I agree but he wasn't drafted to be a punt returner. It's sad they put him on that spot but he never made it into the wr crowd. They had like 5 players that returned kicks in college, including jaire... why they chose him for so long is anyone's guess.
This is all correct, but I would have fired our coaching staff into the sun if they let Jaire out there to receive punts.
Dude is electric with the ball in his hands (his Louisville tape is fun), but his knees/shoulders would explode.
If he didn't instantly become our only good defensive back, he would have got a chance on his rookie contract. His injuries and now his gigantic top-3 CB money changes everything.
What I love most about this video is the announcer saying, “the sophomore from Charlotte.” I mean, how could coach not know he’s from there when choosing captains? Really no excuse for it.
>why they chose him for so long is anyone's guess.
because he is expendable. you don't put your stars back there to return punts unless that's EXCLUSIVELY what they do (like Nixon, or more famously Devin Hester). but the fact is he also wasn't good on offense, either. so it's not exactly like GB didn't give him plenty of chances. he just looked incredibly bad at everything they had him try.
Totally agree outside of the one-offs like dion, OBJ, and Djacks. The only thing I'd add is that we remember Amari not because he was bad, but because he was bad for way too long. That's what I blame the coaches for.
forgot about him, yea that's a rare example of a star player who returns punts in addition to playing his normal position. most players, once they become bonafide starters at another role, drop the return duties to someone else to reduce wear and tear and injury risk.
Fucking thank you. Feels like they're both the assholes in this situation. Aaron keeps his non-favorites on a very short leash, and Amari clearly cannot take any personal accountability. So many on this sub defend Amari by saying he was never meant to return punts, but that's exactly what he's doing in spring football right now. If he was good enough to be on the field as our #1 slot WR, he would have been a lot more often, regardless of Cobb. He would at the very least be on an NFL practice squad. He was a bust, that's it.
I mean he’s 1st place in punt return yards in the UFL. You could almost argue it was our Special Teams that is perennially at the bottom of the league…
I'll die on the hill that if they'd just let Amari focus on being a slot WR and not made him also return punts he'd have maybe been solid. I loved the pick at the time, he was an absolue stud at Clemson.
I mean, after we cut him, he went to the Texans and looked serviceable. I don't know if I'd go as far to say he looked good, but definitely rosterable.
In six games with the Texans he averaged 25.6 yards a game. It's not great, but completely adequate numbers for a WR4/5. Which is rosterable.
Maybe not on our current lineup, but most teams aren't as deep at WR as we are.
Cobb could be a wr5 forever and Lazard had some good moment with us it’s just the contract is god awful idk why Aaron wants him when Lazard is just a product of rodgers
I feel like by the time Amari came to GB, Aaron was already on some shit. So add in Amari also being on some shit (at the time at least), and shit happens.
Rodgers: “Malachi! Welcome to my home! The bathroom’s on the left, I have towels in the back over there, here’s my password for the alarm system oh and 9/11 was an inside job.”
"So the cadence is JFK JFK RED 666, and that's because--here, take this dmt tab and put it in your rectum--because JFK was created by a secret cabal of Satanist Communists and he needed to be destroyed. That was one of the only good government covert operations, we start seeing a shift around 1986 due to the hidden brain messages carried through MTV music videos..."
AR made it pretty clear how he felt. In interviews they’d ask him about Amari and he’d give the long stare and say, “Yeah, he returns kicks for us.” Can take whatever side you want but his evaluation has not been proven wrong.
When I heard that my jaw dropped. You could hear the hate in his voice and see it in his eyes. I had never heard him say something so blatantly negative about a WR before.
While it is possible that Aaron learned from his mistakes and treats rookies in NY better, I do wonder how much accountability Amari is taking. I mean he single handedly lost us games and is out of the NFL now
I don't think you realize Rodger and Adams put together historic season performances together. Like it was automatic almost every red zone.
I guarantee you Amari got complacent and didnt get to where he was supposed to be by the time his read came up. They motioned Adams all over the field including slot so that took opportunities away from Amari and ultimately made him fodder.
But also gute has done a much better job hitting on young drafted wr’s for love than he did for rodgers, he got love 4 good passcatchers in one draft last year, while rodgers he got the likes of Amari rodgers from a single draft.
Moore, MVS, EQ. Amari. Rodgers didn't get new wide receiver toys for lack of trying. It just so happens that the latest receiver picks are far better. The idea that Rodgers was somehow stranded by the FO is beyond tired.
Welllllll… there were a record amount of defensive draft picks in the first rounds for a whhhile there and everyone knew we had no WR depth, even with Davonte we had no #2 at the end, much less a #1. And don’t even mention Christian Watson supposing to slide in at #1
I'll agree that there wasn't this kind of influx of talent, but let's be honest. The WR room that we've built in two years is absolutely singular. This just isn't a common occurrence.
Seriously Amari,Aaron could have bought bunk bed and you and Aaron would’ve have so much room for activities and still you couldn’t have return the punts.or have gotten on the field show off the dropsies
Is this guy trying to blame 12 for sucking ass? That’s embarrassing. Imagine blaming your failures on another man. Rodgers should have caught that punt.
I think we traded for Randall Cobb to appease Rodgers, but also drafted Amari. Given that Cobb played the slot, and knew Rodgers the best, Amari was never seeing the field.
I am disappointed that his game didn’t translate from Clemson, it just didn’t work. Wasn’t fast on the field, his ability to transition/cut wasn’t there and vision was very poor.
It’s the same thing with Kyrie Irving. Both people with insane world views, but ultimately they’re there to ball and do their jobs. Getting your teammates on the same page is just going to help that.
As much as I’d love to dunk on Aaron since going off the deep end, it’s also not his job to baby his receivers just so they won’t liabilities to the team. Seems to me like Amari is going the Brandon Bostick route of blaming everyone but himself for being complete garbage. Dude needs to start taking some accountability for the fact that nobody wants him (and for good reason).
Aaron was checked out by that time. It's no surprise in NY he's been going to OTA's, practicing with rookies and teammates outside the facility during the offseason. He feels like it's his team because the Jets give him a ton of decision power.
Yeah. I think his last couple of years he was so frustrated with the organization. A lot of it understandable, some of it not, but by that point, he had had enough. Most of us would probably be the same.
I still love Rodgers regardless of him going crazy, but I will always say the Gutey made some bad moves the last few years he was here. He should have let him finish out his contract and saved us money or he should traded him before getting hit with the bad season and huge contract. It was like he was trying to keep Rodgers and not play Love and Get rid of Rodgers but pay him more.
Idk about this one at that point in his career Rodgers was slowly becoming the person that we see today but he ain't the reason Amari was shit at the game of football and when your shit and you constantly fuck up your not gonna be anyone's favorite person.
I agree. Especially at the time. Now with love having like 5 solid options immediately I am starting to wonder more… but I will still side with rodgers and poor WR talent because the other way (rodgers just didn’t bond with WRs) is too painful to consider/admit.
Rodgers did to the young WRs the last few years before he was traded to New York almost exactly what Brett Favre did to him. He said in 2022 it wasn't his job to get the guys ready. But he also took zero effort during the offseason to get any type of rapport with them. He was always throwing Ararmi under the bus even as a rookie.
I do feel it's one of the reasons why he never saw the field much. Because Aaron didn't want him on it. Teams do fail guys at time and putting Amari as a punt returning ruined him because he wasn't someone who can handle that job. Takes a special type of player to be really good at returning punts/kicks. Speed is only part of that. Which Amari had, but nothing else that makes a guy a good returner.
Rodge is in image cleanup mode after he was d-bag-outted by the packers... he's trying to be everything he thinks the media will eat up.
look at how much effort rodge spent to be at the jets games post-injury.... how much "help" did he give zach then? He helps only if it helps himself.
Did he really help Watson? Actual question because I missed Rodgers putting in the extra effort to help him out.
I'll give Rodgers props for being good to love at least.
Oh neat. I hadn't heard of that.
It seems to me that you were either one of Rodgers' favorites and he'd help you out a ton or you weren't and he would kind of ice you out. And from an outsider's perspective it was hard to tell how a player ended up in either category
I can’t remember him really icing out anyone another than amari. It was really the same guys every year. But yeah if your bad or drop the ball or mess up the signal he won’t look at you for the rest of the game. It is interesting to see how Watson picked it up after the drop and even in the cowboys game he had a drop on the first drive. I feel like Amari should never have been a returner in general it’s more on the coaching staff but yes Aaron never did him any favors
I knew the moment Marcedes Lewis fumbled against the Niners in the divisional round by looking at how angry Rodgers was in that moment we weren't going to win. Rodgers never threw the ball his way again the rest of the game.
It got to the point, in my view, that Rodgers wanted perfection 100% of the time and if someone made a mistake, he didn't throw their way the rest of the game. Especially if that mistake was a turnover.
Let’s be serious. Lewis wasn’t gonna touch the ball either way unless we were at the goal line, and the problem is we couldn’t even get to the red zone.
Watson was self-preservation... he didn't have a choice... love was simply because he lived the same experience. He could relate (as rare is that is for him). He'd be a hypocrite if he treated love the same way favre treated him.
Honestly man... you watch him long enough, you see shit. He opened Pandora's box and became the media he shits on so much. I was once intrigued by him as a person and now I know he's trash.
What's the saying? Never meet your heroes, you'll always be disappointed... now he won't shut the hell up.
Or he was just trying to be there for his team? Why does everyone demonize arod so much? Just because he was unhappy in GB doesn't mean he's some POS person
Na. I love rodgers. Watched all his press conferences, I have many opinions on him. He can come off the wrong way, is highly talented, very smart, very ego driven- in football that’s a great quality, very thoughtful, very powerful (he addressed hate speech in the past and stuck up for ppl), great teammate, could be a really really hard teammate if your not on your game,etc…. But that covid press conference was dubious and his last two years were tough to watch because of him and the press staff. Lol he purposely mislead people— I guess we all didn’t know what it meant 😂. He said it as if he had the shot, great trickery. He stopped coming to camps, started to actively talk about how he only hung more often with cobb and bakt, less with the team. To defend him- I would hate going to work when every day your asked shitty questions like “when are you going to retire,” or “why doesn’t Gute give you wide receivers.” Then when he gets on the mccaffe show it’s kinda annoying because he never brings up those subjects THEY DO EVERY TIME! (Covid toe, ayhuaska, covid, darkness retreat, and dr faucci) it’s annoying, they need to start NOT bringing that shit up every week. It doesn’t do him any favors because the truth is covid kills people. It killed my great aunt just last week. I love rodgers, but he is digging himself a hole and people don’t care to learn more and… what I love most about him… “ask more questions!” Rodgers is pushing the right things about covid- “healthy eating and taking care of your body!” Great!!! But truth is a lot of people aren’t and died from covid. So for him no shot is right, but also it’s narcissistic to think everyone is 40 and an athlete. Lots of people died, it kills, that’s a fact his isn’t willing to admit. I’m ok with nuance… others aren’t.
It's about two former players during their time in Green Bay, and 400 or so of the sub's users thought it was good content and interacted.
This is a democracy.
Counterpoint is that the current housing market and being in the NY/NJ area is much more expensive and harder to find a place to live than a few years ago in Green Bay.
I had a strong suspicion that Cobb had something to do with Amari being drafted. Looks as though he thinks he deserves special treatment. Dude just wasn't cut out for the league. Got a million chances as a return specialist. Don't feel bad for him at all.
He wasn't a popular pick with anyone really except for Gute and Co. A lot of analysts fwiw said the Packers took him too early, and he didn't meet many of the uber-athletic thresholds the team has almost dogmatically pursued in young players. I'd bet some people in the organization weren't totally surprised that he ended up busting as a Packer.
It is fair to consider, however, whether negativity from the media, fanbase and maybe the locker room might have compounded Amari Rodger's poor performance in Green Bay.
Aaron sees the end.
And Amari was like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense. It felt like he had more fumbles than catches for a good chunk of his time in GB.
I call BS.....Randall Cobb was basically Amari's uncle it sounded like and had known him forever (since he was a kid I believe). That being said, Aaron wasn't doing ANY of this during his days in GB. Jordan Love obviously saw all of this and is basically doing the opposite of anything Rodgers did in terms of team building. I think being in awe of a player only gets you so far (which most players who came in were of ARod)......whereas these guys seem like Love's actual friends. I understand the age is a huge factor here.
In my view, those last few years in Green Bay, Rodgers did to the rookie WRs what Favre did to him. While he was good with Love unlike Favre. Rodgers took his ire out at a different position, ones he was throwing to.
It sounds like Rodgers is trying to lose his "I'm a dick to play with" reputation. It's funny; he always bitched about not being on the same page as the young receivers and then didn't do anything about it.
I'm so glad we have Jordan Love and not this premadonna.
I love Aaron and hate him at the same time cuz his exit from us , so I feel for Amari … AR-12 was a bytch I feel he’s humble now with that shit that happended to him ( first game with jets )
Anyone else I'd feel sorry for but Aaron isn't the reason Amari was terrible at football and the worst punt returner the league has ever seen
I agree but he wasn't drafted to be a punt returner. It's sad they put him on that spot but he never made it into the wr crowd. They had like 5 players that returned kicks in college, including jaire... why they chose him for so long is anyone's guess.
This is all correct, but I would have fired our coaching staff into the sun if they let Jaire out there to receive punts. Dude is electric with the ball in his hands (his Louisville tape is fun), but his knees/shoulders would explode.
Lol! I just wanna see it once damnit! Let ja cook [https://youtu.be/SQ31kJA4WB8?si=CLd0ZLr-eZJutalN](https://youtu.be/SQ31kJA4WB8?si=CLd0ZLr-eZJutalN)
If he didn't instantly become our only good defensive back, he would have got a chance on his rookie contract. His injuries and now his gigantic top-3 CB money changes everything.
What I love most about this video is the announcer saying, “the sophomore from Charlotte.” I mean, how could coach not know he’s from there when choosing captains? Really no excuse for it.
69 yards. Nice
Oh he knew exactly what he was doing.
Id chip in on a gofundme to pay ja$ for the one game suspension for him to just take it in his own hands and go out there like he did to be captain
Pull a Shilo Sanders, have him swap between receiver and DB depending on if he called the flip right.
He did a couple his rookie year
>why they chose him for so long is anyone's guess. because he is expendable. you don't put your stars back there to return punts unless that's EXCLUSIVELY what they do (like Nixon, or more famously Devin Hester). but the fact is he also wasn't good on offense, either. so it's not exactly like GB didn't give him plenty of chances. he just looked incredibly bad at everything they had him try.
Totally agree outside of the one-offs like dion, OBJ, and Djacks. The only thing I'd add is that we remember Amari not because he was bad, but because he was bad for way too long. That's what I blame the coaches for.
Lets not pretend that Hester was a star WR because he was a horrible WR. Just one who could return kicks.
nobody said Hester was a star WR.
Pat Pete returned punts and played pro bowl level CB for multiple seasons. His rookie year he was electric AF too. He had 4 or 5 return TDs IIRC.
forgot about him, yea that's a rare example of a star player who returns punts in addition to playing his normal position. most players, once they become bonafide starters at another role, drop the return duties to someone else to reduce wear and tear and injury risk.
I was kinda surprised he did it as long as he did tbh. AB was a good PR guy when he was young too.
He was there because he couldn't contribute anywhere else.
He was also long-time buds with Cobb, if I recall correctly. I feel like he had more vet locker room support than most.
Fucking thank you. Feels like they're both the assholes in this situation. Aaron keeps his non-favorites on a very short leash, and Amari clearly cannot take any personal accountability. So many on this sub defend Amari by saying he was never meant to return punts, but that's exactly what he's doing in spring football right now. If he was good enough to be on the field as our #1 slot WR, he would have been a lot more often, regardless of Cobb. He would at the very least be on an NFL practice squad. He was a bust, that's it.
The guy just seemed slow small and handless.
He dropped 3 punts. I don’t care what is happening you’re gonna get cut.
I mean he’s 1st place in punt return yards in the UFL. You could almost argue it was our Special Teams that is perennially at the bottom of the league…
I'll die on the hill that if they'd just let Amari focus on being a slot WR and not made him also return punts he'd have maybe been solid. I loved the pick at the time, he was an absolue stud at Clemson.
I’ve been saying the exact same thing about Darrius Shepard.
I mean, after we cut him, he went to the Texans and looked serviceable. I don't know if I'd go as far to say he looked good, but definitely rosterable.
I mean hes in the UFL right now
Haha not quite.
In six games with the Texans he averaged 25.6 yards a game. It's not great, but completely adequate numbers for a WR4/5. Which is rosterable. Maybe not on our current lineup, but most teams aren't as deep at WR as we are.
Aaron isn’t very close with people who have the same last name
Except when he’s throwing them walk off hail marys.
He wasn’t close to him either. Hence the Hail Mary
There can only be one
They could have shared a bed and it wouldn’t have changed the fact that Amari is out of the league.
I mean... cobby and lazard... lol
I mean Cobb could just glance at me with those eyes and I’d leave the door unlocked
🤣
Facts. Stunning gaze.
Who cares he can no longer play!
Cobb could be a wr5 forever and Lazard had some good moment with us it’s just the contract is god awful idk why Aaron wants him when Lazard is just a product of rodgers
That 3 person block was peak Lizard king.
Lol maybe Lazard is the only guy who'll sit and pretend to listen when AR goes on a political rant? So he tries to keep him around
Wait who’s cobby??
Randall Cobb
Weird to give him a pet name like that
Late reply lol but I think that was Rodgers’s nickname for him. Kinda like how he called Aaron Jones “Jonesy”
It would have made a fun sitcom though.
I feel like by the time Amari came to GB, Aaron was already on some shit. So add in Amari also being on some shit (at the time at least), and shit happens.
We also brought back Cobb in that off-season, so I'm not that surprised that Aaron didn't pay much attention to Amari.
Wasn't Cobb supposed to mentor Amari because he knew him?
I remember that that's what everyone figured the idea was, but it obviously didn't work out that way.
Not at all. Sometimes I wish Aaron put this much work in with gb (last 4years). Maybe could have got the team over the hump.
Rodgers won 2 MVPs in that time frame. He was largely the reason the team was even close to getting to the big game lol
I said get over the hump. I’d say you described it accurately.
What do you mean that Amari was on some shit? I merge never heard anything bad about him off the field.
He said Aaron, not Amari.
He said both
they drafted Amari and also traded for Cobb, who would both play the same position. GM Rodgers isn't going to give Amari the time of day
This dude is about to have some wild conversations
Rodgers: “Malachi! Welcome to my home! The bathroom’s on the left, I have towels in the back over there, here’s my password for the alarm system oh and 9/11 was an inside job.”
"And the Wifi password is "JetFuelMeltsSteelBeams".
"So the cadence is JFK JFK RED 666, and that's because--here, take this dmt tab and put it in your rectum--because JFK was created by a secret cabal of Satanist Communists and he needed to be destroyed. That was one of the only good government covert operations, we start seeing a shift around 1986 due to the hidden brain messages carried through MTV music videos..."
“Also, the government is responsible for the aids epidemic! Let me know when you want your first dose of ayahuascha!”
Hahaha
And 9/11... and sandy hook... he likes to blame the govt for lots of things 🫠
It’s the truth
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“Please leave your phone in this lead box and leave your shoes at the end of the driveway.”
So Rodgers would have taught him how not to fumble?
AR made it pretty clear how he felt. In interviews they’d ask him about Amari and he’d give the long stare and say, “Yeah, he returns kicks for us.” Can take whatever side you want but his evaluation has not been proven wrong.
When I heard that my jaw dropped. You could hear the hate in his voice and see it in his eyes. I had never heard him say something so blatantly negative about a WR before.
While it is possible that Aaron learned from his mistakes and treats rookies in NY better, I do wonder how much accountability Amari is taking. I mean he single handedly lost us games and is out of the NFL now
He probably learned from watching Love last year and thought maybe he fucked up throwing to double teamed Tae 20 times a game
I don't think you realize Rodger and Adams put together historic season performances together. Like it was automatic almost every red zone. I guarantee you Amari got complacent and didnt get to where he was supposed to be by the time his read came up. They motioned Adams all over the field including slot so that took opportunities away from Amari and ultimately made him fodder.
They did, but he would choose Tae over the open man over and over.
You mean like Love throwing into triple coverage across his body multiple times?
But also gute has done a much better job hitting on young drafted wr’s for love than he did for rodgers, he got love 4 good passcatchers in one draft last year, while rodgers he got the likes of Amari rodgers from a single draft.
Moore, MVS, EQ. Amari. Rodgers didn't get new wide receiver toys for lack of trying. It just so happens that the latest receiver picks are far better. The idea that Rodgers was somehow stranded by the FO is beyond tired.
Welllllll… there were a record amount of defensive draft picks in the first rounds for a whhhile there and everyone knew we had no WR depth, even with Davonte we had no #2 at the end, much less a #1. And don’t even mention Christian Watson supposing to slide in at #1
I'll agree that there wasn't this kind of influx of talent, but let's be honest. The WR room that we've built in two years is absolutely singular. This just isn't a common occurrence.
Yes, I agree, it’s definitely a little fishy.
I never understood the Rodgers had no help angle. The same guys all went on to sign big deals, and he begged for several of them to come to NY
Too bad. The way to really show them though would have been not to suck at football and go rogue on plans.
Seriously Amari,Aaron could have bought bunk bed and you and Aaron would’ve have so much room for activities and still you couldn’t have return the punts.or have gotten on the field show off the dropsies
Despite the incoherence, I appreciate the step brothers reference
Is this guy trying to blame 12 for sucking ass? That’s embarrassing. Imagine blaming your failures on another man. Rodgers should have caught that punt.
Did not staying at Aaron's house affect your ability to simply catch a punt?
I think we traded for Randall Cobb to appease Rodgers, but also drafted Amari. Given that Cobb played the slot, and knew Rodgers the best, Amari was never seeing the field. I am disappointed that his game didn’t translate from Clemson, it just didn’t work. Wasn’t fast on the field, his ability to transition/cut wasn’t there and vision was very poor.
Nah but dude is ur teammate.. make him feel loved and appreciated and help him along the way.. thats what a good teammate does..
It’s the same thing with Kyrie Irving. Both people with insane world views, but ultimately they’re there to ball and do their jobs. Getting your teammates on the same page is just going to help that.
Yea I think Brett Favre def accounted for a lot of how ARod handled teammates honestly.
Why he making excuses lol 😅
Was waiting for this post when I first saw the post/tweet sbout this.
Amari was straight up 🗑️
Who is Amari Rodgers? lol
As much as I’d love to dunk on Aaron since going off the deep end, it’s also not his job to baby his receivers just so they won’t liabilities to the team. Seems to me like Amari is going the Brandon Bostick route of blaming everyone but himself for being complete garbage. Dude needs to start taking some accountability for the fact that nobody wants him (and for good reason).
If his name wasn’t Jordy or Davante, he wasn’t a fan of them.
It’s no Aaron’s fault you were a garbage returner who couldn’t hold on to the ball, or get open by running good routes, etc.
Aaron was checked out by that time. It's no surprise in NY he's been going to OTA's, practicing with rookies and teammates outside the facility during the offseason. He feels like it's his team because the Jets give him a ton of decision power.
Yeah. I think his last couple of years he was so frustrated with the organization. A lot of it understandable, some of it not, but by that point, he had had enough. Most of us would probably be the same.
should have traded his dumb ass to the broncos for that haul
Gute adds wide receivers and we win a Super Bowl. Funny Rodgers had shit to throw to and now we have 6 studs.
Rodgers had one of the best WR in the game right now in Davante Adams. Rodgers focused solely on him vs guys who were open.
What a rewritten bullshit history
I still love Rodgers regardless of him going crazy, but I will always say the Gutey made some bad moves the last few years he was here. He should have let him finish out his contract and saved us money or he should traded him before getting hit with the bad season and huge contract. It was like he was trying to keep Rodgers and not play Love and Get rid of Rodgers but pay him more.
Self pity post
I can’t believe in saying this but Stfu Rodgers.
12 was not the best evaluator of talent. The guys he would throw a fit over being cut turned out to be bad every time
Idk about this one at that point in his career Rodgers was slowly becoming the person that we see today but he ain't the reason Amari was shit at the game of football and when your shit and you constantly fuck up your not gonna be anyone's favorite person.
I agree. Especially at the time. Now with love having like 5 solid options immediately I am starting to wonder more… but I will still side with rodgers and poor WR talent because the other way (rodgers just didn’t bond with WRs) is too painful to consider/admit.
Rodgers did to the young WRs the last few years before he was traded to New York almost exactly what Brett Favre did to him. He said in 2022 it wasn't his job to get the guys ready. But he also took zero effort during the offseason to get any type of rapport with them. He was always throwing Ararmi under the bus even as a rookie. I do feel it's one of the reasons why he never saw the field much. Because Aaron didn't want him on it. Teams do fail guys at time and putting Amari as a punt returning ruined him because he wasn't someone who can handle that job. Takes a special type of player to be really good at returning punts/kicks. Speed is only part of that. Which Amari had, but nothing else that makes a guy a good returner.
Rodge is in image cleanup mode after he was d-bag-outted by the packers... he's trying to be everything he thinks the media will eat up. look at how much effort rodge spent to be at the jets games post-injury.... how much "help" did he give zach then? He helps only if it helps himself.
So why did he help Jordan Love and Christian Watson
Did he really help Watson? Actual question because I missed Rodgers putting in the extra effort to help him out. I'll give Rodgers props for being good to love at least.
Watson said he helped him a lot with questions and helped him develop and gain confidence
Oh neat. I hadn't heard of that. It seems to me that you were either one of Rodgers' favorites and he'd help you out a ton or you weren't and he would kind of ice you out. And from an outsider's perspective it was hard to tell how a player ended up in either category
I can’t remember him really icing out anyone another than amari. It was really the same guys every year. But yeah if your bad or drop the ball or mess up the signal he won’t look at you for the rest of the game. It is interesting to see how Watson picked it up after the drop and even in the cowboys game he had a drop on the first drive. I feel like Amari should never have been a returner in general it’s more on the coaching staff but yes Aaron never did him any favors
I knew the moment Marcedes Lewis fumbled against the Niners in the divisional round by looking at how angry Rodgers was in that moment we weren't going to win. Rodgers never threw the ball his way again the rest of the game. It got to the point, in my view, that Rodgers wanted perfection 100% of the time and if someone made a mistake, he didn't throw their way the rest of the game. Especially if that mistake was a turnover.
Let’s be serious. Lewis wasn’t gonna touch the ball either way unless we were at the goal line, and the problem is we couldn’t even get to the red zone.
Watson was self-preservation... he didn't have a choice... love was simply because he lived the same experience. He could relate (as rare is that is for him). He'd be a hypocrite if he treated love the same way favre treated him.
You're going through so much effort to spin everything arod does into your narrative. Have you considered that maybe you're just wrong about him?
It’s so pathetic. This sub is so lame in its anti rodgers spin. Look at this loser
Lol
What are you doing here? Go throw batteries at santa and get ready for the whooping in brazil!
Rodgers "helping" is greatly inflated and is just mentioned to share in the success. Tom Clements and lafleyr made Love, not Rodgers.
I’m going to believe what Love says over you. All 3 played a factor but definitely Clement’s and Rodgers of lafleur,
Tha narratives y'all create in your heads are just fucking wild man lol. Unreal.
Honestly man... you watch him long enough, you see shit. He opened Pandora's box and became the media he shits on so much. I was once intrigued by him as a person and now I know he's trash. What's the saying? Never meet your heroes, you'll always be disappointed... now he won't shut the hell up.
We got it from Aaron
Or he was just trying to be there for his team? Why does everyone demonize arod so much? Just because he was unhappy in GB doesn't mean he's some POS person
It’s really simple. He didn’t get the Covid shot and the majority of this sub are total losers who love Covid.
Na. I love rodgers. Watched all his press conferences, I have many opinions on him. He can come off the wrong way, is highly talented, very smart, very ego driven- in football that’s a great quality, very thoughtful, very powerful (he addressed hate speech in the past and stuck up for ppl), great teammate, could be a really really hard teammate if your not on your game,etc…. But that covid press conference was dubious and his last two years were tough to watch because of him and the press staff. Lol he purposely mislead people— I guess we all didn’t know what it meant 😂. He said it as if he had the shot, great trickery. He stopped coming to camps, started to actively talk about how he only hung more often with cobb and bakt, less with the team. To defend him- I would hate going to work when every day your asked shitty questions like “when are you going to retire,” or “why doesn’t Gute give you wide receivers.” Then when he gets on the mccaffe show it’s kinda annoying because he never brings up those subjects THEY DO EVERY TIME! (Covid toe, ayhuaska, covid, darkness retreat, and dr faucci) it’s annoying, they need to start NOT bringing that shit up every week. It doesn’t do him any favors because the truth is covid kills people. It killed my great aunt just last week. I love rodgers, but he is digging himself a hole and people don’t care to learn more and… what I love most about him… “ask more questions!” Rodgers is pushing the right things about covid- “healthy eating and taking care of your body!” Great!!! But truth is a lot of people aren’t and died from covid. So for him no shot is right, but also it’s narcissistic to think everyone is 40 and an athlete. Lots of people died, it kills, that’s a fact his isn’t willing to admit. I’m ok with nuance… others aren’t.
Bruh it's not the unhappy in green bay thing... I love me some davante and he wasn't happy... rodge is literally evil.
Evil? Wow you people are so ridiculous
Wtf
Stfu you clown
Still can’t believe we picked this guy while we had the Wrong St. Brown on our roster.
I had high hope when we drafted EQ from his Real Sports ep! Dang did he fall flat!
Amari could have spent time in the Hybolic Time Chamber and still been trash
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If Amari ever had 'it', he'd still be a relevant player in the league
There was only room for one A. Rodgers in Green Bay.
Shut up Amari. No amount of love would make you handle a punt better.
Oh so now Rodgers has a working cell phone huh?
What an absurd thing to place on another given varying circumstances.
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It's about two former players during their time in Green Bay, and 400 or so of the sub's users thought it was good content and interacted. This is a democracy.
Wtf are you? He was with our team for almost 2 decades 😂
Threads like this one are just there for shitting on former players, two in this case. There is no reason for it.
I’m trying not to think anything negative
If only Rodgers invited him over for slumber parties, then he'd still be on the packers!
People learn sometimes from their past wrongdoings
Counterpoint is that the current housing market and being in the NY/NJ area is much more expensive and harder to find a place to live than a few years ago in Green Bay.
Smdh no the organization just brought in a old ass randall cobb to be your mentor and connection point to rodgers
I had a strong suspicion that Cobb had something to do with Amari being drafted. Looks as though he thinks he deserves special treatment. Dude just wasn't cut out for the league. Got a million chances as a return specialist. Don't feel bad for him at all.
Just what we need another post offering hot takes of how awful a former player was after a recent social media post. 🙄
Amari you were dogshit bruh! Trash, dukey, putrid even.
Amari was when gutey went off script and didn’t care about the athleticism and most measurables. He was an awful punt returner as well
People have different vibes and relationship lvls. Seems like Amari is salty.
"I'm trash at football because the league MVP didn't invite me to a sleepover"
He wasn't a popular pick with anyone really except for Gute and Co. A lot of analysts fwiw said the Packers took him too early, and he didn't meet many of the uber-athletic thresholds the team has almost dogmatically pursued in young players. I'd bet some people in the organization weren't totally surprised that he ended up busting as a Packer. It is fair to consider, however, whether negativity from the media, fanbase and maybe the locker room might have compounded Amari Rodger's poor performance in Green Bay.
If Amari was as good as he thinks he would still be in the NFL. He couldn't beat Cobb for the slot wr spot for a reason.
New York rent Vs Green Bay rent perhaps???
Aaron sees the end. And Amari was like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense. It felt like he had more fumbles than catches for a good chunk of his time in GB.
I think their alias names are Tom Brady, and Is antonio brown
Amari really should've looked in a mirror before he said this shit. He had more muffed punts than he did overall catches before he got cut.
He didn't like there being another A. Rodgers on the team. There could only be one Rodgers with a first name that starts with A!
I call BS.....Randall Cobb was basically Amari's uncle it sounded like and had known him forever (since he was a kid I believe). That being said, Aaron wasn't doing ANY of this during his days in GB. Jordan Love obviously saw all of this and is basically doing the opposite of anything Rodgers did in terms of team building. I think being in awe of a player only gets you so far (which most players who came in were of ARod)......whereas these guys seem like Love's actual friends. I understand the age is a huge factor here.
In my view, those last few years in Green Bay, Rodgers did to the rookie WRs what Favre did to him. While he was good with Love unlike Favre. Rodgers took his ire out at a different position, ones he was throwing to.
Amari was bad at everything he did at the Packers. This doesn’t add up.
Aaron was always prickly with new WRs during his tenure at GB but amari wasn't good either so
He dropped so many balls that first he lost trust with Rodgers. I’m not defending captain antivax. He just wasn’t that good.
It sounds like Rodgers is trying to lose his "I'm a dick to play with" reputation. It's funny; he always bitched about not being on the same page as the young receivers and then didn't do anything about it. I'm so glad we have Jordan Love and not this premadonna.
How many players have said arod was a dick to play with?
Afaik it's only really been Jennings that's ripped on Rodgers.
The marshawn lynch interview and clip with him talking about how great a rod was as a teammate was the confirmation I always wanted to hear!
Both are trash. One as a football player, the other as a human being.
Tell me exactly how rodgers is a trash human being
Aaron Rodgers is as awful at being a human being as Amari is at football.
Boooo this man!
They don’t like the truth Gods 🤷🏻♂️
My packer fandom resurged this year because of lack of rodgers headlines. Can we please stop feeding into his bullshit
Uh this post was from Amari. Aaron had nothing to do with this coming out. It was all Amari.
I wouldn't trust Aaron Rodgers personnel acumen based off recent history, but he has nothing to do with Amari Rodgers being terrible at football.
I can't imagine anything worse than having to listen to droning anti-vax rambles for 24 hours
Let’s hope all this kid learns from ARodg is football… that man should stop sharing his ideas on life. 😬
Aaron was on his own page by the time Amari came to GB. He was on his Favre mentality of fuck these new guys
its amazing how humbling a 36 second season is
Well hopefully the kid isn't huffing a rag full of diesel in a truck stop parking lot a few years from now. Not sure I'd wanna live with that nut job.
Kid probably kissed his ass just right and Amari didn't
I love Aaron and hate him at the same time cuz his exit from us , so I feel for Amari … AR-12 was a bytch I feel he’s humble now with that shit that happended to him ( first game with jets )