Skip Bayless Not Buying Aaron Rodgers’ Speedy Recovery from Season-Ending Achilles Tear: ‘It’s His Egomania on Full Display’

Skip Bayless believes Aaron Rodgers is teasing his potential return to the field this season solely for attention.

Rodgers’ debut season with the New York Jets ended prematurely when he ruptured his Achilles tendon in the team’s first game. After undergoing an experimental procedure to repair the tendon, he’s continued teasing the idea that he might be able to come back and play this season.

An Achilles rupture, like a torn ACL in the knee, is historically a season-ending injury.

Weeks after the surgery, however, Rodgers was seen walking without crutches. Before Jets games, he regularly throws the ball around and even drops back as if he’s getting ready to play. It’s led some to believe he might actually pull it off.

Then, after the Jets’ loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night, Rodgers was seen talking with Chargers safety Derwin James. James asked him when he’d be coming back, and Rodgers told him “a few weeks.”

Chargers’ safety Derwin James asked Aaron Rodgers, postgame last night, “When you coming back?”

Rodgers responded, “A few weeks.” pic.twitter.com/R4jMNSLQ6E

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 7, 2023

Bayless is sure it’s all just for show.

“I understand the Jets need some hope,” Bayless said on Tuesday’s episode of Undisputed. “The team needs a shred of hope. I got it. But Aaron Rodgers needs attention more than the Jets need hope; so, to me, it’s his egomania on full display because he’s gonna try to upstage — it’s Monday Night Football. He knows exactly what’s gonna happen. He’s going to be the story of the night and he’s going to drop a little bombshell of a hint because he knows people are mic’d up all around him. There are boom mics everywhere as they’re shaking hands; and he’s gonna drop that little nugget, ‘Give me a few weeks. I’ll be back.'”

The commentator also said surgeons have told him how dangerous it is that Rodgers is pushing himself.

“I have some very close friends who are orthopedic surgeons,” he continued, “and their minds are blown over this because they think it’s so dangerous. You are daring that Achilles devil out there.”

Still, Rodgers remains adamant that his return this season isn’t impossible.

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