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RYAN Clark and Aaron Rodgers appear to be feuding through ESPN.
Clark initially spoke out against Aaron Rodgers on First Take who then fired back on The Pat McAfee Show.
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Clark asked McAfee for time to speak about the beef on his show through X.
“Think @PatMcAfeeShow is still on YT,” he wrote.
“Texted and FaceTimed the number I have. Would love to clear up this whole ‘jealous’ thing!
“I’m in South Bend this week though. I’ll walk out if we can’t connect. Quick convo sets it straight.
“Got no issue with dude unless he has 1 with me.”
The beef originated from Rodgers taking exception with a First Take segment Clark did about him.
“I know I gotta say this multiple times for people because they don’t listen,” he said.
“Say whatever the f*** you want about me, I don’t care. But before you do it, whether you state your name, your accolades, your pronouns, whatever it is, just state your vax status so anything you say after get puts in the right light.
“Then when you say things about me, people can at least be like ‘Oh you are captured by the multibillion-dollar propaganda psyop.
“Just put that in so everybody knows where you’re coming from.”
Clark quickly responded to that with a four and a half minute video on X, calling Rodgers out as a “hypocrite.”
“Wanted to make sure all your people knew it was me. Here is why I called Aaron Rodgers… a hypocrite,” he said.
“Because you’re actually on ESPN talking about my fellow colleagues and the people I work with saying that now, because they are former players and weren’t as great of players as you were, they feel like they’re the stars.
“And that’s not it. TV has changed. It’s more about opinion and the informed opinion of people who have played the game.
“What’s hypocritical about what you said is you said it while on TV with Pat McAfee, who has done an amazing job with this platform. And even though he was an all-pro punter, he’s now extremely famous and more well known for what he does in his post [playing] career.
“Even more hypocritical of you is that you’re sitting across from three people who have never played the game, and they are also entitled to talk about football in a very informed way, because if we’ve learned anything from Mina Kimes, you don’t actually have to step on the field to be excellent at the job of analyzing football.
“And I spoke to that hypocrisy because you were getting paid to do that, which Pat said you deserve to. And that is why you received the money that you did, at least initially, because of what you brought to his platform.
“Now, let me be clear because I know you want us to list these things. My name is Ryan Clark. Played 13 years in the NFL, been to two Super Bowls. I have as many rings as you do. I was the captain of two separate football teams.
“I’m also an Emmy winner. I’m also the co-host, owner, and partner of an Emmy-nominated podcast called The Pivot.”
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Clark also sounded off about his vaccination status, something that Rodgers was critical about on live TV during The Pat McAfee Show.
He made sure to bring up the fact that Rodgers and the Packers were fined over $300,000 after he misdirected the media by saying he was “immunized,” even though he never received the Covid vaccine.
“As far as your vaccination status, so you can stop trying to trick people into thinking that we want to talk about that [issue] above the stink of your film, I’ve never heard it one more time after your incident,” Clark said.
“People didn’t care that you weren’t vaccinated, they cared that you were slimy about it. They cared that you were deceitful about it.
“And they cared that you had this air of arrogance when answering the questions about it. And you’ve been the only person that’s talked about it since.”
Clark finished his rant by roasting Rodgers about the New York Jets’ awful season.
“But let me be very, very clear. My job is to analyze you… And in analyzing you, what I know is your QBR is 21st,” he said.
“Also know that you’re the quarterback of a 4-10 team who has to win the last three games of the season to even be equal to what last year’s team was without you.”
Rodgers won’t make another appearance on The Pat McAfee Show until next week, but he will likely fire back another response to Clark on ESPN.
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