Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers made his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday and said the sports world overreacted to his comments that he noticed something on the Jumbotron during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' final drive in Green Bay's 14-12 win on Sunday, and that the information he relayed had nothing to do with the decisive failed two-point conversion attempt.

Rodgers said (1:40 mark):

"It was well before the two-point conversion. I did see something on the Jumbotron that I went down and relayed to [head coach Matt LaFleur]. I'm not going to get into exactly what I saw, or if it even had a real impact on the play. I think that's kind of inconsequential. But I thought I saw something. I walked down and relayed that to Matt. Whether that got really to [defensive coordinator Joe Barry] or not, I'm not sure. Either way, it had nothing to do with the two-point conversion. There was not an image of a Microsoft Surface or anything on there. That would have been pretty funny, though."

Rodgers had the internet buzzing after he made his Jumbotron remarks on the Fox broadcast following the game.

"Sometimes, you see things in the game," he said, in part. "Sometimes the Jumbotron shows things they probably shouldn't show, even at home. I saw something. I just passed on the information."

Among the conspiracy theories that floated around online after those comments were made was that perhaps Rodgers saw the team's play on a loose tablet on the sideline that was shown on the Jumbotron, or saw a close-up of Brady calling the play in the huddle.

LaFleur was just as cagey as his quarterback about what information Rodgers passed along:

The situation was serious enough to catch the attention of Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles, however:

Rodgers, who has been cryptic to the point of controversy in the past, probably won't ever reveal what was passed along. It will remain a mystery, albeit one the Bucs probably would like to solve in the event it actually was impactful information during the game's pivotal drive.

Late in the Green Bay Packers' 14-12 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, before the Bucs attempted and failed to tie the game on a two-point conversion attempt, Aaron Rodgers saw something on the Jumbotron at Raymond James Stadium that offered him insight into the Bucs' offense.

"Well, they showed it on the previous play, too,” he said on the Fox broadcast after the win. "It was a delay on both plays. But sometimes, you see things in the game. Sometimes the Jumbotron shows things they probably shouldn't show, even at home. I saw something. I just passed on the information."

It's unclear what Rodgers might have seen or passed along to the coaching staff. Perhaps he recognized a personnel grouping from a previous play, or a particular formation or alignment.

Whatever the case may be, the team's defense got a key stop and the Packers moved to 2-1 on the season, escaping a major test in Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers suffered their first loss of the year, moving to 2-1 as well.

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick knows he has his hands full preparing for the Green Bay Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers this week.

"Really no weaknesses with the player at all," Belichick said of Rodgers Monday on The Greg Hill Show on Audacy's WEEI 93.7 (Boston).

Rodgers has put together an impressive career, including 10 Pro Bowl selections and four MVP awards, including each of the past two years. The 38-year-old has started only two games against the Patriots in his career, but he had four total touchdowns with zero interceptions in those matchups.

Next Sunday will be the quarterback's third start against Belichick, as the Patriots head to Lambeau Field.

The Packers have struggled offensively this season, averaging just 16 points per game to rank 27th in the NFL. Injuries on the offensive line and changes at receiver have slowed down Rodgers to begin the year.

The Patriots will still need to work hard to limit Rodgers in Week 4.

In a battle of two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Aaron Rodgers came out on top, defeating Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14-12 at Raymond James Stadium on Sunday.

Rodgers completed 27 of 35 passes for 255 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, finding Romeo Doubs and Allen Lazard in the end zone.

Brady, meanwhile, completed 31 of 42 passes for 271 yards and one touchdown to Russell Gage, which came in the final seconds of the game. While the seven-time Super Bowl champion was without his best receivers in Chris Godwin, Mike Evans and Julio Jones, it was still a two-point game.

Still, fans on Twitter were quick to declare Rodgers the true greatest of all time.

Brady has won seven Super Bowl titles and three MVP awards. Rodgers has won one Super Bowl and four MVP awards.

Brady now owns a 3-2 record all-time against Rodgers, including a win in the NFC Championship Game during the 2020 season. Two of those wins came when he was with the New England Patriots.

The Packers moved to 2-1 on the season with the win. They'll face the New England Patriots next weekend.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers provided some context for the team's ayahuasca-inspired touchdown celebration Sunday evening against the Chicago Bears during a conversation on The Pat McAfee Show.

The celebration occurred late in the first half when Rodgers found Allen Lazard for a five-yard touchdown to give Green Bay a 23-7 lead en route to a 27-10 win.

Rodgers told Peter King of NBC Sports that he made multiple trips to Peru and went on ayahuasca journeys in 2020 and this year.

Natalie Neysa Alund of USA Today defines ayahuasca as a "brown-reddish drink with a strong taste and smell" that "contains the active chemical dimethyltryptamine, or DMT." Per Alund, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) "classifies DMT as a hallucinogen, and it is associated with religious practices and rituals in South America."

As far as the celebration want, Lazard got it going by appearing to pour everyone drinks. Some players then reacted in apparent shock and fell to the ground.

Rodgers noted "that's not what happens with ayahuasca" and that "you don't have some sort of, like, immediate pass-out/faint into oblivion."

The reigning back-to-back NFL MVP ultimately finished the game completing 19 of 25 passes for 234 yards and two touchdowns.

Tua Tagovailoa arm-strength concern trolls are awfully quiet on this Monday morning.

The Miami Dolphins quarterback threw for 469 yards and six touchdowns, spearheading a comeback from 21 points down in Sunday's 42-38 win over the Baltimore Ravens.

An NFL executive told Mike Sando of The Athletic that Tagovailoa looked like "a young Aaron Rodgers" out on the field.

That's high praise for a player who spent most of the offseason answering questions about the Dolphins' long-term commitment to him as a franchise quarterback. Miami won't have its first-round pick next April after what's been described as unprecedented levels of tampering with Tom Brady.

Ben Volin of the Boston Globe reported in April that there was a clandestine plan in place to have Brady retire, join the Dolphins front office and then unretire once the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a replacement lined up. All of this planning was done with Tagovailoa still on the roster and apparently being kept in the dark about the team trying to replace him.

After two weeks of the 2022 NFL season, Tagovailoa has thrown for seven touchdowns. Brady has thrown for two.

While there is no telling how Brady would have fared in this loaded Dolphins offense, it's hard to imagine him being better than Tagovailoa has been in leading Miami to a 2-0 start.

Aaron Rodgers' ayahuasca adventure made its way to national television Sunday night, as the Green Bay Packers celebrated an Allen Lazard touchdown reception by pouring each other tea in the end zone during their 27-10 win over the Chicago Bears.

Packers wide receivers spilled the tea on their touchdown tea party, with Sammy Watkins saying it was an "ode" to their quarterback's journey with the hallucinogenic beverage. Randall Cobb played it coy, saying the team was "just drinking some tea," while Rodgers himself (poorly) tried to deflect.

The reigning NFL MVP made headlines this offseason when he credited his use of ayahuasca during a three-day trip to Peru in 2020 with a return to superstar form.

"I don't think it's a coincidence," Rodgers said on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast. "I really don't. I don't really believe in coincidences at this point. It's the universe bringing things to happen when they're supposed to happen.

"There's signs and synchronicities all around us at all times if we're awake enough to see them and to take them in and to listen to our intuition when it's speaking to us or pounding us in the head saying, 'Hey dummy, this is what you're supposed to be doing.'"

Rodgers said his experience with the beverage, which produces a psychedelic reaction, helped him on a journey of "self-love" that made him a better teammate and player. Since first experimenting with ayahuasca in 2020, Rodgers became the fifth player in NFL history to win MVPs in consecutive seasons and found a late-career renaissance after seemingly starting to decline in 2018 and 2019.

The NFL said Rodgers' experimentation did not violate any drug policies, and there's no expectation of any fine coming from the celebration—even though the league office likely isn't pleased it put psychedelic drug use back in the national conversation.