Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers uses the media to send a message to the rest of the locker room following loss to the Bengals
Aaron Rodgers won’t blink, and he says you shouldn’t either.
Outside of the big guys up front, three members of the Pittsburgh Steelers should feel good about their performance on Thursday night. That would be Jaylen Warren, Pat Freiermuth, and Aaron Rodgers.
For the latter of those three, outside of a head-scratching interception, when he airmailed a punt to the safety, Rodgers looked sharp and dialed in. He was making plays in and out of structure, and he had a great night en route to four passing TDs.
So perhaps that’s why he was so optimistic after the game on Thursday. Or, he might really mean what he said and was letting his teammates know about it.
Aarn Rodgers not panicking about bad loss to Bengals
“We had a chance to really open up some space, but we’re 4-2, still first in division, got home games coming up, another Sunday night opportunity against my former team,” said Rodgers during his postgame presser. “I’m not going to ride the rollercoaster, and I know Mike isn’t. Hopefully, you guys follow suit.”
Obviously, Rodgers is referring to the roller coaster of emotions — the up-and-down nature of wins and losses in the NFL. And I totally get where he is coming from. The problem is, Thursday night felt different than Week 2’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
There is a strong chance that if Kaleb Johnson didn’t have the brain burp of all brain burps, the Steelers would have marched into Thursday at 5-0. Because they had a chance to come back in that game, the same way they did on Thursday.
Except they didn’t let up over 340 passing yards to Joe Flacco, over 160 receiving yards to Ja’Marr Chase, and allowed the league’s worst rushing offense to go for over 140 yards on the ground. That’s what’s concerning.
The fact that a 40-year-old Flacco, who is still learning his playbook and his teammates’ names, just had one of the best statistical games of his career.
And we have seen Rodgers do this before with his infamous “Relax” statement, which he had with the Green Bay Packers.
But it’s now Week 8 for the Steelers. What the Steelers have shown is that what you see may be what you get, and at least when it comes to the defense, no one wants to continue seeing what they just put on the field.
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