Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella has a saying: “safe is death.”
That slogan generally applies to aggressiveness on the ice, where the fiery Tortorella would rather see his players take an aggressive, calculated risk and fail than sit back passively and let the game come to them.
In hearing Aaron Rodgers’ comments this week, you’d think it is the Green Bay Packers quarterback who came up with that mantra, though in a different context.
Sure, with the Packers having 13 players on this week’s injury report and a majority of them being key starters, you could almost understand if the team decided to take it a bit easy this week.