Aaron Rodgers no doubt thinks he won.
He was traded to his team of choice, the New York Jets, on Monday, allowing him to continue playing and prove Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and all his other doubters wrong. Because the Jets have been so sorry the last decade – let’s be honest, much of the four decades prior to it, too – any success will be cause for celebration.
Even Rodgers’ eccentricities will be embraced, his conspiracy theories and willful ignorance excused as quirkiness.
Initially.
But the first game Rodgers throws multiple interceptions, blames his receivers or offensive line for a mistake that was clearly his, or makes a snide comment he thinks is too clever for the masses to get, he’ll learn very quickly that he’s lost his Packers security blanket.