{"id":303406,"date":"2025-08-20T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/303406\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:12:16","slug":"aaron-rodgers-addresses-teammates-retirement-home-jab-with-surprising-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/303406\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers addresses teammate’s \u2018retirement home\u2019 jab with surprising response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aaron Rodgers<\/a> is preparing for his debut season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it could be the final chapter of his career.<\/p>\n

\"Aaron Aaron Rodgers joins the Steelers for what may be his final NFL season. (Photo by Joe Sargent \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)(Getty Images via AFP) <\/p>\n

After spending the last two seasons with the New York Jets, the four-time NFL MVP and former Super Bowl champion is entering a locker room that once had some harsh words for him.<\/p>\n

DeShon Elliott, who last year joked that the Jets should \u201cleave his ass in the retirement home.\u201d Now that they\u2019re on the same team, Rodgers has addressed those comments, but with humility.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell, I think there\u2019s a great quote in a TV show that I enjoyed called Ted Lasso. Ted talks about one of his favorite quotes: be curious, not judgmental,\u201d Rodgers said, according to Blitzburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think that\u2019s kind of how I wanted to approach this season and anybody that said anything, I try and put myself in their shoes as much as possible. And I respect the hell outta you and what you\u2019ve accomplished in the game and your leadership from afar, it seems like you\u2019re the type of leader that I\u2019d wanna play with. So when you said that I didn\u2019t take offense to that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott apologizes to Rodgers: \u2018I\u2019m a troll, He\u2019s a GOAT\u2019<\/p>\n

For his part, Elliott has already walked back the criticism, admitting it was more trolling than genuine hostility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a troll. He\u2019s an All-Pro and he\u2019s a GOAT. He\u2019s going to be a gold jacket guy one day. Honestly, when he got here, we communicated, we talked, he\u2019s a great person and a great football player, so whoever the media\u2019s put out there is B.S.,\u201d Elliott explained.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI respect him a lot. I told him that I respect him, and I apologized to him for the things I was saying about him. Honestly, he\u2019s a great man and he has a great heart, so I appreciate him and he\u2019s funny as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers is preparing for his debut season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it could be the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,3455,7,6,10169,520,57,2360,426,8551],"class_list":{"0":"post-303406","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-deshon-elliott","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-mvp","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-super-bowl-champion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115061506269436844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303406","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=303406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}