In June, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made waves by skipping his team’s mandatory minicamp. The team made the situation worse by calling it unexcused.
Rodgers had yet to address the situation. He did so in a new interview with Pardon My Take.
It was refreshing to hear Rodgers talk on a platform where he had no reason to expect he’d be treated with kid gloves. And the hosts, my Internet son PFT Commenter and Internet nephew Big Cat, did a nice job of using humor to draw things out of him. That’s how the issue of the missed mandatory minicamp came up, through jokes and laughter.
Then, Rodgers gave his real answer on what happened.
“I’m sure I’ll get fined for that,” Rodgers said. “The thing I think people don’t understand is that when I was in the NFC North and played for that team years ago there used to be a real thing called minicamp …