Aaron Rodgers Joins Steelers: Insights from Mini Camp

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00:00Aaron Rodgers reports to minicamp for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:05Let's hear from Aaron right here, right now on how he is finding his new team.

00:10I think I just want to be a servant leader here and just pass on the knowledge that I have for 20 years,

00:16the experience, and just try and fit in with the guys, get to know them, let them get to know me,

00:21and just enjoy the process.

00:23You know, this is, everything's new.

00:25It's like the first day of school.

00:26I don't know a lot of guys' names.

00:27They don't have names on the back of the jerseys yet.

00:29They don't have names on the doors in the meeting room.

00:32So I literally walk out of the locker room lost, try and grab somebody, hey, where am I going?

00:36But I'll get the feel of it, and I'm excited about making this home.

00:40Aaron, at this point in your life, why do you still want to play?

00:44Yeah, I mean, I think that's what it is.

00:46Like, I don't need it for my ego.

00:50I don't need it to keep playing.

00:52A lot of decisions that I've made over my career and life from strictly the ego,

00:58even if they turn out well, are always unfulfilling.

01:01But the decisions made from the soul are usually pretty fulfilling.

01:06So this was a decision that was best for my soul, and I felt like being here with Coach T

01:10and the guys that got here and the opportunity here was the best for me,

01:14and I'm excited to be here.

01:16A decision made directly from his soul.

01:21Has he earned the respect, DRS, of Mike Tomlin to call him Coach T on his first day of practice?

01:28What was your reaction to what Aaron Rodgers had to say about being the newest Pittsburgh Steeler?

01:33Yeah, by the way, my reaction at two is I was listening to what he's saying.

01:36I said, wait a second.

01:37Like, why are there no signs in a practice facility of where you should actually go at this point?

01:40And at an OTA, you have a ton of rookie players out there.

01:44Nobody knows who anybody is out here.

01:45Sounds like a great organization right now for the Pittsburgh Steelers,

01:48just trying to make it simple for everybody to get to know each other.

01:51Hey, walked in.

01:51No, I have no idea.

01:52I can't even look at the back of their jersey to know who they are.

01:55Shout out to New York Yankees.

01:55Should be putting their names on the back of their jerseys at home.

01:57Because again, people don't know who Aaron Judge is sometimes when he comes up to the plate

02:00without that name on the back of the jersey.

02:02But yeah, but as I digress right here, this is, I just want to get to the Aaron Rodgers point.

02:07Like, hey, like, I'm just happy to be here at this point.

02:09Look, and this wasn't your first choice, Aaron.

02:11You should have just been honest.

02:12Hey, I'm in Pittsburgh.

02:14Who wants to be in Pittsburgh?

02:15I want to be in Minnesota.

02:16I want to be in San Francisco.

02:18The only place I can get a job here is with Coach T in Pittsburgh here.

02:20I'm going to try to make the best of it.

02:22I would rather that, you know, scenario went like that yesterday when they're asking any questions.

02:26But Ben, let's get to the big elephant in the room right now.

02:29Aaron Rodgers married.

02:30So I do, social media wins every single time.

02:33And all I kept seeing was, you know, asking Grok, like, who he got married to.

02:37And people are asking if he married himself because nobody knew he was dating anybody at this point.

02:41And he's so secretive on what he wants to do.

02:43Like, hey, Aaron, why are you away in the offseason here and not with the Steelers you're signing earlier?

02:47Ooh, mysterious shroud of secrecy here.

02:49Ben shows up with a ring.

02:51And it's basically like, yeah, I got married a couple months ago.

02:53Don't worry about who she is, what she is, what the name is, where she lives or what she's doing at this point.

02:58But I'm going to wear this ring on my finger, which was so ridiculous that people were asking him if it was an aura ring.

03:03Like, oh, you're wearing an aura ring.

03:05He's like, no, I got married.

03:06Wait a second.

03:06What did we miss you at this point?

03:07This is the Aaron Rodgers cycle that you're just getting into.

03:10And it's time for Spin City right now.

03:13And we're getting it already.

03:14This is the Aaron Rodgers cycle.

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