We love a little mess here at Lombardi Avenue. When you spend almost two decades dealing with Aaron Rodgers, you not only get used to mess, but you start to thrive in it. You start to need it, even.
And outside of the year's Jordan Love injury, it's been a pretty straight-forward, mess-free season for the Green Bay Packers so far. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just ... different. There haven't been any dopey offseason stories that crop up, or needless Pat McAfee controversies.
It's been a surprisingly Rodgers-free season so far – but that's all about to change. I'm not saying the mess is definitely back, but it's close. The mess might be back.
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Reader, you may remember that Rodgers is the quarterback of a football team that just recently fired their head coach, Robert Saleh. Rodgers, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it – all those negative press conference comments and public displays of frustration were simply sensationalist media concoctions not based in reality.
Saleh was in attendance at Packers practice on Wednesday.
Robert Saleh spending time at Packers practice is the drama we all deserve
That’s Robert Saleh in the back watching the Packers offense at practice today.
— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) October 23, 2024
Matt LaFleur was the best man in Saleh’s wedding. We’ll hear from LaFleur later about what Saleh is helping with. He spent the entire open portion of practice on the offensive side of the field. pic.twitter.com/LwbhKs9PT1
At the risk of sounding overdramatic, we may be watching the opening scenes of Star(r) Wars Episode 5: Saleh Strikes Back. Because if you can believe it, Saleh just so happened to land on his feet in Green Bay, where he was spotted during Wednesday's practice. Surely there's no connection between Saleh being at a practice run by a head coach who also got burned by Rodgers. They're just good friends who love ball!
We all know what assuming does, but I'll be brave and go out on a limb to suggest that it probably feels pretty good to land as a coach on team that's, you know, actually won more than twice this year.
I imagine the idea of even being a Senior Football Analyst for a team that's going to make the playoffs sounds way more appealing than spending your days responding to barbs from your starting quarterback and the most hostile media market in the country. And if that team just happens to be the one that let Rodgers walk, that's just football.
Like I said: it's not quite messy, but it's close. The potential for mess is there, and that's what counts.