{"id":673317,"date":"2026-01-13T06:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:09:17","slug":"steelers-aaron-rodgers-storms-out-of-press-conference-following-mike-tomlin-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673317\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; Aaron Rodgers Storms Out Of Press Conference Following Mike Tomlin Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers\u2019 tensions were high following Monday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/01\/12\/steelers-bounced-from-playoffs-after-shocking-fourth-quarter-collapse-vs-texans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wild-card loss to the Houston Texans<\/a> at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, who has never been the patient type, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AEVNo9eX0Qo&amp;pp=ygUIc3RlZWxlcnM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">stormed out of his postgame press conference<\/a> after being faced with back-to-back questions about head coach Mike Tomlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve answered that a number of times,\u201d Rodgers said, per team-provided video. \u201cI\u2019ve talked extensively about how I feel about Mike\u2026 and I just did in that (expletive) answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers made the comment in about as good-natured a manner as he possibly could have, cracking a slight smile as he stood up and exited. It\u2019s true that he threw his support behind the veteran head coach, as well, saying that the way the league is covered contributed more to discussions about whether or not he should be fired than his actual coaching acumen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute joke for either of those two guys (Tomlin and Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur) to be on the hot seat, it\u2019s really apropos of where we\u2019re at as a society and a league\u2026 It\u2019s not how I would do things and not how the league used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just hard to drop an expletive and have anyone think you meant well by it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More Steelers: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/01\/12\/steelers-bounced-from-playoffs-after-shocking-fourth-quarter-collapse-vs-texans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Steelers Bounced From Playoffs After Shocking Fourth-Quarter Collapse Vs. Texans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers\u2019 tensions were high following Monday night\u2019s wild-card loss to the Houston Texans at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,7,1255,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-673317","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-mike-tomlin","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115886303752090118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673317","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=673317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}