Steelers great Ryan Clark likens Aaron Rodgers to Scar from 'The Lion King': 'You could have a garbage season'

One of the astir intriguing escaped agents inactive connected the NFL marketplace is backmost Aaron Rodgers, who is expected to beryllium officially released by the New York Jets erstwhile the caller league twelvemonth begins astatine 4 p.m. connected Wednesday. 

Rodgers has been capable to talk with different teams astir uncovering a caller location aft a failed two-year tenure successful New York, and 2 teams that person travel retired arsenic expected frontrunners are the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants. 

The Steelers are much win-now than the Giants. Pittsburgh was a playoff squad past season, portion New York was 3-14. Pittsburgh besides made a immense move, bringing successful wide receiver D.K. Metcalf successful a blockbuster commercialized with the Seattle Seahawks. 

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The Steelers would supply Rodgers with a bully roster to get the occupation done each week. However, 1 squad fable does not judge it would beryllium a lucifer made successful shot heaven. 

ESPN expert Ryan Clark, who played 8 of his 13 NFL seasons with the Steelers portion winning a Super Bowl with the franchise, utilized the celebrated Disney movie "The Lion King" to explicate wherefore helium feels Rodgers and the Steelers could pb to a "garbage season."

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"Let’s accidental you enactment Scar connected the squad – you know, Scar from the ‘Mufasa’ movie and ‘The Lion King’ right?" Clark told his colleagues connected ‘Get Up.’ "Here it is: Mufasa is trying to beryllium Scar’s brother. Do you cognize what Scar’s sanction was earlier Scar? It was Taka. Do you cognize what Taka meant? Garbage, wasted. That’s precisely what tin hap if you bring Aaron Rodgers successful there. You could person a wasted season, you could person a garbage season."

Clark backed up his sentiment connected Rodgers joining his erstwhile squad by saying it had thing to bash with the four-time MVP backmost gelling with caput manager Mike Tomlin. Instead, helium believes moving alongside violative coordinator Arthur Smith, who joined Pittsburgh successful that relation past season, could beryllium a challenge.

"You could person a locker country that has to set to not lone Aaron Rodgers, but Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers trying to fig retired who’s going to triumph the conflict of what they privation the discourtesy to be," Clark explained. "They cognize what Arthur Smith wants: He wants to tally the football, helium wants to get immoderate play-action pass. That’s not the mode Aaron Rodgers likes to play football. 

"So, it isn’t astir the property of Mike Tomlin mixing with anybody, due to the fact that helium tin manager anybody, subordinate to anybody, helium tin motivate anyone. But does it enactment with the X’s and O’s, and erstwhile the X’s and O’s don’t work, and Omar Khan, the wide manager of the Pittsburgh Steelers, says, ‘OK, this portion isn’t working. Do we person to commencement it each implicit again successful Pittsburgh and find a caller quarterback?’"

Clark past got much animated erstwhile discussing the personalities of Rodgers, arsenic good arsenic his apical receivers if helium were to spell to Pittsburgh, calling them each "crash outs."

"Yes, it looks great. It looks large that you got D.K. Metcalf and George Pickens retired there, but you got 2 clang outs," Clark said. "You’re going to person 2 clang outs astatine wide receiver, and past adhd the quiescent clang retired astatine quarterback? Hell no. This is not thing that I consciousness successful my psyche arsenic idiosyncratic that loves the achromatic and gold, I don’t get each lukewarm and tingly reasoning astir this."

If Rodgers does not caput to the Steelers, Russell Wilson, who was the team's starter past season, is besides a escaped cause and could caput backmost to Pittsburgh. 

Rodgers' 20th NFL play wasn't what helium planned, going 5-12 arsenic the Jets' starter with 3,897 passing yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. 

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