Aaron Rodgers is a Loser

Aaron Rodgers loses playoff games because he’s selfish.

This isn’t a critique on his political views. This is a critique on his leadership skills, and lack thereof.

I knew the 49ers were going to beat them in Lambeau when I saw that Rodgers had conducted a 30-minute phone interview with ESPN on the eve of the playoffs. I knew that because that’s not how winning quarterbacks act.

On Monday morning, Dan Orlovsky passionately explained why he had been such a huge Matt Stafford booster. It wasn’t merely because they had been teammates. It’s because Orlovsky saw Stafford acting like a leader for years for some very, very bad Detroit Lions teams.

He relayed the story of how Stafford would always take the blame after losses, even though it was never his fault. He said he would tell Stafford to stop doing that and how he was being unfair to himself. But Stafford didn’t stop taking the blame in Detroit. He was the quarterback, and he was the leader. For better or worse, the quarterback gets all the credit for wins and all the blame for losses. That’s how it works.

Except Aaron Rodgers never took the blame. It was always someone else’s fault. They lost the past two NFC Championship games because of coaching decisions. They weren’t winning Super Bowls because the General Manager hadn’t done his job. Year after…