Aaron Rodgers blames ‘deceiving’ language on unexcused Jets absence
NY Post
Aaron Rodgers’ math shows that 10 is greater than two.
Rodgers downplayed the hubbub over his decision to take a personal trip to Egypt and miss the Jets mandatory minicamp in June.
The two-day minicamp operates under very similar rules and with similar practice drills to the 10 preceding voluntary OTAs (the Jets only held nine).
“Now it’s not minicamp, they can arbitrarily put a [mandatory] tag on whatever week of OTAs that they want,” Rodgers said on an episode of “Pardon My Take” that aired Monday, according to on3.com.
“This is the ‘minicamp week,’ which makes it more mandatory than other weeks, but it’s an OTAs schedule. That’s how words can be a little deceiving. They can make a story about how I missed minicamp when it was really two OTA days. I came to the first 10.”
The Jets technically only held nine OTAs, with head coach Robert Saleh cancelling the last one in a player-friendly gesture.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.