New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers took another swipe at Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday amid a discussion about how long his football injury would sideline him following speculation that his rehab could be ahead of schedule.
During Rodgers’s weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” he was asked about footage showing him throwing a few passes without crutches after he tore his Achilles tendon in the first game of the season.
Rodgers said he tried “a newer, innovative” surgery to return faster than others who sustained a similar injury.
Co-host AJ Hawk said that Rodgers does things “his own way,” to which McAfee replied, “This guy does things his own way. He actually defies science.”
“If science is Dr. Fauci, you’re damn right I’m defying science,” Rodgers replied, as the hosts laughed.
“If science is Dr. Fauci, you’re damn right I’m defying science.”
Aaron Rodgers with another swipe at Dr. Anthony Fauci on The Pat McAfee Show pic.twitter.com/ul0FRubZus
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Last week, Rodgers labeled Fauci a “pharmocrat” and threw down the gauntlet for a “duel” or vaccine debate to Chiefs’ player Travis Kelce, who he’s nicknamed “Mr. Pfizer” after the Kansas City Chiefs tight end appeared in a Pfizer ad campaign.
On the podcast last week, the hosts talked to Rodgers about Kelce’s recent comment about getting “into the vax wars” with the Jets QB.
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“Mr. Pfizer said he didn’t think he’d be in a vax war with me,” Rodgers said. “This ain’t a war homie, this is conversation.”
“But if you want to have some sort of duel, debate, have me on the podcast,” he added, referencing Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce’s popular podcast “New Heights.”
“Come on the show!” Rodgers continued, mentioning McAfee’s show. “Let’s have a conversation. Let’s do it like in ‘John Wick 4,’ so we both have a second, somebody to help us out.” Rodgers said his “second” would be independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and said the Kansas City Chiefs star could have Fauci or “some other pharmocrat.”
Rodgers made headlines in 2021 when he was accused of misleading comments about his vaccination status, saying he was “immunized.” However, it was later revealed that he had not been vaccinated.
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