One of the greatest Badger EVER.
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Great Badger and a good human being. Enjoy your retirement JJ
12 years as a pro, but only 3 of the last 7 seasons he didn’t miss significant time. Makes you wonder had he stayed healthy as his numbers were impressive. he will finish with close to 115 sacks.
The 4 year run from 2012-2015 he averaged 17 sacks and 80 tackles a season.
Hope all those injuries and body blows don’t keep him from a healthy post football life…he is just a young man.
I will always wonder if he had come to Green Bay instead of Arizona would he have improved the Packer D enough to get a Super Bowl ring for himself?
Great Badger
Great player
Great guy.
BTN just re-aired the 2009 Champs Bowl game between the Badgers and the Miami Hurricanes. JJ had a day there! Also on the field, for Miami, was Sam Shields. Cool to watch these guys play before they were pros.
Was that the one in Orlando and it was like 45 degrees and the Hurricanes mailed it in because they were frozen?
Five-time First Team NFL All Pro, and two second team selections.
Three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year
Bert Bell NFL Player of the Year (2014)
NFL Team of the Decade, 2010s
Only man in NFL history with two official 20 sack seasons.
He’s an all-time great, and should be an easy first ballot inductee to Canton.
All that said, he’s an even better human being.
I think this revelation that he’s retiring, the way he did it, speaks volumes about who he is as a man. Many…most athletes would have made this announcement before the beginning of the season, so people could fawn all over them for 17 weeks.
JJ did it after his final home game. No pomp. Just hanging it up after leaving everything he had on the field.