Ever since he joined the Jets, the anti-COVID-vaxx conspiracy theorist has dialed down the nuttiness.
And yet he has been a very different person since he got to New York. He is acting like … a guy who doesn’t want to get canceled? Like a guy trying not to make waves?
There are both on-field and off-field reasons for this pivot. Rodgers had the worst year of his career in 2022 in essentially every major statistical category. His yards, touchdowns, and completion percentage were all down, and his interceptions were way up: He threw 12, after throwing a total of 15in the previous four seasons.
As for off the field: Well, it’s one thing to make a big show of yourself on your buddy’s podcasts and it’s another thing to do it in New York, a town that hasn’t been cheering for you the last 20 years, and is desperate for at least one of their NFL teams to not be terrible. If you play the media right in New York, you can be Derek Jeter or Michael Strahan; if you don’t, you’re A-Rod.
But I also wonder if this is all a little bit larger than just Rodgers. He’s far from the only athlete who has dialed back on overtly political stances in recent months. LeBron James hasn’t said a word about any political topic in more than a year and has
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