Dr. Fauci wasn't the only figure Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers went after during his recent appearance on The Pat McAFee Show. He took aim at former NFL insider Dianna Russini and ESPN's refusal to cover her scandal with Mike Vrabel.
“What was this network doing?” Rodgers asked on the show. “You had literally an individual that maybe used to work at ESPN, that covers our league at the highest level, and there’s a major scandal, and it’s just like nobody can (expletive) talk about it? What are we even doing here?”
McAfee's crew tried to steer the conversation away but Rodgers was undaunted.
"I understand (that there are personal lives involved), but if it’s affecting certain things, if there’s leaks going on, if there’s tampering going on, if that person is also an MVP voter and a Coach of the Year voter— remember when I won MVP in 2021 and that bum in Chicago? That’s real life. How are we allowing these people to have an impact?”
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LeSean McCoy Weighs In
Former NFL rushing leader LeSean McCoy was proud to see Rodgers say what others wouldn't. On the latest episode of his Speakeasy show, McCoy pointed out that when athletes have issues in their personal lives, the media jumps at the opportunity to cover it but not when it's a member of their own industry.
“He’s just keeping it straight 100. Every athlete out here, you want to criticize them if something happens in their personal life, you want to blow it up,” McCoy said. “But if it’s not an athlete, you know what happens? They don’t even want to talk about it. No, if you are an MVP voter, you’re that important, why can’t you talk about it and dig deep into it? If everybody has their own opinions about it, it should be talked about even more.”
There's still a lot of things we don't know about the Russini-Vrabel scandal. But it's been months and everyone seems to have moved on from that big story from the spring in order to focus on the season to come.
