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Kaboly: If not for anything else, Aaron Rodgers is going out with a hell of a smile on his face Mark Kaboly / Steelers Correspondent For The @PatMcAfeeShow Aaron Rodgers might not win his record-tying fifth NFL MVP – actually, the most recent odds have Carson Wentz right there with Rodgers and Michael Penix Jr. just behind him, so that brings some perspective to it all. Rodgers probably won’t lead the Steelers to another Super Bowl or significantly reshape the narrative surrounding him since leaving Green Bay a few years ago. Despite all of that, if Rodgers is “pretty sure” this is his swan song, like he suggested back in June on the Pat McAfee Show, he’s made a concerted effort to go out with a big smile on his face. Ah, a shit-eating grin, some may call it. The Steelers improved to 3-1 on the season on Sunday with a 24-21 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the first-ever NFL game played at legendary Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. They not only open up a two-game lead on AFC North favorite Baltimore Ravens, but maneuvered themselves to the position of only the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles having better records at little less than a quarter of the season gone. I am sure you didn’t have that pegged for these Steelers a month ago. I don’t know about you, but it sure feels like Rodgers is having the time of his life and that came through loud and clear during his brief stint overseas that included the three hours he spent maybe not lighting up the Vikings with statistics but playing some intangible (and tangible) ball that we haven’t seen here at the position since the days of pre-elbow surgery Ben Roethlisberger. Rodgers has said everything right since arriving in Pittsburgh in early June that has altered the (right or wrong) narrative of him being a diva. And it has come off as genuine, too, and that was on display in Ireland as he played to the locals before and after the game, praising Ireland and their Guinness beer. “We're going to go over to Dublin, hit some pubs, and take off,” Rodgers joked to a local after the game. No, we're going straight back.” Rodgers’ demeanor has translated onto the field, especially with the young offense that has allowed this team to believe that they truly are a contender. And if he can have some joy along with it, then so be it. “He is a great guy who you can tell is having fun,” guard Mason McCormick said. You have to believe that it is by design, especially after how it ended in Green Bay and how it went down in New York for two years. Look at Sunday’s game as an example. Did you happen to pick up Rodgers having a big grin on his face when DK Metcalf was out of his mind, upset with one of the Minnesota Vikings players? There probably hasn’t been one time since the Steelers traded for the mild-mannered receiver back in March that he hasn’t called the person he’s talking to “sir.” With that in mind, it pretty much explains why Rodgers was seen in the background during a critical part of Sunday’s win a not being able to hold in a smirk. Aaron Rodgers, simply put, looks like a guy who is having the time of his life, and it’s coming through that way – both on how he is performing and how he is loving his football life. “Most quarterbacks have an ego, but he doesn’t have an ego,” jumbo tackle Spencer Anderson, who played 36% of the snaps on Sunday, told me before. “I will say that he is definitely with the times. He acts like a kid, but he’s serious about his job. He’s not going through the motions.” There is no way that the Steelers thought they were getting this Rodgers. The Steelers’ pursuit of the four-time NFL MVP was about his play on the field, not to allow him the opportunity to walk away with a smile on his face – which, incidentally, has been there from the day he signed in June throughout training camp, preseason, and now the first month of the season. What is there not to like if you are the Steelers? How many times over the past week has he talked about drinking Guinness? If he wasn’t having the time of his life, he wouldn’t be plucking off veteran linebacker Eric Wilson, trying to spring Kenny Gainwell for some yards. He wouldn’t be tucking the ball and running 10 yards for a first down to escape pressure, then giggling when he fumbles into the waiting hands of Broderick Jones. “Thank you for showing up today. Love you,” Rodgers said, walking off the field following the game. “I wish we could come back. Next year.” It just sounds like a guy having fun, but a guy who can bring the hammer down when needed. We saw that throughout his time here and again on Sunday. After a bad snap by Zach Frazier midway through the third quarter in a 14-6 game, Rodgers looked at his sideline and put up four fingers. Now, Rodgers didn’t say if that meant yet another bad snap by Frazier, but it sure appeared like that. Frazier has had his issues with bad snaps in college and a lot this year as well. And, you know what, that’s fine if Rodgers got pissed. We have heard about making players accountable for years now. Rodgers, at least it appeared in this instance, was doing such. Rodgers’ demeanor, knowing that this is his final go-around, has led to his solid play through four weeks. You cannot convince me otherwise. Just like you can’t convince me that Rodgers isn’t the team MVP as we sit here at the bye week with the Steelers all alone in first place in the AFC North, even though 80 of his 200 yards against the Vikings came on a catch-and-run touchdown by Metcalf. “That's what DK does best, man,” Rodgers said. “He can really run. It was nice to get him going early.” What has made it all the more impressive with Rodgers it that he has been able to play well despite being schematically limited because of a still-developing offensive line. “As we’ve all seen, as advertised. Crazy arm, obviously just getting the ball out quick, understanding the defense, likes to find the soft spots,” Vikings linebacker Jonathan Greenard said. Rodgers hasn’t had much of a run game to speak of, which has made the play-action pass ineffective. Offensive coordinator Arthur Smith has been forced to dial up a quick passing game to counteract the offensive line woes. It may be effective, but also limiting. Rodgers has gotten the ball off quicker than any quarterback in the league. It is something that he has always been good at, but it can also be limiting at times – like Sunday. Rodgers still has elite arm talent, but has been forced to do it in an unconventional way so far. Rodgers was 19 of 22 with passes that traveled 10 yards or fewer, yet was able to hit at least one game-changing play to Metcalf. “I love his competitive spirit. I love to support it,” Tomlin said, referring to Rodgers barking to go for a 4th and goal from the 4 late in the game. “I like a guy who plays and plays to win. So, he's an asset to us in that way certainly.” Rodgers has been an asset in more than just that. If you believe in stats determining how somebody is playing, you have these: • Passing yards – 786 (more than Jalen Hurts) • Completion percentage 68.5% (more than Matthew Stafford) • Touchdowns – 8 (third most in the NFL) • Interceptions – 3 (less than Trevor Lawrence) • Passer rating – 102.6 (better than Baker Mayfield) • Record – 3-1 (better than everybody except Hurts and Josh Allen) “I love working with (offensive coordinator Arthur Smith). I love coming to work with the quarterback room that we have,” Rodgers said. “I think that we finally played the kind of football that we wanted to in the run game. The defense did enough to hang in there, but we have to win the game on offense.” Until then, a win is a win, and who in the world would have thought that the Steelers would be 3-1 at their bye? Probably the same people who thought Aaron Rodgers had nothing left in the tank. Whatever it is, it is working, so the Steelers will continue to strive to get better on both sides of the ball until they can allow Rodgers to open it up a little bit. Maybe it will work or maybe it won’t, but you can be assured that Rodgers is going to go out of his way – with a big smile on his face. And I am pretty sure nobody saw that being an option. Photo courtesy of the Pittsburgh Steelers

MarkKaboly's tweet photo. Kaboly: If not for anything else, Aaron Rodgers is going out with a hell of a smile on his face

Mark Kaboly / Steelers Correspondent
For The @PatMcAfeeShow

Aaron Rodgers might not win his record-tying fifth NFL MVP – actually, the most recent odds have Carson Wentz right there with Rodgers and Michael Penix Jr. just behind him, so that brings some perspective to it all.

Rodgers probably won’t lead the Steelers to another Super Bowl or significantly reshape the narrative surrounding him since leaving Green Bay a few years ago.

Despite all of that, if Rodgers is “pretty sure” this is his swan song, like he suggested back in June on the Pat McAfee Show, he’s made a concerted effort to go out with a big smile on his face.

Ah, a shit-eating grin, some may call it.

The Steelers improved to 3-1 on the season on Sunday with a 24-21 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the first-ever NFL game played at legendary Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.

They not only open up a two-game lead on AFC North favorite Baltimore Ravens, but maneuvered themselves to the position of only the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles having better records at little less than a quarter of the season gone.

I am sure you didn’t have that pegged for these Steelers a month ago.

I don’t know about you, but it sure feels like Rodgers is having the time of his life and that came through loud and clear during his brief stint overseas that included the three hours he spent maybe not lighting up the Vikings with statistics but playing some intangible (and tangible) ball that we haven’t seen here at the position since the days of pre-elbow surgery Ben Roethlisberger.

Rodgers has said everything right since arriving in Pittsburgh in early June that has altered the (right or wrong) narrative of him being a diva.

And it has come off as genuine, too, and that was on display in Ireland as he played to the locals before and after the game, praising Ireland and their Guinness beer.

“We're going to go over to Dublin, hit some pubs, and take off,” Rodgers joked to a local after the game. No, we're going straight back.”

Rodgers’ demeanor has translated onto the field, especially with the young offense that has allowed this team to believe that they truly are a contender.

And if he can have some joy along with it, then so be it.

“He is a great guy who you can tell is having fun,” guard Mason McCormick said.

You have to believe that it is by design, especially after how it ended in Green Bay and how it went down in New York for two years.

Look at Sunday’s game as an example.

Did you happen to pick up Rodgers having a big grin on his face when DK Metcalf was out of his mind, upset with one of the Minnesota Vikings players?

There probably hasn’t been one time since the Steelers traded for the mild-mannered receiver back in March that he hasn’t called the person he’s talking to “sir.”

With that in mind, it pretty much explains why Rodgers was seen in the background during a critical part of Sunday’s win a not being able to hold in a smirk.

Aaron Rodgers, simply put, looks like a guy who is having the time of his life, and it’s coming through that way – both on how he is performing and how he is loving his football life.

“Most quarterbacks have an ego, but he doesn’t have an ego,” jumbo tackle Spencer Anderson, who played 36% of the snaps on Sunday, told me before. “I will say that he is definitely with the times. He acts like a kid, but he’s serious about his job. He’s not going through the motions.”

There is no way that the Steelers thought they were getting this Rodgers.

The Steelers’ pursuit of the four-time NFL MVP was about his play on the field, not to allow him the opportunity to walk away with a smile on his face – which, incidentally, has been there from the day he signed in June throughout training camp, preseason, and now the first month of the season.

What is there not to like if you are the Steelers?

How many times over the past week has he talked about drinking Guinness?

If he wasn’t having the time of his life, he wouldn’t be plucking off veteran linebacker Eric Wilson, trying to spring Kenny Gainwell for some yards.

He wouldn’t be tucking the ball and running 10 yards for a first down to escape pressure, then giggling when he fumbles into the waiting hands of Broderick Jones.

“Thank you for showing up today. Love you,” Rodgers said, walking off the field following the game. “I wish we could come back. Next year.”

It just sounds like a guy having fun, but a guy who can bring the hammer down when needed.

We saw that throughout his time here and again on Sunday.

After a bad snap by Zach Frazier midway through the third quarter in a 14-6 game, Rodgers looked at his sideline and put up four fingers.

Now, Rodgers didn’t say if that meant yet another bad snap by Frazier, but it sure appeared like that. Frazier has had his issues with bad snaps in college and a lot this year as well.

And, you know what, that’s fine if Rodgers got pissed.

We have heard about making players accountable for years now. Rodgers, at least it appeared in this instance, was doing such.

Rodgers’ demeanor, knowing that this is his final go-around, has led to his solid play through four weeks.

You cannot convince me otherwise.

Just like you can’t convince me that Rodgers isn’t the team MVP as we sit here at the bye week with the Steelers all alone in first place in the AFC North, even though 80 of his 200 yards against the Vikings came on a catch-and-run touchdown by Metcalf.

“That's what DK does best, man,” Rodgers said. “He can really run. It was nice to get him going early.”

What has made it all the more impressive with Rodgers it that he has been able to play well despite being schematically limited because of a still-developing offensive line.

“As we’ve all seen, as advertised. Crazy arm, obviously just getting the ball out quick, understanding the defense, likes to find the soft spots,” Vikings linebacker Jonathan Greenard said.

Rodgers hasn’t had much of a run game to speak of, which has made the play-action pass ineffective.

Offensive coordinator Arthur Smith has been forced to dial up a quick passing game to counteract the offensive line woes.

It may be effective, but also limiting.

Rodgers has gotten the ball off quicker than any quarterback in the league. It is something that he has always been good at, but it can also be limiting at times – like Sunday.

Rodgers still has elite arm talent, but has been forced to do it in an unconventional way so far.

Rodgers was 19 of 22 with passes that traveled 10 yards or fewer, yet was able to hit at least one game-changing play to Metcalf.

“I love his competitive spirit. I love to support it,” Tomlin said, referring to Rodgers barking to go for a 4th and goal from the 4 late in the game. “I like a guy who plays and plays to win. So, he's an asset to us in that way certainly.”

Rodgers has been an asset in more than just that.

If you believe in stats determining how somebody is playing, you have these:

• Passing yards – 786 (more than Jalen Hurts)

• Completion percentage 68.5% (more than Matthew Stafford)

• Touchdowns – 8 (third most in the NFL)

• Interceptions – 3 (less than Trevor Lawrence)

• Passer rating – 102.6 (better than Baker Mayfield)

• Record – 3-1 (better than everybody except Hurts and Josh Allen)

“I love working with (offensive coordinator Arthur Smith). I love coming to work with the quarterback room that we have,” Rodgers said. “I think that we finally played the kind of football that we wanted to in the run game. The defense did enough to hang in there, but we have to win the game on offense.”

Until then, a win is a win, and who in the world would have thought that the Steelers would be 3-1 at their bye?

Probably the same people who thought Aaron Rodgers had nothing left in the tank.

Whatever it is, it is working, so the Steelers will continue to strive to get better on both sides of the ball until they can allow Rodgers to open it up a little bit.

Maybe it will work or maybe it won’t, but you can be assured that Rodgers is going to go out of his way – with a big smile on his face.

And I am pretty sure nobody saw that being an option.

Photo courtesy of the Pittsburgh Steelers

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