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Wednesday Cheese Curds: No escaping the Aaron Rodgers news cycle

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Aaron Rodgers is just about the only thing we can talk about

News (and non-news) about Aaron Rodgers amounts to more or less the perfect storm. There’s nothing going on for the Packers right now, and in the early part of the week there’s much less football to talk about than usual due to the playoffs being where they are. There are only four active teams! There’s only so much you can dissect as far as the actual on-field stuff.

Then you’ve got the fact that everything about Rodgers is about as open-ended as it could possibly be. He still hasn’t made up his mind, but he says he could envision playing next year. As long as it’s the right circumstance. Or unless he decides to retire. But maybe he won’t. It’s hard to say.

Then you’ve got the take artists and access merchants using phrases like “it’s a very real possibility that Aaron Rodgers gets traded next year,” as though there aren’t any number of things that fall into that category. It’s a very real possibility that Aaron Rodgers retires next year. It’s a very real possibility that Aaron Rodgers plays for the Packers in 2023. It’s a very real possibility that Aaron Rodgers moves to Nepal and becomes a monk. Pretty much everything is a very real possibility!

So here we sit. We can’t not talk about Rodgers. It’s the biggest story going for the Packers, much as it has been for the past however many years. But there’s so little to actually talk about that every conversation ends up going in circles — or nowhere at all.

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