On Tuesday, “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” debuted on Netflix.
The three-episode docuseries begins with the four-time NFL MVP receiving a tattoo of a dragon chasing its personal tail.
It displays on Rodgers’ final 12 months, which included a commerce to the Jets and the quarterback tearing his Achilles 4 performs into his debut in 2023. Viewers will see Rodgers rehabbing in his try and return earlier than the top of the 2023 season.
In fact, that by no means occurred as a result of the Jets have been eradicated from playoff rivalry earlier than Rodgers may return in Week 16 of that season.
Throughout a lot of the sequence, Enigma particulars Rodgers’ battle with fame after successful Tremendous Bowl XLV in 2011. This finally led to his estrangement from his household and his religious journey to seek out himself. Rodgers additionally claims to be a perfectionist, which has been a battle for him.
Episode 1 displays on Rodgers’ upbringing in Chico, California, in a “very white, dogmatic church.”
“That just didn’t really serve me,” Rodgers mentioned. “It was very rigid in structure.”
In the course of the second episode, Rodgers went on an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica, the place he additionally frolicked with present Dolphins security Jordan Poyer and mates of his.
“It’s the hardest medicine possible that I’ve tried,” Rodgers mentioned. He additionally applauded its therapeutic energy for “mind, body, spirit.”
One of many themes of this present is Rodgers’ revolt in opposition to his Christian upbringing, which upsets his household. He additionally discusses the general public second eight years after his brother Jordan went on “The Bachelorette.”
“They go on bulls–t show and leave two empty chairs,” Rodgers mentioned through the hometowns episode of the 2016 season, the place his estrangement together with his household went public. “They all agreed this was like a good thing to do, to leave two empty chairs at a stupid dating show that my brother just went on to get famous — his words, not mine — that he ended up winning.”
Rodgers says his earlier relationships with varied celebrities and his household affected his life as a toddler and as an grownup.
“When I became real famous, family members said, ‘Your life is too big. We need you to be smaller,’” Rodgers mentioned. “Be smaller, like, don’t talk about your life.’
“It always hurt me because I just feel like you don’t see me. And so as I found my voice to kind of question things, I also found doing things that, compared to what I grew up in, would be considered an alternative lifestyle.”
Nobody from Rodgers’ household was interviewed within the documentary. Rodgers did say he was open to reconciliation together with his household but additionally mentioned, “I don’t want them to fail, to struggle, to have any strife or issues.”
The docuseries does tackle Rodgers’ COVID-19 controversy in 2021 when he instructed reporters whereas he was nonetheless enjoying for the Packers, ‘Yeah, I’m immunized.” Rodgers finally examined constructive for COVID-19 and missed a recreation when it was later came upon he was not vaccinated.
Rodgers discusses his soccer future however doesn’t present particulars on whether or not he’ll play previous 2024. Final month, he mentioned on The Pat McAfee Present that he “does not know if he wants to play” subsequent season.
