Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers made headlines for his spicy comments regarding how his worst years compare up to other quarterbacks. It seems that was hardly the only bone he had to pick with the media.
Rodgers was not shy about expressing his feelings regarding clickbait articles in the media during on appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, per Jimmy Traina of SI.com:
“All the f—ing media does is write stories to get clicks,” Aaron Rodgers said. “It doesn't matter. I could give a long answer about something and they can take a blip of it and write a story about it that has nothing to do with what I was saying. Nobody is gonna take the time, unless you're watching this live, to listen to this entire interview. They're gonna take pieces of it. If I'm not doing this in person, you can't see facial expressions. Or if you're not listening to it and you're just reading a transcript, you can't hear voice inflection and tone and inference. So that's just the way it is.”
Rodgers added that he finds his practice “comical” before opining about “confirmation bias” and “blue check marks.”
Aaron Rodgers' long-winded comments seem to solidify his disdain for the media, it is safe to say that such clickbait did not go unnoticed heading into the 2020 NFL season.
Although the Packers fell just one game short of a trip to the Super Bowl, Rodgers caught some flak for a down year by his elite standards. This was only amplified by all the speculation regarding the team's decision to trade up and take quarterback Jordan Love in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Rodgers has since managed to silence the doubters so far with his stellar start to the season. He currently ranks in the top-5 in touchdowns (13), yards (1,214), and passer rating (128.4) while throwing zero interceptions.
More importantly, Green Bay remains undefeated at 4-0.
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