Rodgers visiting the Steelers today

purplefaithful wrote:
I'm surprised and not surprised... Surprised he wants to still play for anyone but MN at this age Not surprised its Pittsburgh.

JMO, but I don't see Pittsburgh as some great team to play for. Not this year.

purplefaithful wrote:
I'm sure they did their due diligence, they had to...And I'm sure there were varying opinions in that bldg. I'm at peace with it for now. Sticky better not be wrong about the kid though...

I'm not.  Would have been a mistake signing Rodgers. Its always fun to read the 'inside the building' sources by all the 'reporters' out there in the big ol' world. "Its 50-50" Dianna Russini said....lmao. They wanted "Darnold" they said.....JJM isn't 'gaining weight' and there's 'questions about his knee' they squawked. There are going to 'wait and possibly revisit' Rodgers they just said. If KOC wanted ANYTHING to happen, any one of those could and would have. By now. Done deal. But that isn't what has happened, is it? What happened is exactly what O'Connell said was going to happen many MONTHS ago. But that isn't much fun for the Twitterheads and all of those necessary clicks and views necessary to monetize the whole greasy sports cycle. I have zero doubt there were conversations and due diligence, but that's a lot different that what has been said. Rodgers is an enigma, he does his own thing. Nobody will change that.

purplefaithful wrote:
Rumors on KFAN that vikings/Rodgers actually had a clandestine meeting...Take if FWIW, may not be much. IF he doesn't sign with Pitt: 1). He may wait it out and see if a team needs him during TC or during the season. 2). Or just retire

Yep, don't doubt either of those at all. KOC knows Rodgers, its not like they aren't humans and can't talk. Rodgers has been an amazing QB in his career, I don't think anyone can say anything different. I get the due diligence. I just don't think Rodgers is that guy anymore. And I think after further processing of that due diligence, keeping JJM another year away from first team reps, and understanding that Rodgers isn't going to be any kind of mentor, the answer is easy and obvious. We wouldn't be getting 36 year old Rodgers, we'd be getting soon to be 42 year old Aaron Rodgers. Hard pass.