{"id":54925,"date":"2025-12-08T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54925\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:31:07","slug":"aaron-rodgers-blunt-answer-to-mike-tomlin-steelers-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54925\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers&#8217; blunt answer to Mike Tomlin-Steelers question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers didn\u2019t mince words when he responded to a reporter\u2019s question about the impact of Sunday\u2019s win over the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers had dropped two straight games going into Sunday and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/07\/sports\/where-mike-tomlins-steelers-future-stands-as-calls-for-his-job-grow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> questions about Mike Tomlin\u2019s job security swirled<\/a>, leading to Rodgers being asked about the meaning of the win amid the chatter around the longtime head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means maybe you guys will shut the hell up for a week,\u201d Rodgers said matter-of-factly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Rodgers rushes for a touchdown during the Steelers\u2019 Dec. 7 win over the Ravens. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Talk around Tomlin even led to a former Steelers great, Ben Roethlisberger, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/03\/sports\/ben-roethlisberger-endorses-mike-tomlin-steelers-breakup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to suggest \u201cmaybe it\u2019s time\u201d for him to move on<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s being talked about around here a lot: Maybe it\u2019s a clean-house time. Maybe it\u2019s time,\u201d Roethlisberger said on his podcast. \u201cI like Coach Tomlin. I have a lot of respect for Coach Tomlin. But maybe it\u2019s best for him, too. Maybe a fresh start for him is what\u2019s best. Whether that\u2019s in the pros, maybe go be Penn State\u2019s head coach. You know what he would do in Penn State? He would probably go win national championships. Because he\u2019s a great recruiter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin is pictured during the Steelers\u2019 Dec. 7 win over the Ravens. Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>But the win on Sunday likely quiets the talk down, as Rodgers suggested, now that the Steelers have taken control of first place in the AFC North.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin called the victory an \u201cawesome team win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Players downplayed the chatter around the team, with linebacker Patrick Queen suggesting that the team had been ignoring it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers walk off the field after the Steelers\u2019 win over the Ravens on Dec. 7. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia is gonna do stuff like that,\u201d Queen said, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/12\/07\/aaron-rodgers-sends-message-to-media-on-mike-tomlin-after-steelers-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per Sportsnet Pittsburgh<\/a>. \u201cAny guy in the building can care less. It\u2019s a brotherhood, it\u2019s a family. We got each other\u2019s back. All we care about is in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers moved to 7-6 and Tomlin inched closer to securing another season at the helm with a winning record, which has been a staple of the coach\u2019s during his time in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers didn\u2019t mince words when he responded to a reporter\u2019s question about the impact of Sunday\u2019s win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,7405,1418,73,75,74,1833,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-54925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-mike-tomlin","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}