{"id":7162,"date":"2013-12-05T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:13:36","slug":"former-teammate-thinks-packers-should-shut-aaron-rodgers-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/05\/former-teammate-thinks-packers-should-shut-aaron-rodgers-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Former teammate thinks Packers should shut Aaron Rodgers down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/20131205-101238.jpg\" alt=\"20131205-101238.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Green Bay Packers have yet to rule Aaron Rodgers out for Week 14 but it appears that Matt Flynn will be announced as the teams starter on Friday. Flynn has been taking the first team reps and blamed a short week (Thursday game) as part of the reasons for his struggles on Thanksgiving Day against the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>While Flynn may be under center for the Packers in their game against Atlanta, all eyes are on Aaron Rodgers who wants to come back from his collarbone injury. Rodgers has been cleared to practice but not play and former teammate Charles Woodson believes it is time to shutdown the quarterback if the Packers are out of the playoff hunt.<br \/>\n\u201c[If] you don\u2019t have the confidence or the doctors\u2019 don\u2019t have that confidence in that shoulder that you can go out there and the same thing is not going to happen again, I think you shut him down,\u201d Woodson said, via Jason Wilde of ESPNWisconsin.com. \u201cI went through the same thing last year and I wanted to come back Week 12, 13, 14. But the scans never gave us that confidence, so I didn\u2019t come back until the playoffs. So if they don\u2019t have the confidence in those scans, you shut him down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Packers would remain in the hunt for a playoff spot with a win but have match-ups with three teams still competing for playoff spots in Weeks 15,16 and 17. (Dallas, Pittsburgh, Chicago)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith having a guy that you\u2019re going to pay over $100 million, [if] you\u2019re out of the playoffs, I would shut him down,\u201d Woodson said. \u201cI know Aaron and if he\u2019s healthy, it depends on what his scans are telling him, (but) I know he\u2019s kicking and scratching trying to get back in the game. But having your franchise guy go out there and there is no chance at making the playoffs and you\u2019re not really sure what\u2019s going on with that shoulder [is a mistake].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay (5-6-1) would seemingly need to win out to have any chance at a playoff spot. So is it time to shut down Rodgers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers have yet to rule Aaron Rodgers out for Week 14 but it appears that Matt Flynn will be announced as the teams starter on Friday. Flynn has been taking the first team reps and blamed a short week (Thursday game) as part of the reasons for his struggles on Thanksgiving Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[24,153,216],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-green-bay-packers","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}