Aaron Rodgers was ‘isolated and negative’ during tense labor products, writes ex-union chief in destructive memoirs

Aaron Rodgers Was ‘isolated and negative’ in trade union meetings and made a dramatic departure of one after expelling a loud moan, according to the former NFL Players Association Executive Director Demaurice Smith.

As reported by terrible announcement, Smith’s upcoming book Turf Wars concentrates from 2009 to 2023 his time as head of the NFLPA, when Rodgers won four MVP prices and a one Super bowl with the Green Bay Packers.

Rodgers publicly disagreed with the 2020 collective negotiation agreement that made the extensive 17-game season possible. He also showed his dissatisfaction during NFLPA meetings with his behavior, according to Smith.

“The God of Cheesehead Nation was isolated and negative,” wrote Smith.

“He sat in the rear row of the meeting room and spent loud sighs before he stood for a dramatic exit,” Smith continued. “An incredible quarterback, certainly, but an even more impressive opponent.”

Smith, a strong proponent of the adopted 17-game regular season, clearly found Rodgers difficult to work with.

Aaron Rodgers, seen during a training of 11 June, opposed the extensive 17-game season in 2020

Aaron Rodgers was ‘isolated and negative’ in trade union meetings, according to the former NFL Players Association Executive Director Demaurice Smith (depicted in 2022)

“In August 2021 my phone squeaked with a text by Aaron Rodgers,” Smith wrote. “Can you call me?” It reads. Can’t I come across traffic instead? ‘

Rodgers is now starting his first and probably only season with the Pittsburgh Steelers after a disastrous two -year -old Stint with the New York Jets.

He was not the only quarterback criticized in the book by Smith.

Smith also quoted the then Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Kirk Cousins ​​on the subject of players kneeling during the national anthem in protest against racist police brands.

“I just think we should understand it all,” said Cousins ​​according to Smith, “Kneeling can harm the game and have an effect on income.”

Smith remembers Cousins ​​as the only white player in the room who later received an earful from Union Official Don Davis, who is Afro -amerikaans.

“Kirk,” Davis started, according to Smith, “you know what the black players hear when you say so? That the N ***** S must keep their mouths shut. ” ‘

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is depicted with Smith during a Congreshe session from 2009

NFLPA Executive Director Demaurice Smith greets NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for a photo for Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles

Smith saved some of his biggest punctures for NFL owners (a “Cabal of greedy billionaires”) and commissioner Roger Goodell, whom he says “was employed by Madmen.”

“When Jerry Jones saw a dollar bill on the floor,” Smith wrote about the owner of Dallas Cowboys, “I really believe he would stop and pick it up.”

He writes about League -generally counsel Jeff Pash: ‘Absolutely the most unscrupulous. In a company full of ruthless people, Pash has defeated everyone. ‘

Smith, a former procedure, was brought into the Union in 2009 after the sudden death of executive director and Legend Gene Upshaw Oakland Raiders.

Smith has had to deal with criticism of a stagnating salary limit about the earlier part of his term of office, but players have enjoyed a much larger part of the competition profits in recent years.

He also assumes the honor in his book for limiting practices and installing a salary floor to thwart owners of Cheapskate.