“You Can’t Spell ‘Drama’ Without A-A-Ron.” That’s Shannon Sharpe explaining what happened with Aaron Rodgers in the past couple of months. Some might feel Rodgers is being accountable, while others believe that he’s playing the victim card. Why? It all started right before the Super Bowl when Rodgers decided to pay a visit to the Jets‘ new regime—HC Aaron Glenn and GM Darren Mougey.

In Rodgers’ words, he flew across the country from California to New Jersey, where Glenn reportedly asked him, “You even wanna play?” And don’t expect Rodgers to give a 20-year-old QB’s answer. The 41-year-old QB said he’s “interested.” But Glenn hit him with, “We’re moving in different directions,” and didn’t even ask for his input based on his nearly two decades of experience.

Turns out, Aaron Rodgers felt disrespected, and the whole meeting was over in less than an hour. Now, let’s be real—as per Rodgers’ side of the story, it sure looks like Aaron Glenn and the Jets are the villain here. But let’s not sugarcoat this. Because the former Jets quarterback, and Glenn’s ex-teammate, just explained why Glenn did what he did.

“With A.G., he’s going to do it a certain way — a way he believes in,” Chad Pennington said this week. “I think that’s one of his strong points. That’s what made him a great DB. He had a certain way of doing things, and he’s a true professional, so it doesn’t surprise me that it correlates to him being a coach as well.” See, Pennington’s statement came just before Aaron Rodgers went public. But it surely reflects Glenn’s decision to part ways with A-Rod.

See it this way: when Glenn was the coach of the Saints‘ secondary, the newly appointed head coach emphasized the importance of a team culture. “Culture is coach-fed, but it’s player-led. Meaning that, we as coaches set the standard, we give direction, but the players have to police it,” he would say that. And mind you, if we are not wrong, one of the reasons the Jets’ new regime ditched Rodgers was because of his media presence, especially his frequent appearance on the Pat McAfee Show.

There you go. It explains Glenn’s intent to establish control and uniform standards for all the players. Long story short: coach Glenn didn’t want Rodgers’ media presence to affect the team’s culture. Besides the Jets’ voice, Glenn’s other former teammate, Anthony Becht, also shed some light on Glenn’s head coaching role.

According to Becht, Glenn has transformed the Jets into “a tight ship.” He further added, “He’s going to make sure they weed out anything that shouldn’t be around to keep it very tight inside, so that only the players and coaches uniformly come together for the single purpose of turning that organization around.” Translation? Aaron Glenn is all about keeping the right player with a good behaviour in the team.

“The No. 1 thing we’re going to do… is put the players in position to be successful,” he once remarked while serving as the defensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions. But let’s call it what it is. Rodgers flew all the way across the country, only to find out that the Jets weren’t interested in working with him anymore. And according to him, they could’ve just told him that over the phone. But no, instead, 20 seconds into the meeting, Glenn gets up, walks out, and even drags the GM with him to admit that the Jets are moving forward without him.

No wonder the man felt disrespected. At the end of the day, both the parties had their reasons. But one thing’s for sure: when you’re dealing with big decisions, no one walks away from this looking like a nice guy. Whether you call it Rodgers playing the victim card or Glenn trying to take control of the team.

Is $10 million enough for Aaron Rodgers to play in 2025?

When the calender flipped to the month of April, we thought that the new month would bring the news of Aaron Rodgers signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But nah. In fact, it brought Rodgers’ exposing his meeting with Glenn and his former team, and no update on his future in the NFL.

However, the four-time MVP just confirmed that if he would play in the 2025 season, it’s not going to be for money. Yeah, you read that right. Rodgers is ready to play for $10 million per year deal. And we are not making this up. “I’m open to anything and attached to nothing,” he said on the Pat McAfee Show last week. “It ain’t about the money. I’ll play for $10M. I never said that I need a multi-million, multi-year deal…”

“I told every single one of the teams, it’s not about the money … I’ll play for [$10 million], I don’t care… I’m not holding anybody hostage—I really want to emphasize that.” Does that mean it’s a done deal? Not right now. The Steelers want to sign him, considering they just don’t have any other option. And as Pat McAfee said last month that if Rodgers would play in 2025, it would be for the Steelers.

But the catch is that Rodgers admitted that a lot of things are going on in his personal life and currently he’s just focusing on that. That means the Steelers-Rodgers signing might be on the cards (let’s say a one-year $10 million deal, if he’s ready to take that), but we have to wait a bit more before the official confirmation.