At this point, how can anybody believe anything?
Last week, a New York Post report suggested that Aaron Rodgers was basically pleading his case to remain the New York Jets quarterback. Now, a contrasting narrative has surfaced.
According to The Athletic’s Dianna Russini, Rodgers wasn’t pleading to remain a Jet. Instead, he actually “wanted his time in New York to end.”
“I refuse to do the source-off and dig on who is saying what because I just went through it for two years with the Jets, with so much of my reporting because it comes with a lot of heat,” Russini said on the “Rich Eisen Show” Wednesday. “I’ll just go with what I know, and nobody had shared with me that Rodgers was begging to stay a New York Jet.
“In fact, this entire time, I knew that Aaron Rodgers wanted his time in New York to come to an end as well. He knew this chapter was over a while ago. So unless there was a change of heart and he just really fell in love with the Jersey Shore, I have a hard time believing he’s sitting there going, ‘Woody, let’s fix this …’ I don’t believe any of that.”
Rodgers, 41, is fresh off a troubling NFL season in which he led his team to just five wins. The speculation surrounding his future ramped up as soon as the Jets hit the home stretch of the season.
Obviously, Rodgers is a lightning rod for the media and football fans worldwide. Some of that is courtesy of his own actions, whereas a chunk of it deals with how digital sports media works in today’s social media-charged world.
No matter what individuals think about the man or whether the Jets made the right call by “moving on” from the veteran quarterback, the news involving his name has reached an absolutely ludicrous level.
First, a report emerged suggesting the Jets gave Rodgers an ultimatum about not appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show,” courtesy of Russini herself. Then, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero poured cold water on that report by describing how the process unfolded.
If that wasn’t enough, just five days after the New York Post report describing Rodgers having accepted his fate “like a man going to the gallows,” Russini’s latest words make it sound like Rodgers was just as eager to end the relationship as the Jets.
Got it? Does everybody understand?
Good.
