PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – Having what he calls a great relationship with the Steelers head coach, the last month-plus has given Aaron Rodgers and his teammates an opportunity to stop the ‘Fire Tomlin’ talk.
Rodgers addressed that and what the head coach means to him following practice on Thursday
“At 6 and 6, there are a lot of people thinking we were going to be kind of stumbling to the finish,” Rodgers said. “And who knows what was going to happen. A lot of you probably in this group, either publicly or privately, we're talking about Mike T getting axed, so it feels good to shut all those comments down.”
Not that Rodgers feels like there won’t be more of that talk in the future. He said it’s the nature of sports media and the ‘knee-jerk reaction of our society with social media’.
He said Tomlin creates a culture that allows guys to be themselves, but also understand the team culture. It’s the antithesis of where he came from, where he said players don’t air dirty laundry outside of the room. Rodgers said it’s been nice to be in Pittsburgh and focus on football.
“We love Mike T., and Mike T has had an incredible career as a head coach,” Rodgers said. “To go that long and never have a losing season is unbelievable.”
“There's always gonna be something.”
“When I was a young player, they said I couldn't be considered elite until I won a playoff game. And after that, it was until you went to Super Bowl and you haven't won MVP yet. Yeah. Whatever they might be, for Mike T, he's had what, 19 straight, non-losing seasons. So they gotta find something to try and get after him.”
“Mike T's probably like me though, didn't give a whole lot of (crap) about any of those comments. But he is nice because we all love him, we want to play for him, we want win for him.”