GREEN BAY, Wis. – When the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl in 2010 behind hot-shot young quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the logical next question was how many NFL championships this budding dynasty would win.
Well, the Packers have won a dynasty’s worth of regular-season games over the past 11 seasons. But they haven’t gotten back to the Super Bowl, let alone won another. Rodgers will turn 39 in December. Time is running out on his career, and he hasn’t exactly run from retirement talk.
“I’ve never been one to want some sort of going-away season or anything like that,” Rodgers said during minicamp. “I don’t think it’s fair to the mental state at the end of the season and thinking how you feel. If you say I’m for sure playing two more, three years and then you have a magical season that ends with a championship and think that that might be the best way to ride off, I don’t want to commit to something. You say I’m only playing one more year and you have a bitter taste in your mouth and still got the drive and the passion to play one or two more years, I just don’t want to get pigeonholed into it. So, I’m focused on this season.”
The Packers have a chance to be really, really good. They’ve got the four-time MVP at quarterback, a dynamic duo at running back and a potentially loaded defense. If questions at receiver are answered in winning fashion, the Injury Gods smile on coach Matt LaFleur’s team, and key players – Rodgers included – deliver in January and February – this really could be the year the title returns to Titletown.
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