Ryan Clark leans on bizarre Disney metaphor to trash Aaron Rodgers, Steelers fit

ESPN’s Ryan Clark used a bizarre Disney metaphor to describe why he wouldn’t want Aaron Rodgers on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rodgers is currently mulling options in free agency after parting ways with the New York Jets.

Clark, in Disney and ESPN partnership fashion, cited The Lion King. Or maybe, Mufasa: The Lion King, the prequel detailing the early life of James Earl Jones’ original character in the 1994 animated classic.

Rodgers is like Scar, who was voiced by Jeremy Irons in the original. In the prequel film, it shows the relationship between Mufasa and Scar and it’s a little more fleshed out. Well, we’ll just let Clark explain this one.

“I think that Mike Tomlin can work with anybody, I think that the personality of Mike Tomlin is to find the best in any situation in order to help his team reach its fullest potential,” Clark said on Get Up. “But let’s say you put Scar on the team. You know, Scar from the Mufasa movies and Lion King, right? Here it is. Mufasa is trying to be Scar’s, brother, right? Do you know what Scars name was before Scar? It was Taka. Do you know what Taka means? Garbage, wasted.

“That’s exactly what could happen if you bring Aaron Rodgers in there. You can have a wasted season. You can have a garbage season. You can have a locker room that has to adjust to not only Aaron Rodgers, but Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers trying to figure out who’s going to win the battle of what they want the offense to be.” 

Aaron Rodgers is not the one true king

Rodgers has been linked to the Steelers and New York Giants as of late. Heck, he could even follow in Brett Favre’s footsteps and play for the Minnesota Vikings.

But Clark doesn’t want Rodgers playing for his former team in Pittsburgh. Scar didn’t rule the Pride Lands very well. Clark might’ve gotten his facts mixed up!

“We know what Arthur Smith Smith wants. He wants to run the football. He wants to get into play action pass,” Clark said. “That’s not the way Aaron Rodgers likes to play football. So it isn’t about the personality of Mike Tomlin mixing with anybody, because he can coach anybody relate to anybody. He can motivate anyone. But does it work with the X’s and O’s, and when the X’s and O’s don’t work, and Omar Khan, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Steelers, says, ‘Okay, this piece isn’t working. Do we have to start it all over again in Pittsburgh and find a new quarterback?’ 

“Yes, it looks great, right? It looks great that you got DK Metcalf and George Pickens out there, but you got two crash outs. So you gonna have two crash outs at wide receiver and then at the quiet crash out at quarterback? Hell no. This is not something that I feel in my soul as someone that loves the black and gold.” 

Not even the great characters of Disney’s 90s era can save this mess, according to Clark. So if Rodgers does end up in Pittsburgh, good luck.

“I don’t get all warm and tingly thinking about this,” Clark said. “Okay, we’re gonna be like the Pride Lands. You know what the Pride Lands was? That’s where Scar and the hyenas was. That’s what we gonna end up, where the shadows are cast. Nobody wants to be where the shadows at. Timon and Pumba ain’t coming to save us.”