Aaron Rodgers Media Availability (July 30) | Pittsburgh Steelers

Aaron Rodgers Media Availability (July 30) | Pittsburgh Steelers

How does a guy be doing this as long as you’ve been doing it and still have fun at camp? I mean, once it stops being fun, he should probably hang it up. So, I love that we’re out here in Lrobe. I love the opportunity for true camaraderie at night time after meetings are done. Um, guys hang out, you know, guys come to my room. Last night I was in Highmith’s room. Um, so that’s it’s pretty cool to see everybody hanging out the way they are and it’s a lot of fun. Aaron, you played in a lot of really great offenses over the years. What do you like about this offense under perspective specifically? I like the flexibility. You know, Arthur is not rigid in what he’s doing. He wants to tailor the scheme to the personnel that you got. And when you bring in a Kenny Gainwell, bring in a January Smith, bring in DK Metave and myself with some of the stuff I’ve done over the years, you know, we’re we’re we’re trying to find out what guys do best and implement that in the offense. So, I love that about Arthur. Um, so we’re going to keep doing that. First day first day of actual pads today. What are you looking forward to for that? Listen, I mean, I love throwing run solutions, you know, when the box is loaded and you got one-on- ones outside, but today I’m going kind of let it go. I haven’t been a part of a true tackling uh period in a long time. So, uh there might be some times where in a game I might want to spit it out to DK or Calvin, but today I might just hand it off to Jaylen and see what happens. When was the last time you were in a packing session? I I was trying to rack my brain sitting next to AJ over there, but it’s been a long time. It’s uh it’s got to be, you know, over a decade. You think people are overlooking uh Jaylen Warren with the with the rookie in the backfield, uh Caleb Johnson? I’m not sure. I mean, I don’t know what the what the narratives are out there, but Jaylen’s super smart. Uh just from playing against him, I know he was a great change up back. He was great in protection, great on third downs, but I think he can be a three down back, and that’s the biggest compliment you can give a running back. You like the way you like the way protection, too. Well, we haven’t had pads on yet, but I like what I’ve seen on some old clips. Yeah. How how how has the defense helped you guys improve? It seemed like you’re giving you guys a lot of looks and you’re doing that back. How have you seen you guys’ chemistry improve against them? Yeah, I mean, they played pretty soft the first four days, so you know, it was a lot of a lot of checkdowns and different things, but uh they got a lot of players on that side of the ball. You know, obviously we brought in Jaylen, uh got multiple guys that can rush, got a good interior rush, got great linebackers who are multiple, can cover and pressure and and fill holes. So, um, you know, it’s going to be a good test for us. I think for any offense that’s kind of trying to find their footing as we are, uh, it’s not a bad thing to get beat up a little bit. So, if if we go out there today and they kind of get after us a little bit, that’ll be the best thing for us. So, you’re not hoping for that because you want to have great practices, but uh, you know, sometimes you can learn more from uh, from the failures in training camp than uh, getting after them every single day. How’s the application gone with with Zack and the offensive line? How how do you feel that’s meshing? Well, it starts with Zack. I mean, Zach is a highly intelligent player. Um, and it helps because as much as I I have a good feel for the offense, I’m not what I would call an expert of the offense yet. Uh, you become an expert. Well, I I become an expert when you break the huddle and you can see the picture in your mind. And every now and then, the picture’s a little fuzzy still. So, I’m still working some things out. But Zach is so freaking smart. He’s making some calls for me. I told him the other day, I said, “Don’t get used to that.” I said, “At some point, I’m going to I’m going to be making the calls for you.” But uh but he’s got a real good disposition for a center. He’s obviously a talented player and I think uh his leadership is what I’d like to see most continue to grow because uh the leadership often grows uh at the same rate as a performance and everybody knows what kind of player he is. So he’s going to have more opportunities to lead. Why was he your first pick for a fight today during pass? Uh because if you watch the first four days, there was two matchups that uh they brought out uh a little bit of angst, shall we say? And when he gets those big uh West Virginia paws on somebody, uh that could definitely start something. You mentioned two more guys in the offense. How long does that process take for you to start seeing the picture come in a little bit more clearly at the snap? No, I mean I want to have it down uh by the end of this week, but we’ll see. You getting to know Jaylen Ramsay at all? what how’s he as a as a teammate. He’s a tempo violator in the walkthroughs. Um I know I like I like Jaylen. I have a ton of respect for him, what he’s accomplished in his career. Um he’s a very versatile guy. I was telling him we were walking to to the calf one of these days and I I was reminding him how Charles Woodson late in his career moved to safety and there’s, you know, truly only a few elite guys who’ve done everything that he’s done. If you think about it, you can play outside corner and dominate. You can play nickel and dominate and then go to safety and be a dominant player.

Aaron Rodgers spoke to the media on Wednesday, July 30

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