Aaron Rodgers vs. The NFL
The Lead
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers went on a local radio show on Friday to talk about his frustrations with the NFL. In a rather remarkable series of comments, he also sounded off on his fellow players, who he said don’t care enough about the new collective bargaining agreement that players are negotiating with the league. The Athletic’s Lindsay Jones joins us to talk about why things have reached a new boiling point, why Rodgers is speaking up at this late stage of his career, and how some players aren’t buying what Rodgers is selling.
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| 0:00.0 | On Friday, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rogers went on a local radio show to talk about his |
| 0:11.0 | frustrations with the NFL. |
| 0:22.6 | And he also sounded off on his fellow players, who he said don't care enough about the new |
| 0:26.6 | collective bargaining agreement, the players are negotiating with the league. |
| 0:35.9 | Today the Athletics Lindsey Jones joins us to talk about why things have reached a new |
| 0:40.1 | boiling point, why Rogers is speaking up now, and how some players aren't buying what |
| 0:46.0 | Rogers is selling. |
| 0:47.0 | I can understand why some of his teammates might look and say, you've made your money, |
| 0:52.6 | and I'm trying to get my money right now, and my money requires me to play right now |
| 0:56.9 | and get as much money today tomorrow, because I don't know if I'm going to have a 15-year |
| 1:01.4 | career like Aaron Rogers has. |
| 1:08.9 | From wondering in the athletic, I'm Kavisa Davidson. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm Anders Kelto, it's Monday, March 9th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:16.3 | It felt like something great was going to happen. |
| 1:23.3 | There was just something about seeing a motion. |
| 1:26.3 | You got to go faster, faster. |
| 1:27.3 | The failures are the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:30.3 | I have never seen anything like that. |
| 1:32.3 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:36.6 | It stays with you. |
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