Aaron Rodgers took some heat for his poor performance against the New Orleans Saints in Week 1 of the NFL season. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers bounced back big on Monday night. He completed 22 out of 27 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns, leading to a win 35-17 over the Detroit Lions. Rodgers appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday and was asked if the comments are just noise or if it ever gets to him.
“To be honest, it’s a combination of both,” Rodgers replied, as transcribed by E! News. “I mean, on one hand, it’s absolute horses—t to give a platform to people who have no idea what they’re talking about as far as my mental state and, you know, my focus, my work habits. People that have not been around me, that are not in my life, I don’t have communication with them, are not in the locker room. I mean, that’s just, it’s chickens—t. It’s so ridiculous that people get a platform to do this, and it’s the same type of people.”
Rodgers said that the media today is all about getting clicks and views, leading to “outlandish” opinions. “So, it’s not even overreaction Monday or Tuesday anymore,” Rodgers said so. “It’s overreaction every time a microphone’s in your face, every time you have a single shot in the camera and you get to talk to the camera. Every time you’re on a panel, it’s who can say the most outlandish things because that’s going to give you the most hits. That’s the media we live in; that’s fine. But at the same time, I still have this show; I have my weekly stuff. You know, most people don’t use their platform to defend themselves. I don’t think I need to defend myself when people aren’t worth spending time on.”
Bill Cowher, a former Steelers head coach, said that Rodgers seemed to have lost his mind when he was watching him during Week 1. “Show me you care,” Cowher said during CBS’s NFL pregame show on Sunday. “Show me it’s important to you that the team is more important than who you are, and right now, I have not seen that.”
Rodgers has had an exciting offseason. Along with contemplating retirement, the Super Bowl champion and three-time NFL MVP announced that he was engaged to actress Shailene Woodley earlier this year. E! reported that a source said so. E! News was informed by a source that Woodley is working in Albuquerque but will continue to support Rodgers once she wraps up.