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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1060297" data-attributes="member: 18006">There was a "feel good" story about Rodgers in the news today, and in all fairness, I think it deserves to get some attention.Marshawn Lynch was Aaron's teammate at Cal in Rodgers' senior season, a freshman with little apparent chance of getting any real playing time because the Golden Bears already had a 2000 yard rusher in J.J. Arrington. But in a pre-season game between the #1 defense and the #1 offense, the coaches decided to give Marshawn a chance to show what he had.His first snap was a "24 power", a handoff to Lynch going over the right guard. Unfortunately, Lynch was so nervous, he went the wrong way - to the left.But when Rodgers started to turn to his right and couldn't find any Marshawn Lynches there, he instantly realized what had happened, and saved Marshawn's *** with a split second decision...From what Lynch is describing, it sounds as though Rodgers actually handed the ball off behind his back, without any solid visual confirmation of where Lynch even was. If that's so, it's obviously a hell of a ballsy move. And stepping up to Tedford and the other coaches and taking the blame for the mistake made it an even classier decision than it was a ballsy decision. Lynch went on to have some solid plays in the scrimmage, and wound up getting a fair number of snaps over the following season, positioning himself to step up into the #1 role when Arrington was drafted by the Arizonas in 2005.I remember that when Rodgers first got off the bus in Green Bay, he quickly gained a reputation among the players as a good teammate, unselfish, going the extra mile to support his teammates (unless your name was Brett Favre; he was reportedly a **** to Favre). It wasn't until his second or maybe third year as a starter that he started to manifest diva symptoms.I think it just goes to show, everybody's got a "best side" of who they are, and a "worst side" of who they are, and we live almost our entire lives going back and forth somewhere in the middle ground between those extremes. I think that there's a really good side of Rodgers, a really great guy, but over the years we just seem to have seen more and more just the "Darth Rodgers" side of his personality. But he's a complex guy, not easily defined by any one, singular data point.and he dd a good thing here for Marshawn.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thebiglead.com/marshawn-lynch-credits-aaron-rodgers-for-his-opportunity-at-cal[/URL]</blockquote>

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