We all wish there'd have been more rings.

But Rodgers arc in Packers history is a 'don't be sad it's over, be glad it happened' deal.

Go peruse YouTube and some of the compilation videos of the otherworldly plays this guy made on the regular and that sense of appreciation for having been able to witness them only gets amplified.

Now would I be disappointed if the Packers once again knocked off Rodgers and the Steelers for a Lombardi to close things out?

Not even a little bit.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are becoming the Pittsburgh Packers.

How much money he made in the NFL.
The cap has changed football.
Rodgers realized it was more than the ring.
More than Loyalty.
And life in the NFL goes beyond the deals.
He was a football player.
And he proved it.

A complicated legacy indeed. An other-worldly thrower of the football and a true student of the game. Yet only one championship performance when it mattered most and an ego that got in the way in the later stages of his career. I'm glad he was a Packer and I was glad to see him go.

Rodgers was great. He was not perfvect. But how many more SBs would the Packers have won if we had a defense that did not give the games away. I will say one may be two.

I do not care for Rodgers as a person. I do not like how he ended his career as a Packer. Yes it was not all his fault but he did not help the situation.

I won't believe that this is his last season till it actually is complete. Remember how he likes to work people and the system.

I've always tried to stand behind him because he's a Packer and always will be. But his antics even before Love was drafted (team related or otherwise) got kinda old and I wish I could like him better.

Guess it's all water under the bridge how he treated Magic Mike at the end of his Packer tenure.

I wish him well and will never forget the excitting things he's done for my enjoyment.

Dan Marino, Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas, and Otto Graham are just a few of the great passers that have come through the NFL and all of them except Dan Marino won championships. I always thought Rodgers was very much like Dan Marino, but Rodgers could slide within the pocket to keep plays alive and make plays with his feet. Marino had one of the best coaches in the NFL and only went to the SB once and lost.
Personally, when you compare QBs in regards to their number of championships, is a disservice to their passing skill level, Football is a team sport and winning a SB also requires luck. Look at last year, was NE better than Denver or were they better coached and won because Denver suffered a key injury late in the game?
That isn't to say that some QBs have an attitude that they will win in the clutch like Starr, Bradshaw, Montana, Brady, Mahomes and Graham. regardless of their skill level. Just a different skill set they have of clutch play when it's needed to win.
I think Rodgers was a great passer, and could win games with his arm. He won a SB and all of us should be proud of that. Should he have won more, probably...but that is a different discussion.
JMHO

Rodgers is held in very high esteem by many young, successful QB's; Mahomes, C Williams, Drake Maye and others. I chuckled and was impressed when Drake Maye waited his turn to pay homage to the 'Goat' while he was standing on Patriot territory-lol. Rodgers, not Brady is their template. They talk about his off-platform passes, mechanics, how he placed his fingers on the ball to create that spin, his cadence, his ability to draw defenders off-sides, his accuracy, ball protection, ability to inspire fear in most DC's. They understood he was the Master of the game. Rodgers studied the game and grasped every nuance.
Drake Maye said he had a phone case with Aaron Rodgers 'face on it' and carried it for 5 years. Caleb Williams talked about Rodger's influence just days ago, another brave move as a Bears QB-lol. Rodgers changed the game. Peyton Manning said he envied Rodgers ability to throw off-platform. Rodgers made it a point to continue to learn and excel-he perfected his eye-game, hitch, no-look throws and so much more. He and his stellar receivers carried the Packers for years. I still appreciate Ted Thompson's eye for talent.
If one wants a laugh-watch 'Rodger's Realm' on You-tube/Tik Tok

Supreme talent will get you really far, but you have to to trust and believe in your entire program to win it all.

I had been a huge fan of Aaron Rodgers for so many years -- and while still a fan, not as much.
Somewhat like Brett Favre, he got to be too big for his britches -- which is why the individual stats were much better than the team results.
It seems both Rodgers and Favre were emboldened to boss around their respective head coaches -- even as they became hazier about their own commitment and lazier about their own preparation.
Rodgers was worse than Favre due to his self-righteousness. He made up reasons to blame others for his own shortcomings.
As I've written in the past, Rodgers was the fault line upon which the Packers would crumble under the pressure of big games. If your QB is tussling with the head coach, then it all falls apart when the going gets tough. You can't have a championship team if the best of your players isn't truly a team player.
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In perspective, Rodgers did a lot of great things for the Packers over the years, just as did Favre. Favre is a lot easier to like. However, I'd gladly welcome both of them back to Lambeau Field in the future to celebrate their accomplishments with the Packers.
We all have to be careful about our egos. They can not only hurt ourselves, but drag down those around us. After a good amount of glory with the Packers, both Rodgers and Favre ended their time with the team with down notes off the field and cringeworthy fails on it.
When all is said and done, I'd much prefer to focus on the positive. We can be honest about the faults of others, while still having a love for them. In an understanding of our own frailty and failures, we can be sympathetic with the frailty and failures of others. We do well to cultivate a perspective that allows us to go beyond what a person didn't do, and to appreciate what he did do.
However, it doesn't seem wise to completely forget about the negative. We don't want Jordan Love, who currently seems an excellent team leader, going down the same sad path of putting himself above the team and dragging it downhill.
Meanwhile, whilst we still have breath, all of us have an opportunity to learn from past mistakes to make a better future for ourselves and others.

Winning multiple Super Bowls is hard. There have been 13 QBs to do it.

7 Wins: Tom Brady
4 Wins: Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana
3 Wins: Troy Aikman, Patrick Mahomes
2 Wins: John Elway, Bob Griese, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Jim Plunkett, Ben Roethlisberger, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach

In recent years we have Brady of course who is in a league by himself. Not because of any great physical attribute but because of how he approached the game. Undeniably a great passer but it was his attention to detail and willing to put in all the work is what put him over the top. And the fact his team knew exactly when to get rid of players and keep their cap healthy.

Montana was a great generational talent as is Patrick Mahomes. Bradshaw and Aikman are great QBs as well but their teams carried them more IMO than the other 3+ club.

Now two the 2 time winners. How many of these guys would you say where the reason they won? Starr is an all time favorite but the team was loaded, one of the best of all time. John Elway is a great great QB but when he won those 2 they had a great team surrounding him and he was more of a game manager those years. Peyton Manning was HOF talent when he won his first one but had to change teams to get his 2nd and was benched that year. We all know Big Ben and Eli where good starters but played on a couple of great defenses that got them over the line. Staubach was great as well but he had some stacked teams. Plunkett and Griese struggled when they didn't have their good teams around them as do many QBs. Good starters but these guys where along for the ride.

In recent years I would only say Mahomes and Brady can say they really help carry their team over the line, the others had help including Peyton on his 2nd run. Rodgers was a great talent but his attitude wasn't like Brady and Mahomes where they will sacrifice everything (even going to far in Brady's case at times) to win. They don't skip camp or makes waves inside the building so they can sit in a dark cave taking hallucinogens. Rodgers had some other chances to win and there where times he was the reason they didn't. Later in his career he got too careful with the football and wouldn't trust WRs even though they are there to make a play.

Rogers will go down as a great passer who was more about himself than the team.

He was one of this franchise's best first round picks,ever.
He was a very good QB for us for a long time.
He was very careful with the ball, which was very much appreciated (by me) because his predecessor was the most careless QB ever.
He was very good at getting free plays and capitalizing on them.

All that's good stuff. It's not his fault that he stayed in Green Bay a year too long. If I were to make a criticism of him, it would be that he didn't raise his game on the biggest stage. I'm happy for what he did for us.

Football is a team sport, which is only as strong as its weakest link. I believe Rodgers was able to elevate the play of his teammates. However, he did not lose that NFC championship debacle w/ Seattle. And Rodgers is simply on the "labor" side of the equation. "Management" had as much to do with the Packers lack of championships: institutional commitment to "draft and develop" w/o trading for key players, failure to provide a strong running game to augment the passing game (not trading for Beast-mode), telegraphing offensive plays to the defense (as per Stiton), poor draft selections on defensive side, fielding a "soft" team. Early in his career he was outstanding, and as time wore on, perhaps he just got tired. That can happen if you work at one place too long.

Here we go again.

Football is played by two-dozen people who compose a starting team, counting the kickers. A quarterback is critical but he isn't the only reason a team wins or loses. Except for a brief time, Rodgers was shackled with mediocre defenses. When you spend a lot of money on your top players you have to cut corners elsewhere and the Packers chose to make the cuts on defense, thinking Rodgers' offense could out score most teams.
One could never doubt his ability on the field. What I did doubt was his thinking that somehow the team would collapse without his wisdom. He can deny it all he wants but I think he was a main reason McCarthy left Green Bay. Then Rodgers' Favre-like "will I retire or not" stuff, the trips to Peru and his darkness days all led to uncertainty. But what is certain is what he contributed to the Packers gave them a shot at the title every year.

He deserves to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer without question.

All I know is that we never would have gotten as far as we did in some of those years, particularly in the first half of the 2010s, with a less competent QB. And that Super Bowl win probably never happened. He can be fairly criticized for not throwing the ball to open receivers in his last couple of playoff games as a Packer, though. Still, for much of his career, Rodgers lack of more championship appearances is largely an indictment of management's failure to field a SuperBowl-caliber defense and a competent special teams unit: i.e., getting trashed by Eli, shredded on the ground by Kaepernick, complete breakdown on defense and STs at Seattle--none of those things were Rodgers' fault. It's a damn shame we didn't get at least one more ring with AR, but complete teams are the ones that most often bring home the Trophy.

I'm taking the rest of the day to ponder brutal juxtapositions, devastating arm angles, and historical synergy. If it all becomes so celestial— a brilliant sparkler rather than a roaring fire, I'll know I have found peace.

Favre, Rodgers and Love has been quite a ride, after the QB wilderness of the 70's and 80's (Dickey and Majik the rare exceptions).

One thing Rodgers was blessed with for most of his Packer career was a solid to very good OL. He was cursed with sub par defenses, for the most part.

As a pure passer who could make all the throws, Rodgers sits atop the list. His football IQ was stellar too. He will make a great NFL game analyst.

But he should have delivered more Lombardi's.

Rodgers at his best was great, genuinely. Unfortunately he went from being extremely coachable to being the smartest man in the building in his own mind. He became fixated on individuals and plays to an extent that held him back and his team. He was a great player, superb technically but became his own biggest obstacle.

In my mind, the Packers leadership facilitated that in the late teens and, in hiring, picked a coach that ensured Rodgers had too much dominance for his own good. He may have been an MVP, but instead of being lifted when he needed it and it counted, he forged ahead his own way. It may have ensured he stayed longer, but that may not have been the best outcome if winning it all again mattered.