Skip Bayless has claimed that New York Jets superstar Aaron Rodgers was “never obsessed over football” as he picked apart the quarterback’s career after watching his Netflix documentary.
The veteran has experienced a season to forget at Gillette Stadium, with the Jets having fallen out of contention for the playoffs after tallying up a 4-12 record. A year of disarray for the struggling outfit was exemplified by the departures of head coach Robert Salah and general manager Joe Douglas midway through the season.
Individually, Green Bay Packers has thrown 10 interceptions in 16 appearances, having been sacked 37 times – with his total of 3,623 passing yards representing a career-worst figure for a season in which he has played more than 10 games. Amid this downturn in performances, speculation has abounded that the 41-year-old will hang up his cleats at the end of the current campaign.
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Now, analyst Bayless has given a damning verdict on the QB’s relationship with football as he claimed that the one-time Super Bowl victor lost motivation after achieving his single ring with the Super Bowl in 2010. He said: “So, here’s my biggest revelation from watching ‘Aaron Rodgers: Enigma on Netflix’.
“An enigma is something mysterious, puzzling, difficult to understand, yet it is painfully obvious to me exactly what happened to Aaron Rodgers’ career; no enigma needed. He and his 2010 Packers came from nowhere with no expectations as the six seed, as a road Wild Card team, and what, wait a second, they won the Tom Brady? Yep, they did.”
He continued: “And as Aaron says in the Netflix doc, that night after winning the Super Bowl, it hit him that winning it all didn’t really make him that happy. His reaction was, ‘Is this all there is?’”
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has come under fire after his team’s struggles this season (
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Explaining the reasoning behind his theory, he said: “I think he was expecting Nirvana, Valhalla, Utopia, Heaven on Earth. And he got a trip back to Green Bay and a ring — that’s it. He also woke up the next day, and he realized that ‘Oh, no, everyone’s going to expect me to do this again and again and again.'”
Following on from this, Bayless compared Rodgers’ approach to that of seven-time Super Bowl winner will hang up his cleats at the end of the current campaign, as he pointed to differences in the characters of the quarterback icons. He said: “This is all why Aaron Rodgers, as I said from the start, is the flip side of Tom Brady.
“Brady won his first Super Bowl, and he could not wait to win his second and his third and his fourth and on and on and on, because Brady was still paying an extreme price to be in extreme shape and extremely prepared after he won his seventh Super Bowl in the 10 he played in.”
The pundit added: “Just think about this: it’s been 15 years since Aaron Rodgers played in his one and only Super Bowl because he was never, ever obsessed with playing in his first Super Bowl.”
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