I ain\u2019t doing that darkness retreat<\/a>,\u201d Heyward said. \u201cI don\u2019t need any of that crap. Either you want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler or you don\u2019t. That\u2019s simple, that\u2019s the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that\u2019s the recruiting pitch. Pittsburgh Steelers \u2014 if you want to be part of it, so be it. If you don\u2019t, no skin off my back.\u201d<\/p>\nEarly in the podcast appearance, Heyward tried to tell Rodgers that his comments \u201cwere taken out of context.\u201d (They most definitely were not.) Heyward then asked Rodgers how he felt about that.<\/p>\n
Rodgers said this: \u201cI was hurt, yeah. I was hurt. You didn\u2019t reach out, and you just wanted to make a statement in the media. You had a preconceived notion of who I was, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodgers was smiling as he said it, and Heyward laughed. And while the first part (\u201cI was hurt\u201d) seemed like a joke, the back end was far more pointed.<\/p>\n
And it wasn\u2019t new. Rodgers loves to complain about people having \u201cpreconceived notions\u201d about him. At some point, maybe he\u2019ll realize those preconceived notions are conceived from the things he previously said publicly. Those who don\u2019t personally know him will develop impressions of him, based on his comments.<\/p>\n
Most people are different in public than they are in private. But those who have a public persona \u2014 and who add to it with interviews and podcast appearances \u2014 can\u2019t complain when people who don\u2019t personally know them draw conclusions.<\/p>\n
Well, they can. And the rest of us can say they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday is sometimes the day to catch up on the things that got lost in the shuffle of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-90140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}