Aaron Rodgers: I Don’t Think There’s Any Reason Why I Wouldn’t Be Back With Packers

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers joined The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday and downplayed his recent comments that his future is uncertain. 

“I don’t feel like I said anything that I hadn’t said before,” Rodgers said, via NFL.com. “I said it the first time I talked to the media. It was just more of a realization, I think, that ultimately my future is not in my control, which just kind of hit me in the moment. I was thinking about Aaron Jones and Corey Linsley and some other guys we have under contract, Big Dog (Marcedes Lewis), guys who I don’t know what their futures are gonna be, and myself included.

“Obviously, after the season that I had, and potentially winning MVP and we obviously made another good run, I don’t think that there’s any reason why I wouldn’t be back. Look, there’s not many absolutes, as you guys know, in this business. So to make an absolute statement about something that is not an absolute, I didn’t do it. I guess that’s why everyone went kind of nuts.”

“I don’t give a s— about that,” Rodgers said. “I mean, I couldn’t care any less about speculation. I don’t think people are used to hearing the truth from athletes, so when they hear the truth, it’s so, like, surprising at times. …That’s all I said after the game. It was like, obviously, I’m 15 minutes from crying in the locker room with some of my teammates, I come and sit down to do this interview and they ask me questions, I give real answers, just like I do on this show. To me, a reality, not a certainty or an absolute, is that my future is not in my hands. Now that’s really the case for all of us, I think, as players, but you can’t…

“I think, naturally, there’s times where you let your mind go to ‘Maybe I’m going to be a Packer for life’ or ‘I’m going to be like a Tim Duncan or a (Derek) Jeter or a Kobe (Bryant) and play with one team my entire career.’ Naturally, you dream about that. That’s like a dream scenario, and I’ve talked about it for much of my career. I think when they drafted Jordan (Love), it was more just the reality kicking in, like that’s actually never the case. There are no absolutes in this business. And I think it’s a beautiful thing to sit with and to wrap your head around. And I did, and I got to a beautiful place about it. Doesn’t mean that that’s not still a reality. I think that’s the only reality is that there is no absolutes in this business. I just reiterated that after the game, and I get it. Some people are like, ‘You just threw 48 touchdowns and are probably going to win MVP.’ Yeah, I understand that, but again there’s no absolutes in this business, so I gave them a real answer in the moment.”