In addition to demonstrating his foot strength over his 18 NFL seasons, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been at the forefront of protests against practices that he views as dysfunctional and defamatory.
Recently the Denver Broncos’ new coach Sean Payton purportedly bashed Aarons’ defensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett which outraged the New York Jets quarterback. As a result, the player also didn’t mince words to give a back punch to Payton.
Rodgers takes a shot at Sean Payton’s comments on Nathaniel Hackett
Rodgers has cherished a deep bonding with Hackett since the DCs’ timing in Green Bay. They made an outstanding player-coach duo that facilitated A-rod to clinch back-to-back MVPs in 2020 and 2021.
This offseason, Aaron reunited with Nathaniel in Big Apple while Sean took the coaching job in Denver. Following his takeover, Sean raised questions about his predecessor that the four-time MVP couldn’t tolerate. After claiming Payton’s remark as ‘inappropriate’ and labeling him as ‘insecure” the 39-year-old again expressed his dissatisfaction over the matter in an interview with FanDuel TV.
The quarterback alluded to the coach of the Broncos’ apology when he said that occasionally our careless and irrelevant remarks need requesting an apology.
“I still got a lot more to say, [but] I don’t need to,” he told. “I stand by everything that I said. There is a way of handling things, and probably a way not to. Sometimes you say something really stupid, it warrants an apology, and sometimes you don’t apologize.”
Sean is currently suffering as a result of saying something he shouldn’t have, hence the star player insisted because everyone must maintain their statements and opinions.
“Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. Sean’s entitled to his opinion, I’m entitled to mine. There’s more to say for a different time.”
What did Sean Payton say about Nathaniel?
After having a new start with the Broncos, Payton encountered an interview with USA Today where he threw many questions on the era of Nathaniel saying it “might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was.”
Besides the coach, Payton also pointed to other executives saying there were “20 dirty hands” for how everything happened in throughout Hackets’ tenure. The new coach of the Broncos was totally out of line blaming his predecessor that collected a pile of backlashes for him.
“Everybody’s got a little stink on their hands,” he said in the article. “It’s not just Russell. It was a [poor] offensive line. It might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was.”
Payton admitted his fault later and revealed that he intended to communicate with Nathaniel while stating his comment as a “mistake”.
“Listen, I had one of those moments where I still had my Fox [network television] hat on and not my coaching hat on. I said this to the team: We’ve had a great offseason relative to that, I’ve been preaching that message, and here I am the veteran stepping in it. It was a learning experience for me, a mistake obviously. I need a little bit more filter.”
Rodgers fired up the media back-to-back before the regular season with his tenacity and love for the Jets. What remains to be seen is whether he may continue the trend and eventually retire as a Jet.
