OFFICIAL AARON RODGERS THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[RashanGary]

Would you rather have a 40 year old Rodgers with a torn Achilles or Love and two seconds?

[Fritz]

The talking heads at ESPN were debating whether the Jest should try to find another QB. Zach Wilson is clearly way, way over his head.

But who the hell is out there that would be worth pursuing?

I wonder if Rodgers is secretly smirking that the Jest are lost without him, or if he's thinking "Geez, my puppet Hackett might be fired, so I hope they win a few games." Or both.

[bobblehead]

The medical field is like all fields. We have some very brilliant people and some dolts. Like too much of life the dolts end up as bureaucrats and making most of the broad policy.

[run pMc]

The medical field is trash? Dare I go down this rabbit hole? lol

LOL yeah, I'm not touching that one, other than it's a ridiculously bad take. You could convince me if you were talking about medical billing practices though.

[Freak Out]

The medical field is trash? Dare I go down this rabbit hole? lol

[RashanGary]

Rodgers saying he’s gonna prove everyone wrong about the timeline. Oof. I know the medical field is trash, but injury timelines don’t seem like an area even they can mess up too badly.

Something tells me he’s gonna be reinjured very quickly on this one.

[Fritz]

Bruin, you are w-a-a-a-y too nuanced and thoughtful for Tex. Gotta paint with a wide brush for the Texan.

[texaspackerbacker]

I don't go to concerts, Newsbruin, (except some country music decades ago). I don't even know what "freebird" is all about (or care).

Most of the crap you're talking about is totally irrelevant (or should be) to football fans. I assume Favre and Rodgers and most other overpaid athletes hire publicists to put out good shit about him for the people who actually care about that silly shit, and also to counter the media assholes doing their damnedest to dig up bad shit about them.

The ONLY thing that is (or should be) important to Packer fans is what they do in football. And in that area, Rodgers and Favre are probably #1 and #3 best QB all time. Any of the rest of that shit, I don't give a damn.

All of that is in the past, though. Rodgers' future performance if any? Frankly, I don't give a damn, He is no longer a Packer, so the hell with him, same as the hell with anybody else from other teams.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I also expect you’ll see the Jest investing heavily in the offensive line next offseason, both in terms of drafting and signing free agents.

I expect the Jets are in full damage control mode and aren't counting on Rodgers to be a good player next season. Not sure what their difficult options are, but rolling the dice on a win-now year with Rodgers sounds like a bad commitment.

[NewsBruin]

As for idolizing Favre (and Rodgers too), you and others damn well should. All that shit you mentioned is 1. totally irrelevant and unimportant compared to the greatness on the field and 2. amplified if not outright made up by the God damned shitheads of the media who live to dig up crap like that and fling it around - against everybody, but mostly against the most successful.

Tex, are you the guy who yells 'Freebird!" at every concert?

Brett (and Bus Cook) had plenty of backchannels and reporters on speed dial during his playing days. There was never a production meeting or a night-before reporters' dinner that didn't have a place setting for him. I only spent one summer full-length in Wisconsin, but I kept up online, and the stories were "Brett loves deer hunting on his off-day! Brett's back and healthier than ever! Brett's lightened his hair with lemon juice because his daughter asked! Brett's married his longtime girlfriend! Brett's become a better person after rehab! All the lockerroom loves Brett's down-to-earth nature and farting mastery!"

The guy more or less couch-surfed in Peter King's rec room during his quasi-retirements. The sports media practically had a candlelight vigil when Irv died.

Did you ever get a small-town paper try an exposé on Brett's nightlife? Did you hear anything other than maybe-genuine/maybe-coaxed comments from teammates about how much of a dude he was?

I get that to be a "source guy' reporter, you have to have sharp elbows, you have to sacrifice the best years of your life to always chase reactions, you have to seed GMs and agents with speculation and ideas, and you have to carry a whole lot of water from those agents to promote their clients' interests (maybe you're floating some negative gossip to kneecap their clients' competition). Access is the currency of the kingdom, and everyone in every compartment of the sports-industrial complex knows you're clawing and stepping over everyone else to extend what time you have in the spotlight.

But maybe, maybe, can you make an exception that Brett sought out the spotlight, that Brett (and Bus) used the media when it suited him, that his indiscretions were squashed as irrelevant gossip, that there was precious little fabricated or slanted, or even negative news about him until someone didn't like getting a promo pic of Little Brett and the Crocs?

[Fritz]

We'll see. I think he might come back but be a shadow of his former self. I don't want that, but I have my doubts he'll become a workout warrior and come back better than ever.

Rodgers always seemed to need a chip on his shoulder for the motivation to bust his balls. And he’s got that now. I feel confident he’s going to work like Rashan Gary did. I don’t agree that he won’t have the mentality to do that.

I also expect you’ll see the Jest investing heavily in the offensive line next offseason, both in terms of drafting and signing free agents.

[sharpe1027]

ARod said the doubters and all the “happy” people about his injury were just what he needs to push through and come back on the McAfee show yesterday.

We'll see. I think he might come back but be a shadow of his former self. I don't want that, but I have my doubts he'll become a workout warrior and come back better than ever.

[ThunderDan]

Fritz, I get that logic. My take? Rodgers is done. Even if he comes back, he hasn't show commitment to working hard for several years. It's not likely to flip a switch that easily for an extended period of time. Possible? Yeah. Likely? I don't think so.

ARod said the doubters and all the “happy” people about his injury were just what he needs to push through and come back on the McAfee show yesterday.

[MadScientist]

Fritz, I get that logic. My take? Rodgers is done. Even if he comes back, he hasn't show commitment to working hard for several years. It's not likely to flip a switch that easily for an extended period of time. Possible? Yeah. Likely? I don't think so.

I don't think the work will be the limiting factor. He will come back, unless there is some problem with his recovery. However, unless the Jets somehow put together a dominating Oline, Rodgers tendency to hold the ball for the perfect play will get him battered, bruised and broken. He will last more than 4 plays, but how much more is hard to guess.

[sharpe1027]

Fritz, I get that logic. My take? Rodgers is done. Even if he comes back, he hasn't show commitment to working hard for several years. It's not likely to flip a switch that easily for an extended period of time. Possible? Yeah. Likely? I don't think so.