You saw it. I saw it. The whole football world saw it.
An inexcusable mistake after an incredibly boneheaded decision.
We all watched with horror as Ty Montgomery took the final kickoff in Sunday's thriller between the Packers and the Rams and proceeded to fumble away his team's chance for victory.
According to Michael Silver of NFL Media, there's an apparent backstory that leads up to that cataclysmic event. It involves play time, heated tempers and the starting quarterback.
From Silver:
"Aaron was hot," said one Packers coach. "And he had a right to be. He yelled, 'Take a f------ knee!' He was very, very mad."
In the eyes of many of Rodgers' teammates, his ire was justifiable. According to more than a half-dozen Packers players and coaches who witnessed it, Montgomery had thrown a tantrum of his own on Green Bay's previous offensive series, becoming noticeably enraged on the sideline after being removed from the game. At least one player believed there was carryover from that incident to Montgomery's decision to disregard his coaches' instruction and return the kickoff.
"They took him out (the previous drive) for a play and he slammed his helmet and threw a fit," one Packers player said. "Then (before the kickoff) they told him to take a knee, and he ran it out anyway. You know what that was? That was him saying, 'I'm gonna do me.' It's a f----- joke.
"I mean, what the f--- are you doing? We've got Aaron Rodgers, the best I've ever seen, and you're gonna take that risk? I mean, it's '12'! All you gotta do is give him the ball, and you know what's gonna happen."
Well, that explains it
An inexcusable mistake after an incredibly boneheaded decision.
We all watched with horror as Ty Montgomery took the final kickoff in Sunday's thriller between the Packers and the Rams and proceeded to fumble away his team's chance for victory.
According to Michael Silver of NFL Media, there's an apparent backstory that leads up to that cataclysmic event. It involves play time, heated tempers and the starting quarterback.
From Silver:
"Aaron was hot," said one Packers coach. "And he had a right to be. He yelled, 'Take a f------ knee!' He was very, very mad."
In the eyes of many of Rodgers' teammates, his ire was justifiable. According to more than a half-dozen Packers players and coaches who witnessed it, Montgomery had thrown a tantrum of his own on Green Bay's previous offensive series, becoming noticeably enraged on the sideline after being removed from the game. At least one player believed there was carryover from that incident to Montgomery's decision to disregard his coaches' instruction and return the kickoff.
"They took him out (the previous drive) for a play and he slammed his helmet and threw a fit," one Packers player said. "Then (before the kickoff) they told him to take a knee, and he ran it out anyway. You know what that was? That was him saying, 'I'm gonna do me.' It's a f----- joke.
"I mean, what the f--- are you doing? We've got Aaron Rodgers, the best I've ever seen, and you're gonna take that risk? I mean, it's '12'! All you gotta do is give him the ball, and you know what's gonna happen."
Well, that explains it