Aaron Rodgers dropped again in on ESPN’s ”The Pat McAfee Present” Thursday afternoon, regardless of McAfee’s announcement the day earlier than that his weekly phase was performed for the season.
The announcement got here on the heels of Rodgers’ feud with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, which grew to become nationwide information after Kimmel responded to the quarterback’s implication — made on McAfee’s present — that he was concerned with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. ABC, the community Kimmel’s present airs on, and ESPN are each owned by Disney.
McAfee introduced on Wednesday’s present that season 4 of ”Aaron Rodgers Tuesdays” was performed. ”There’s going to be lots of people which are proud of that, myself included, to be trustworthy. The way in which it ended, it bought actual loud,” he stated.
McAfee added later in a prolonged submit on social media that Rodgers would nonetheless make ”random shock welcomed pop ins throughout massive occasions or offseason adventures.” That very night time, Alabama teaching legend Nick Saban introduced his retirement and, the next day, the New England Patriots introduced it was parting methods with longtime head coach Invoice Belichick.
”Women and gents, the final human that Invoice Belichick talked to on the sector because the New England Patriots head coach, Aaron Rodgers,” McAfee stated as Rodgers appeared on display, claiming to be within the woods. The Patriots fell to Rodgers’ Jets of their season finale on Jan. 7. Rodgers was on the sideline for that recreation, having suffered an Achilles harm throughout his very first sequence of the season.
”We performed him in 2018 and 2022, and each occasions he waited to make it possible for he noticed me after the sport,” Rodgers stated of Belichick. ”I simply thought that that was one of many classiest issues ever and I’ve a lot respect for him doing that.”
Rodgers additionally recalled interviewing with Saban in 2005 — the yr Rodgers was drafted into the NFL and Saban’s first yr as head coach of the Miami Dolphins. ”The sport is best, whether or not it is faculty or professional, when these guys are in it,” Rodgers stated.
After Rodgers signed off, McAfee and cohost A.J. Hawk joked concerning the quarterback ostensibly not being allowed on this system and expressed gratitude for his help.
”Have you learnt what number of issues I have been by way of with Aaron Rodgers, simply in our brief relationship? Yeah, I used to be not pumped to be in the midst of any of that — all of us have mates that put us in conditions the place we’re like, did now we have to?” McAfee stated. ”I have been that man.”