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A grumpy and vengeful Aaron Rodgers will be in his happy place with the Jets

The long national nightmare is over. Aaron Rodgers has made his decision.

After 15 seasons as the Green Bay Packers starter, the quarterback is set to be traded to the New York Jets. He confirmed as much on Wednesday afternoon, although the teams have not yet agreed on terms of the deal.

It was typical of Rodgers to make everyone wait, to have everyone hanging on his word. But speaking on The Pat McAfee show, Rodgers unloaded on the Packers. They showed a lack of respect, he said. There was double talk. They didn’t give him – or his ex-teammates – dignity in their exits. He placed the blame for the impending divorce on the team’s new management structure. “I like direct communication,” he told McAfee. This, remember, from a man who entered into four days of darkness with no phone service a few weeks before the start of free agency.

But this is Rodgers in his happy place. Grumpy. Indignant. Vindictive.

It sounds dopey, but the best-of-the-best find – or create – any sort of slight to use as fuel. At the peak of his powers, Michael Jordan would call local pizza parlors so he could hear a local voice in his head while laying waste to opponents on the road. For the better part of 10 years, Rodgers used the fact that he went to a junior college and slipped down the 2005 draft to flatten a league that had doubted him.

Overlooked. Dismissed. Doubted. That’s been the narrative that has powered Rodgers’ career.

“When I went into the darkness I was 90% sure I was retiring,” Rodgers told McAfee on Wednesday. “I sat one day in darkness contemplating that I was retired and one day that I was not.” When Rodgers left his retreat, he heard stories that the Packers were shopping him around the league, his story goes. Fresh doubters. More

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