{"id":80478,"date":"2026-10-26T03:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/creaking-smug-and-a-contender-aaron-rodgers-may-yet-get-his-super-bowl-farewell\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:55:52","slug":"creaking-smug-and-a-contender-aaron-rodgers-may-yet-get-his-super-bowl-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/creaking-smug-and-a-contender-aaron-rodgers-may-yet-get-his-super-bowl-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Creaking, smug \u2026 and a contender? Aaron Rodgers may yet get his Super Bowl farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 42-year-old remains a polarizing figure. But the Steelers have a formidable defense and a quarterback who has seen it all before<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Rodgers is nowhere near this season\u2019s MVP conversation. At times in his second season with the Steelers, the almost 43-year-old has shown glimpses of the player he was in his prime, slinging the ball with zest and precision, able to suss out any coverage. Other times he has looked like, well, a guy in his 40s playing a young man\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers looked more like prime Rodgers in the Steelers\u2019 gritty 16-10 win over the Saints in Paris. He wasn\u2019t satisfied with his side of the ball, telling reporter Molly McGrath, \u201cI don\u2019t think we played very good on offense today.\u201d But Rodgers did enough to secure the win, including a 51-yard strike to DK Metcalf in the second quarter. <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cjzero.bsky.social\/post\/3mypmqg5scc2z\">He later scrambled for a first down<\/a> on third-and-six to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/26\/aaron-rodgers-pittsburgh-steelers-nfl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 42-year-old remains a polarizing figure. But the Steelers have a formidable defense and a quarterback who has seen it all before Aaron Rodgers is nowhere near this season\u2019s MVP conversation. At times in his second season with the Steelers, the almost 43-year-old has shown glimpses of the player he was in his prime, slinging &#8230; <a title=\"Creaking, smug \u2026 and a contender? Aaron Rodgers may yet get his Super Bowl farewell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/creaking-smug-and-a-contender-aaron-rodgers-may-yet-get-his-super-bowl-farewell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Creaking, smug \u2026 and a contender? Aaron Rodgers may yet get his Super Bowl farewell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}