{"id":8452,"date":"2023-09-14T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/aaron-rodgers-says-the-night-is-darkest-before-the-dawn-after-season-ending-injury-but-that-hell-rise-yet-again\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:48:34","slug":"aaron-rodgers-says-the-night-is-darkest-before-the-dawn-after-season-ending-injury-but-that-hell-rise-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/aaron-rodgers-says-the-night-is-darkest-before-the-dawn-after-season-ending-injury-but-that-hell-rise-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers says \u2018the night is darkest before the dawn\u2019 after season-ending injury, but that he\u2019ll \u2018rise yet again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Aaron Rodgers has spoken for the first time about his season-ending injury against the Buffalo Bills on Monday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Just four plays into his New York Jets debut, the superstar quarterback was sacked by Bills edge rusher Leonard Floyd and suffered a complete tear of his left Achilles tendon.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThank you to every person that has reached out, called, texted, DM\u2019d, connected through a friend, etc. It has meant a ton to me, and I\u2019ll try and get back to all of you soon,\u201d Rodgers wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI\u2019m completely heartbroken and moving through all of the emotions, but deeply touched and humbled by the support and love. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I begin the healing process today.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe night is darkest before the dawn. And I shall rise yet again,\u201d Rodgers added before saying he was proud of his teammates for securing a thrilling 22-16 win against the Bills.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Much of the NFL talk throughout the offseason surrounded Rodgers\u2019 trade to the Jets. The four-time NFL Most Valuable Player had been traded from the Green Bay Packers, where he was drafted in 2005, and there was plenty of excitement about his arrival in New York.  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    \u2018The game cheats you sometimes\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cHonestly, initially, it didn\u2019t feel real,\u201d Jets tight end Tyler Conklin said on finding out about the length of Rodgers\u2019 injury as New York players spoke to the media for the first time since the injury on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe all just really feel for Aaron, right? How much he cared. How excited and not just how excited everybody in this place was to see him play and to play with them, but it\u2019s how excited he was to, I\u2019m sure, just prove so many people wrong, prove yourself for all things that he probably wanted to do,\u201d Conklin continued.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIt really hurts. It\u2019s hard to really imagine what he\u2019s going through.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Rodgers was the new star attraction in New York and many of the young Jets players would have grown up watching the Super Bowl XLV champion during his peak years with the Packers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI just wanted to take a carry from eight (Rodgers), man. Just get one from a great man. The game cheats you sometimes and I ain\u2019t get that,\u201d running back Dalvin Cook admitted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Yet, despite the heavy setback, there is optimism among the Jets squad that Rodgers will be able to shake this injury off.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI know he\u2019s in surgery here soon and he\u2019s going to attack this rehab and I think he\u2019ll probably heal faster than anyone has ever seen someone come back from Achilles,\u201d Jets center Connor McGovern added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Jets head coach Robert Saleh also provided some hope that Gang Green fans will get to see Rodgers put the jersey on again.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI\u2019d be shocked if this is the way he\u2019s going to go out,\u201d Saleh said during Wednesday\u2019s media availability. \u201cHe\u2019s working through a whole lot of headspace things that he needs to deal with, and that will be the last thing I talk to him about.\u201d  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline gallery--hidden\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__container\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__slides\">                                                                                                                                <\/div>\n<p>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev-overlay\"><\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next-overlay\"><\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"gallery-inline__headline\">The best photos from the 2023 NFL season<\/h5>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__counter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__controls\">        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev\">          Prev                  <\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next\">          Next                  <\/button>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    The quarterback community<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Also showing their love for Rodgers were other past and present NFL star quarterbacks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Reigning Super Bowl champion and NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes told reporters that the injury to Rodgers \u201csucks\u201d for the game of football.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIt sucks for not only him and his team but for the entire league because he\u2019s such a great player, someone that a lot of guys have looked up to throughout their entire career,\u201d the Kansas City Chiefs star told reporters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Chiefs are set to face the Jets on October 1 and Mahomes is disappointed that a quarterback battle against Rodgers won\u2019t be happening.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cYou want to play teams at their best. I\u2019m just praying for him that he\u2019ll be able to heal himself, rehab and hopefully [come] back again next year and we maybe can get the opportunity then,\u201d said Mahomes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThis is not the ending, this is not supposed to happen this way,\u201d Manning added. \u201cHopefully, he can get a speedy recovery and he can do it again next year.\u201d  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Turf war<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Since Rodgers suffered his Achilles tear, there has been much discussion over the use of artificial fields in the NFL.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">While many believe that they are bad for player welfare, Manning does not believe this caused Rodgers to suffer his injury.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI was never worried about the turf. I never got injured because of turf. I played in that stadium and in the old stadium, played in MetLife. So I honestly believe that the turf had nothing to do with that injury. I think it was just unfortunate,\u201d Manning explained.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Meanwhile, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said science will play an important part in whether the league continues to allow players to play on turf pitches.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThat\u2019s where we make decisions: on the basis of science, not because I see an injury that I don\u2019t like. Ultimately, I want our experts to come back and give it to us,\u201d Goodell told ESPN on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Goodell said that it is a complicated issue because of the many different factors that could have led to the injury.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe\u2019ll look at the mechanism of injury on Aaron\u2019s injury and see what may have caused that. But unfortunately, we had two ACL injuries. One was on grass and one was on the turf \u2026 From our standpoint, that\u2019s something that we\u2019ll look at.\u00a0We\u2019ll look deeply at it. We always want to try to get the best surfaces,\u201d Goodell added.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers has spoken for the first time about his season-ending injury against the Buffalo Bills on Monday. Just four plays into his New York Jets debut, the superstar quarterback was sacked by Bills edge rusher Leonard Floyd and suffered a complete tear of his left Achilles tendon. \u201cThank you to every person that has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}