Skip Bayless highlights major contrast between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady: "To him football is just a game"

Skip Bayless spoke about the difference between Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers and why he thinks one quarterback has seven rings while the other is stuck on his solitary one. The football commentator was talking about the Netflix documentary on the Jets' quarterback, 'Enigma,' and said there is nothing mysterious about why Aaron Rodgers has struggled the way he has this year.

Skip Bayless noted that the former Green Bay quarterback did not feel the kind of elation at winning a Super Bowl ring as he had hoped. The NFL commentator opined therein lay the reason for the ex-Packers star's troubles, saying,

"Enigma is something mysterious, puzzling, difficult to understand, yet it is painfully obvious to me exactly what happened to Aaron Rodgers career... And as Aaron says in the Netflix doc that night, after winning the Super Bowl, it hit him that winning it all didn't really make him that happy. His reaction was, is this all? There is, I think he was expecting Nirvana, heaven on earth, and he got a trip back to Green Bay in a ring."

Skip Bayless then compared that to Tom Brady, who was driven by a singular focus of winning multiple Super Bowl rings, so much so that he kept in shape to return to the field even after winning seven of them. Skip Bayless continued,

"But this is all why Aaron Rodgers, as I said from the start, is the flip side of Tom Brady. Brady won his first Super Bowl, and he could not wait to win his second and his third and his fourth, and on and on and on, because Brady was still paying an extreme price to be in extreme shape and extremely prepared after he won his seventh Super Bowl."

Skip Bayless concluded that the Jets quarterback viewers football merely as game, noting,

"It's been 15 years since Aaron Rodgers played in his one and only Super Bowl because he was never, ever obsessed with playing in his first Super Bowl. To Aaron Rodgers, football is just a game."

Comparing Aaron Rodgers' Jets record with Tom Brady's Bucs success gives Skip Bayless credence

The Jets had seen a future Hall-of-Fame quarterback move from New England to Tampa Bay and deliver a Super Bowl ring in his twilight years. Matthew Stafford did the same going from the Lions to the Rams. New York wanted to replicate that with Aaron Rodgers but his two years have been an unmitigated disaster.

The first season saw him tear his Achilles on the opening drive and miss the rest of 2023. This year, the Jets have a 4-12 record, which is worse than the 7-10 record they had with Zach Wilson as their starter in the previous season. There have been no Super Bowls or playoff appearances. Instead, New York has fired their head coach and general manager and is looking at a rebuild in 2025.