In the NFL, once a quarterback hits his late 30s, it becomes harder to do the same things a younger version of himself would have done. In your 40s, you might as well retire already. That was until Tom Brady broke that trend a couple of seasons ago when he won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the age of 43. According to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, that may have changed the way we view older quarterbacks. He points to Aaron Rodgers specifically.
“Well, Aaron Rodgers’ proximity to Tom Brady’s career actually, I think, is hurting the expectations we place on him,” Darlington said Tuesday on Get Up.