Aaron Rodgers takes a beating from former teammates in recent report

The former teammates (quotes, via Forbes, in recent piece by Rob Reischel): 

• Jermichael Finley: "He’s coachable to a point. Once you try to over-coach him, that’s when he’s going to do his own thing."
• Greg Jennings: "We all saw what Mike McCarthy was unable to do, which was get the best out of Aaron Rodgers that he possibly could."
• Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila: "When Aaron became 'The Man,' he was 'The Man,' especially in his own eyes. Let’s just put it that way."
• Jeff Janis: "I think positive reinforcement works a lot better than negative (for Rodgers)."

Finley’s stance that Rodgers will “do his own” thing aligns perfectly with what we saw in Green Bay this past season.

Jennings took an objective approach by blaming McCarthy and Rodgers. Meanwhile, KGB pretty much called the quarterback an egomaniac. Put together, these are not necessarily flattering terms.

Doubling down 

• Finley: "At this moment, you just gave this guy $200 million. It’s going to be very hard to coach a guy same age, his pay scale is up here and it’s going to be hard to tell Aaron what to do."
• Jennings: "You’re going to be coming in, starting from scratch with a guy (Rodgers) who has one of the highest IQs in football, who believes he knows just about everything, if not all of everything."
• Gbaja-Biamila: "And I felt that Aaron was a little bit more on the arrogant side (in comparison to Favre)."

Bottom Line

These quotes are no way an attempt to burn Rodgers or come across as vindictive. That’s at least the way we take the comments from his former teammates. It’s simply the reality of the situation. He’s a high maintenance quarterback. In many ways, that comes with being among the game’s greatest.

It’s now up to LaFleur to get the most out of Rodgers — something we clearly didn’t see from McCarthy.