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Former New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini has added his name to the list of people within NFL circles who are critical of Aaron Rodgers.
Mangini, who was the Jets head coach from 2006 to 2008, ripped into Aaron Rodgers during a recent appearance on The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports 1, echoing many of the talking points that have been leveled against the 40-year-old QB in the past, calling him out for missing mandatory minicamp for a reported trip to Egypt.
“What’s disappointing about that situation is he was the one that talked about the importance of limiting distraction,” Mangini said.
“He was the one that would talk about the importance of focusing on only football. And all the things that he preaches in the press conference. And then you get in this situation where he misses the mandatory minicamp, and I get that he was at the voluntary part and I think that’s great. But it’s not a secret when mandatory minicamp is.”
Mangini reiterated that despite what Rodgers says he believes — his now-infamous press conference in which he said “bulls—” that doesn’t have to do with winning has to get out of the building — his actions indicate otherwise.
“So it does it matter, in the grand scheme of things, in terms of him missing those two days is going to dramatically change how he performs, or the other group performs? No, but it’s more indicative of all the noise that’s brought into the building that’s so unnecessary and distracts from everything else that they’re trying to get.”
The former Bill Belichick disciple rightly pointed out that if the Jets don’t succeed this year, it’s more than likely that Rodgers, head coach Robert Saleh, and general manager Joe Douglas are all going to be without a job.
“And at the end of the day, if he doesn’t win this year – he’s gone. The coaching staff is gone. And the Jets are starting – probably the GM is gone. Everybody’s starting over.”