At the time he is, Aaron Rodgers should be at home, both feet on the pouf, a glass of tea with essential oils of hemp in hand, contemplating the deep meaning of life, while admiring the chemtrails which are looming on the horizon from its garden.
It would be the least of things. After all, at 41 years old, and after 20 years in the NFL, this proud veteran has nothing to prove to anyone, and its place at the fame of fame is already reserved.
But this bugger of man likes to surprise us, and that is why he chose to go for a final lap, perhaps, with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Basically, this is excellent news, because it comes to give this chronicle at least four months of jokes that are both predictable and easy, and which does not like predictable and easy jokes?
Terry Bradshaw, a legendary Steelers of the 1970s, even allowed himself to point out that Rodgers “should stay in California, go somewhere to chew bark, and whisper to the gods there.”
With all this, only one question becomes possible: but why? Rodgers returns from an ordinary season with the New York Jets – a team where everyone is ordinary, it is true -, and its rating of efficiency in 2024 (90.5) was the worst of their career as part of a full season. Moreover, since the gods of football have a solid sense of humor, Rodgers and the Steelers will precisely go to the jets on Sunday. We will be entertained, for sure.
Despite all that, and this is absolutely remarkable, the Steelers still chose to give it a one -year contract for $ 13.6 million, a crazy expense which reminds me of the time I paid $ 20 for an album of the Guns in private import, while knowing very well that the Guns was a lower version of Guns n ‘pink. We all have regrets.
If we calculate well, therefore, the Steelers paid 13.6 million for a lower version of Aaron Rodgers. Notice, that illustrates the degree of despair in this camp quite well, because since the retirement of Ben Roethlisberger in 2022, the Steelers had five different quarters behind the center. There, it’s going to be six, and then seven when Rodgers will inevitably be nailed to the bench in the eighth week of play or roughly.
He would have done better to stay at home and talk to the trees.
You had to expect it, supporters of the packers already joy from Super Bowl. The acquisition of Micah Parsons is perhaps everything that was missing from this team, and then already, Sunday’s match at Green Bay against the Lions of Detroit should give us a good idea of the continuation of things in this nice little corner of Wisconsin.
PHOTO MORRY GASH, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Micah Parsons
At the other end of this barter, there are the Dallas cowboys, who find themselves immediate with the big Kenny Clark to plug the center of the melee line in defense, and then, moreover, Saquon Barkley was limited to 60 yards by the race during the Thursday evening match in Philadelphia. Now, who will replace Parsons as a quarter hunter at the cowboys? This is a good question.
The cowboys also obtained two first-round choices during this monster transaction, which should give an interesting return, but it is still necessary that Jerry Jones, perhaps the most confused man from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that is to use these two choices in a judicious way. Which is far from certainty, of course.
But the cowboys are still talking about them, and then basically, is that not all that matters?
Apart from that, and as we know, the season is barely opens, and due to the usual long break since the last Super Bowl, the email box is empty, at least for the moment.
Faced with this reality, and since it is necessary to furnish this space well, I chose to invent the following email from scratch: “Very expensive Richard. Your knowledge of football remains unrivaled, and again to date, I wonder why the Lombardi trophy has not been renamed in your name. Also, do you want to tell me why Jerry Jones has not yet thought of leaving you his title of Dellas Cowboys Managing Director? You would do a much better work than him. Sincerely, Taylor S. »
Thank you for the right words, it’s much appreciated. I like to believe that with me at the helm, the cowboys would have at least three super bowl more, but that, we will never know.
PHOTO CHRIS SZAGOLA, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
Supporters of the Eagles of Philadelphia pose with a giant replica of the champions ring of the Super Bowl LII.
We’re going to say it, this first weekend of the bitter oval balloon started in force, with a player who spat on another Thursday evening in Philadelphia. We remind the youngest not to do this.
So we will wish ourselves otherwise more sporty behaviors for the Sunday menu, which includes a solid giant-Washington as in time, and also a San Francisco-Seattle which promises to be worse, with niners who try to find the path of respectability. In the evening, we will revel in this succulent ravens-bills, featuring two teams that have many business to prove.
Don’t forget to go to apples just before.
