Aaron Rodgers has ended his appearances on The Pat McAfee Present for the season, the present’s host introduced on Wednesday’s episode.
“Aaron Rodgers Tuesday Season 4 is finished,” McAfee stated. “There’s going to be lots of people which might be pleased with that — myself included, to be trustworthy.”
He continued, “The way in which it ended, it bought actual loud and I’m joyful that that’s not going to be my [social media] mentions going ahead.”
McAfee was referring to the media storm Rodgers’ look created after the New York Jets quarterback insinuated Jimmy Kimmel was on the Jeffrey Epstein listing of associates.
Rodgers’ claims had Kimmel threatening authorized motion, which prompted a back-and-forth interplay and gave the present added consideration that McAfee didn’t need. The Tremendous Bowl champ made his final look on McAfee’s present on Tuesday to clarify his claims about Kimmel and the historical past of their feud.
On Wednesday’s present, McAfee stated that the added consideration on the present after Rodger’s statements gave a number of his detractors “a number of stuff to get mad about.”
“We reside in a rustic that has freedom of speech but in addition you’re going to should take care of the implications of your freedom of speech,” he stated about being relieved Rodgers was not going to look on the present anymore this season. “What I’m saying is, we’ve given lots of people who’ve been ready for us to fail, a number of ammo on this to assault us for over the past week.”
He continued, “We might like to get again to the purpose the place we simply transfer on and proceed to silence all of the haters over right here who can’t negotiate pretty much as good as I can. All of the individuals over right here that may’t create a present pretty much as good as us and all of the individuals up right here who will at all times be right here they usually’re going to hustle and do their factor.”
McAfee acknowledged that Rodgers is a future NFL Corridor of Famer and is a “huge piece of the NFL historical past.”
“We’re very fortunate to get an opportunity to speak with him and study from him,” McAfee stated of Rodgers. “A few of his ideas and opinions, do piss off lots of people and I’m pumped that that’s now not going to be each single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the previous few weeks.”
McAfee famous that he nonetheless stands about what he stated concerning the ESPN government attempting to sabotage his present however doesn’t need his present to be identified for the conversations Rodgers was bringing.
Rodgers has been making weekly appearances on The Pat McAfee Present since 2020.
