Aaron Rodgers is the Thanos of the NFL and teams need to not give him their infinity stones

The New York Jets have made their decision and they plan to move on from him according to Fox's Jay Glazer. This will be the second time that Aaron Glenn has been responsible for Rodgers' time ending with a team. The first was the Lions Week 18 win over the Packers in 2022.  He's now […]

Mike Payton Detroit Lions Beat Writer
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The New York Jets have made their decision and they plan to move on from him according to Fox's Jay Glazer. This will be the second time that Aaron Glenn has been responsible for Rodgers' time ending with a team. The first was the Lions Week 18 win over the Packers in 2022. 

He's now about to head to free agency and there will be teams that are quarterback-needy and hoping that they can grab the future hall-of-fame quarterback and turn their fortunes around. It would be a giant mistake for that team to do that. 

All We have learned from Rodgers in the last few years is that he is the Thanos of the NFL. He is going to come in and snap his fingers and destroy half the team. He'll get your coaches fired, he'll get his own coaches in and then he'll get those guys fired, he'll get good players traded and he'll get Randall Cobb a job. He is a planet killer. If he's not Thanos, he's Ego the Living Planet. He attaches to a host and just sucks out all of its resources and moves on to the next one. 

That's just what he does in the building. Out of the building, he is a giant distraction who accuses TV show hosts of being sexual predators and will not stop talking about the vaccination status of anyone who says he's a problem as if that will make the fact that he's a problem just disappear. 

On top of that, and the thing that matters the most, he's just not the player that he once was. There is no doubt that just a few years ago he was great. Now he's often injured, isn't as mobile as he once was, and is becoming more inaccurate as the days go by. He'll make to throw everyone under the bus about that too. Everyone except himself. 

The reality is that it's time for Rodgers to walk away from the NFL and onto whatever his next venture is. At this point, his legacy is pretty tarnished and it can only get worse if he signs with another team and kills another planet. 

If I were running teams like the Steelers, Colts, Titans, Saints, or Raiders, I'd make sure I'm not that planet.