Jessica Alba dubs Aaron Rodgers “an owl” for hanging out with the young Jets CB Sauce Gardner

The Jets acquired Aaron Rodgers from the Packers in exchange for draft picks.


Jessica Alba dubs Aaron Rodgers “an owl” for hanging out with the young Jets CB Sauce Gardner

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Aaron Rodgers is soaking in the New York experience by attending a lot of NY teams’ playoff games. Rodgers first attended the NHL playoff game between the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils. After that, the former Green Bay Packers QB along with his new Jets teammate Sauce Gardner attended the NBA playoff game between the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat at the Madison Square Garden. During their visit, they got to meet the Hollywood actress Jessica Alba.

The NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers and the 2022 Defensive Rookie of the Year Sauce Gardner both were sitting courtside in the Knicks-Heat playoff game. Besides, they sat right next to the Fantastic Four fame Jessica Alba and her friend. Rodgers was excited about meeting the A-list actress but the 22-year-old Gardner didn’t know who Alba was.

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Nevertheless, all four of them had a little chat during the game and Alba was even impressed with Gardner’s smooth moves on her friend. A couple of days after their meeting Alba revealed that Gardner said, “How can I get caught up when I’m the catch” to her friend. And now, the 42-year-old actress has talked about the whole experience of chatting with Aaron Rodgers and Sauce Gardner.

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Jessica Alba calls the NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers “an owl”

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During a recent episode of the Rich Eisen Show, Jessica Alba made joined and talked about her interesting and unexpected meet-up with the Jets players Aaron Rodgers and Ahmad ‘Sauce’ Gardner.

“It was sweet actually, how Aaron was trying to be like a big brother and like, take him under his wing and like show him the ropes and this kid was not having any of it. Sounds kind of funny. I just thought that was that’s kind of the dynamic, you know, it’s like an owl. You know, like, let me show you the way,” said Alba about Rodgers hanging out with Gardner.

Additionally, she also went on to claim that despite Gardner being respectful, the All-Pro cornerback might just want to hang with someone his age instead of the 10-time Pro Bowl QB.

“It was so funny as the kid, he was just sort of like, all right, you know, like, appreciative and polite. But, you know, he probably wanted to hang out with kids his age. I don’t know,” said Alba.

Nonetheless, Aaron Rodgers and Sauce Gardner have begun their training for the 2023 season. There are lots of expectations on the shoulder of both of those star players as they try to help the Jets break one of the longest playoff droughts in NFL history.

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