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Nick Wright, a popular sports analyst, did not hold anything back Thursday morning while discussing New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who during his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Showsuggested Jimmy Kimmel is linked to deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Wright believes the media is hyperfocused on the wrong thing: how Rodgers' comments will affect McAfee's deal with ESPN, whose parent company Disney also owns ABC, Kimmel's employer. Instead, the What's Wright? host wants to focus on how the NFL's arguably most powerful player is descending into a "malignant dangerous force."
"One of our most prominent voices in sports has become the face, the voice, and more importantly, the megaphone for any bats--t crazy, half-baked theory he stumbles across on the internet," Wright said. "And it unfortunately is a bit of a canary in the coal mine for what a lot of us are dealing with in our own personal lives with our friends, family or extended family."
McAfee has since apologized for his part in linking Kimmel to the Epstein list without any evidence after the late night TV host took to X (Twitter) to slam Rodgers for putting his family in harm's way with unfounded claims.
Rodgers has yet to apologize, and Wright thinks he will just brush it off as a joke, though nobody finds it funny.
Nick Wright gets criticized for defending Jimmy Kimmel
Wright stressed how nobody even batted an eye when Rodgers linked Kimmel to Epstein because he has been "slow-dripping" his conspiracy theories over the past few years. In fact, many people defended the Jets QB when the sports critic tweeted out the following.
"This week, one of America's most famous athletes baselessly and flippantly implied a colleague of his was a sexual predator and the entirety of the discussion around it has been about company politics and policies rather than the objective fact that Rodgers has gone off the deep end," Wright tweeted. "I think we are missing the forest for the trees here: Aaron Rodgers, arguably the single most powerful player in the single most powerful league, is just speed running through every insane corner of the internet and we are all numb to it. It's dangerous and unprecedented.
"I don't really care about the McAfee or ESPN angle, that's not my place or my concern. Rodgers' evolution from 'whacky conspiracist' to 'downright malignant voice' has happened at a record pace and no one seems to care."
Wright believes accusing someone of being a child predator should not be taken lightly because that crime is the worst one of all. Rodgers must be held able for spewing conspiracy theories and McAfee should no longer give him a platform.