Aaron Rodgers isn’t thrilled with how his time on the New York Jets ended.
The veteran quarterback appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Thursday and said he didn’t feel respected enough when meeting with new head coach Aaron Glenn and others.
“I felt there wasn’t an ample amount of respect in that meeting,” he said (h/t Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic). “I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised based on some things I saw over two years.”
Rosenblatt noted Rodgers “is not a fan of Aaron Glenn” and did not like how his meeting unfolded:
To say Rodgers’ two seasons with the Jets didn’t go as planned would be quite the understatement.
He arrived ahead of the 2023 season as one of the best quarterbacks of all time and someone who was expected to elevate the ceiling of the franchise into Super Bowl contention. However, he suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in his first game with the team and then underperformed throughout the 2024 campaign.
New York went 5-12 with Rodgers under center last year, and he finished 28th in the league in QBR (48.0), per Pro Football Reference. He was far from the peak version of himself that was so dominant on the Green Bay Packers and now has an uncertain future in the NFL.
That the Jets would want to move on from that, especially with a new coach arriving for the 2025 season, is anything but a surprise.
Yet it is clear Rodgers would have liked more respect in how he was informed he wouldn’t be coming back to the Jets.
The biggest question now is whether he will play in 2025 and whether it will be for the Pittsburgh Steelers or someone else. He told McAfee that “retirement still could be a possibility” and the overall decision-making process “ain’t about the money” (h/t Henry McKenna of Fox Sports).
As for the Steelers, he doesn’t seem to be in any hurry even if he has consistently been connected to the AFC North team during the offseason:
This comes after Aditi Kinkhabwala of CBS Sports reported Wednesday the future Hall of Famer was more likely to retire than sign with a team he didn’t believe was a Super Bowl contender.
“It’s extremely clear Rodgers is not going to play just for the sake of playing,” Kinkhabwala added.
That seemed to be the case Thursday as well, which means the NFL world will continue waiting.
