No... Roquan Smith is a TREMENDOUS defensive player and is grossly underrated by many on this message board. It isn't about making Rodgers "shake in his boots". Rodgers is on the field and reads defenses as well as anybody. He knows exactly what Smith brings to the table.
Or he wants the team to think that so they spend $20M+ of cap space on a player he can dink and dunk to wins like he has done in all but one game in the 4 years Smith has been here. Yes he knows exactly what Smith brings, someone he can beat without worry of being tackled or getting picked off.
The record just doesn't speak as highly about Smith as Smith and many on this message board do. He can tackle and that is it. Rarely for a loss but mostly for gains.
It is exactly about making him shake in his boots. If it's not and he's saying he wants us to keep the player you should ask yourself why. When it was Urlacher did Rodgers say he would miss him or that the Bears would miss him? Was he saying how much he'd miss Mack?
I mean this is obviously a topic created by the media and meaningless platitudes from the player(s) but get real. If the QB doesn't have some fear for his health or stats going against a player nothing the QB says matters.