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Aaron Rodgers’ career may have just ended in shocking thud
It was definitely the end of a Packers season that looked like it had potential to end in the Super Bowl a few weeks from now. Of much greater magnitude, though, the night very possibly marked the end for Aaron Rodgers.
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The end.
That’s what Saturday night looked, felt and sounded like at Lambeau Field.
It was definitely the end of a Packers season that looked like it had potential to end in the Super Bowl a few weeks from now.
Of much greater magnitude, though, the night very possibly marked the end for Aaron Rodgers.
This postseason was always going to be about legacy for the Packers quarterback, whose pedestrian playoff numbers have never been commensurate with his remarkable personal accomplishments, nor is the one Super Bowl ring he owns.
The Packers’ stunning 13-10 loss to the 49ers on the final play of this NFC divisional playoff game on a frigid and tense night put an abrupt end to Green Bay’s season and put the spotlight on the 38-year-old Rodgers’ future.
A year ago, after Rodgers and the Packers lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Buccaneers in the NFC Championship and Rodgers was asked about his future, he famously called it “a beautiful mystery,’’ igniting all sorts of speculation that bled into the entire offseason.
After the loss to the 49ers, against whom he and the Packers offense managed only three points after scoring a touchdown on the game’s opening possession, when Rodgers was asked about his future, he became very introspective and acknowledged that he might very well be finished.