After his appearance on Pat McAfee, is Aaron Rodgers career over?

Sam Phalen discusses former New York Jets QB Aaron Rodgers, his comments on the Pat McAfee Show and how it might impact Rodgers' future employment.

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00:00Veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers continues to prove exactly why no team in the NFL should even

00:06come close to signing him. It's why he's still unsigned and why he will remain unsigned

00:12throughout this offseason and I think his NFL career is over. For A to Z Sports to break it

00:18down, I'm Sam Phelan. Former New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers is throwing a lot

00:27of shade at his former team. He's in the headlines in the news once again talking about his untimely

00:34departure from the Jets and implicating maybe some unethical stuff by head coach Aaron Glenn.

00:42Rodgers clearly unhappy and he is slamming the Jets on ESPN on the Pat McAfee show. He makes

00:49another appearance talking about his meeting that he had with the New York Jets new brass at the end

00:54of the season in which he said things like, they made me fly across the country on my own dime.

01:00Okay, and sure, maybe the Jets should have flown Aaron Rodgers in if they had a meeting scheduled

01:06with him. But at the same time, you've made over $380 million in your NFL career. You stole money

01:14from the Jets in 2023, making over $40 million to not play football. You have no sympathy from me or

01:20really anybody in this situation. And maybe Rodgers is right. Maybe Aaron Glenn did all of the things

01:27that Rodgers implicated him to do. He said he sits down with the new head coach who presses him. Do you

01:33really want to play football next year in 2025? And when Rodgers said he was interested, Glenn quickly

01:38made a move to say, we're going in another direction at quarterback. Rodgers felt unhappy that Glenn never

01:45got to know him, never got the chance to talk to him. Apparently, Glenn said to Rodgers, I don't

01:50want to be standing up in front of a bunch of men in a team meeting and have them all looking back at

01:55you, insinuating that the veteran QB would be undermining the head coach, that the players would

02:00be respecting Rodgers instead of Glenn, that he was a bad culture fit. Again, maybe Glenn did say all of

02:07these things. And maybe most of them are unfair to Rodgers. But I think the fact that this information

02:14is being made public, the fact that he is making a scene about throwing Aaron Glenn under the bus,

02:20this is why Glenn has those concerns. And this is why if you're any NFL team right now, even a team

02:26in need of a quarterback, you don't want to touch Aaron Rodgers. I mean, he went five and 12 last year.

02:33It's not like he's coming off an AFC championship game appearance and has a lot of wins on his resume

02:39recently to hang his hat on. He didn't have success in New York. Can you blame them for going in another

02:44direction? And what team wants to sign up for 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers, pay him a lot of money

02:51just to risk him going on ESPN and Pat McAfee show again and trying to parade your entire organization?

02:58If I'm the Pittsburgh Steelers, I'm not going anywhere near Aaron Rodgers at this point. I much

03:05like my chances of drafting Jackson Dart in the first round of the 2025 draft than I do paying

03:11Rodgers. I'm glad if I'm the New York Jets to have Justin Fields on my roster. If I'm the New York

03:17Giants, I am thanking my lucky stars that I got Russell Wilson instead of somebody who is a clear

03:22PR problem. So in my opinion, Rodgers' career is going to be done. I don't see how the juice is

03:30worth the squeeze for a team to submit themselves to this type of media presence when the on-field

03:38product hasn't been anything to write home about. Don't touch him. Aaron Glenn, in my eyes,

03:45this is a positive checkmark for his tenure as New York Jets head coach. The Jets have been broken

03:52for a while. It's good that they have somebody like Glenn who's willing to lay the law down,

03:57stick it to the man, and let Aaron Rodgers know that no one player is bigger than this football

04:03team. I think it will help them a lot in the future, and Glenn might be the right man to lead

04:08them back to the NFL playoffs. For A to Z Sports, I'm Sam Phelan.