Aaron Rodgers thinks a mic caused Randall Cobb’s punctured lung
By John Buhler
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn’t like having to wear on-field microphones and believes one caused teammate Randall Cobb’s punctured lung.
It’s understandable how an NFL player may not like having to wear one of the NFL’s many on-field microphones. Some argue that wearing a mic hinders the game’s authenticity, as players wearing one may hold back certain verbal responses that come about from playing football (i.e. expletives, trash talking).
However, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes that it was an on-field microphone that ultimately caused teammate wide receiver Randall Cobb to suffer a punctured lung in the Packers’ 2015 NFC Divisional Round loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
Rodgers went off on the issue on ex-teammate linebacker A.J. Hawk’s podcast, per ESPN.
"“I don’t feel comfortable being miked up, and I will say this: Randall Cobb had a serious injury in the playoff game, and I believe…that was caused by him being miked up. Because he fell on his mic pack and he had an injury to his insides…the puncture mark was adjacent to his mic pack.”"
The Packers weren’t able to knock off the Cardinals after forcing overtime on a Rodgers Hail Mary at the end of regulation. While Green Bay probably wasn’t going to knock off the top-seeded Carolina Panthers in the 2015 NFC Championship Game in Charlotte, not having Cobb would have been a huge loss for the Packers’ hopes for a fifth Lombardi Trophy.
While proving that the mic pack directly caused Cobb’s lung injury isn’t certain, perhaps Rodgers does have a point that being miked up is more of a hindrance to players than a boon for the fans watching the game at home.
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