Another elimination at home and with Aaron Rodgers out. Packers fans are starting to run out of patience, and rightly so. To complicate matters, in the press conference after the game, Aaron neither confirms nor denies any rumors about retirement, which makes us already have the first chapter of the most worn-out soap opera in the history of the world: the off-season of the number 12.
Future Hall of Famer and multiple-time MVP, but someone who is notoriously having meltdowns in important games down the line. Rodgers yesterday, according to information from ESPN Stats and Info, had the worst 4th period of his career in passing yards. Only 12, ironically, his jersey number.
He was a problem instead of a solution.
Although it is notorious that in recent weeks we have seen an Aaron Rodgers with more “life” and less apathetic moments as we often criticize, the fact is that the final stretch of the Green Bay season came to life more for other factors than for him.
Yesterday, when he needed to be a solution – which is what is expected of a future Hall of Famer and someone who earns 50 million dollars a year – he ended up being a problem. The defense, which was second in the NFL in forced turnovers since Week 13, failed to steal the ball from Detroit. Rodgers continued to produce little. Sunday Night Football’s life-and-death match against a Detroit Lions who walked out of the stadium was the fifth game in a row[foot[via ESPN Stats and Info[/foot] Packers’ quarterback with one or fewer touchdowns this season. It’s the worst mark of his career.[foot[via ESPN Stats and Info[/foot]
Rodgers, still, accumulated other problems even with the team reborn in the end and leaving a 2% chance of playoff to win & enter the Wild Card: there were 12 interceptions this year. 4 of them against Detroit. It is the worst mark since his first year as a starter, 2008.[foot[via ESPN Stats and Info[/foot].
The final interception was one of the most gruesome things about Sunday. With a 3rd to 10 on the campaign that could give the team victory, Rodgers had a clear blitz front in front of him. He was pressured and practically punted with his arm. It’s hard to defend.
2022 was Rodgers’ worst year in a long time and God knows if it will be his last year. We won’t be following the dreadful and tired soap opera of retire/trade/go to another team or how many trips to Hawaii he intends to take in the next few months. We just hope he has the dignity and respect to make a decision soon, because the Green Bay Packers are much bigger than the ego of a player who has disappeared in several key moments in recent years.
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