Aaron Rodgers Reflects on Possibly His Final NFL Game

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00:00Aaron Rodgers, here he is, talking about the possibility of this being his last NFL game.

00:06We could only be so lucky.

00:08Have you thought at all, Aaron, about if this is your last game or could be your last game?

00:13Yeah, of course.

00:14And what are your, like, when you reflect on that at all, what goes through your mind?

00:18Just a lot of gratitude for the last 20 years and the countless lives I've encountered and

00:26the amazing teammates and coaches I now call friends, experiences I've had, memories, a

00:33lot of great memories, a lot of great people that impacted my life, ones that might not

00:37even know it, you know, by just side comments or putting an arm around me at the right time.

00:42But not just those 20 years, you know, I had great college coaches at Cal and junior college

00:47and high school coaches and, you know, this game has given me a lot, I've given a lot

00:51back to it and I'm thankful for it.

00:54I'm not thinking, you know, I won't be thinking about that come game day.

00:58I'll just be enjoying this.

00:59I'm trying to stay in the moment, but of course, it's been a long career.

01:02I'm really proud of what I've been able to be a part of, what I've been able to accomplish

01:05and also looking forward to a nice mental and physical rest.

01:12So I was watching, as you know, the Netflix three-part series on Aaron Rodgers.

01:17And in the first part, I was on, I was on the doc.

01:21And they used me to say, he will never come back from this Achilles, this next, you know,

01:27this season, it's not happening, that'll never happen.

01:30Not only that, if they would have kept rolling the tape of me talking about him in his career,

01:34I said on this show many times, he will never amount to a hill of beans ever again in the

01:40NFL after he tore his Achilles.

01:42And I've been right about both of them.

01:43They should have run the entire clip.

01:45They only ran half of it.

01:47I'm sick of hearing about this guy.

01:49But I will tell you that I had more respect for him ever after I watched the first episode,

01:54not because I was on it, but because I thought he was a really cool kid when he was playing

01:59high school football and when he played Juco and he was overlooked and nobody wanted him

02:03and he didn't matter.

02:04And then when he finally got drafted by the Packers at 24 and then he, you know, went

02:09to the team and got treated like Shaq by Brett Favre, who was a prima donna himself.

02:14Boy, that ego on that Brett Favre, honestly.

02:17He went straight from being the egomaniac narcissist that he was to being a criminal

02:23in the real world, as you know, stealing everyone's pensions and everything else.

02:28Allegedly going to slip that in there to make sure I cover my ass, you know, the trouble

02:34he's been in since he played football.

02:37But when he was playing football, he treated that kid Rogers like crap, absolute crap.

02:42And then it was funny.

02:45Aaron became him.

02:47He's treated everyone like crap since.

02:49Don't tell me he didn't create a monster in himself, the way he treated Jordan Love.

02:54I mean, he never said one word to the kid, ever.

02:58He still hasn't.

02:59He became another narcissist playing in the NFL when you're the starting quarterback in

03:04the NFL, Joe.

03:05I don't know what happens to these guys, but they lose their minds.

03:08Yeah.

03:09Well, you know, much like now, it was funny because at that moment they drafted Jordan

03:14Love.

03:15And this is exactly how Brett Favre felt when they just drafted his replacement in you,

03:20Aaron Rogers.

03:21And now you just watched Green Bay do exactly.

03:24You would think he learned from that experience and be like, yeah, listen, I know what this

03:28I want to help this kid out.

03:30I want to.

03:31Yeah, no, no.

03:32He did exactly what Brett Favre did to him.

03:34He totally gave him the cold shoulder and shut him out.

03:36And now look at him pretty much ending the career as a New York jet and everyone laughing

03:41at you.

03:42That's not exactly great footsteps.

03:45Not at all.

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