{"id":1191542,"date":"2022-01-05T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191542"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:50:57","slug":"his-problem-is-im-not-vaccinated-aaron-rodgers-responds-to-absolute-bum-mvp-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/his-problem-is-im-not-vaccinated-aaron-rodgers-responds-to-absolute-bum-mvp-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018His Problem Is I\u2019m Not Vaccinated\u2019: Aaron Rodgers Responds To \u2018Absolute Bum\u2019 MVP Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhis-problem-is-im-not-vaccinated-aaron-rodgers-responds-to-absolute-bum-mvp-voter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Tuesday, Hub Arkush \u2014 Chicago sportswriter and MVP voter \u2014 told a Chicago sports radio station that he would not be voting for Aaron Rodgers as the 2021 NFL MVP. His reasons were not because there\u2019s someone who has been more impressive on the field, but because Arkush isn\u2019t a fan of the Green Bay Packers quarterback off of the field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you can be the biggest jerk in the league and punish your team, and your organization and your fan base the way he did and be the Most Valuable Player,\u201d Arkush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0IfD6LIPxpE\">said<\/a> on 670 The Score in Chicago. \u201cHas he been the most valuable on the field? Yeah, you could make that argument, but I don\u2019t think he is clearly that much more valuable than Jonathan Taylor or Cooper Kupp or maybe even Tom Brady. So, from where I sit, the rest of it is why he\u2019s not gonna be my choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arkush was asked if voters were allowed to consider off-the-field issues \u2014 like a player\u2019s vaccination status \u2014 when deciding who to vote for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no guidelines,\u201d Arkush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-think-hes-a-bad-guy-nfl-mvp-voter-reveals-aaron-rodgers-wont-be-receiving-his-vote\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe are told to pick the guy who we think is most valuable to his team. And I don\u2019t think it says anywhere, \u2018strictly on the field,\u2019 although I do think he hurt his team on the field by the way he acted off the field. They\u2019re gonna get the No. 1 seed anyway, but what if the difference had come down to the Chiefs game, where he lied about being vaccinated, ended up not playing and they got beat? I think all these things should be considerations.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arkush said that based strictly on Rodgers\u2019 off-season behavior \u2014 Rodgers went silent as many pondered if he would ever play in a Packers uniform again \u2014 he wouldn\u2019t be getting his MVP vote, and the issue surrounding his vaccination status was \u201cone more log on the fire.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arkush had his chance to speak Tuesday, and Rodgers was given his on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s a bum. I think he\u2019s an absolute bum,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know me. I don\u2019t know who he is, nobody knew who he was probably until yesterday\u2019s comments. I listened to the comments, but to say he had his mind made up in the summertime, in the offseason, that I had zero chance of winning MVP \u2026 In my opinion should exclude, you know, future votes. You know, his problem isn\u2019t with me being a bad guy or the biggest jerk in the league. He doesn\u2019t know me. He doesn\u2019t know me, doesn\u2019t know anything about me. I\u2019ve never met him, I\u2019ve never had lunch with him, I\u2019ve never had an interview with him. His problem is I\u2019m not vaccinated. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if he wants to go on a crusade, and collude, and come up with an extra letter to put on the award just for this season, and make it the most valuable vaccinated player, then he should do that,\u201d Rodgers continued. \u201cBut he\u2019s a bum.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AaronRodgers12<\/a> opened about the comments reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hub_Arkush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hub_Arkush<\/a> made: \u201cI think he\u2019s a bum. I think he\u2019s an absolute bum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His problem with me is that I&#8217;m not vaccinated.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h9XURmZgFE\">pic.twitter.com\/h9XURmZgFE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/1478820190251106313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodgers is the odds-on favorite to be the 2021 NFL MVP, which would be his second in a row and the fourth of his career. If selected, Rodgers would be the first repeat winner of the award since Peyton Manning did it in 2008 and 2009.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has his Packers heading into the final week of the season first in the NFC, with a 13-3 record. In Sunday night\u2019s game against the Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay locked up the top seed in the conference, giving Rodgers a bye week and home field throughout the playoffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His numbers are ridiculous, throwing for 3,977 yards and 35 touchdowns to just four interceptions. He has a quarterback rating of 111.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a tumultuous year for Rodgers, who aired his frustrations with the Packers organization following months of uncertainty in the offseason. &nbsp;In November, Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19, informing the world that he was unvaccinated. He was hammered in the media for \u201cmisleading\u201d the public regarding his vaccination status, after telling reporters in August that he was \u201cimmunized\u201d against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Arkush once again joined 670 The Score, saying he made a \u201cbig mistake\u201d in speaking on who he plans to vote for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a big mistake,\u201d&nbsp;Arkush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2022\/01\/05\/nfl-mvp-voter-hub-arkush-he-made-mistake-aaron-rodgers\/9104603002\/\">said<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cAs far as what happened last night, it\u2019s on me. I screwed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing they really ask us is to not tell people who we voted for until the award is presented. What they really mean is just don\u2019t talk about it, and the reason, in part, is because of exactly what\u2019s happened here,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel awful about it and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Hub Arkush \u2014 Chicago sportswriter and MVP voter \u2014 told a Chicago sports radio station that he would not be voting for Aaron Rodgers as the 2021 NFL MVP. His reasons were not because there\u2019s someone who has been more impressive on the field, but because Arkush isn\u2019t a fan of the Green &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}