The latest season of HBO’s Hard Knocks debuted on Tuesday night, and it’s already causing quite a stir in the football world. There was Aaron Rodgers going wild for actor Liev Schreiber — the narrating voice of the show. In another sequence, a Jets’ offensive lineman had a hilarious mispronunciation of the word “charcuterie.”
But the most notable sequence might have been when everyone on the Jets started to gush about Rodgers, the organization’s first true franchise quarterback in decades. A clip begins with rapid-fire shots of Aaron Rodgers throwing darts to his receivers in succession.
And fittingly: Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers,” a song about the electric feeling of being with the right person, serves as the theme.
— JoseCantseco (@cantseco) August 9, 2023
Honestly, I get it.
The Jets have been so downtrodden for so long, a fixture in the AFC’s basement, that Rodgers gives them real hope they haven’t had in years. Picking an on-the-nose contemporary melody about New York finding the right quarterback is a masterful artistic decision.