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While Aaron Rodgers has yet to complete an official regular season pass for the New York Jets, he’s certainly delivered tons of headaches.
From his frequent controversial comments on fringe podcasts to his support of fringe presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to skipping out on mandatory practices to pretending like he was going to make a miraculous recovery from an Achilles injury, Aaron Rodgers has been more of a headline machine than a quarterback since the team traded for him in April 2023.
All of this, according to former New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini, is the behavior of a man who simply does not care about his teammates or the franchise he plays for.
“And he doesn’t care. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about the other 10 guys,” Mangini said on the Fox Sports 1 show First Things First thing week.
Mangini made a comparison that seems to be popping up quite a bit recently — Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud said something very similar earlier this summer — comparing Rodgers to Tom Brady and explaining how Brady’s personality is what makes him so much better than Rodgers.
“He cares about himself. And with Tom Brady, Tom was coachable, Tom wanted to be coached, and even though Tom was the greatest at that position, he was open to ideas that could make him better,” Mangini explained.
“But for Aaron, he’s just going to do whatever he wants to do, whatever is best for him – you other 10 guys, it’s not good for you, not good for the coaching staff, not good for anybody else. It doesn’t matter, because it’s just about him.”
Rodgers will not be appearing in any of the Jets’ preseason games, which means he’ll make his official return to an NFL field after his September 2023 Achilles tear in a Monday Night Football matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Monday, September 9,