GREEN BAY — Tim Boyle noticed it right way.
Long before Aaron Rodgers started faux wrestling with him at practices, and days before Rodgers delivered his new-agey, touchy-feely soliloquy about “loving ourselves” and making important life “decisions” during an offseason derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Boyle could tell his pal and mentor was … different.
In fact, the Green Bay Packers were only a few practices into their truncated training camp last month when Boyle, the team’s third-year backup quarterback, observed that Rodgers, the team’s two-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl XLV champion and MVP, was in a good emotional and mental place.