Typically all of us attain a bit of too far for an analogy, and on Wednesday it appeared for some time like Ryan Clark’s ideas on Aaron Rodgers had been going to go completely off the rails.
Ryan Clark on Aaron Rodgers doubtlessly becoming a member of the Steelers: “Mike Tomlin can work with anyone… however as an example you place Scar on the staff. You recognize, Scar from the Mufasa film and The Lion King… Are you aware what Scar’s title was earlier than Scar? It was Taka. Are you aware what Taka… pic.twitter.com/bbPvKJd11B
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Look, I’ll be the primary to initially suppose “oh man, that is making no sense” — however Ryan Clark has me completely shopping for in on this. Give it some thought: Scar was all the time jealous of Mufasa. He wished to be the king of the lions. When it was clear that wasn’t happing he went about forming his personal delight, his personal crew — lurking round with hyenas who had been keen to do no matter he wished.
If Scar simply accepted his position and supported his brother then the lions would have thrived. As a substitute his pursuit of energy and glory got here on the trade of destroying all the things. Now, I’m not going to say Aaron Rodgers would guarantee Mike Tomlin fell off a cliff and right into a stampeding herd of buffalo — however I’m additionally not, not saying it.
The reality is, Rodgers simply doesn’t play nicely with others. Clark is astute in mentioning that there’s nothing to point that Rodgers and Arthur Smith would mesh, and that might end in a management battle. Might Tomlin maintain it collectively? In all probability, however why even take that danger while you’re already a playoff staff.
Pittsburgh doesn’t have lots of wiggle room with growing old vets on each side of the ball. They unquestionably made a mistake at their QB place by letting Justin Fields stroll, however they’ll nonetheless salvage this in a method that doesn’t contain bringing in essentially the most divisive QB within the league.
