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By Greg A. Bedard
Wednesday, May 21 2008, 07:40 PM
Green Bay - Aaron Rodgers spoke to the media for over 30 minutes today as he began life as "The Guy" at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. There was a lot of interesting stuff that he said, and it will be covered in my story for tomorrow's paper. But there's one section that I wanted you guys to see now.
Rodgers was asked about the label he carries of being 'injury prone.' It's obviously one of the biggest topics going into his tenure under center for the Packers post Brett Favre. Here's what he had to say, including a little nugget that he had a torn hamstring last year -- "It was pretty bad."
You seem to take real offense when people call you injury prone...
I think it does kind of bother me to say that. To me, when somebody says injury prone, it has a negative connotation to it and a lot of times people can say you're soft because of it. I mean, I had a broken foot and a torn hamstring. And the other thing is when people who have never played by position or even laced them up before are calling me injury prone. I have a little bit of a problem with that. For anybody to call anybody in the NFL injury-prone is not a great idea unless you've played that position or the game for a long time because otherwise you don't really know what it's like to be an NFL player.
I mean, yeah, you're following somebody that had 250-straight starts plus. Obviously that's the standard. If it's an injury because of something you haven't done in the off-season, some work that you can't done on your body, that's one thing. But the kind of work that I've put in, the kind of injuries I've had have kind of been fluke injuries. I'd say I'm one of the most flexible guys on the team. For me to pull a hamstring on the last play of practice is pretty ridiculous. I broke my foot and finished the game. Obviously I want to play all 16 games but things happen out there that you can't control. I just need to be smart as far as my decisions outside the pocket. The biggest problem I had was you calling me injury prone and I finished the game with a broken foot. How do you respond to that?
You had a torn hamstring? We weren't told that...
It was pretty bad. I begged coach to play in that Detroit game. I told him I was probably 85 percent.
Wednesday, May 21 2008, 07:40 PM
Green Bay - Aaron Rodgers spoke to the media for over 30 minutes today as he began life as "The Guy" at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. There was a lot of interesting stuff that he said, and it will be covered in my story for tomorrow's paper. But there's one section that I wanted you guys to see now.
Rodgers was asked about the label he carries of being 'injury prone.' It's obviously one of the biggest topics going into his tenure under center for the Packers post Brett Favre. Here's what he had to say, including a little nugget that he had a torn hamstring last year -- "It was pretty bad."
You seem to take real offense when people call you injury prone...
I think it does kind of bother me to say that. To me, when somebody says injury prone, it has a negative connotation to it and a lot of times people can say you're soft because of it. I mean, I had a broken foot and a torn hamstring. And the other thing is when people who have never played by position or even laced them up before are calling me injury prone. I have a little bit of a problem with that. For anybody to call anybody in the NFL injury-prone is not a great idea unless you've played that position or the game for a long time because otherwise you don't really know what it's like to be an NFL player.
I mean, yeah, you're following somebody that had 250-straight starts plus. Obviously that's the standard. If it's an injury because of something you haven't done in the off-season, some work that you can't done on your body, that's one thing. But the kind of work that I've put in, the kind of injuries I've had have kind of been fluke injuries. I'd say I'm one of the most flexible guys on the team. For me to pull a hamstring on the last play of practice is pretty ridiculous. I broke my foot and finished the game. Obviously I want to play all 16 games but things happen out there that you can't control. I just need to be smart as far as my decisions outside the pocket. The biggest problem I had was you calling me injury prone and I finished the game with a broken foot. How do you respond to that?
You had a torn hamstring? We weren't told that...
It was pretty bad. I begged coach to play in that Detroit game. I told him I was probably 85 percent.
