Green Bay Packers fans will hate Dan Orlovsky’s take on Aaron Rodgers
By Josh Hill
Dan Orlovsky sees this season as potentially the beginning of the end for Aaron Rodgers if he doesn’t change a few things.
Aaron Rodgers is not the type of player you want to give free motivation to.
His killer instinct is reminiscent of what we saw from Michael Jordan in The Last Dance this spring, and despite the fact that he’s almost 40-years old, Rodgers fuels himself with the fire from hot takes about how he’s not the guy he used to be.
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky didn’t specifically say that Rodgers was at the end of his road, but he laid out what he needs to do in order to be great again — which to Orlovsky is something Rodgers was never good at, to begin with.
“One of the things I’m most looking forward to this season is Aaron Rodgers
and his feet/mechanics,” Orlovsky tweeted. “He’s never had great mechanics but he needs them now. He was the best QB in the game (like Mahomes) with poor mechanics and NEEDS good ones now.
When they are, he’s deadly.”
That’s not totally an insult — and he’s not wrong — but it’s constructive criticism laced with a fire take about Rodgers being flawed.
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in football film study to know that when Aaron Rodgers is firing on all cylinders he’s perhaps the best quarterback on any field — even one that has Patrick Mahomes on it. We’ve been spoiled with Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and the turnover of the last generation of quarterbacks that we’ve quickly forgotten how great Rodgers is at his peak.
Everyone ages out of their prime, and Rodgers has fewer good years left him than he does behind him, but he was doing Mahomesian things while the Chiefs star was still doing algebra homework. Football is a fast sport, but nothing in it moves faster than our attention from one great thing to the next, but if there’s a player in the game fueled by wanting to prove the haters wrong more than Rodgers, we haven’t met them yet.
The Packers are already planning their life after Rodgers is gone, which is perhaps the greatest insult someone like him can be dealt. Add to that pile of fuel takes like the one Orlovsky had — whether it’s right or not — and Rodgers has all he needs to motivate himself to prove everyone wrong.