The New York Jets quarterback finally addressed his thoughts on the controversy when he was given an unexcused absence to miss minicamp.
, and it sounds like the reason may be none of the above. He simply doesn't think minicamp is the same as it used to be as he enters his 20th NFL season.
"The thing that people don't understand was that when I was in the NFC North years ago there used to be a real thing called minicamp where it was … it was five practices in three days," Rodgers said. "Now it's not minicamp. They can arbitrarily put a tag on whatever week of OTAs they want and say this is the minicamp week which makes it more mandatory than the other weeks. But it was an OTA schedule. That's how words can be a little deceiving from time to time.
Despite missing those minicamp days, Rodgers sounds ready to make his long-awaited return after he tore his Achilles on the first drive of the first game last season.Madison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News.
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