Aaron Rodgers is 40 years old, has four NFL MVP awards on his mantle and a Super Bowl ring on his finger…and he also has a visit to the Pat McAfee Show coming up hours after his head coach was fired while his current team sits in turmoil at 2-3.
McAfee may or may not, but SOMEBODY is going to ask the question of how Saleh got fired but Nathaniel Hackett didn’t, which BT thinks will put Rodgers on the defensive…but maybe, in the long run, this will be a good thing?
“While he’s egotistical, Rodgers has blood on his hands now, and no great player likes being thought of as a coach-killer; they don’t like that on their resume,” BT said. “So he’s going to try to get some separation from that, and this might actually, in his own mind, facilitate some change and make him more adaptable to the offense that they actually run! Because if the offense now looks a little better, now people start looking at Rodgers and wondering why the hell (Hackett) is still here? He’s your boy, but he’s done nothing here.”
“Right, but he’s also going to say he’s won four MVPs and a Super Bowl, and I love Hackett because we’ve had success together – we know what we’re doing, everybody else is the problem,” Sal responded. “Guys need to be held accountable and buy in, and the head coach wasn’t doing it. That could be how he feels, and he should feel that way!”
BT says Rodgers’ ego has to let him feel that way, because he can’t be wrong…but if that’s the case, as Sal says, Saleh has never been about accountability, so what did anyone expect?
“That’s why he’s gone, and he should be,” BT said. “Monday night, I can guarantee you they won’t be flinging the ball 50 times. There will be, whether it’s because Rodgers feels guilty, or Hackett feels pressure, or Ulbrich has influence, a recalibration of how they play offensively – and I think that gives them a chance to start winning, because they have talent.”