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Aaron Rodgers has lied about his vaccine status and eaten a booger on the sideline. But on Thursday, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was an innocent party in another shocking moment: Teammate Broderick Jones pounced on him from behind.
Trailing 33-31 with three seconds remaining and sitting 60 yards from the end zone, Mike Tomlin dialed up a Hail Mary and Rodgers uncorked a bomb. It would eventually fall incomplete after traveling 69.8 yards in the air, which is the longest pass since at least 2017 per Next Gen Stats.
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While celebrating a touchdown, Steelers lineman Broderick Jones jumped on Aaron Rodgers' back and awkwardly knocked him to the ground. Rodgers wasn't happy.
But there was offensive lineman Broderick Jones, who was so excited at Rodgers tossing a touchdown in the fourth quarter that he tackled the elderly QB. Rodgers' reaction? Totally understandable. He was SO MAD and lip-readers think he cursed at him, something like, "GET THE [EXPLETIVE] OFF ME!"
Nearly every time Rodgers was shown on camera, he seemed to be pissed off. Sometimes (like when running back Jaylen Warren executed a flea flicker that Rodgers didn’t think was called — even if it was) Rodgers had a good reason to be agitated. On other occasions, there was no apparent reason for it.
The hardest hit Aaron Rodgers experienced against the Bengals may have come from one of his own lineman during a celebration.
The man who entered the league as a clean-shaven prospect out of the University of Delaware now sports a strong patch of gray in the stubble around his chin. Flacco is 40. And on Thursday, he'll be the younger of the two starting quarterbacks.
While the NFL remains a young man’s game as a whole, Thursday Night Football was a good example that the old guys can still sling it.