Aaron Rodgers got feisty Tuesday during his appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, claiming league insiders Ian Rapoport and Adam Schefter “don’t know s---” about his current circumstances.
“I have no problem with Ian or Schefter. They’re really good at their jobs. When it comes to me, they don’t know s---. They really don’t,” said Rodgers, who hopes an upcoming “isolation retreat” will give him the clarity he needs to make his next move. “They don’t have people in my inner circle that are sources. I can promise you that, and anybody who talked to them is not in my inner circle. It’s that simple.”
For all his athletic talent, Rodgers has often come across as high maintenance, with his defiance toward media members not named Pat McAfee only furthering that reputation. While some would describe him as “misunderstood,” others aren’t buying it, dismissing Rodgers’ eccentricities as pretentious and off-putting, a lost soul battling an identity crisis in real time.
Whether Rodgers is going through a phase or if he’s fully committed to his new lifestyle remains to be seen, though whatever the case may be, teams don’t seem especially interested in finding out with Peter King suggesting the veteran’s trade market isn’t as robust as you might think.
“This is not in any way scientific, because there aren’t a ton of NFL GMs and personnel people who hang around the Super Bowl,” King wrote in his weekly column for NBC Sports. “There was eyebrow-raising among a few league or team people I brought this up with, the reaction being: I can see why the Packers would consider trading him. Seems like a good person, but he might be more trouble than he’s worth.”
Even if Rodgers, coming off arguably the worst season of his Hall-of-Fame career, overestimates his own worth, it only takes one team to make a deal, and the Jets, owners of the league’s longest active playoff drought, might just be desperate enough to pull the trigger. Whatever enlightenment Rodgers does or doesn’t receive in his sensory-deprived state of darkness, there are plenty of quarterback dominoes still to fall with Derek Carr (who recently met with New Orleans), Lamar Jackson and Jimmy Garoppolo all potentially looking for new homes this offseason.
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