Aaron Rodgers has not said whether he will play this season, for the Steelers or anyone else. But Rodgers enthusiastically endorses the Steelers\u2019 new coach.<\/p>\n
Rodgers told Pat McAfee today that new Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy is one of his favorite people in the NFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike\u2019s one of the great guys in the league,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cJust an absolutely exceptional human being with a huge heart. We had a lot of great years together, a lot of fun. He really cares about the players. But he also holds guys accountable and creates a lot of structure and details in the process. I loved my time with Mike. Obviously there are times where like a big brother, sometimes you love him, sometimes you\u2019re pissed at him. But deep down, there\u2019s so much love for Mike and appreciation for the time we spent together.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy coached the Packers for 13 seasons, and Rodgers was his quarterback for all of them. The two of them had a lot of success together, including winning Super Bowl XLV, and Rodgers thinks McCarthy will have a lot of success in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you can do better at this time in this franchise\u2019s history than bringing in a guy like Mike McCarthy,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n
Will Rodgers, who officially becomes a free agent next week, remain in Pittsburgh for one more season with McCarthy as his coach? Rodgers said his appearance today was not to make an announcement about that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody on here who is expecting me to make a big decision, just shut off, turn it off now,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n
Instead, Rodgers will take his time, and McCarthy will wait to see if his former quarterback becomes his current quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers has not said whether he will play this season, for the Steelers or anyone else. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-504170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}