East Rutherford, NJ August 26, 2023 -- Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the first offensive series for the Jets in the first half. The NY Jets against the NY Giants on August 26, 2023 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, as the rivals play their final preseason game before the start of the NFL season.
On this episode of JetNation Radio, we give a short review of Ian O’ Connor’s new book Out of the Darkness, the Mystery of Aaron Rodgers.
It’s a book that, while critical of Rodgers at times, at no point does it feel as there is an effort to smear the quarterback.
There is plenty of praise for Rodgers and the work he did from the time he first picked up a football, through his incredible attempt to come back early from a torn achilles tendon in 2023.
Rodgers’ well-known fallout with his family and an attempt to reconcile is discussed at length and O’ Connor did speak to Rodgers and all parties involved to piece together what transpired. Yes, there are a some claims that led Rodgers to tell O’ Connor that he didn’t feel the writer had enough information to comment, but the author is up front about this. He even tells his readers which stories Rodgers refuted.
It seems some expected the book to be a hit pieced designed to tear Rodgers down, that wasn’t the case at all.
Are there some portions that could have been presented differently or that didn’t show Rodgers in the best light? Naturally, there are.
Does that mean it was riddled with lies in an attempted Rodgers take-down? Far from it.
In the end, O’ Connor walks the reader through many of Rodgers’ greatest failures and triumphs, ending by pointing out that the NFL is a better league when Aaron Rodgers is a part of it.