Aaron Rodgers: ‘God doesn’t care about football’
By Evan Massey
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn’t believe that God cares about the outcome of football games.
Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers lost to the Seattle Seahawks in one of the worst postseason collapses that the NFL has seen in quite some time last Sunday in the NFC Championship Game. They dominated the game all the way up until late in the fourth quarter, and lost in a hurry in the overtime period.
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It was an incredibly depressing loss for the Packers, and it will leave them with a sour taste in their mouths throughout the entire offseason.
There were quite a few reasons for the Packers’ loss, but the main one was the conservative play-calling throughout the second half. Green Bay had the Seahawks on their heels, but never even tried to deliver the final blow. Rodgers wasn’t happy with how soft his team went, but he also doesn’t believe that God cares about the outcome of football games.
“I don’t think God cares a whole lot about the outcome,” Rodgers said. “He cares about the people involved, but I don’t think he’s a big football fan.”
Whether or not God does care about football, the Packers certainly didn’t have the “football gods” on their side against Seattle. Rodgers is coming off of one of the best seasons of his career, and to see the year end like it did is an extremely depressing finish to what is expected to be an MVP season.
Rodgers led the Packers to a 12-4 record in the regular season and a big 26-21 win over the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional round of the playoffs. He threw for 4,381 yards, 38 touchdowns and just five interceptions.
Those numbers show just how good Rodgers is, and it also shows that Mike McCarthy should have remained aggressive with his play-calling. While running the clock is something that a lot of teams do in the fourth quarter, the Packers seemed to begin trying to run the clock in the third. Rodgers should have had the football in his hands with the chance to make plays and win the football game.
All of that being said, the loss has already been recorded and the Packers can only wonder what could have been. McCarthy has received a lot of heat, but so have Brandon Bostick and the defense late in the game. There are no excuses for the Packers, but they certainly shouldn’t have been in that position to begin with.
H/T The Big Lead
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