Nicolas Cage will play him in the movie

Sometimes, things seem dark. And that's when someone will always say, "The darkest hour is just before the dawn." 

And as someone who habitually rises before dawn, I can attest that it's true. But really, what difference does it make? As Thomas Edison said, "Dark is dark." And then later on, Los Bravos said, "Black Is Black."  

And THAT leads us to the stygian darkness in the soul of Aaron Rodgers, erstwhile quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, who can't decide whether to play football this coming season, or where.

So he is going on a "darkness retreat."

Yesterday, Rodgers said "The Pat McAfee Show" that he is planning to go on a  four-day/four-night "darkness retreat" after the Super Bowl on Sunday.

"I've got a pretty cool opportunity to do a little self-reflection in some isolation," Rodgers said. "And then after that I feel like I'll be a lot closer to a final, final decision."

He's 39, and while most of us who don't have millions of people cheering our work on Sunday afternoons, Rodgers has not even decided IF he will play in 2023, or if he wants to play for the Packers, or wherever else.

He might just go home and be really mellow.

"For sure; it's a real thing, 100 percent," Rodgers said about retirement. "That's why it's going to be important to get through this week and to take my isolation retreat and just to be able to contemplate all things my future and then be able to make a decision that I think is best for me moving forward and in the highest interest of my happiness and then move forward."

Last summer, Rodgers said he was using the plant-based psychedelic known as  ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a brew that can produce hallucinations similar like being on a dimethyltryptamine (DMT) trip.  But he won't be using ayahuasca in his darkness retreat.

Rodgers said, "It's just sitting in isolation, meditation, dealing with your thoughts...  there can be some hallucinations in there but it's just kind of sitting in silence, which most of us never do. We rarely even turn our phone off or put the blinds down to sleep in darkness. I'm really looking forward to it."

He's going to be in a small house somewhere (he won't say where) where his meals will be delivered but there will be no other contact with the world at large.

Four days of hanging around with Aaron Rodgers in the dark might be four too many for anyone...including Aaron Rodgers.