Stephen A. Smith makes accusation against Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers using careful word selection to be deceitful or untruthful? Where have we seen that before?

While you scour your brain for past examples, Stephen A. Smith thinks he witnessed it again Wednesday afternoon on The Pat McAfee Show , when the New York Jets quarterback wiped his hands clean of the decision to fire head coach Robert Saleh.

“If you’re Aaron Rodgers, yeah, you didn’t go into the office and say, ‘I want him fired.’ You didn’t go into the office and say, ‘I want him out.’ That may be true,” Smith acknowledged. “But don’t act like you are completely oblivious to what was going on, what the tenor of the situation was like, how things were eroding before our very eyes and that the owner wouldn’t take notice of all of these things. And somehow, someway, when y’all got on the phone with one another, y’all were talking about the chocolate chip cookies and the milk you were drinking.”

“Just stop that nonsense. It’s amazing how it’s so difficult for folks to just simply tell the truth,” Smith continued. “It’s not like we’re completely oblivious and not cognizant of what the hell is going on. And when Aaron Rodgers tried to give that impression, that’s when I think the believability factor went out the window.”

Jets owner Woody Johnson had a conversation with Aaron Rodgers Monday night. Tuesday morning, Johnson fired Saleh. Those two things are factual. Johnson and Rodgers, however, have both denied that Saleh’s job status came up during their Monday night conversation.

Wednesday afternoon, Rodgers joined The Pat McAfee Show , which follows Smith’s First Take on ESPN, and claimed he had nothing to do with the Jets firing Saleh just five weeks into the season.

“As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there, I’m not gonna spend more than one sentence in response to it,” Rodgers told McAfee. “And that is that I resent any of those allegations because they’re patently false. It’s interesting, the amount of power that people think that I have, which I don’t. But I love Robert.”

Saleh deserved to be fired last year after his third straight losing season as head coach of the Jets. So while it’s not surprising that Saleh is no longer the head coach of the Jets, it is surprising that the firing came just five weeks into the season, with the team just one game out of first place. And it’s very hard to believe a decision like that gets made without the owner doing a temperature check of his superstar quarterback.

Did Rodgers demand to have Saleh fired? Probably not. But there’s no way he was “blindsided” by this decision, especially after admitting he had a conversation with Johnson hours before Saleh was dismissed.

[ First Take ]

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