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the act that Aaron Rogers is pushing out
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there for the general public is so worn
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exhausting but it also is so informative
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because it's so transparent and you
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really really really get to understand
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what's at the core of Aaron Rogers you
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know a couple of weeks ago couple of
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months ago now I was at the Ed Block
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Courage Awards in Baltimore and there
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were so many tremendous people around
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the NFL that work in the NFL that had
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played in the NFL that were currently
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playing in the NFL so I got to talk to a
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lot of people and one of the things that
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I've gathered over the last couple of
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years doing it when I've asked about
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teams players news stuff like that the
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people that had worked with Aaron Rogers
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in Green Bay would tell you behind the
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scenes mono ammano he treated people
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really well but when he got in front of
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the camera is when he changed if you
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were just with him oneon-one like his
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teammates he could be a really good guy
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but once he knew people were watching is
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when he performed okay and that's
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exactly what happened this week when he
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went on Pat McAfee show and explained in
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his framing what happened with Aaron
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Glenn and that meeting with the Jets it
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was so informative that first of all he
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decided before the Jets without the Jets
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explaining what happened leaking what
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happened etc that he had to set the
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record straight as though anybody in
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April was clamoring to know how the
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meeting went between him and the New
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York Jets it is so old news at this
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point in time and Rogers could have
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easily just said all the natural
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plaudits that happen when something like
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this takes place hey it was a short
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meeting it was a good meeting i
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respected my time in New York i wish
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them the best i'm excited for the next
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chapter of my career wherever that might
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be it's the easiest thing to do but what
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did Rogers choose instead he chose
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vengeance he chose "I'm gonna make them
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look small i'm going to be the agrieved
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party can you believe I flew out there
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on my own dime?" And they didn't even
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have the courtesy to give me more than a
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couple of minutes that they shued me out
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the door don't I Don't I deserve more
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respect than that that's how he framed
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it without the Jets having done anything
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without the Jets talking about it
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sending out anything besides a press
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release this was how Rogers had to get
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back at the Jets and it said so much
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that in a performative sense Rogers
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needed some type of vengeance or some
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type of I don't know he needed he needed
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everybody to see them as the villain or
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the enemy and when people do that it
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really shows you how small they are from
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a character standpoint because the
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bigger person the higher road is simply
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to say "Had a great meeting wish them
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the best." But instead he took the low
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road he took the let me blast away on
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these guys and I don't know if Aaron
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Glenn's going to be a good coach a bad
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coach somewhere in between but I do know
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that if you're Rogers what's the win
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here did he think that he was
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embarrassed because the Jets released
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him or moved on that he needed to prop
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himself up people that do this lack
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confidence they lack the internal
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confidence in those so thus they puff
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out their chest and say "That person's
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wrong that person did me wrong i deserve
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narcissism and it's a real small
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character it's very lowbrow and so for
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Rogers who plays the intellect there's a
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reason he has to keep reminding people
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of this it's because he's very much a
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phony he's very much a phony this kind
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of brash I'll tell you exactly how it is
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i'll embarrass you i'll shoot you
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straight that is not who he is behind
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the scenes and they always
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say when the cameras are off and
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nobody's watching that's who you really
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are and so hey it's better that he's a
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phony on camera of being the tough guy
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versus behind the scenes you'd rather
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have him be a good guy and so I think
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mostly he's probably a good guy which is
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why this part of it is so problematic
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and really sad and I know there's a
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diminishing amount of Rogers defenders
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there i hope he keeps doing things like
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this so that we truly see him for who he
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is which is a very small individual when
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it comes to public perception he needs
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other people to be embarrassed he needs
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other people to feel small so that he
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can feel big and the the fact that he
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did this this week was to me the cherry
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on top because I've been blowing the
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bullhorn about what bull crap he spews
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constantly and that's not really who he
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is and that all these things that he
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does and says is nothing that we would
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ever take as a leadership quality for
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because he slings a pretty football and
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because he keeps talking a great game
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people kind of give him a pass and I
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don't think he deserves a pass anymore i
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don't think Aaron Rogers deserves the
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pass what he did this week unprompted un
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unnecessarily shows a very small
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person and good for the Jets my goodness
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after the way that they just lap dogged
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him when he came finally somebody with a
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backbone in there going "Yeah we're not
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going to play this game anymore." And I
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think that well how he treats his
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teammates and how he treats personnel
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people behind the scenes staffers etc
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might be largely good when it comes to
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people in power people that really can
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control him coaches executives
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GMs is when he craps all over them and
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he tries to manipulate and tries to
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embarrass and tries to shame and tries
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to stiff arm and again those are all
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characteristics of a very small person
