Aaron Rodgers: 'Miracle'? Or 'Liar'? New York Jets QB Comeback Up to Atlanta Falcons?
NFL Week 13 on Sunday features the New York Jets playing host to the Atlanta Falcons at MetLife Stadium, and high-profile quarterback Aaron Rodgers really doesn't have anything to do with it ...
Except for the fact that Rodgers is also all about high drama, and will therefore either find his way into the headlines or force his way into the headlines.
Rodgers, who turned 40 this weekend, is portraying himself as a miraculous physical marvel because he is "close" to returning to the field after a Week 1 "Achilles tear" that for mere mortals would've likely required just under a year of rehab.
How is Rodgers nearing a comeback that will in part be based on whether his new employer, the Jets have anything to play for as they enter the day at 4-7 and in third place in the AFC East with four straight losses?
It is being speculated that the reason he's able to almost return from an Achilles tear - again, a 12-month injury - in just over three months is because ...
Maybe ... Aaron Rodgers never sustained a 12-month Achilles tear?
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Yes, there are those who think that Rodgers is lying about the severity of the injury, just as he once lied about his vaccination status and just as he clearly exaggerated a few weeks ago when he said on "The Pat McAfee Show," "I'm gonna be back there full-time real soon. The plan has been, once we got to Thanksgiving, was to be back there full-time."
Thanksgiving was 10 days ago. Rodgers was all over your TV screen as part of the Jets' loss to Miami on "Black Friday." But playing? It didn't happen.
Is the legendary Rodgers, a four-time MVP who clearly craves the spotlight, really so devious that he would craft a lie to make him eventually look all the more heroic?
That accusation looms ... fueled by Rodgers' recent decisions to appear on televised Jets games warming up on the field, as if to alert the world of his (second?) coming.
The Falcons can, maybe, put a stop to all of this. Atlanta is 5-6 and tied for the best record in the NFC South; a playoff push is in the offing, and the Jets - despite a defense that battles - can be shoved out of the way.
If that happens, the Jets' playoff chances dwindle, and so would any football-related reason for New York to put Aaron Rodgers back in harm's way.
But that won't preclude Aaron Rodgers from doing what Aaron Rodgers wants to do. He's "heroic" and "miraculous" that way.
