stats on vaccinations?
Yeah, I've been immunized,
you know, there's a lot of
a lot of conversation around it
around the league and a lot of guys who
have made statements and that made statements
owners who made statements,
you know, there's guys in the team that having a vaccinated.
I think it's a personal decision. I'm not going to
judge those guys.
There's guys have been vaccinated. Attracted covid. So
it's an interesting issue that I think we're going to see
played out the entire season.
I had never previously noted that genius, filibuster by
Aaron Rodgers. He created the impression that the stuff he
said after yeah I've been immunized was a follow-up. See
when you talk for 45 seconds
they may forget the follow-up and that becomes important
because the true answer wasn't. Yeah, I've been immunized. It's
know.
I've been immunized. He wasn't when we know that now but it's
relevant. Not because you've stepped into a Time Warp, but
because Aaron Rodgers on The Joe Rogan
When podcast admitting that he deliberately said what he said
to keep the media from figuring out
that he hadn't been vaccinated. He didn't want to admit it. He
wanted to conceal it but don't take my word for it as if you
ever would. Open your eyes, open your ears. Have a look,
have a listen.
So I've been ready the entire time for this question
and had thought about how I wanted to answer it
and I had come to Clues and I'm going to say
I've been immunized.
And if there's a follow-up then talk about my process. But
thought there's a possibility that
I say I mean I just
maybe they understand what that means. Maybe they don't maybe
they follow up, they didn't follow up. So then I go
the season
them thinking some of them
that I was
vaccinated right because they followed the only Fallout they
asked was basically asking me to rip on my teammates like
what do you say to your teammates aren't vaccinated?
Like what kind of example
do you feel? Like you're setting,
you know
to your teammates who are vaccinated? I said it's
everybody's own decision with her body and we're super
healthy individuals. We took care of ourselves. We
understand what goes into our bodies, and
I don't have any judgment on
any decision to the guy makes with their own body,
right? But I knew at some point, if I can track the covid
or if word got out, because it's the NFL and there's leaks
everywhere
it was possible to have to answer the questions and then
sure enough, I can track covid in
Are the beginning November end of October,
and that's when the storm hit because
now I'm a liar. I'm in, you know, endangering,
you know, the community, my teammates, all these people.
And, you know,
you know, the attempted takedown of
me and, you know, my word and my Integrity began but
Yeah, you took down your own word in your integrity by doing
what you did. You specifically concocted a scam hopeful that
you would conceal the fact that you weren't vaccinated. You
didn't want to take the heat, you didn't want to have to
explain it, that was
it. Plain and simple. Chris. He he made some good points,
right? But under the rules and there are plenty of rules. We
don't like in the NFL. Yeah, plenty of rules to players
don't like but you got to follow them and one of
the rules was
in The Press Room. Last year, you had to wear a mask. If you
weren't vaccinated, he didn't because I wanted to continue to
keep up this ruse that he really was
when he wasn't and
there's no honor hidden anywhere in that, he
deliberately duped the media. Now, he's basically bragging
about it. Yeah, I
I'm not going to ever be like mad at somebody for not getting
vaccinated. I do feel that that's a personal choice, you
know. That was one that I didn't really want to get
vaccinated. I didn't, you know, and my health, my age, I just
thought. Ok,
but like So I'm not going to judge on that, that that
department, but yes to be deceitful to try to deceive all
of us. When you know you're doing, it
does bother me. There's no doubt about it. I mean, come on,
I do and you know again, it's it was. Yes, tactical
but it just it hurts me as a guy that again, I love Aaron
Rodgers. He's and is in my favorite quarterback ever to
watch.
He to me is in that conversation for greatest quarterback ever
and in the conversation for best. You were ever because
he's always kept it really honest
and, you know, sounds like he was ready to go honest, if it
went there and nobody did. But either way, that doesn't give
them a,
you know, a right to deceive us and trick us that way and then
break the rules like you're talking about that. Everybody
else had a follow.
So that's where I'm I am. I'm I get disappointed with Aaron
Rodgers for that aspect. Certainly that I just go up
man, like you're smart enough
and he's good enough and thought out enough to wear.
Like, I we said from Like I've said from the start, I think
he's the type of guy that could have been really real about
this conversation and really started a good conversation
because like you said, there's plenty of good points,
he's got plenty of Science and it's not like this as some
idiot. That was just like okay I didn't do this, he did stuff
to make himself healthier and better. He want a different
route, you know. I know people are going to judge that
I can get respect that but I don't like lying and be essing
and that's that's what we got from from Aaron Rodgers on this
subject. He said that he
As an allergy to one of the ingredients in the MRNA
vaccines, those are the fives are in the moderna. He didn't
want to take the Johnson & Johnson because the blood clot
risk applied for an exemption from the League's procedures in
the one thing that gets lost in this all the time, it was
the league in the union that
agreed to these procedures and they didn't do it because they
privately, hold millions of shares of Pfizer moderna stock.
They try to come up with the best way to get through this
thing
safely and also successful, right? So those are the rules
they made if you don't like Like the rules,
take it up with the people who made the rules. Don't lie about
your compliance with the rules. Don't pretend you're complying
because you don't want to take the heat. You don't want to be
criticized by people who would disagree with you be willing to
stand up and state in an intelligent reasonable way.
Why you had a concern
that's the bottom line, it undermines everything, he did
everything, he said, yesterday, it all made sense, why didn't
you say it lasts all and when you go back and watch that
clip? Yeah. I mean he's not
full-blown just but yeah,
Please tell ya when he says, yeah, I've been immunized. He's
got a little of. Yeah, he got away. Still goes down
the filibuster role there for sure. But yeah, yeah, it's,
I wish you didn't do it either.
I don't I don't understand it and
he didn't, he didn't need to lie about it. But at the same time,
you know, if I put myself in his shoes,
you know, again,
he wants to play football,
you know, and he's trying to yes Skirt the Rules a little
bit and He obviously was strong about not wanting to put these
things in his body. And I know there was a lot of people that
were very strong against that
and I want, he's probably worried that he wouldn't be
able to play if that was the case. So
you know, that led him to lying and that's not cool. It's not
like we said, I think he's the kind of guy that can can have
that conversation and maybe open some people's eyes
a little bit. And at the very end of the day, yeah, he did break
the rules, when the rest of the guys were expected to follow
them and that's not cool either.
I do think it's hilarious. To hear him talk about how
carefully is about everything he puts in his body while he's
smoking a cigar the entire time. That that was a nice
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