A well-known New York sports radio host went off on Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a scathing rant regarding his interview with the four-time MVP last August.
Last year, Aaron Rodgers appeared on WFAN’s “Boomer and Gio” program, which former NFL star quarterback Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti host together. The interview was held a month before Rodgers debuted for the New York Jets in Week 1 against the Buffalo Bills.
Esiason was absent from Wednesday’s edition of “Boomer and Gio”, so Jon Weiner took his place. Giannotti teed off on Rodgers for providing “the most awkward” interview in the program’s history, per Erich Richter of the New York Post:
“I’d rather you interview Aaron Rodgers than us after what happened last year. And I’m dead serious about that. I don’t need another crack at that. I’m fine. Honestly, you can have that, I don’t need to interview him again.
“I don’t think he ever looked at us. Not one time…It was a combination of everything. It was him being upset, us freaking out when he wasn’t playing along. The whole thing was just turds in a blender.”
There was one segment in the interview where Aaron Rodgers said he didn’t want to discuss his living situation. Giannotti recalled Rodgers not being “happy” when asked about furniture, and that the quarterback got “even angrier” when Boomer mentioned a dishwashing story.
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The 40-year-old Rodgers has clashed with several reporters and NFL insiders over the past couple of years. He said last year that NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport doesn’t know s**t about him, and he once told ESPN’s Adam Schefter to “lose my number.”
Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles tear minutes into his Jets debut last week and missed practically the entire year. By all indicators, he’s at or near full strength and will be good to go come Week 1.
Aaron Rodgers & Jets Open Season At 49ers
Football fans barely got to see Rodgers in action with the Jets last year, so there’s plenty of additional hype around the team’s season opener this year. New York will open their 2024 season with a Monday night contest against Rodgers’ boyhood team, the San Francisco 49ers, on Sept. 9.
Rodgers faced the 49ers in the postseason four times during his tenure with the Green Bay Packers, all losses. Unless the 49ers and Jets meet in the Super Bowl, this will likely be Rodgers’ last showdown against his childhood team.
