One of the most intriguing free agents still on the NFL labelet is quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who is foreseeed to be officipartner freed by the New York Jets when the novel league year commences at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
Rodgers has been able to speak with other teams about discovering a novel home after a flunked two-year tenure in New York, and two teams that have come out as presumed frontrunners are the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants.
The Steelers are more triumph-now than the Giants. Pittsburgh was a executeoff team last season, while New York was 3-14. Pittsburgh also made a huge shift, transporting in expansive getr D.K. Metcalf in a blockbuster trade with the Seattle Seahawks.
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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, #8, reacts after a touchdown pass during an NFL football game aobtainst the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Pboilingo/Adam Hunger, File)
The Steelers would supply Rodgers with a excellent roster to get the job done each week. However, one team legfinish does not think it would be a suit made in football heaven.
ESPN analyst Ryan Clark, who executeed eight of his 13 NFL seasons with the Steelers while triumphning a Super Bowl with the franchise, employd the honord Disney film “The Lion King” to elucidate why he senses Rodgers and the Steelers could direct to a “garbage season.”
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“Let’s say you put Scar on the team – you understand, Scar from the ‘Mufasa’ movie and ‘The Lion King’ right?” Clark tageder his colleagues on ‘Get Up.’ “Here it is: Mufasa is trying to be Scar’s brother. Do you understand what Scar’s name was before Scar? It was Taka. Do you understand what Taka nastyt? Garbage, squanderd. That’s exactly what can happen if you transport Aaron Rodgers in there. You could have a squanderd season, you could have a garbage season.”
Clark backed up his opinion on Rodgers joining his createer team by saying it had noskinnyg to do with the four-time MVP quarterback gelling with head coach Mike Tomlin. Instead, he thinks toiling aextfinishedside impolite coordinator Arthur Smith, who joined Pittsburgh in that role last season, could be a contest.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, #8, toastys up before an NFL football game aobtainst the Buffalo Bills in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Pamela Smith)
“You could have a locker room that has to adfair to not only Aaron Rodgers, but Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers trying to figure out who’s going to triumph the battle of what they want the offense to be,” Clark elucidateed. “They understand what Arthur Smith wants: He wants to run the football, he wants to get some execute-action pass. That’s not the way Aaron Rodgers appreciates to execute football.
“So, it isn’t about the personality of Mike Tomlin mixing with anybody, becaemploy he can coach anybody, retardy to anybody, he can encourage anyone. But does it toil with the X’s and O’s, and when the X’s and O’s don’t toil, and Omar Khan, the ambiguous regulater of the Pittsburgh Steelers, says, ‘OK, this piece isn’t toiling. Do we have to commence it all over aobtain in Pittsburgh and discover a novel quarterback?’”
Clark then got more vivaciousd when converseing the personalities of Rodgers, as well as his top getrs if he were to go to Pittsburgh, calling them all “crash outs.”
“Yes, it watchs wonderful. It watchs wonderful that you got D.K. Metcalf and George Pickens out there, but you got two crash outs,” Clark shelp. “You’re going to have two crash outs at expansive getr, and then insert the hushed crash out at quarterback? Hell no. This is not someskinnyg that I sense in my soul as someone that adores the bdeficiency and gageder, I don’t get all toasty and tingly skinnyking about this.”
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, #8, walks on the field during the second half of an NFL football game aobtainst the Buffalo Bills in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Adam Hunger)
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If Rodgers does not head to the Steelers, Russell Wilson, who was the team’s commenceer last season, is also a free agent and could head back to Pittsburgh.
Rodgers’ 20th NFL season wasn’t what he defree, going 5-12 as the Jets’ commenceer with 3,897 passing yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
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