If The Steelers Contend, Will This Year Still Be Aaron Rodgers’s Last? | 6/25/25

Dan Patrick reacts to Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers saying on The Pat McAfee Show that he expects 2025 to be his last season in the NFL

in case you missed it yesterday on the Pat McAfee show Aaron Rogers talked about his future with the Steelers and the NFL yeah I’m pretty sure this is it you know that’s why we just did a one-year deal you know this was really about finishing uh with a lot of love and fun and and uh peace for the career that I’ve had i mean I played 20 freaking years you know like it’s been a long a long run and I’ve enjoyed it and what better place to finish than uh in one of the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin and and the great group of uh leadership and great guys in the city that you know expects expects you to win i don’t have any problem with this i mean the Rogers news I rarely react to thought he was going to go to the Steelers thought he was going to wait as long as he could didn’t know that he got married maybe that was the reason why he wasn’t showing up you want to do a victory tour Great i have no problem with that steelers I’m sure would want to know this that this doesn’t become a week 16 week 17 are you coming back Are you coming back Now it’s still going to happen let’s say Aaron Rodgers plays great let’s say the Steelers maybe a a number two seed number three seed let’s say they overachieve let’s say they have homefield advantage first round of the playoffs you’re going to ask that question you’re going to ask that question and he might give you a different answer he might say “I love it here i love playing for Mike Tomlin i I I’ love my offense you know we I’d love to run it back one more time i I wouldn’t rule it out certainly with Aaron Rogers but he’s earned the right you want to have a victory tour Great yeah marvin how far do the Steelers need to go before if you’re Mike Tomlin or if you’re management say “Hey Aaron do you want to give it one more go?” I would say “How about you do something you haven’t done in a long time win a playoff game?” if you would win two playoff games then all of a sudden I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion aaron walks away but it’s Aaron Rogers and you just don’t know i mean I’ve I’ve I covered I’m friends with one of the great mysterious athletes in sports history and Barry Sanders and I’m working Sports Center on a Sunday night the Lions just lost end of their season and his agent Peter Schaefer calls me and says “You can’t say anything but” and I went “Don’t do this to me.” Barry is on a plane to London he’s going to retire out of nowhere so is Aaron mysterious like that No but there is mystery attached to him you know Barry’s most unique athlete I ever covered um you know frugal uh you know he ran to make highlights but his personality wasn’t that way his personality was three yards but his running style was 60 yards making you know seven guys miss but with Aaron Rogers you know he wants to play this year and that’s it great i you know bigger picture more important to me is Mike Tomlin because Mike Tom Tomlin and the Steelers signed up for one year they had to know that it was one year and he gave him a a bargain price now you’re back in the you know quarterback wishing well again and this is what I wondered do you want him for one year or are you going to try to And maybe they didn’t like these quarterbacks maybe they didn’t like Jackson Dart maybe they didn’t like Shador Sanders or any of these other quarterbacks but you’re back in the mix again and if you’re still looking for a quarterback man are you behind a lot of teams all of these teams that we talk about what do they have in common Very good if not great quarterback steelers are we going to go through the Mason Rudolph Hey you know what He learned a lot from Aaron Rogers or Will Howard i mean you’re going against Lamar Jackson and you’re going against Joe Burrow in your own division you know so it’s one year so that’s why I wonder is Mike Tomlin one more year And look I know the national perspective on Mike Tomlin is a whole lot different than the local perspective because this is a team this is a franchise this fan base expects to win not not a playoff game compete for championships and I wonder if if they go out like they don’t win another they don’t win a playoff game you know then you start to look at this and say do we need a change And I wonder with Aaron Rogers and Mike Tomlin maybe they go out same time maybe