Aaron Rodgers vehemently defends Mike Tomlin, Matt LaFleur over hot seat talk: 'Absolute joke'

by: Nick Geddes 12 hours ago NickGeddesNews

Mike Tomlin and Matt LaFleur , head coaches for two of the most storied franchises in NFL history, could both be very much on the hot seat. Aaron Rodgers played under both coaches and finds the idea of firing either of them to be an “absolute joke.”

Rodgers, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, made the comments following Monday’s AFC Wild Card Round defeat to the Houston Texans. It’s simple the way Rodgers sees it: both the Steelers, and the Green Bay Packers have the right guy and culture, so why make a change?

“This league has changed a lot in my 21 years,” Rodgers said. “When you hear a conversation about the Mike Tomlins of the world, Matt LaFleurs of the world, those are just two that I played for. When I first got in the league, there wouldn’t be conversation about whether those guys were on the hot seat. But the way that the league is covered now and the way that there’s snap decisions and the validity given to 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.

“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’s had more success than damn near anybody in the league for the last 19, 20 years. More than that, though, when you have the right guy and 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.”

“When you have the right guy, and the culture is right, you don’t think about making a change.”

–Aaron Rodgers shared his thoughts on the futures of Mike Tomlin and Matt LaFleur pic.twitter.com/uIIV7VNtAz

— ESPN (@espn) January 13, 2026

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