Aaron Rodgers crowns stadium shared with Giants ‘JetLife Stadium,’ ridicules Jihad Ward on ‘Hard Knocks’

Aaron Rodgers is not up to two weeks clear of making his expected Jets debut on “Monday Night Football.” In the period in-between, the megastar quarterback returned to TV on Tuesday for Episode 4 of “Hard Knocks,” HBO and NFL Films’ annual coaching camp sequence.

Once once more, Rodgers was once the central personality of this system, and this time, he confirmed a feistier facet.

Here’s a roundup of A-Rod’s maximum notable moments from the display:

• The broadcast of Rodgers’ contemporary preseason debut for Gang Green confirmed a temporary, heated trade between the QB and Giants move rusher Jihad Ward. The latter can also be observed giving Rodgers a shove after a move on the QB’s first force, however now we all know what a pissed off Rodgers barked again: “What the f— is that? F—ing respect, bro. What the f— is that, five g—— steps? I don’t even know who you are, bro. I never heard of you.”

• Ward it sounds as if returned Rodgers’ banter via repeating the remaining insult — “I never heard of you” — simplest to search out himself on the finish of extra Rodgers barbs as soon as the Jets QB led a landing force: “You f—— poked the bear!”
• The QB additionally had some profane remarks for his good friend and teammate, Randall Cobb, albeit in a joking way after the veteran wideout were given flagged for useless roughness on a blindside block right through the outlet force: “F—— Cobby just lost all his f—— training camp money! What are you doing, bro? This ain’t 2014!”
• This one oughta pass over neatly with the Giants fanatics: because the Jets secured a victory over the G-Men of their preseason finale, Rodgers gave MetLife Stadium a brand new identify on the sidelines — “JetLife Stadium.” He repeated the moniker to fanatics on the way in which off the sphere.
• Rodgers were given a beard trim prior to his preseason debut, however he is it sounds as if very specific about the place he will get that achieved: “I have certain people that can touch my hair,” he stated straight-faced within the QB assembly room.
• Conspiracy idea alert: after fellow QB Zach Wilson relayed social-media memes about Rodgers dressed in corded headphones on the way in which into the Jets’ earlier preseason game, the previous MVP fired again: “You mean the ones that are saving my brain from all the harmful EMF emissions?” (He seems to be referencing earlier social-media arguments that Apple’s wi-fi AirPods transmit destructive ranges of radiation, of which there is no established evidence.)
• Rodgers does not seem to be brooding about retirement in any respect going into his first season in New York. When a fan insisted at camp he can not “retire anytime soon,” right here was once his reaction: “Why would I want to? I got too many fans.”

Rodgers and the Jets will go back to “Hard Knocks” for the season finale on Sept. 5, two days prior to the 2023 opener.