Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will march into the Meadowlands next week to face the New York Jets in their Week 1 matchup.
Rodgers spent the last two seasons with the Jets, and last year, the only full year he played with them, did not end well. After the Jets brought on a new regime, it ended in Rodgers being released and heading to the Steelers.
After his release, Rodgers criticized head coach Aaron Glenn for calling him all the way back to New York just to release him, saying they should have called him.
I was kinda shocked," Rodgers said about his release and how it was done on the Pat McAfee Show in April. “Not because I didn’t think that was a possibility ... but shocked because I just flew across the country and you could’ve told me this on the phone. ... And this is verbatim, exactly how it happened. ... And he goes, ‘We just wanna know how you want it released, the messaging.’ And I said, ‘I don’t give a (expletive) about the messaging.’”
Now, Rodgers has a chance to exact revenge against his former team with a win in Week 1, but he is not holding any grudge against the Jets, instead focusing on the game as just one of the 17 on the regular season schedule.
“Probably nowhere near where it might be made out,” Rodgers said to Adam Schein on Mad Dog Radio. “A lot has changed over there, coaching staff-wise, player-wise. Obviously, I have friendships over there, but it’s one game out of 17, and at 5 o’clock Eastern on that Sunday, it’s only going to be on to the next game. So that’s just the way it is.”
Reflecting on his tenure there, Rodgers notes that he wishes things ended better between himself and Gang Green, but at this point, it was better for both sides to move on and focus on the present.
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