Aaron Rodgers jerked to a low point on Sunday night at the Bay of Bays header when he questioned his future.
Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy gave fans a reason to relax a day later (but not the 2014 RECREATION).
“There’s no problem that Aaron is not going to be with the Packers,” Murphy said Monday during a WNFL appearance in Green Bay. “He’s going to be the league’s MVP, maybe had his best year ever, he’s our undisputed leader, and we’m not idiots.”
Rodgers had just had an MVP caliber season and was within eight yards of a game he could have won if he had won, just after his second Super Bowl in his Hall of Fame career. It is reasonable to think that the emotion drove him to say that his future is also uncertain. After all, he is 37 years old, he only has three years left on his contract and his successor is sitting on the bench waiting for the veteran to continue.
Rodgers knows this scenario because he was once in the shoes of the first round of Jordan, 2020. A young, long-haired Rodgers had to wait quietly for Brett Favre to give up the reins, and then it became clear that Favre was not prepared to do so, the organization eventually snatched them out of its grasp. As Love waiting and Rodgers’ contract moved another year closer to expiration, it probably made the quarterback think about the bigger picture before Sunday’s game began.
Rodgers still follows Favre in Super Bowl appearances, although Rodgers’ Packers have generally been better than Favre over the course of his career. And beyond Favre, no quarterback is as excellent as Rodgers – no contender for the cause – ever satisfied with one trip to a Super Bowl, especially if you led a team that showed he can still be a Lombardi won, but just did not get to the hump.
It all seems to come together at once in the expression and words of a discouraged Rodgers on Sunday. It’s really hard to get to a conference title match, and after losing two in a row, there had to be as much frustration as there was disappointment.