With The Pat McAfee Show broadcasting live from Steelers training camp on Monday, it was no surprise that Aaron Rodgers was set to make an appearance. How that appearance went was either surprising, or exactly what you might have expected, depending on how much attention you\u2019ve been paying to appearances on the show over the years.<\/p>\n
The biggest headlines Rodgers made<\/a> stemmed from his jokes about \u201cpleading the fifth,\u201d referencing the recent Senate hearing at which former NIAID director Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment. He went on to call Fauci an \u201cabsolute coward.\u201d Rodgers has made his feelings on the COVID-19 pandemic exceedingly clear, so those comments, while fiery, didn\u2019t come as all that big of a surprise.<\/p>\n What was a bit more shocking was the shot that Rodgers took at ESPN, the network he was appearing on. Rodgers first expressed frustration with ESPN for spending time covering his own vaccination status while not covering the recent hearings. He later pivoted to calling out the network for what he believed was a lack of coverage of the scandalous relationship between NFL insider Dianna Russini and \u00a0New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel that came out over the summer.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat was this network doing?\u201d Rodgers asked. \u201cYou had literally an individual that maybe used to work at ESPN, that covers our league at the highest level, and there\u2019s a major scandal, and it\u2019s just like nobody can f*cking talk about it? What are we even doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPersonal lives are personal lives,\u201d joked a member of McAfee\u2019s crew. \u201cI feel like you of all people should know that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI understand, but if it\u2019s affecting certain things, if there\u2019s leaks going on, if there\u2019s tampering going on, if that person is also an MVP voter and a Coach of the Year voter\u2014 remember when I won MVP in 2021 and that bum in Chicago? That\u2019s real life. How are we allowing these people to have an impact?\u201d<\/p>\n #Steelers<\/a> QB Aaron Rodgers also unloaded on the Dianna Russini\/Mike Vrabel offseason story.<\/p>\n Rodgers says the story and its ramifications weren\u2019t covered properly.<\/p>\n (\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f @PatMcAfeeShow<\/a>) https:\/\/t.co\/PZhnAW6Xiz<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/fHVpKTM1cl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) August 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n On why ESPN covered Rodgers\u2019s own vaccination status and not the recent Senate hearings, well, Rodgers\u2019s vaccination status was directly tied to his availability to play NFL football, while the hearings are pretty far removed from having anything to do with the upcoming NFL slate.<\/p>\n