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Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers had their season come to an end Sunday night with a loss at home to the Detroit Lions (who crushed Rodgers in an amazing video after the win) which prevented them from going to playoffs.
Once the final whistle was blown it didn’t take long for Rodgers to stoke the flames for another season filled with seemingly endless speculation about the QB’s future with the Packers. This time he did it by opting not to swap jerseys with Lions running back Jamaal Williams (who had the best SNF intro last night), saying later that it was a special jersey from a Sunday night game at Lambeau and it was something that he wanted to keep.
Sure.
That decision quickly led to everyone thinking Rodgers had just played his last game with the Packers and that his NFL career could be over. Rodgers loves when people are talking about him and now he has everyone doing just that.
But there’s another side to this which makes it seem incredibly hard to think Rodgers won’t be back with the Packers next season – they owe him almost $60 million bucks for next season and it’s all guaranteed.
Rodgers was asked after last night’s game if he could really walk away from all of that money and he said:
“Yes. Money is energy and I’ve made a ton of it and I’m very thankful for this organization, the generational wealth that they’ve offered me. Hope they feel that I’ve earned a lot of it but yeah, for sure. I can definitely walk away from that.”
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Money is energy. Ok. Sure. But 60 million energy units is a lot of energy and it’s hard for me to imagine a guy who loves attention as much as he does is really going to walk away from being quarterback of the Green Bay Packers while also passing up all of that energy.
Rodgers will be back with the Packers next season. We’ve seen this story too many times and it always ends up with him walking into the team’s facilities on the first day of training camp with a smile on his face.
There’s no reason to believe that won’t happen again this summer.
So save your own energy and just wait for it to happen.
Quick hits: Josh Allen tears up over opening kickoff TD… NFL Draft order set for non-playoff teams… Wild Card Weekend schedule… And more.
– Josh Allen got emotional while talking about the amazing start to yesterday’s Bills game, which Damar Hamlin loved.
– The regular season is over, which means we now know most of the 2023 NFL Draft order.
– Here’s the schedule for NFL Wild Card Weekend, which kicks off with the 49ers hosting the Seahawks on Saturday afternoon.
– Michael Strahan seemed to call out Skip Bayless during Fox’s NFL pregame show on Sunday.
