Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers downplayed skipping the team’s mandatory minicamp, insisting minicamps nowadays are just glorified OTA practices.
Commenting for the first time on his highly scrutinized absence from last month’s mandatory minicamp, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers downplayed the entire matter, insisting minicamps nowadays are just glorified OTA practices.
“They can arbitrarily put a tag on whatever week of OTAs they want and say, ‘This is the minicamp week,’ which makes it somehow more mandatory than the other weeks,” Rodgers said on the latest episode of Barstool’s “Pardon My Take” podcast, which was published Monday morning. “But it was an OTA schedule. That’s how words can be a little deceiving from time to time. They can make a story out of the fact that I missed minicamp, but it was really two OTA days, but [I] came to the first 10.”
Rodgers noted how the structure of minicamps has changed over the years, recalling how they used to be three-day events that included five practices. In those days, he said, a minicamp was “a real thing.”
