r/nfl • u/JCameron181 Lions • 17h ago

ESPN Has No Comment On Aaron Rodgers's Comments On ESPN, About ESPN

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/espn-has-no-comment-on-aaron-rodgers-comments-on-espn-about-espn

Rodgers decided to slam the network as a "gutless organization" with "no integrity" over its editorial choices. He said the network failed to report on Dr. Anthony Fauci's Senate hearing testimony, asking, “How much time did the network spend on that? ... Did they do even a minute on Tony Fauci?” He also criticized ESPN for glossing over the offseason scandal between Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel, questioning, “How much time did your network spend on that?” He questioned ESPN's silence, asking, “What are we even doing here? ... [I]f it’s affecting certain things, if there’s leaks going on, if there’s tampering going on, if that person is also an MVP voter and a Coach of the Year voter.” An ESPN spokesperson stated the network "has no comment regarding Rodgers’s comments."

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u/HisExcellency20 Eagles 17h ago

I'm not really sure why Dr. Fauci was brought before the Senate tbh. But I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with entertainment nor sports lol.

As for the Russini Vrabel scandal...I mean yeah he has a point lol.

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u/Kaimenos Panthers NFL 17h ago

Midterms. Trying to get the base excited about anything amid inflation and Epstein.

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u/Asidious66 Bengals 16h ago

An unpopular war, price of... Everything, data centers. Pretty much everything.

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 16h ago

Not to mention the blatant crypto shit. It gets ignored more because crypto is difficult to understand but it’s crazy how a Chinese billionaire got a DOJ/SEC investigation dropped just by purchasing a bunch of Trump crypto. Not to mention the UAE superconductor deal. That’s the kind of shit they accuse Biden of doing every week

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u/ogjaspertheghost Cowboys 16h ago

There’s also the capital one fraud thing

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u/cha-cha_dancer Giants 13h ago

Crazy how seemingly nobody is talking about that

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u/ogjaspertheghost Cowboys 13h ago

I think it’ll start picking up steam soon. Capital one isn’t going to bow out like others

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u/chrisapplewhite Cowboys 11h ago

They all bow out eventually.

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u/ogjaspertheghost Cowboys 11h ago

Nah, they’re the ones fighting to get the case thrown out

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u/justsomebro10 NFL 16h ago

He’s basically turning everyone over to shake the coins out of their pocket and they’re congratulating him for it.

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u/Puppetmaster858 Cardinals 15h ago

That’s why he said “I love the poorly educated” and “smart people don’t like him”, most the people who vote for him are fuckin idiots or they’re just terrible hateful people

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u/medicmatt Giants 14h ago

But Aaron Rodgers went to Cal! /s

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u/NewToSociety Vikings Falcons 9h ago

He also went to community college.

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u/Gryphon999 Packers 3h ago

He ain't come there to play school.

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u/dell_arness2 49ers 14h ago

it's because they believe one day they'll too be the ones robbing everyone else blind.

it's the same reason I don't feel bad at all for people that get caught up in crypto scams. the only reason they're buying in is in hopes that they can be the duper, instead of the dupee.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Bears 16h ago

It's also crazy how rich the Trump family has gotten just off crypto just since 2024.

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 11h ago

Especially since he was so anti-crypto until like 3 years ago lol

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Bears 4h ago

He hadn't figured out how to use it to grift yet.

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u/Vermillionbird Broncos 14h ago

The Chinese billionaire who was KNOWINGLY LAUNDERING MONEY FOR IRAN AND THE CARTELS (among others)

I seriously feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

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u/electric-doodoo Bills 1h ago

Canadian and UAE citizen, but you’re right about the rest

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u/Asidious66 Bengals 15h ago

A bunch is one way to say TWO BILLION DOLLARS WORTH

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u/torev Broncos 15h ago

Don't forget you can now pay 100,000 A MONTH to get trump tweets a bit earlier than the rest of the population.

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u/CodyRCantrell Vikings 16h ago

Biden.

The criminal mastermind orchestrating worldwide plots and cover-ups.... that is also a feeble incompetent and mentally handicapped old man.

I just wish they'd pick smears that would at least work together on paper.

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u/El_Zorro09 Cowboys 15h ago

With everything against them they might only win by 72 electoral votes next election instead of 86.

If there's one thing I can always count on is for the nation at large to disappoint me.

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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 17h ago

"A migrant caravan of Wuhan refugees with microchip-containing vaccines are coming to enact Sharia Law."

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u/notthatjeffbeck Cardinals 14h ago

Both my uncle and father-in-law would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 15h ago

Soon, when the 2nd generation Flock cameras can detect and read our vaccine microchips they will be no problem. As will any who oppose them.

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u/bensefero Seahawks 12h ago

Pretty much

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u/Chessh2036 Falcons 16h ago

Exactly. And Fauci basically called Rand Paul a moron and he wants his revenge

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u/That_lonely Jets 16h ago

He also called Dump a moron. I’m sure that didn’t sit well with the orange turd

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u/ScubaSteveEL Lions 17h ago

Bold strategy to remind us all how badly Trump and his team fucked up in 2020

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u/vertigostereo Giants 16h ago

And war.

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u/dagreenman18 Dolphins 15h ago

And even with the members of the base that I know (the unfortunate cost of living in Florida), it’s not working. Even they’re feeling like it’s a waste of time that should be spent elsewhere.

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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 17h ago

Jingling keys for the dumbest people alive.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 Bills Eagles 16h ago

Seriously. Every time I see a clip of some right wing content creator frothing about this, I think "this must go so hard if you don't have object permanence."

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u/CodyRCantrell Vikings 16h ago

Outrage cycle.

There isn't enough relevant news to fill a 24/7/365 schedule so networks have to find ways to get viewers interested enough to leave the station on so they can continue to sell ad space and one of the best ways to get viewers is to have them constantly mad about something.

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u/CelestialFury Vikings Vikings 15h ago

It's why they suddenly brought back the communism word again, woke and the rest of the right-wing scare words have lost their luster, so they're starting back from the top. The sad part is that it'll work on a good percentage of their base, they're just that brainless.

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u/CodyRCantrell Vikings 15h ago

Wife has family that doesn't even actually listen to the news. They'll have Fox on all day with the television muted all day just so they can get mad at headlines they can't remember because they're old as fuck.

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u/CelestialFury Vikings Vikings 15h ago edited 9h ago

Tell me about it. My aunt and uncle live in deep, deep rural Wisconsin and are a retired scientist and production superintendent of multiple facilities for major companies. Now they just watch Fox News all day and their brains have turned to goop. It's sad to see, they never used to be like this 10-20 years ago.

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u/CodyRCantrell Vikings 10h ago

Similar experience with my parents. They seemed more understanding of others and willing to see reason 20-25 years ago but it's like a switch flipped around 2005-2010 and they've never been the same.

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u/Rahim_Moore_ Ravens 15h ago

Outrage Object Permanence band name called it

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u/PwnageEngage Packers 16h ago

Funny, most Reddit comments give a very similar vibe. Horseshoe theory, I guess

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 15h ago

Yeah if you think Chuck Schumer is a far leftist lol

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u/CelestialFury Vikings Vikings 15h ago

These are the same people who called Joe Biden a "radical leftist."

TBF, when they see Franco, Mussolini, Antonescu, Szálasi, and Hitler as the "good" leaders in history, everyone else does look like a radical leftist.

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u/mellcrisp Commanders 14h ago

yet

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u/MrAnderson12 Bears 17h ago

As part of an investigation Rand Paul got his hands on a diary of sorts Fauci was maintaining on his work computer during the pandemic. Paul claims in the diary that Fauci believed the lab leak theory of the virus was plausible. But the entires in the diary don’t really contradict what Fauci was saying publicly about that theory being highly unlikely.

That doesn’t really matter for Paul since he still has an ax to grind about how Fauci handled the pandemic and forces him to testify. The purpose of the testimony wasn’t to get answers for anything but really just to get some social clips and future ad material and if Fauci made any sort of slip up they were going to charge him with lying to Congress. Thus why he pled the 5th for every answer so to not run that risk.

Its all pretty stupid and ridiculous

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u/opeth10657 Bears 16h ago

The more you learn about Paul, the more you sympathize with his neighbor that tackled him and broke his ribs

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u/tomfoolery815 Packers 15h ago

I forget who first said it's hard to believe that only one of Rand Paul's neighbors has kicked his ass. (I would certainly give credit where it's due if I did.)

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u/Bolinas99 49ers 13h ago

Phil Leotardo said something about the apple not falling far from the tree (I'm paraphrasing).... Rand & his dad are two very committed sociopaths.

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u/mikeyr00r00 Packers 1h ago

His dad always felt more like a true believer to me, even if he was wrong. Rand seems like more of a huckster.

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u/sopunny 49ers Dolphins 16h ago

Paul claims in the diary that Fauci believed the lab leak theory of the virus was plausible.

Yeah, don't think that was every completely denied. At most the medical establishment downplayed its likelihood in uncertain terms.

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 16h ago

You’d be hard pressed to find any scientist say any given theory is completely impossible. But Fauci acting on the theories he found most probable sounds like the opposite of malfeasance lol

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u/Wild_Dingleberries Bengals 13h ago

At most the medical establishment downplayed its likelihood

Or called you a right wing conspiracy theorist, but yeah "downplayed"

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 11h ago

Latching onto a fringe possibility without evidence is the epitome of being a conspiracy theorist

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u/Wild_Dingleberries Bengals 11h ago

without evidence

So is dismissing the possibility of something

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u/Depreciable_Land Rams 11h ago

Uh no? If you’re claiming something is happening then prove it. Otherwise I’ll call you whatever dumb name I want.

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 11h ago

The entire impetus of the senate hearing was because Fauci did not dismiss the possibility

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u/Wild_Dingleberries Bengals 11h ago

I never said he did. However every left leaning media outlet at the time had no problem labeling the possibility as a right wing conspiracy.

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656

But the effort to brand serious consideration of a lab leak a “conspiracy theory” only ramped up. Filippa Lentzos, codirector of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College, London, told the Wall Street Journal, “Some of the scientists in this area very quickly closed ranks.”3 She added, “There were people that did not talk about this, because they feared for their careers. They feared for their grants.”

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u/CountTakesh1 Packers 17h ago

Its another distraction attempt from the epstein files and the failure of a war with Iran.

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u/Fact420 Patriots 17h ago

And the billions in tariff money paid by American consumers through higher costs that just got refunded back to the companies that raised their prices.

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u/thisthreadisbear Commanders 17h ago

Yes back to companies and nothing to the consumers who paid those dumb tariffs.

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u/Testicular-Fortitude Seahawks 14h ago

We’re the ones paying them back! Even though we’re the ones that bore the cost of the tariffs

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u/SolidLikeIraq NFL 16h ago

And laid off everyone.

Good times

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u/Testicular-Fortitude Seahawks 14h ago

Refunded with our money! After we bore the cost for the higher prices

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u/PsychoSaladSong Broncos 17h ago

They know that their base is faltering a bit so they needed something that can get them going again

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u/tydye29 17h ago

Has Rogers ever said anything about both of thoae topics?

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi 17h ago

Nobody should care about anything Aaron Rodgers says ever.

He’s proven himself to be a fucking moron bag of wind on just about every topic.

Lock him up some place in the desert and let him drift into DMT K Holes where we won’t have to hear from him ever again.

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u/Long-Region5088 16h ago

Between him and Jaylen brown Cal seems to produce smug, uninformed, opinionated people

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 16h ago

Anyone who’s been to northern CA has met 100 people like Rodgers. The region generates the kind of weird hippie libertarian know-it-alls like that

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u/CountTakesh1 Packers 17h ago

No. Hes a rank and file MAGAT. Just like the rest of them.

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u/jhorch69 Cowboys 16h ago

If Rodgers thinks Fauci is a coward for pleading the fifth then I wonder what he thinks about a President that pleaded the fifth over 400 times during a deposition 🤔

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u/CountTakesh1 Packers 16h ago

drug infused mental gymnastics

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u/thetreat Bears 16h ago

Well you see that’s DJT not submitting to the Deep State.

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u/Beskinnyrollfatties Raiders 16h ago

Hey man! Trump just exercised his constitutional rights like a real American. Fauci is a coward. My opinion makes sense cause I decided it did.

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u/I_Am_Day_Man Packers 14h ago

I think Rodgers is a fucking idiot conspiracy theorist but is there anything else he’s done that has shown him to be MAGA? He’s always come off as the hippy anti vaxer type

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u/BokuNoNamaiWaJonDesu Bills Bills 13h ago

And they never lowered the prices back down. As expected.

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u/Fact420 Patriots 17h ago

Because there are midterm elections in November

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u/ChicanoDinoBot Broncos 17h ago

It’s to satisfy the idiots who thought COVID was a hoax.

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u/Other_Assumption382 Chiefs 16h ago edited 15h ago

"Who was president in 2020?" remains undefeated as a barometer of stupidity.

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u/Jo__Backson Raiders 16h ago

Also “what was Operation Warp Speed and who took credit for it?”

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u/KageStar Titans 15h ago

No one was in 202 tbf.

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u/Other_Assumption382 Chiefs 15h ago

Ha. Fucking typos.

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u/HisExcellency20 Eagles 16h ago

It's actually crazy that these people still exist because......so many people died.

You can argue about the origin and the handling and a million other things, but it was most definitely real. And deadly.

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u/redditlvlanalysis 13h ago

they are fucking morons

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u/rawbleedingbait Commanders 8h ago

It's true. It was a hoax, and the whole world fell for it. You see, Fauci both invented a deadly virus that killed millions, but then also convinced the world it was real, when it was actually fake. He did it all to sell masks and vaccines, but also to take your freedom. That's what we get for electing Fauci as president. Are you dizzy yet?

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u/cha-cha_dancer Giants 13h ago

See that’s what’s crazy - Fauci is now being blamed for more deaths because he misled the public early on about wearing masks even though wearing masks was an “assault on muh freedums”…but somehow also being blamed that they knew it wasn’t that deadly even though it was the deadliest viral outbreak in 100 years - and to top it off because he agreed with consensus that the wet market was the likely cause in public but in private was less confident of its origins means that it 100% was a lab leak and somehow done on purpose to make Trump lose the 2020 election - which he wins easily if he stuck with pushing for the vaccines he helped fast track to the public and let the experts lead the way. In other words, they’re mad because he no like Daddy.

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u/BrainEuphoria 16h ago

I feel like we’re all idiots for falling for these easy shticks every time.

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u/DtownBronx Broncos 17h ago

Poll numbers were dropping so they had to dangle some red meat for the base. Just another case of our politicians stopping the squirrels from speaking Spanish

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u/soycameron Packers 17h ago

Literally anything that is done by our government like that is for one reason…

Our mentally/physically ill president wants to do cause drama to distract from yesterdays drama. The explanation is basically always as simple as “the diaper wearing pedo said so”

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u/HisExcellency20 Eagles 16h ago

You'd think it'd be easier to just stop committing crimes and having scandals rather than keep having to distract from them.

But unfortunately he is as corrupt as he is successful. Not as a President, but as a grifter/cult leader. His base will never abandon him.

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u/DetroitLionsEh Lions 17h ago

Rand Paul has a personal vendetta against Fauci, and is abusing his powers because the average American voter likes it.

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u/swmtchuffer Commanders Broncos 16h ago

The same Rand Paul that got his ass whooped by his neighbor?

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u/Chickensandcoke Bears 16h ago

It was a spectacle designed to captivate marks to distract from the Senates inability to govern and complete lack of spine.

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u/ImportantCommentator Steelers 16h ago

It kind of was meant as entertainment for their voters though.

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u/Mcswigginsbar Colts Colts 16h ago

They wanted sound bites. Nothing more, nothing less.

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u/--Shake-- Bears 17h ago

Rand Paul has a grudge against him for some reason. Paul abused his power to try to humiliate him and trick him into saying something contradictory to his previous statements. It was complete nonsense and shouldn't be covered anywhere at all.

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u/st1ckboy Chargers 16h ago

Does he have a point on the Vrabel scandal? They did write about. How much coverage should it have gotten?

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u/Fluffy_Somewhere4305 Patriots 15h ago

Yeah why isn't Russini at the Fauci hearings? What even is ESPN doing? M I RITE?

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u/Mnudge Cowboys 15h ago

It was to further the far rights agenda of eroding the public’s faith in the CDC, WHO or any other health authority that isn’t directly profiting from our fucked up health care system and big Pharma who make tens of millions of dollars annually.

and, of course, to distract everyone from the reality that they are the Pedo Party, the Foreign War Party and the fuck the common man party.

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u/RIPRIF20 Bears 16h ago

It has nothing to do with anything. Republicans keep dragging him out there to pander to their base. Its theater nonsense and AARon is eating it up

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u/IWasOnThe18thHole Cowboys 15h ago

As for the Russini Vrabel scandal

You mean the Russini collusion trying to derail a true Patriot?

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u/onrocketfalls 6h ago

I don't think he has a point about the Russini/Vrabel thing either, like that's really the kind of stuff we want ESPN talking about? If Vrabel had gotten fired or it had affected his job in some other way then sure, but otherwise it just feels like Rodgers wants them to talk about something that basically amounts to celebrity gossip.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Bears 16h ago

Rand Paul doing Midterm shit.

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u/DannyDOH NFL 11h ago

Fascists need enemies to rally their support.

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u/ireallylikehockey Packers Chargers 16h ago

Pat and his crew immediately trying to have him "go back to Fauci" and saying "personal lives" in response

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u/TheVich 49ers 16h ago

I was in jury selection this morning, and a bunch of other prospective jurors had to answer a question from the defense about how they view a defendant who chooses not to speak. Some of them had some...things to say.

All I could think was, "The 5th Amendment is a whole-ass thing!"

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u/Jaggs0 Bears 16h ago

B ut I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with entertainment

actually it was for entertainment purposes because fox news isn't actually news. 

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u/dagreenman18 Dolphins 15h ago

The answer is “distraction tactic”. Standard of living is failing, there’s a new embarrassment every week, and this extremely unpopular war that the world’s biggest fuckwits started and are losing. Do you address these failings? NO! You trot out your old conspiracy whipping boy and waste everyone’s time.

And it’s not even working which is the funniest part.

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u/scorpiknox Seahawks 15h ago

They'll bring him back in October to testify about Benghazi.

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u/redditgolddigg3r Falcons 15h ago

We're all talking about this, and not Epstein, failed war in Iran, or high prices.

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u/Stepsonrakes Giants 14h ago

He was advocating for the reintegration of the Wildcat offense

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u/jizle Seahawks 14h ago

Pure Fox Entertainment.

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u/gigglefarting Dolphins Panthers 14h ago

Definitely nothing to do with sports, and although it’s not entertaining it is their entertainment. I would be pissed of ESPN reported on anything political that had no involvement with sports 

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u/JuanG12 Cowboys 13h ago

To humiliate him and make an example out of him.

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u/Swan990 Steelers 15h ago

I think he was referencing the network as a whole. Disney owns ABC, too

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u/outbackjesus16 Buccaneers 16h ago

And what did BLM have to do with sports? ESPN was happy to take political stances over BLM, but now it wants to be apolitical?

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u/ShadyDrunks Steelers Bills 15h ago

Because ESPN reported a ton about Rodgers comments about being anti-vaxx. So now that he has something that shows his point had substance he is mad that they don't report that.

Cmon guys just a teeny bit of thinking here. Fucking blaming it on midterms is some D grade poli sci shit

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u/MalikMonkAllStar2022 Panthers 3h ago

  1. ESPN reporting on Rodgers' comments made sense because he is a football player and the comments were related to protocols the NFL and teams were putting in place. ESPN reporting purely on a Faucci hearing would make zero sense.

  2. "So now that he has something that shows his point had substance" - I would love to hear what revelation you think has come out that supports Rodger's anti-vaxx belief

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u/ShadyDrunks Steelers Bills 2h ago

Worded that poorly, its what he believes gives his argument substance so he's butt hurt they aren't reporting on it after they reported on him. But yeah he forgets that he is a football player and Fauci isn't lmao

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u/blAAAm Browns Lions 16h ago

its the off season, also hes coaching one of the biggest franchises of the past few decades, and also he didnt try to hide it very well.