is looking for every edge. He is thinking always, every single day, about becoming a great quarterback for a great team. And maybe that’s how he emerged from the huge casting call of talented young men who wanted to be the next great quarterback. It’s like he has never stopped auditioning.