If Aaron Rodgers would have decided to run with RFK, NYJ would have been SOL at QB

In March, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said that Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be joining the ticket as the candidate for V.P. Rodgers said nothing about it until Kennedy decided to go in a different direction. In the interim, the Jets were in the dark regarding whether Rodgers would have played or not played while running for the second highest office in the land.

During his first press conference of the 2024 offseason, Rodgers was asked how serious the possibility became.

“I love Bobby,” Rodgers said. “We had a couple really nice conversations. But there were really two options. It was retire and be his V.P. or keep playing. And I wanted to keep playing.”

There was no follow up to that. Amazingly. (It sounds like the person who asked the question tried to ask another on the subject, but someone else launched into a question about offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.)

The next question, if there had been one, could have gone in several different directions. How close did you come to retiring? Did you consider playing and running? Did he offer you the position? How did this even come up? Are you planning to get into politics after you retire?

Would you have unretired after the campaign ended? Would you have come back in 2025? Do you really think you had a chance to win?

Did you communicate with the Jets about the possibility that they’d need another quarterback after free agency had begun and players had signed new deals?

Would you have really walked away from $38 million in fully-guaranteed pay?

(Also, do you think Sandy Hook was an inside job? Are you a 9/11 truther? And why do you keep talking about the COVID vaccine at a time when no one else is?)

Yes, that’s how press conferences go. It’s a group of reporters who bring a question or two that they want to ask, and the session jumps around from subject to subject with little if any depth.

Because he never gives interviews to anyone other than someone he likes and/or believes will…

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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports

Publish date : 2024-05-21 19:48:18

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