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Aaron Rodgers abruptly ends press conference after Mike Tomlin question
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Aaron Rodgers was indignant Monday night about the conversation revolving around Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur's jobs.
Ultimately, though, he was even more indignant about answering any more questions about Tomlin.
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After discussing the potential for either coach to lose their job, Rodgers abruptly ended his press conference after he was asked what he learned from working with Tomlin this season.
"I've talked extensively about how I feel about Mike ... and just did in that (expletive) answer," Rodgers said before ending the press conference and walking away.
Rodgers and the Steelers lost to the Houston Texans , 30-6, Monday night in a wild-card game. Rodgers spent a large portion of his press conference addressing whether or not he will retire during the offseason.
Toward the end of the press conference, Rodgers was asked what Tomlin does that goes unseen and what he appreciated about the coach. Instead, though, Rodgers addressed the rumors swirling about both Tomlin and his former coach, Lafleur's, jobs.
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"I mean, this league has changed a lot in my 21 years," Rodgers said. "When you hear conversations about the Mike Tomlins of the world, Matt Lafleurs of the world, those are just two that I played for. And when I first got in the league, there wouldn't be conversation about whether those guys were on the hot seat. But that's the way that the league is covered now and the way that there's snap decisions and the validity given to the, you know, the Twitter experts and all the experts on TV now who make it seem like they know what the hell they're talking about.
"To me, that's an absolute joke. And for either of those two guys to be on the hot seat is really apropos of where we're at as a society and a league because obviously Matt's done a lot of great things in Green Bay and we had a lot of success. Mike T. has had more success than damn near anybody in the league for the last 19, 20 years. And more than that, though, when you have the right guy, the culture is right, you don't think about making a change. But there's a lot of pressure that comes from the outside and obviously that sways decisions from time to time, but it's not how I would do things and not how the league used to be."
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