New York Giants legend Tiki Barber says Aaron Rodgers is too ‘sensitive’ to survive playing New York

New York Giants legendary running back Tiki Barber has said would struggle to make it in New York because he is too sensitive to handle the New York media.

Barber’s claims come after Rodgers seemed to take shots at NFL insiders Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and ESPN’s Adam Schefter, after they incorrectly reported when he would begin his four day ‘darkness retreat’ on Monday.

It comes amid links for Rodgers with the New York Jets, as he considers his future and if he will play away from the Green Bay Packers. 

‘Ian’s job is to source information about things that are going on in the NFL world,’ Barber said on WFAN’s ‘Tiki and Tierney.’ 

‘Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers took some real shots at Ian Rapoport, basically saying, ‘He doesn’t know anyone in my inner circle, he doesn’t have my number … basically shut the hell up Ian.’

Tiki Barber has said he believes Aaron Rodgers is too soft to handle the New York media

Rodgers has been largely connected with a trade to the New York Jets if he continues playing

Barber spent his entire 10-year career with the Giants, setting multiple team rushing records

‘As I’m reading the full quotes from his Pat McAfee weekly appearance, talking about Schefter and Rapoport it just made me start to realize that if he is that sensitive that he gets upset that people, reporters, opinion-makers, influencers — whatever — want to talk about him, he is going to struggle in New York.

‘I don’t know if I want him in New York if this is going to be his reaction to things that don’t matter.’

Rodgers made the comments about Rapoport and Schefter during his weekly appearance on the Pat MacAfee show on Tuesday, a day after he was reportedly set to start his retreat.

‘This thing has been planned for four months and it was always the same date – the always the end of this week,’ he said. ‘Anyone with knowledge to the opposite of that, is fake news.

‘Let me reiterate one more time. There’s an inner circle, right? And in my inner circle, nobody talks to Ian Rapoport, to Adam Schefter or to any of those people. So, if you’re one of those people talking to those people, it’s a great reminder for you, you’re not in the inner circle.

‘If anybody is out there saying stuff or if they’re juts making it up, which are both likely, just stop with the fake news. 

‘I speak for myself and I will continue to do that. I’m not upset about it. It’s classic media, trying to be first, not trying to be right.’ 

He later added: ‘I think Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport are really good at their jobs but when it comes to me they don’t know s***.

‘[…] I’ve had this planned on the books for four months for the same time. And when someone like that goes on and says something that’s not true, it creates a story that’s bulls***.’

Rodgers is said to decide not only if he will continue playing in the NFL but also if he wishes to continue playing for the Green Bay Packers while on his retreat, with many expecting him to be traded elsewhere if he does not retire.

Early rumors have connected him most heavily with the New York Jets who not only appear to be a quarterback away from making a serious playoff run, also just hired Nathaniel Hackett.

Before his absolute trainwreck of a tenure as Denver Broncos head coach that saw him fired before the end of the first season Hackett spent three years as offensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers and coached Rodgers to the best statical seasons of his legendary career. 

Rodgers blasted the ‘fake news’ surrounding the incorrect start date of his darkness retreat

NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport had reported that the four-day retreat was supposed to begin Monday

Along with putting up outstanding numbers Rodgers also won back-to-back MVP awards while playing under Hackett.

‘If Aaron Rodgers doesn’t want people talking about him, his offseason, his personal life and all these things that are going on with him, he needs to stop talking,’ the former Giants running back continued.

‘When you go and you’re doing something that feels odd to normal society, which is going to sit in a cabin in the woods for four days in complete isolation, we’re gonna talk about it! We have to! It’s our job to!’ Barber exclaimed.

‘For him to get offended by it, he’s not going to handle the intensity of the New York media-scape — traditional media, social, everything else — if he’s here. I don’t know if I want him here. Because it’s going to turn to a quick pain in the ass if Aaron Rodgers’ skin is that shallow that he’s taking shots at Ian Rapoport!’

The Jets hired Nathaniel Hackett -who is close with Rodgers- as the new offensive coordinator