@TerrieThorstad@HellerSports I remember bumping into him on Michigan Ave in Chicago a few years back. He just wanted to check out all the people at the Christmas Tree and he was signing for all Bears and Packers fans for an hour. He treated every single fan like gold. Class act
@itsCalebSZN I ain't hating on Burden. He is gonna be a great one without a doubt. But Golden is now their X WR replacing Doubs and he has the best hands. Kid is gonna be special. These 2 teams are stacked w young talent
We may be Rivals but i hate to see a star player go down. I hope he returns for before week 5. This years GB vs Bears games need to see them all healthy. Heal up quick Coby Bryant #Packers#Bears
Bears safety Coby Bryant is expected to be sidelined 8-10 weeks due to a hyperextended knee, bone bruise and small fracture that he suffered at todayβs practice, per sources. No surgery is expected to be needed.
@kcool0742 I absolutely HATE when players get hurt. It ruins entire teams & fans dreams. We know all too well wMicah last year. I hope he returns soon for the Bears. Then I hope Love and crew get after him week 5
Aaron Rodgers went on McAfee today and said he'd plead the fifth, "like that absolute coward Tony Fauci." Kyrie Irving lost around $11.4 million. Stephen A. Smith said on air he hoped Kyrie got cut, and last week he apologized. Smith is still at ESPN. Kyrie is still out $11.4 million.
Nobody who was wrong about this paid anything. That's the part worth sitting with.
Run the actual ledger from 2021.
Irving refused the vaccine. New York's mandate made him ineligible for home games. He forfeited about 1 percent of his salary for every game missed, roughly $381,000 a night, around $11.4 million total. He was called selfish, a distraction, a bad teammate, a fraud. Analysts on national television openly discussed whether the Nets should get rid of him. Smith said he hoped Irving got cut.
Rodgers got it worse and longer. He was hammered on every network for weeks. He lost his deal with Prevea Health, a partnership he'd had for nine years. He was fined by the league. He became the sport's designated villain, and he stayed the villain for five straight years, through the Jets, through the Achilles, through everything. Every studio show in America had a segment on him.
Now go find one person who took a professional hit for how they covered it.
There isn't one. Not a firing, not a demotion, not a lost contract. The loudest voices in 2021 are the loudest voices in 2026, on the same shows, in the same chairs, with more money. Smith just turned his apology into a 20-minute monologue. The reversal is content. The original take was content. Both paid.
That's the asymmetry nobody names. Taking a position costs the person who takes it. Attacking a position costs the attacker nothing, ever. Kyrie put $11.4 million behind what he believed. Rodgers put his entire public reputation behind what he believed. The people who spent years mocking them put nothing behind anything, because commentary has no downside built into it.
I'll say where I land. I thought at the time that a man giving up eight figures for a position he actually held deserved more respect than he got, and I think the last week reads a lot better for Irving and Rodgers than it does for anyone who spent 2021 shouting them down.
I'll also be precise, because the strong version of that case doesn't need to overstate it. Pleading the Fifth is not an admission of guilt. It's a constitutional right, and no inference of guilt can be drawn from invoking it. Fauci denies wrongdoing and nothing has been established. Smith's own stated reasoning was that the silence leaves doubt and suspicion alone justifies the skepticism. That isn't proof. It's the same standard he used to attack Kyrie in the first place, pointed the other way.
Which is the whole point. The machine never got more careful. It just turned around, because consensus moved and consensus is what it actually runs on.
So Rodgers gets his victory lap today. He's earned it. He's just the only guy in this story who ever had to pay for a seat.
Aaron Rodgers is dangerous because he doesn't care what people think and doesn't have to appease the NFL anymore.
Love him or hate him, every press conference and interview is going to be must-see-tv this year.
@jake_hansen_@Mann_O_Steel17 Old people may need them. But not healthy young people. Your gonna believe what you will. Glad Fauci has a cpl friends left. Would hate for anyone not to have a few friends left
@BookOfEli_NFL Davante is used to those from Arod that it became second nature at this point. I cal those Jesus Drops. Like they were dropped from Heaven
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