Aaron Rodgers positive for COVID (update: “furious” status leaked, claims he didn’t lie, attacks NFL protocols)

[jah]

I was thinking the exact same thing.

For example Wynn is antivax. Who else on the NEP?

I remember one of the same reports from training camp naming Wynn as an unvaccinated player also mentioned Hoyer and Wise. Of course, Newton was also one of those players and he is now vaccinated, so things could have changed.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I remember one of the same reports from training camp naming Wynn as an unvaccinated player also mentioned Hoyer and Wise. Of course, Newton was also one of those players and he is now vaccinated, so things could have changed.

Yea I later read Hoyer was vax. It seems he came to his senses.

 

[RobertWeathers]

That he thought through the whole thing and decided he would trust his girlfriend and eat clay rather than trusting people who spent their entire careers studying viruses and immunology and take the jab, then decided he didn't want to deal with any blowback so he used deceptive wording to make people think he was vaccinated.

I can see those nutcases making dinner...

 

[Delicate Genius]

Jason La Canfora reports Rodgers has been avoiding his family for years because he's unvaccinated and doesn't want to put them at risk.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

The fact that GB has no owner is a very good point and will matter. No matter what happens don't expect a suspension though.

No, there shouldn’t be a suspension from the league, though frankly the NFLPA and the Packers would, in an ideal world, create some punishment for putting the other 99.9% of their members at risk by garnering his own special considerations.

Suspensions are outlined in the CBA, which is another reason Deflategate was a freakin joke…it had a penalty which is a fine. Same with this. The NFL could potentially try to suspend him under Integrity of the Game like Brady, though that’s utter crap because that clause was for things like throwing games, gambling, etc. Of course, they can do whatever they please based on Deflategate precedent. But I suspect they won’t because they’ll alienate the anti-vaxxers, whereas no one cares if the Packers org just takes it on the chin.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Jason La Canfora reports Rodgers has been avoiding his family for years because he's unvaccinated and doesn't want to put them at risk.

I ate a spicy bean burrito earlier and soon will need to drop a Jason La Confora Report.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Seriously. I still can't get over this.

Is that Bill and Bob behind him?

Were they really in a court room over this?

 

[Tunescribe]

Seriously. I still can't get over this.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Is that Bill and Bob behind him?

Were they really in a court room over this?

Y'know I never even contemplated that was potentially them in the background. Wow..

 

[ctpatsfan77]

The Packers practice squad QB, Kurt Benkert, tested positive on Monday. LaFleur is claiming Binkert wasn’t in the building on Monday so couldn’t have passed it to Rodgers. But that sure does seem coincidental. And what about the Halloween party or other team activities? If Benkert did pass it to Rodgers, or was around the same people, then how could you possibly miss that Rodgers was in proximity? Only one way: if you’re treating him as a vaxxed player (subject to positive test) and not as an unvaxxed player (subject to contact tracing.)

FWIW, if he was unvaccinated, Rodgers should not have been allowed to attend.

 

[Biffins]

He said he's immunized when asked about getting the vaccine. So it made it sound like he was saying he was vaccinated but he actually wasn't. I finally am able to get on board with the dislike people on this board have of Rodgers.

So immunized would mean he previously had it and has antibodies and hence considers that he has immunity?

But he's not vaccinated.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Shifting blame from AR to the team is exactly what you'd expect NJFL to do.

To be fair, there is the question (whose answer I do not currently know) of how the teams are expected to track vaccination status.

That said, teams are required to have no fewer than three staff members in charge of enforcing compliance with the policy. IOW, if they knew he wasn't vaccinated, the COVID policy says the team is also responsible for making sure he doesn't violate the policy (e.g., making sure he doesn't eat in the cafeteria, which unvaxxed players aren't allowed to do).

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

EDIT: Masks must be worn by vaccinated players on planes. Unvaccinated players cannot travel with the team, period.

 

[Deus Irae]

So the NFL is defending Rodgers on this.



Interesting.

 

[amfootball]

So the NFL is defending Rodgers on this.



Interesting.

Not surprising. They would never make an example of him.

 

[Tottie]

This is all pretty weird. It's all in the open so this was all just allowed to happen. Wouldn't this bother all the other players who have to follow the ridiculous guidelines? Each team has 3 employees tracking this stuff? So they just said **** it and allowed him to do this? Could he have partly been holding out for these reasons and the team told him they wouldn't enforce the rules? There are pics everywhere and every facility was told to record this year and give access to the nfl. Are the other owners going to let this fly?

 

[amfootball]

This is all pretty weird. It's all in the open so this was all just allowed to happen. Wouldn't this bother all the other players who have to follow the ridiculous guidelines? Each team has 3 employees tracking this stuff? So they just said **** it and allowed him to do this? Could he have partly been holding out for these reasons and the team told him they wouldn't enforce the rules? There are pics everywhere and every facility was told to record this year and give access to the nfl. Are the other owners going to let this fly?

When he said he thought about retiring, I think it was over this vax issue. GB mgmt must have assured him they would cover for him.

 

[fourhour]

Are the passengers on these team (chartered?) planes required to wear masks like us mere mortals?

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Are the passengers on these team (chartered?) planes required to wear masks like us mere mortals?

 

[Deus Irae]

Not surprising. They would never make an example of him.

The rules are about as ridiculous as rules can be, even in the NFL, but he still seems to have broken more than his share of them.


A 4 game suspension seems a nice, minimal sentence.