Packers wasted Aaron Rodgers’ best chance to win another Super Bowl

The Green Bay Packers once again prevented Aaron Rodgers from getting to the Super Bowl.

After reaching and winning the Super Bowl back in 2010, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have now gone 0-4 in subsequent NFC Championship games.

With Green Bay falling at home to Tom Brady‘s Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-26 on Sunday evening, Rodgers may have very well missed out on his best chance to hoist another Lombardi Trophy. Despite being the favorite to win his third NFL MVP award, Rodgers is 37-years-old and is running out of time to get back to the league’s title bout. We must point the finger at the Packers now.

Aaron Rodgers deserved better than how the Packers have wasted his career

From a talent standpoint, Rodgers is one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play in the NFL. He is a sure-fire, first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer, but his track record in NFC Championship games is deplorably bad. He falls to 1-4 with four consecutive losses to the 2014 Seattle Seahawks, the 2016 Atlanta Falcons, the 2019 San Francisco 49ers and the 2020 Buccaneers.

Though it was only a one-score defeat, head coach Matt LaFleur opted to kick a field goal with less that two minutes left on the clock, down eight points. This is the same franchise that wasted a first-round pick on Utah State project quarterback Jordan Love than getting Rodgers the help he needed to win the NFC. All the while, you can feel his eyeballs roll into the back of his head.

Ultimately, this is just sad. Rodgers should have won at least three Super Bowls by now and been to a fourth. He has been the best and most gifted quarterback in the NFC for a decade, yet here we are. To only make it to three Super Bowls in 30 years with Brett Favre and Rodgers under center is a microcosm of not getting it done in Titletown. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Green Bay had a golden opportunity to do Rodgers right this year and absolutely blew it.