Bradshaw: Steelers' interest in Rodgers 'a joke'

PITTSBURGH -- Terry Bradshaw isn't a instrumentality of the Pittsburgh Steelers' prolonged pursuit of Aaron Rodgers.

The four-time Super Bowl-winning Steelers backmost didn't clasp backmost successful his appraisal of the never-ending flirtation betwixt Rodgers and Bradshaw's erstwhile squad successful a vigor interrogation with 103.7 The Buzz successful Arkansas, lambasting the Steelers for their involvement successful signing the 41-year-old.

"That's a joke. That to maine is conscionable a joke," Bradshaw said Tuesday. "What are you going to do? Bring him successful for 1 year, are you kidding me? That feline needs to enactment successful California. Go determination and chew connected bark and susurration to the gods retired there."

The Hall of Fame backmost wasn't conscionable captious of the Steelers' handling of Rodgers situation. He besides called the enactment a "failure" for however it managed now-Cleveland Browns backmost Kenny Pickett. The Steelers selected Pickett No. 20 wide successful 2022, but the squad yet dealt him to the Philadelphia Eagles anterior to the 2024 season.

"I liked Kenny Pickett," Bradshaw said. "I liked him astatine Pitt. I cognize him, I cognize what he's like. When they got him to Pittsburgh, they didn't support him, they didn't get him an violative line. They wanted to tally the football, but they didn't person an violative enactment that could support and they didn't person weapons. He had nary wide receivers to talk of.

"Then they propulsion a kid successful determination for 2 years, and you've got an discourtesy that doesn't acceptable and doesn't work, and they can't tally due to the fact that their violative line's not adjacent bully capable for a tally blocking team. Now, they're saying Kenny Pickett is simply a failure. He wasn't a failure, the Steelers were a failure."