Mike McCarthy doesn't need to do this
Reports indicate that Aaron Rodgers is heading back to Pittsburgh. This isn't going to end well. It's all remarkably avoidable, too.
Press conferences will be held. Everyone will say the right thing. Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy will minimize tales of friction years past and/or claim absence makes the heart grow fonder. It’s been 7 1/2 years since the two split in ugly fashion.
A lot has happened in those 7 1/2 years, too.
Rodgers won two more MVPs, bellyflopped in the playoffs, regressed to a bottom-third starting quarterback. He’s 42.
McCarthy won 12 games three seasons in a row with the Dallas Cowboys, before (understandably) growing tired of Jerry’s World. The Cowboys moved on after five seasons. The Pittsburgh Steelers brought their native son home to replace Mike Tomlin. He’s 62.
Now, the two are set to reunite. According to 93.7 The Fan, Rodgers will be in Pittsburgh Thursday night with the expectation of signing this weekend. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport added that a deal should be finalized soon. All offseason, the complicated fella was the quintessential middle-aged man in a midlife crisis tapping through an old high school girlfriend’s Facebook photos. The jig is up. Options were extremely limited. So, now, he’ll try to rekindle a fire that burnt out long ago.
This constitutes as the saddest story of the NFL offseason.
