{"id":17465,"date":"2025-05-02T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17465\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:33:11","slug":"brandt-steelers-fans-have-trust-fund-were-born-wealthy-arent-viewing-aaron-rodgers-as-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17465\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandt: Steelers Fans Have Trust Fund, Were ‘Born Wealthy,’ Aren’t Viewing Aaron Rodgers As ‘Messiah’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Pittsburgh Steelers continue to wait for an answer from 41-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers<\/a> ahead of the start of Organized Team Activities later this month, the fan base is growing rather impatient, which could \u2014 and should \u2014 affect the reception that the Rodgers news gets if and when he signs.<\/p>\n

While Rodgers might have been viewed as a savior coming to the New York Jets for the 2023 season, that won\u2019t be the case for the Steelers, Good Morning Football\u2019s Kyle Brandt believes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard from multiple Steelers fans online multiple saying, \u2018Screw it. I\u2019d rather go to war with [Mason] Rudolph. He\u2019s one of us, he\u2019s a Steeler. Let\u2019s take our chances. Let\u2019s play some defense, [rather] than waiting around for this guy,’\u201d Brandt said, according to video via NFL Network.<\/a> \u201cThat\u2019s the difference with Rodgers right now. If you go back two years and he\u2019s joining the Jets as a savior and a Messiah, like that guy in that organization, they don\u2019t really do Messiahs. That\u2019s why like, the Steelers fans, they have a trust fund. They were born wealthy. They never have to worry about anything. They\u2019re rich, they\u2019re spoiled. The Jets fans are standing around a barrel fire and fingerless gloves trying to stay warm. That they were like, \u2018Ee would lie down in traffic to have Aaron Rodgers even glance at them.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Steelers are like, \u2018Yeah, I mean we went through this last year.\u2019 Didn\u2019t the Steelers just bring in a supposed all-time great to come into their team and take them to the promised land? It was like Russell Wilson, one and done. See you later. It\u2019s like it never even happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Steelers did just go through that last year with Russell Wilson. At times, there were some highs, but things bottomed out as the Steelers lost five straight games to end the season, the offense failed to score more than 17 points in a game during that stretch, and reports surfaced that Wilson clashed with offensive coordinator Arthur Smith late in the season.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the Steelers moved on from Wilson. But they also lost out on Justin Fields, Sam Darnold wasn\u2019t interested in coming to Pittsburgh<\/a>, and then the Steelers passed on a number of big-name quarterbacks in the draft class over the weekend.<\/p>\n

So now, the Steelers find themselves waiting on Rodgers. The fan base doesn\u2019t seem all that excited right now. In fact, there\u2019s a growing sense of annoyance that he hasn\u2019t made a decision yet.<\/p>\n

Rodgers is dealing with personal things off the field and hasn\u2019t really thought about football<\/a>, but there\u2019s still the hope he\u2019s the quarterback for the Black and Gold this season.<\/p>\n

Just don\u2019t expect that hope to come from Steelers fans in general, as they seem fed up with the Rodgers situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a completely different reception if and when Rodgers even chooses the Steelers,\u201d Brandt said. \u201cThis is not the Jets. The Steelers are\u2026they\u2019re spoiled brats. They\u2019re not interested in you until you can start winning playoff games for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty spot-on from Brandt, who is not a Steelers fan but seems to have a good grasp of their fans and the expectations time and time again.<\/p>\n

There won\u2019t be a huge welcoming party for Rodgers. It\u2019ll be, show up and win football games, period. Steelers fans might be a bit spoiled but in a good way. They expect the team to win games and compete for championships. That\u2019s what Rodgers is walking into, should he decide to sign with the Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Pittsburgh Steelers continue to wait for an answer from 41-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,7,5965,5966,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-17465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-good-morning-football","11":"tag-kyle-brandt","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114437318624771936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}