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NFL analyst exposes a conversation where Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers blasts his former team

Originally posted on A to Z Sports | By Rob Gregson | Last updated Jun 18, 2025 2:55 PM ET

I think it's safe to say that Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets didn't end things on the best of terms.

Rodgers explained how things ended a few months ago on The Pat McAfee Show.

And according to his friend and former Super Bowl champion turned NFL analyst, Mark "Stink" Schlereth, that was only the tip of the iceberg...

Aaron Rodgers scorns Jets

“Aaron [Rodgers] and I had a conversation about when he was with the Jets was how abysmal their running game was and how schematically it made no sense,” Schlereth said on his The Stinkin Truth Podcast. “I started the conversation, and then Aaron went on for about a 25-minute diatribe on just their run game.”

A lot of people believe Aaron Rodgers is over the hill because of what his last two years (though it was really one) looked like in New York. However, take out the Mark Sanchez run from over a decade ago, and this is an organization that has been the face of dysfunction since Joe Namath.

So much so, that not even a four-time MVP winning, Lombardi trophy hoisting, future first ballot Hall of Famer, Aaron Rodgers, could not overcome it. The line was putrid, the run game was bad, and the culture was nonexistent after they fired their head coach.

That all changes now. The Steelers may have fallen short of their lofty standards of winning Super Bowls in recent years, but the very fact that the organization, players, and fans are tired of just making the playoffs and falling short shows how different of an environment that Rodgers is walking in to.

And mind you, Rodgers still threw for nearly 4,000 yards and 28 TDs amidst everything that went wrong around him.

So yeah, maybe he isn't good enough to win through absolute dysfunction anymore, but with a culture in place, I expect him to be good.