Jets HC Aaron Glenn telling Aaron Rodgers they didn't want him is already looking like a massive win for the Steelers

Aaron Rodgers had an offseason that included everything but football. His annual trip to the Kentucky Derby, photos of him walking on the beach, getting married, etc. But he still wanted to be a quarterback in the National Football League.

He made it very clear to the New York Jets' new regime, including their head coach, Aaron Glenn, that he was all-in for 2025. But they told him they were all the way out.

And now, the Jets are 0-4 and look like the worst team in recent memory, while the Pittsburgh Steelers sit atop the AFC North at 3-1. So we may only be through the first month of the season, but it's safe to say that Rodgers is already having the early last laugh.

Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers headed in a polar opposite direction from the Jets

“I figured that when I flew across the country on my dime, there would be a conversation,” Rodgers told Pat McAfee in the spring. “I meet with the coach, we start talking … he runs out of the room. I’m like, that’s strange. Then he comes back with the GM. So we sit down and I think we’re going to have this long conversation, I’ve flown across the country, and 20 seconds in, I’m talking to the GM, and (Glenn) leans to the edge of his seat and says: ‘You’re sure you want to play football?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m interested.’ And he said, ‘We’re going in another direction at quarterback.’"

Well, Rodgers is off to a 3-1 start with the Steelers and looks to be having the time of his life. Pittsburgh’s game against New York just so happened to be his best game of the year thus far, with Rodgers throwing four TDs to four different players en route to a 34-32 win. Meanwhile the Jets under Glenn look like a J.V. operation.

“This is worse than the Buffalo loss, in my opinion,” said ESPN color commentator and analyst Dan Orlovsky during the Monday night game between the Jets and Miami Dolphins. “Buffalo beat them because Buffalo is better than them. Miami outplayed them, but there’s such controllable, self-inflicted stuff.”