Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was, not surprisingly, pretty glum about the team’s season-ending loss on Tuesday, freely admitting that the loss to Seattle hurts more than usual.
“There’s some (losses) that really hurt you,” Rodgers said Tuesday on his radio show. “This is one of the ones that’s going to stick with you because of the way it ended. Every loss in the playoffs is difficult. This one, being just a few minutes from going to the Super Bowl, obviously is a little more difficult.”
We’re not going to rehash how it went down again (at least until Total View). We’ve had enough of that and we’re pretty sure you have as well.
So have the players, we imagine.
“We all play the ‘what if’ game,” Rodgers said. “It’s a terrorizing game because it can really mess with you mentally.”
And so we all go into the offseason totally unfulfilled. It’s entirely one thing when a team who has no business making a Super Bowl run — like the 2013 Packers, for example — loses in the playoffs. That doesn’t quite sting as much. Sometimes, you just don’t have the talent. It’s another when you do have the talent.
The 2014 Packers will fall into that latter category. Promising, but just couldn’t get it done.