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After the Pittsburgh Steelers clinched the AFC North, NFL Films cameras caught Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin thanking each other for the quarterback joining the Steelers for his 21st season.
It’s clear that Rodgers has enjoyed his time in Pittsburgh; After making the playoffs for the first time in four years, how could I not?
Rodgers was asked what he likes about the Steelers organization, and he not-so-subtly responded to his last team, the New York Jets.
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Aaron Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Steelers celebrates after an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens at Acrisure Stadium on January 4, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)
“There’s one thing I really love, and it’s kind of the antithesis of where I was: There’s actually no leaks on the boat,” Rodgers told reporters this week. “Every year, you have struggles and adversity, both on and off the field, and to go through a season like this and be able to focus on football and not have a lot of other little bulls… it’s been really nice.”
During his time with the Jets, Rodgers insisted that leaks to the media were a “problem with the organization.”
“There is no place (for this) in a winning culture,” Rodgers said on a December 2023 edition of “The Pat McAfee Show.”
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) passes in the first half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Matt Freed/AP Photo)
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“They’re not your friends. And even if they are, is that really what you want to do? You want to use someone in the media to leak things to, for what, get your name out there for a job, or if you’re a player, to get you an article? I think that’s fundamentally bullshit, and I think it has no place in a winning organization… Put your name on something and stand behind it.”
After the 2023 season, nearly all of which Rodgers missed with a torn Achilles tendon suffered on the Jets’ fourth offensive play of the year, Rodgers said the team needed to get “the bulls…that has nothing to do with winning…out of the building.”
“If you want to be a winning organization and be in a position to win championships and be competitive, everything you do matters,” Rodgers told reporters in January 2024.
The Jets decided to move on from Rodgers while hiring first-year head coach Aaron Glenn, and it appears Rodgers has the last laugh.
Aaron Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Steelers reacts after a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit, Michigan, on Dec. 21, 2025. (Rey Del Río/AP Photo)
Rodgers is in the playoffs, while the Jets lost 14 games for the third time in franchise history. Gang Green also became the first team in NFL history to go an entire season without recording an interception. They finished the year losing each of their last five games by 23 points or more, a feat never seen before.
