News Flash: Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers tested positive for Covid-19 today, and will miss the hyped-up Sunday game against the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. Of course, why would Rodgers be “immune” if teammates like Davante Adams and Allen Lazard caught the virus last week? What makes Rodgers so “special” that he is naturally “immune”? I mean, isn’t that what he told us back in August? When reporters asked him if he was vaccinated, he replied that he was “immunized.” The local media, happy to see him back on the team, didn’t attempt to force him to clarify what he meant; it was just “assumed” that he meant “vaccinated.” There was however room for doubt; he followed that up by asserting that he wouldn’t judge or criticize teammates who were not vaccinated.
Well, he’s probably hoping that his teammates and coaches won’t be criticizing him now because he told a "harmles" to him lie about his vaccination status. He is supposed to be the team leader, and Rodgers should know that he has to show “leadership” by doing the right thing, which is to get vaccinated. But no, the narcissist just does want he wants to do, and if the reason why he kept his vaccination status “secret” is because, as Mike Florio pointed out today, he is hyper-sensitive to criticism, then Rodgers better not tune into what his detractors like Skip Bayless have to say about it.
Rodgers’ claim that he was “immunized” makes one wonder if he kept something else “secret.” Did he test positive for the virus during the off-season that wasn’t reported, and he believed because of that he was “immune”? Testing positive once for the virus didn’t help the Ravens Lamar Jackson stay “immunized,” since he was subsequently re-infected a second time. Jackson has also kept his vaccination status an open “secret” by claiming it is a “family” issue—as if his teammates are not “family.” The Vikings’ “at peace with being unvaccinated” quarterback Kirk Cousins angered coach Mike Zimmer by being one of those who helped clear out the quarterback room because of a positive virus test during training camp.
This does not have a good look
for Rodgers. It is one thing to be a player characterized by Zimmer as one of “These
guys, some of them just won’t do it. I shouldn’t say it, but some of the things
they read is just, whew, out there,” and another thing to refuse to state one’s
vaccination status when it is clear they just don’t want to tell you that they
are not. But Rodgers did something worse, which was, well, lie about it because
he couldn’t take the heat, which is par for the course with him. Packer fans
have forgiven a lot with this guy with all that off-season drama, and the fact
that he keeps losing in championship games. But lying to fans is something
entirely different. Further, he flaunted Covid protocols like mask-wearing which were required for unvaccinated players, which potentially endangered teammates. And of course his self-deception put his own health at risk.
For now, in a game that the Packers had a good shot at winning, since the Chiefs are having a “down” season and just barely missed being 3-5 after the Monday night game, now all of a sudden the Packers are “unfavored” to win the game. Blake Bortles—who people may recall nearly led the Jaguars to their first Super Bowl appearance in the 2017 season—reportedly will be re-signed for a game, since he at least read the playbook before he was cut when Rodgers reported to camp. The Packers have no choice to but to start Jordan Love, so if Rodgers is “done” after this season, we will get a preview of what the “Jordan Love” era will look like, which may only last for this one game—unless of course he “shocks” everyone and the Packers actually win this game, which I am sure is the last thing (secretly, of course) the self-absorbed Rodgers wants to see happen.
We really don't like to say anything that will upset Rodgers, but as the “leader” of this team, he let everyone down by not doing what a “leader” does and providing an example for his teammates.
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