I’m a big fan of Mark Schrereth, and quote him all the time.
He consistently provides terrific football insight and isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
But his stuff about Aaron Rodgers being at the “kid’s table” isn’t something I’m on board with.
“Aaron Rogers (was) a four-time MVP – one Super Bowl. One. The dynasty that never was,” Schlereth said on the ‘The Stinkin Truth Podcast.’ “We called the Green Bay Packers the dynasty that never was. If you invite the greatest quarterbacks of all time to dinner and it’s like Thanksgiving, and there’s one main table and then the kids’ table on the side – Aaron Rodgers is sitting at the kids’ table because he’s got one championship.
“You don’t get to sit with Joe Montana and Tom Brady and multiple Super Bowl winners at the ‘Big Boy Table.’ I’m sorry.”
Maybe Rodgers should have more than one Super Bowl Championship with his talent, but some factors that kept him from winning more than one ring perhaps weren’t his fault.
When Ted Thompson was the Packers GM from 2005-17, he wasn’t a big believer in free agency. He liked to build through the draft. That is fine, but when you have a superstar QB like Rodgers, sometimes you look to add some big-ticket items in free agency to take advantage of the window you have with the elite signal-caller.
And there were certainly some coaching issues over the years, like Green Bay’s awful special teams during Rodgers’ last two MVP seasons in 2020 and ’21. The special teams were so bad those two seasons, that the Packers fired the coordinator after each campaign.
Remember in the 2021 playoffs, the Packers had a 10-3 fourth-quarter lead over San Francisco, but gave the 49ers a gift TD with bad special teams play, and ended up losing the game.
And some of these Packer teams over the years weren’t great squads, but Rodgers put them on his back and got them in the playoffs anyway.
He belongs at the main table.
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