{"id":526741,"date":"2025-11-15T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/526741\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:51:16","slug":"thats-all-folks-mike-florio-sees-attitude-of-resignation-from-aaron-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/526741\/","title":{"rendered":"‘That’s All, Folks’: Mike Florio Sees ‘Attitude Of Resignation’ From Aaron Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers are 1-3 in their last four games, and Aaron Rodgers\u2019 face certainly shows it during their games. His is a face that betrays his emotions, and as you\u2019d imagine<\/a>, he hasn\u2019t escaped criticism for it. But while some might take umbrage to the faces he makes when teammates err, Mike Florio sees another emotion there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bengals game, he looked irritated the whole time. On Sunday night against the Chargers, he had more of an overall attitude of resignation\u201d, he said of Aaron Rodgers on 93.7 The Fan this week<\/a>. \u201cAnd was it, \u2018It\u2019s not our night\u2019, or is it, \u2018It\u2019s not our year\u2019, or is it, \u2018I\u2019m just done and I\u2019m not gonna get what I thought I was gonna get here in Pittsburgh\u2019\u201d?<\/p>\n

The Steelers got off to a 4-1 start this season, and Rodgers was doing what they needed to win. In fact, he was rather proficient where it mattered the most, particularly in the red zone. In recent weeks, that hasn\u2019t been nearly consistently true. Even against the Colts, they managed to take advantage of short drives created by takeaways, but the offense was lacking.<\/p>\n

Aaron Rodgers signed with the Steelers this offseason believing he would have a chance to compete here. Were it not for the awful start the AFC North got off to, however, they would be approaching afterthought territory already. Despite holding a division lead, they are not even favorites anymore. And if they lose to the Bengals on Sunday, their odds will fall precipitously, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like he\u2019s accepting something\u201d, Florio said of Rodgers. \u201cAnd whether it was just that night or the rest of the season and \u2018This is how my career\u2019s gonna end\u2019, I don\u2019t know. But he definitely had just kind of an acceptance that seemed like he was recognizing, \u2018That\u2019s all, folks\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Steelers tried the veteran quarterback route last year with Russell Wilson, and it worked until it didn\u2019t. At one point, they were 10-3 and people were pointing fingers at Sean Payton. Now Payton is taking every shot he can and later denying them. Are the Steelers heading down the same path now with Aaron Rodgers?<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not even because of Rodgers<\/a>, at least not primarily, even after his bad game. So much of what the Steelers expected of themselves at the start of this season has not developed. In reality, they got what they thought they would need from Rodgers. It\u2019s just that the rest of the team hasn\u2019t held up its end of the bargain.<\/p>\n

This was supposed to be a heavy power-running offense with a bludgeoning, shutdown defense. The Steelers don\u2019t have close to either one. They don\u2019t even run often enough to establish such a presence, despite Aaron Rodgers\u2019 calls to do so.<\/p>\n

Still, Florio is merely reading facial cues, and doing so at moments of heightened emotion. In the past few days, both Cam Heyward and DK Metcalf have basically said that you can\u2019t ask them questions after a game because they\u2019ll answer with emotion. Just because Aaron Rodgers looks annoyed or resigned during a game when things aren\u2019t going well doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s constant. Give anybody an hour or two, a day, to cool off, and things can look very different<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t really change the reality that this Steelers team doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s going anywhere. Whether Rodgers is resigned or not, a lot of others have already been for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are 1-3 in their last four games, and Aaron Rodgers\u2019 face certainly shows it during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8740,1586,7,5745,6,57,691,1481],"class_list":{"0":"post-526741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-93-7-the-fan","9":"tag-aaron-rodgers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-mike-florio","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-trending","15":"tag-weekly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115553100503839888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526741","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=526741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}