Aaron Rodgers continues to avoid questions about Packers future
While playing in The Match against Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers continued to gloss over questions regarding his future with Green Bay Packers.
Aaron Rodgers got the best of Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson in The Match 4 but has yet to decide what his future in football looks like. En route to a victory, Rodgers was asked several times about his future with the Green Bay Packers, and he merely brushed them off with simple, nonchalant responses.
Though he played a small joke with his friend Charles Barkley about revealing his future, it’s clear that where Rodgers ends up for this season and beyond remains a mystery. In fact, it’s a bigger mystery that not even the great detectives of Mystery Inc. could solve, as there is no need for an unmasking but rather an unveiling of what Rodgers is thinking.
Despite that, it begs the question of why Green Bay even got into this situation in the first place with their quarterback, who has essentially carried them upon his shoulders since the moment he took over. Additionally, he brought a Super Bowl championship to Green Bay. Had Rodgers not won the Super Bowl in 2010, Green Bay would have a title drought that would extend back to the 1996-97 season.
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The Green Bay Packers need to make a decision quickly and take Aaron Rodgers’ thoughts into account.
Aaron Rodgers has publicly come out and said that his play last season, which culminated in an MVP year, threw a wrench into some timelines. Those timelines are likely the ones of GM Brian Gutenkunst and team president Mark Murphy, who made the stunning move to draft Rodgers’ replacement in Jordan Love, even going as far as not to inform Rodgers of the decision.
Furthermore, Murphy once came out and told Rodgers not to be the problem. Those words alone give football fans cause to pause because it raises questions about how the Packers have handled this situation overall.
From the outside perspective, there is the possibility that this is headed for a messy divorce, but it could have been avoided. However, in several instances, Rodgers had every right to be upset with management. Getting rid of his quarterback coach, cutting receivers whom he liked, not getting the requisite weapons around him, the list is quite long.
Aaron Rodgers is skilled at golf, can host Jeopardy!, and play superbly for the Green Bay Packers. However, with all that has gone on this offseason, that last trait is in danger of not happening. But where would he go if he didn’t play in Green Bay? The mystery continues.