STEELERS QUARTERBACK AARON RODGERS WAS 10 OF 21 FOR 117 YARDS IN THE LOSS TO BUFFALO, NOV. 30. (PHOTO BY MARLON MARTIN)
Pittsburgh Steelers beat writer Brooke Pryor posted an article on espn.com: “Aaron Rodgers calls out WRs, says Steelers earned fans boos after the Buffalo Bills stampeded the Pittsburgh Steelers by the nasty score of 26-7.”
The following is an excerpt from that article, including but not limited to a few bus-driving-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-road quotes, from the Pittsburgh Steelers geriatric starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers is quoted as saying: “When there’s film sessions, everybody shows up, and when I check to a route, you do the right route.” Then he said: “We have our meetings every week. We have other opportunities outside of the facility, and [I] look forward to seeing all the boys there.”
Pryor wrote: “The quarterback, who turned 42 on Tuesday, Dec. 2, was also strip-sacked on the first play of the third quarter as he bought time in the pocket waiting for a receiver to get open.”
How do we know if the wide receiver ran the wrong route? We only have the words of the narcissistic, self-serving Rodgers to go by. And I would rather purchase an 18-hole golf course in the middle of a Louisiana swamp than believe anything that Aaron Rodgers says. Rodgers continues this nonsensical chatter saying: “I felt good enough to be out there, just not ready to take a snap under center, hopefully next week for that,” he said. “Disappointed in my performance, disappointed in the offensive performance and got to flush it.”
How can you feel good enough to be out there but just not ready to take a snap under center? As a functioning NFL QB, you have to be prepared and well enough to receive the snap under the center as well as in the shotgun formation. “Hopefully next week for that,” he said. The Steelers needed him to be ready for the Bills game, and not to use that game as a tune-up for the upcoming Ravens game, Dec. 7. If he wasn’t 100 percent ready, why wouldn’t he just sit his old a– down and let Mason Rudolph take the snaps during the week, prior to the Bills fiasco?
Rodgers also adorned us with a crown sculptured from an enormous cow chip saying: “Disappointed in my performance, disappointed in the offensive performance and got to flush it.” We should all have an outhouse GPS to provide a route for him, to find the nearest facility complete with Charmin to help him to flush it. Why would anyone look forward to Aaron Rodgers starting next week or any other week for the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This self-centered, and self-serving behavior by Rodgers has been displayed during the past few years, and the powerless-that-be have not indicated that they have the intestinal fortitude to put his feet to the fire.
On October 24, 2022, Rob Goldberg posted an article on bleacherreport.com: “NFL Exec Rips Aaron Rodgers for Saying He Needs to Play ‘a Tick’ Better After Losses.”
Goldberg writes: “Aaron Rodgers might need to be more careful with his words with the Green Bay Packers falling to 3-4 on the season.
‘I’ve got to raise my game probably a tick in order for us to come out on the winning side in some of these games,’ Rodgers said last week. Imagine saying, ‘Hey, you guys pick it up on offense, defense and special teams, and I’ll just pick it up a tick.’ After Sunday’s 23-21 loss to the Washington Commanders, Rodgers lamented his receivers’ drops during the game. ‘There was probably seven or eight passes that could have been caught for sure, but right now we have to have all of them, because we’re just not good enough to win without them,’ the quarterback told reporters. The inexperienced receiving corps has been an issue for the Packers after losing Davante Adams in the offseason, but Rodgers also deserves blame for the team’s struggles. There are certainly other issues besides the quarterback play—including a rotating offensive line and inconsistency at receiver—but it’s clear Rodgers must take more responsibility for the team’s rough start.”
There is a nasty and spin room type of feel right now in Pittsburgh, regarding the Pittsburgh Steelers. Please hit the rewind button with me. Josh Alper published an article on May 19, 2019, on www.nbcsports.com: “Roethlisberger: I went too far criticizing Antonio Brown after Denver INT.”
“In the months leading up to the trade that sent wide receiver Antonio Brown from the Steelers to the Raiders, Brown said several critical things about Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. One instance concerned an interception Roethlisberger threw late in a November loss to the Broncos and the quarterback’s reaction to it. Roethlisberger criticized Brown’s route-running and said he should have thrown to JuJu Smith-Schuster, which earned a rebuke from Brown that included his belief that Roethlisberger ‘feels like he’s the owner’ because he wouldn’t take blame for throwing the pass. Roethlisberger offered a belated apology for what he said after the loss.
‘I took some heat and deservedly so for some of the comments on that show and especially towards him. I genuinely feel bad about that and I’m sorry. Did I go too far after that Denver game? Probably.'”
Probably? Antonio Brown was socially and economically decapitated because of a blatant lie by Ben Roethlisberger. The film corroborated Brown’s version of the play and you said: “Sorry, I probably went too far.” There is one word that joins Rodgers and Roethlisberger at the lips like Siamese twin liars, the word “probably.”
As far as the calls to relieve Mike Tomlin of his head coaching job with Pittsburgh are concerned, Rex (T-Rex) Ryan, the former headmaster of the N.Y. Jets and the Buffalo Bills, doesn’t quite agree. Ryan said on ESPN’s “Get Up” show on Monday, Dec. 1, that: “The old adage is 10 years you start to smell and all that and your message gets lost. I don’t think that’s the case with Mike Tomlin. Do Mike Tomlin a favor and fire him. He would get a job anywhere else in the league in two seconds.”
Well, that may be partially true as long as a certain percentage of the Pittsburgh demographic doesn’t have a vote. However, in this case, maybe Rex should put those rose-colored bifocals back in the case and stick them in his back pocket. If Mike Tomlin and the Steelers ever part ways, it is probable that he will never be hired by any other NFL team. Why? Well, simply because it is taking too long just to get rid of him, and the Rooney Rule has already been honored by hiring him in the first place, or maybe not.