Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss is making a habit of lighting up quarterbacks. Last year, it was the Giants’ Jaxson Dart, whom Elliss crushed along the sideline before Dart had a chance to step out of bounds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On Sunday, it was Aaron Rodgers. During the second quarter, Elliss blitzed unblocked off the edge and Rodgers never saw him coming. The result was a forced fumble, which both teams combined to comically kick backwards about 35 yards, setting up a 4th & 43.<\/p>\n
Rodgers, impressively, actually got right up and seemed to be OK. He also said something to Elliss, which the veteran shared with WEEI’s Jones & Keefe during his weekly Patriots Monday appearance. Listen to the full interview above.<\/p>\n
“He was like, ‘Hey, I’m 41. Don’t ever hit me like that again,'” Elliss said.<\/p>\n
Rodgers, for what it’s worth, is actually 42. So, either he got his own age wrong or Elliss just misquoted him. Regardless, it was certainly a harder hit than anyone his age wants to be taking.<\/p>\n
Elliss said he was also a little surprised to see Rodgers pop back up.<\/p>\n
“He’s a competitor, so he’s fun to play against,” Elliss said. “It was a fun game. It was a fun game. I’m surprised he got up, too.”<\/p>\n
Elliss and the Patriots defense ultimately held the Steelers to just three points in the 20-3 victory, and Rodgers finished with 187 yards passing on 39 attempts (4.8 yards per attempt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss is making a habit of lighting up quarterbacks. Last year, it was the Giants’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[1586,11813,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,57],"class_list":["post-1007142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-christian-elliss","tag-football","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117311212338230190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}