By Molly Goddard
9:18am PST, Feb 12, 2025
The New York Jets gave
Aaron Rodgers a major ultimatum before they allegedly severed ties.
According to a source, the new head coach,
Aaron Glenn, and general manager,
Darren Mougey, set two major rules for the controversial athlete if he wanted to remain on the
team. Despite Rodgers' exit not being official, insiders claim the end of his time with the NFL entity is near.
Join us to hear what the two stipulations were for the former Green Bay Packers player to stay with the East Coast squad…
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According to
The Athletic's
Diana Russini, the team leaders made it clear to Rodgers that he had to attend all mandatory practices and stop making media appearances during the season, especially regarding his political views and anti-vaccination beliefs.
"I was told that when they had conversations with Aaron Rodgers about what the future would look like, if you're going to be part of this team, you're going to
attend all of training camp," she explained in the report.
"You're not going to do
Pat McAfee interviews anymore," Russini added of the podcaster and Rodgers' numerous appearances on his show. "They had a conversation with him of, 'If you were to stay here, here is how we would want it to be.' So, this, to me, is Aaron Glenn getting control back."
In December 2023, the quarterback received backlash after he went on a strange rant on "The Pat McAfee Show" about why people should be wary of
Western medicine.
"I think what we should do, Pat, is the same people who are criticizing me or coming up with these conspiracies about my injury or whatever — before they talk, let's go back to 2021 and let's make people say their vax status to start," Rodgers said about people being open about their vaccination status.
"Then that'll frame all these
comments in the right window," he continued. "Everybody could know at that point that they have their puppet masters who are puppeteering them to say this certain thing about this guy and that they're still upset about the fact that I believe in medical freedom."
Earlier this year, the A-lister opened up during one of his infamous
podcast appearances about his standing with the New York Jets.
"I think everybody understands that it's going to come down to (the) GM and coach and myself and whether we all want to do a dance together — or if it's not in the cards," he added.
Rodgers maintained he had "limited communication" with people involved with the
team.
"As far as my own decision, I told them I'm going to take some time," he noted. "They haven't even made a decision on the GM or a coach yet. Once that happens, then that'll take us to the next step, which is a conversation, I'm assuming, with whoever that individual is."
