Achilles Rodgers

I actually had Aaron Rodgers as my starting quarterback on my fantasy team Monday night. Suffice it to say, he got me zero points but that’s what happens when you go down with a torn Achilles on the fourth play of the game.

Rodgers is a great quarterback having won MVP awards. But maybe it’s not COVID that’s contagious in Green Bay as much as being a selfish entitled baby is. But then again, Rodgers caught COVID too after lying that he was vaccinated.

During the pandemic, Aaron chose conspiracy theories over science and his team. He chose to follow advice from right-wing podcaster Joe Rogan over the advice of doctors and scientists. He put himself above the safety of his team and everyone in the Packers organization.

This temper tantrum exposed him for who he is years after being considered one of the good guys in the NFL.

He had a bad relationship with head coach Mike McCarthy, so the team chose Rodgers over the coach. Then, he had a rocky relationship with his next coach, Matt LeFleur, even once cursing at him on the sidelines.

Rodgers signed a new contract with Green Bay in 2022 and then spent the year making hints that he wanted to be traded. Speculation ran throughout the season that Rodgers would be traded, specifically, to the New York Jets. At the end of the season, he got his wish and was traded to the Jets.

And after a year of anticipation and hype and being hailed as the Jets’ savior just two seasons after drafting a quarterback in the first round (one year after drawing another quarterback in the first round) Rodgers goes down on the fourth play of his first game as a New York Jet. He only attempted one pass which wasn’t completed.

Aaron Rodgers walked into the Jets facility and said the team’s one Lombardy trophy, from 1969, looked lonely. You don’t say shit like that when you’re on a cursed team. Now, can Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine fix a torn Achilles?

Maybe the combination of the supposed Jets curse got together with Rodger’s karma and ended his season and stuck the team back with last year’s starter, Zach Wilson, who doesn’t scare any defense.

Aaron Rodgers’ year is done. He’s 39, so he doesn’t have a lot of football left in him. Do the Jets look forward to next year or do they now look at other teams for another experienced quarterback? Word on the street is that Colin Kaepernick’s agent has contacted the Jets. Ya know what? Hiring Kap might be the thing that breaks the curse.

I don’t know if the New York Jets are cursed or if the main problem is the fact that they’re the New York Jets.

Creative note: Proofer Laura commended me on capturing Aaron’s mustache in this cartoon, saying it was “sleazy.” When Rodgers’ refusal to get vaccinated was a big story, I saw a couple of cartoons where the cartoonists traced the same image of Rodgers. But it was an old photo of when Rodgers had short hair and at the time, he had long hair. Now, he’s back to having short hair again. I Googled this before drawing today’s cartoon. I feel I have to be on my toes after giving Jimmy Buffett a full beard last week.

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