Theory Says Aaron Rodgers Didn’t Really Tear His Achilles: Colin Cowherd Has Something To Add

The Jets had just had a difficult 7–10 2022 season, but they still had a strong defence and young offensive players in running back Breece Hall and wide receiver Garrett Wilson. All they needed was a quarterback. So, they thought about Aaron Rodgers.

Theory Says Aaron Rodgers Didn’t Really Tear His Achilles: Colin Cowherd Has Something To Add

Therefore, they went out and acquired Aaron Rodgers, a 39-year-old future Hall of Famer. The excitement, though, was short-lived as Rodgers’ 2023 season was abruptly ended after he tore his Achilles tendon on the fourth play of the season’s opening game.

Zach Wilson, a first-round flop, is the quarterback the Jets now have to deal with, and they may have the worst offence in the NFL.

There is a conspiracy theory circulating that claims Aaron Rodgers did not actually injure his Achilles tendon.

This week’s discussion with Stugotz on The Dan Le Batard Show supported it.

When you take into account that Rodgers is 39 years old, that an NFL player typically needs nine to twelve months to recuperate, and that he was out on the field doing dropbacks and flinging the ball 55 yards in the air just 54 days after having surgery to heal his Achilles, it’s all plausible discourse.

Following Kirk Cousins’ injury, it was revealed that the Cleveland Clinic calculates that a damaged Achilles tendon typically takes four to six months to heal completely.

However, a while back, during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers made an intriguing remark regarding a potential return this season:

“I think what I’d like to say is give me the doubts. Give me the doubts, give me the media, the timetables, all the things that you think can or will happen because all I need is that one little extra per cent of inspiration.

That’s all I need. So give me your… doubts, give me your prognostications, and then watch what I’ll do.”

Colin Cowherd is also curious about these reports that he has heard.

“What do you make… there’s so much misinformation out there. I saw a story today. And I’m not blaming anybody for this take,” Colin Cowherd told Logan Ryan on the show this week. “But the take was sort, maybe he didn’t rupture an Achilles.

“Now, I’m not… again, I don’t have a strong opinion on it. I don’t know. I’m not a doctor.

“I don’t know about vaccines. I took a vaccine during COVID. I’m not an epidemiologist. Right? Like…

“So I watched the Aaron thing and I’m like, ‘How is he healing so fast?’”

“There has been a theory, Jason McIntyre, my co-host here, had made the theory that [Robert] Salah and the GM love Aaron being around the field and talking this way because it gives them hope. And the impulsive ownership will just feel like it’s hope. Don’t make changes.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” Colin continued.

“But you played this game, if you ruptured your Achilles, there’s NO WAY, you’re a DB, but what do you just make of the whole circus of the injury and Aaron and on the field and the throwing and talk about coming back?

It goes without saying that this healing process has been nothing short of miraculous. Rodgers is recuperating from an injury that has been known to destroy careers, yet it feels like he merely fractured his little toe.

Did he even really rupture his Achilles tendon? It’s no secret that conspiracy theories are popular these days—it’s 2023.

 

 

 

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