Pat McAfee has benched Aaron Rodgers, for now, saying the controversial weekly segment with the New York Jets quarterback will no longer take place this football season on The Pat McAfee Show.
“So, Aaron Rodgers Tuesday, season four, is done,” McAfee said. “There could be a lot of people that are happy with that. Myself included, to be honest with you. The way it ended, it got real loud.”
Last week, Rodgers mentioned ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel while discussing the unsealed court documents identifying Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. This week, Rodgers added more fuel to the situation between McAfee and ESPN executives. Both stories brought unwanted headlines for McAfee and ESPN.
McAfee took responsibility for what has happened recently, saying, “We’ve given a lot of people who have been waiting for us to fail a lot of ammo, and things to attack us for over the last week. And we would love to get back to the point where we just move on.”
About Rodgers, McAfee said that, “Some of (Rodgers) thoughts and opinions do piss off a lot of people, and I’m pumped that that is no longer gonna be every single Wednesday of my life which it has been for the last few weeks.”
Following the program, McAfee put out a post on X and part of it mentioned he is hopeful Rodgers will return to the show both during the offseason and during next football season.
“Our fans know that ART (Aaron Rodgers Tuesday) ends shortly after Aaron’s team’s season ends.. that’s how it’s been,” McAfee said. “He’ll make random surprise welcomed pop ins during big events or offseason adventures but, it’s always been a season thing. I never said he’ll never be on the show again. I hope he chooses to still chat with us. We’ve been lucky the last 4 years to ride the wave of a season with a 4X NFL MVP (2 of which during The ART Era) and get his thoughts along the way.. in real time.”
