their skin, whether or not they sure do. They shouldn't he
during that same round, table that no one watched after the
golf match that I definitely didn't watch. He
said to Ernie Johnson on the issue of retirement,
I think about it
all the time. When you commit, your 100%, put the older, you
get the interest change in the grind. I think. Wears on you
a little more.
The football part is the easy part. That's the joy. It's
The other stuff that wears on you and makes you think about
life after football. Tommy, Brady, obviously, set the bar
high with playing so many years, but I can definitely see
the end coming. Start to sound like Favre and it Favre.
Didn't like anything but playing
and that the grind in the offseason program. Which Rogers
is skipping. Even though as we talked about last Friday,
I think he should be there to help Christian Watson. Along.
He's the point where he didn't like any of that stuff. And
Peyton Manning always said, I love all of it.
I love all of it. I'm going to keep doing it. As long as
I love all of it and he did love all of it. I think, Brady, we
heard a little bit from Brady and what we just talked about.
Maybe he doesn't love all of it as much as he used to.
But Rogers openly
admitting
There's parts of it. He just doesn't like and you get to
a point where you ask yourself. Is it really worth it to keep
doing it. So trains much closer to the station. It feels like
for Aaron Rodgers than Tom. Brady.
And you know what? And this is a dynamic. We talked about way
back in February Peter,
Aaron Rodgers needs to make sure he plays at least one more
year than Tom Brady. Otherwise, he goes into the Hall of Fame
as
As the second fiddle, to Tom Brady act. He's got a play.
He's got to play one year longer than Tom Brady or he
doesn't get that Hall of Fame weekend, all to himself.
You know, what is really interesting Mike when you think
about it? So Aaron Rodgers,
I don't want to say he's the Forgotten guy,
but think about the quarterbacks. This offseason.
Brady retires. He unrwa tires.
He's huge news,
DeShaun Watson. Willie play wony play. How many women are
suing him today?
There's that there's Josh Allen,
the the It basically the
the rising star who the last two times we saw play football.
Nobody could even come close to stopping them against New
England and
Kansas City. And then, you know Patrick Mahomes who is almost
like he's the face of the NFL.
Even though they get rid of Tyree kill
and
here we are talking about Aaron Rodgers
and maybe you want to put Joe Cool. Jobber. Oh, you know as
far as an attention, 'Not ahead of Rogers. But but anyway,
Aaron Rodgers might be the quarterback whose fourth or
fifth on the attention-getting scale
entering this season,
which is so weird.
He's won back-to-back MVPs.
He will try this year
to be the first quarterback in a quarter
Century
to win. Three straight MVPs.
And and and I must say, I must say for those who would say.
Oh my God. I mean,
the voters will never vote for the same guy. Three years in
a row and they'll have Rogers fatigue. Hold on a minute.
Let me ask you this question.
What happens if the Green Bay Packers again,
win home field in the NFC
and they do it without Davante Adams without Marquez Valdez
scantling and they do it with two guys named Christian Watson
and Roman doobs.
I mean, this this offseason
has strengthened
Rogers case for a third straight MVP if the Packers win
13 games,
so
I don't know why I just got into that, but that's just been
on my mind. I've been thinking about this whole Rogers thing
and I just think that
he's in pretty good position
to actually win a third straight MVP.
Oh, well, he is because the Packers are in a division where
you've got three teams that are in rebuild mode right now
between the Vikings and the Bears and the Lions.
Now, look the Lions may be better than people think
the Vikings may actually be pretty good if they take full
advantage, their offensive Weaponry, which I think they
will be doing. There was a great item from Jerry Epstein
of USA Today. Delving into how the Vikings
offense is changing dramatically under Kevin
O'Connell, but still, they should be able to run that
division. Anything other than 60 in the division is
a disappointment.
And then out of the division, they should be able to fatten
up their record enough that they can be the one seed. So we
know what drives the MVP voting at the end of the day
quarterback from one of the number one seeds.
Unless there's some
tremendous record setting or record approaching statistical
performance. That trumps it, otherwise it is one of
the quarterbacks of one of the two number one seeds. And that's
what's Driven
Rogers. That far, I make the reason he's gotten less
attention this. Offseason. Number one. He hasn't done
the same kinds of Things to go out and naturally, get it.
The drama from last year that popped up, right before
the draft made him, the biggest story in the NFL. He hasn't
been the biggest story in the NFL. This year. There was one
day,
one day that he was the biggest story for about an hour or two
before Russell Wilson, got traded to the Broncos. That was
it? The day that he said?
I'm playing for the Packers again,
which really,
it's not a lightning bolt story a status. Story isn't going to
really move the needle. So he says he's staying with
the Packers.
We all start to react to that and the next thing you know,
it's like, sorry, Aaron Rodgers. We got bigger news
over here reminds me of the time that the media center in
the height of Tebow Mania,
people brushing by Joe Montana
to go follow. Tim Tebow, wherever he was going.
We brushed us here on Rogers, story,
to go get to Russell Wilson, and and so, he never really
Peter to your point. He never really had has Has done
anything. This offseason took command the kind of attention
that he had four months last year. He never had the floor.
He never had the floor.
Yeah.
Yep, it makes you wonder what he's going to do to try to get
it. And, hey, Peter. I look at what he said
on Wednesday night.
And you think back to last year,
he claimed and who knows? Whether it's true or not, but
he claimed he was 50/50 on whether he was going to retire,
going into the weekend before the start of training camp.
This is a guy who's completely detached from the Packers right
now.
They assume he's going to be there for mandatory minicamp.
Maybe it will. Maybe he won't, who knows? It's a hundred
thousand dollar fine. If they even have the guts to collect,
it from him.
Is he is he, if he thinks
About retirement. All the time. We take him at his word.
He thinks about it all the time.
Was he thinking about it. Now?
Is he, is he thinking about? Is he thinking about retiring?
Now,
if he thinks about it all the time, now is included in that
very broad statement.
I just
I
you want to shock, you want a lightning bolt. It's Aaron
Rodgers announcing the day before Camp opens. Oh, by
the way, I'm done. Hey Jordan, love.
Here's the Baton. Good have fun. Yeah, and I'm not saying
it's going to happen. But if you think if he thinks about it
all the time
and he's not there for OTAs.
I just you can't rule out the possibility.
If he was 50/50 last year, going into the weekend before
Camp opened. You can't rule out the possibility that he's just
going to say, wait, you know what, guys, thanks for the new
contract, but
I just, I really can't do this. I just can't do it. And I'm not
going to do it.
I'd rule it out.
I can't rule out anything with it. He's
he's maybe he's going to Amazon that.
Yeah,
who knows, maybe have as up. Maybe haven't lost enough
already. A 75 million Mike, Mike. Listen, they keep like
toggling between Mayim Bialik and,
and Ken Jennings.
So, how, how great would it be if on Labor Day weekend?
There's Aaron Rodgers with his goofy grin, and his goatee.
Saying hi. This is my new job.
The thing is
and this is the bottom line reality. I mean, we all kind of
praised him for his two weeks tent. He didn't he didn't
he didn't even scratch the surface with the Jeopardy
crowd. They never wanted. Yeah, that's right. Never wanted him
football games. Like hey, look, I thought he was. Yeah, but
and they never warmed up to him. It was Mayim, Bialik LeVar
Burton was one of the names that was very aggressively
pushed by the Jeopardy crowd, Ken Jennings. And
I think, I think it never would have worked for him in
the Jeopardy.