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A parody account on Elon Musk’s social network X was banned after predicting Aaron Rodgers would suffer a season-ending injury with eerie precision.
“Aaron Rodgers is going to tear his Achilles on a rain drenched MetLife turf in 2.5 hours,” user @DaddyZaslav — an account spoofing Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav — wrote at 6:01 p.m., about two hours before the 8:15 p.m. kickoff on “Monday Night Football.”
By 8:30 p.m., the 39-year-old Jets savior was carted off the field after going down with the ankle injury following a sack on the team’s fourth offensive play.
The horrifying prediction was viewed over 11 million times before it was taken down some time on Tuesday — after the team confirmed what Gang Green nation feared.
X, the site formerly known as Twitter, did not provide a reason for why the account was suspended.
Social media sleuths took to X to guess why @DaddyZaslav, an apparent Jets fan, was yanked from the platform, with many citing the user’s ill-mannered responses to fellow commenters making fun of Rodgers’ early exit.
“I think he got suspended bc if you looked at his page last night, he went crazy on people tweets who were making fun of Rodgers. Telling them to off themselves and such,” another wrote.
A screenshot shared on Tuesday showed the Zaslav spoof account telling one user to “shut the f—k up,” calling another a “piece of s—t” and using a slew of other expletives.
Other floated a myriad of conspiracy theories about the precision of the post.
“This is a burner of one of the script writers, clearly,” one user wrote.
“Twitter blue let’s you hide the blue check, and for up until an hour after your tweet you can edit your tweet. That’s exactly what happened here,” another user wrote, though others replied insisting: “Nope the game hadn’t started.”
Another supposed believer of the so-called NFL script posted a screenshot of Rodgers sitting on the field after unsuccessfully attempting to walk off the injury.
The user drew attention to the time on the clock when play was stopped to attend to Rodgers’ injury: 11:19.
“And he went down on mirror 911 on 9/11,” the user wrote.
I think he got suspended bc if you looked at his page last night, he went crazy on people tweets who were making fun of Rodgers. Telling them to off themselves and such. 8 think that was the reason
— King Pak (@pakmann864) September 12, 2023The unfortunate news that Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon was confirmed late Tuesday morning, around 11 a.m. EST.
Slow-motion replay footage from the game against the Bills captured the moment Rodgers appears to tear his Achilles, with an obvious pop seen in his calf.
The injury comes after much fanfare and hype over Rodgers’ participation with the championship-starved franchise, which was hopeful the four-time league MVP could potentially lead the Jets back to the promised land.
With a Week 2 matchup against the Cowboys looming, all eyes are now on backup Zach Wilson, the Jets’ second-overall pick in 2021.
Wilson threw for 140 yards, with one touchdown and an ugly interception in Monday’s stunning overtime victory — which ended on a punt return for the winning score.
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