Quote Originally Posted by run pMc View Post
Yeah, it feels like GB got the better of the trade. I don't miss the McAfee nonsense and all his offseason weirdness. Oh, and the on-field body language. The TV coverage would go to Rodgers every time for a reaction to a play. Was annoying after a while.

Maybe he feels like he doesn't get anything out of minicamp practices, but I'd think his teammates would. Agree the media and fans will not be nearly as kind to him this year, especially if he doesn't play well.

Meh, he's a distraction and a hypocrite, but he's also someone else's problem. Without him GB feels like it's out from under a shadow, and a fun team to root for again.
Agree here, for sure. And I do think the Packers got the better of that trade. I don't miss any of Rodgers's antics.

I also wonder - forum clown that I am - if, as incredible as Rodgers's arm was and his ability to see the whole field (even if he didn't want to throw into the middle of it), he didn't, in some ways, drag the Packers down. Once it became the "Aaron Show and Nobody Else," not entirely through Rodgers's fault, the team always seemed to be waiting for him to do something or to tell them what to do. The offense seemed, often, to get bogged down. There was no rhythm to the offense, at all. Just bogged down play after bogged down play, then Rodgers throwing a strike to Adams for the first down, then rinse and repeat until the whole thing got bogged down near the red zone. Not all his doing, as I said - but some of it was, with the eye-rolling and the Mason-level mystery signals at the line of scrimmage.

Now the whole team seems to be taking responsibility. Like, it's a team again, and not Aaron-Rodgers-and-everybody-else.

I don't know how long that will last, but I am enjoying rooting for this version of the Packers more than the last four or so years of Rodgers here, MVP's and all.