Aaron Rodgers sitting out tonight with back tightness

AP

Aaron Rodgers will miss tonight’s game against the Ravens with back tightness, Wes Hodkiewicz of the team website reports.

Hodkiewiz called it a “precaution” and not a concern long term.

The Packers quarterback did not play in last week’s preseason opener, but head coach Matt LaFleur had planned to play all his offensive starters this week aside from Aaron Jones. Jones has hamstring tightness.

The first-team offense, minus Rodgers and Jones, is expected to play about a quarter.

Backup quarterbacks DeShone Kizer, Tim Boyle and Manny Wilkins all got snaps last week and all could see snaps again this week, especially with Rodgers not playing.

41 responses to “Aaron Rodgers sitting out tonight with back tightness

  1. He is sitting out so he can have a cold one or it’s all the beer he has been drinking that’s been hurting his back!

  2. Totally precautionary. Aaron is fine.

    Aaron Jones is also sitting out for precautionary reasons.

    Enjoy the game!

    #GoPackGo!🏈

  3. 3 other QBs fighting for a roster spot – they really didn’t need to try explain Aaron’s absence.

  4. We all saw how important to the team he was the year he was out after the Barr tackle. No reason to take chances in preseason, and the Ravens have a highly ranked physical defense. Sensible decision.

  5. chickensalad43 says:
    August 15, 2019 at 7:14 pm
    The Bears defense is going to tee off on this guy opening night. I’m actually worried for his safety.
    _______

    Just like last season’s opener?
    Surely you must remember that one.

  6. Since 2015, the Packers rank dead last in the league in yards per dropback on play-action passes. Rodgers started just 55 of those 64 games because of injuries, so it’s only fair to break out his performance separately. But when we look just at games Rodgers started, things don’t get much better. Among quarterbacks in that same span with at least 100 play-action pass attempts, Rodgers ranks last in passing yards per dropback and 32nd out of 41 in Raw QBR, behind the likes of journeymen (Brian Hoyer), much-derided (Derek Carr and Eli Manning) and recently deposed quarterbacks (Blake Bortles and Ryan Tannehill).

  7. Older, slower, injury prone with declining skills.

    That and the need to assert his free will over the rookie HC.

    And next week he’ll be concerned about the field in Winnipeg not being up to NFL standards.

  8. @wafflestomp

    You mean the night the Bears D made Rodgers play the rest of the season on a bum leg? I mean, yeah, they dropped a game clinching pick in the gut and Aaron made the comeback win bomb, but I’m pretty sure nothing about that game rebuts the suggestion ARod could get pounded.

  9. Wafflestomp says:
    August 15, 2019 at 8:03 pm
    Just like last season’s opener?
    Surely you must remember that one.
    ————-
    Ahhh YES! He spent the rest of the Season whining about his leg and the Bears took the North!

  10. Wafflestomp says:
    August 15, 2019 at 8:03 pm
    chickensalad43 says:
    August 15, 2019 at 7:14 pm
    The Bears defense is going to tee off on this guy opening night. I’m actually worried for his safety.
    _______

    Just like last season’s opener?
    Surely you must remember that one.
    _______

    You mean the one that the Bears defense T’d off on Rodgers and he got carted to the locker room and your season was over.

    Yeah I sure do remember that!

  11. The guy hasn’t been the same since the Barr tackle. I had that same surgery after an auto accident. I am telling you 1st hand, it reduces what you can do, weakens easily, hurts at times for no reason, and his arm strength will never be the same. I’ll bet he has lost 10-15 mph off his fastball.
    Another observation watching him play last year, he looks kind of timid. He is not afraid, just a bit of a wince before a hit that he never used to have. Personally I hope he comes out of it.
    Vik and Pac fans aren’t fast friends but he is a unique talent, and I don’t want to see him go out like this.

  12. It’s a preseason game … who cares!? Not playing isn’t worth getting your undies in a bundle. A regular season game … different story. This game means nothing.

  13. Wafflestomp says:
    chickensalad43 says:
    The Bears defense is going to tee off on this guy opening night. I’m actually worried for his safety.
    _______

    Just like last season’s opener?
    Surely you must remember that one.

    ————–
    Wasnt Rodgers supposedly playing hurt all season because of that game?

  14. You don’t evaluate a preseason game in ANY way like a regular season game. Nor can you evaluate a team during a preseason game. Some teams do put a little more emphasis on getting wins in the preseason. Baltimore is a team that has won 15 preseason games in a row. You don’t do that without putting some importance on W’s in the preseason. When asked about his last preseason loss in 2015, John Harbaugh said: “I’m still mad about that one.”

    I put zero importance on W’s in the preseason. Wasn’t excited last week with a win and not down even one bit about a loss this week.

    Zach Kruse of PackersWire said it best: “I honestly don’t think we have learned anything of significance about Matt LaFleur’s team after 2 preseason games.”

    I will say that I didn’t like the sloppiness of the penalties. That needs to get cleaned up immediately. That is 100% unacceptable.

    The preseason is a big player evaluation time and from that perspective there were positives and negatives as there always are in the preseason. Gute is building a 53 and I think some light was shed there in some spots and will continue until Sept. 1st.

    The most important news of the night to me was “no significant injuries.”

    Success!

    #GoPackGo!🏈

  15. Brewers star and MLB MVP Christian Yelich missed some games last week with a back injury, and I’m sure Aaron saw all the jokes about how he needed rest from carrying the team all of last season.

    Guessing the diva QB wanted to read the same comments about himself. Too bad he hasn’t done anything to deserve that kind of praise the last two years. I guess it’s good that he goes about his me first attitude in a more passive manner though, instead of full on crazy like Antonio Brown.

  16. ARod could sit them all out and be just as effective, that is what elite QBs should do. Why subject them to pre season ? Not a Paxk fan but he is as tough as they come at that position, can he be an arrogant jerk … Yes but the guy can ball!

  17. cheeseisfattening says:
    August 15, 2019 at 9:04 pm
    Since 2015, the Packers rank dead last in the league in yards per dropback on play-action passes…………
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    ………and the Vikings would still prefer him over Cousins, if they had the slightest chance.

  18. kenmasters34 says:
    August 15, 2019 at 11:53 pm
    Wasnt Rodgers supposedly playing hurt all season because of that game?
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Not supposedly, broken leg. He beat the Bears on one leg.

  19. cellarperformance says (again and again)

    ……and the Vikings would still prefer him over Cousins, if they had the slightest chance.
    ###

    You keep saying this, but it’s not true.

    Rodgers is older,slower, injury prone and has declining skills.

    No one (except the Packers) thinks he’s worth the headache and the cost in today’s NFL.

    Soon the Packers will realize it too.

  20. You don’t evaluate a preseason game in ANY way like a regular season game. Nor can you evaluate a team during a preseason game
    ___
    Little effort, bad tackling, being physically dominated but it’s ok it’s the preseason. That can all be fixed by fixing a player’s pad level

  21. stellarperformance says:
    August 16, 2019 at 8:49 am

    kenmasters34 says:
    August 15, 2019 at 11:53 pm
    Wasnt Rodgers supposedly playing hurt all season because of that game?
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Not supposedly, broken leg. He beat the Bears on one leg.
    _____________

    First of all, those broken bones were clearly not weight bearing, so you make the injury sound much worse than it was. Second, how long did it take for those bones and the knee sprain to heal? He was running around like nothing was wrong the very next week, so it didn’t seem like that bad of an injury. But you seem to think it affected his performance all year. Shouldn’t these things heal after a few weeks?

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