Why Mike McCarthy is hoping for a reunion with Aaron Rodgers
The new Steelers head coach would love to reunite with his former quarterback in Pittsburgh.
There's still no official word on whether Aaron Rodgers will be returning for another NFL season – and while new Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy doesn't have an answer either, he is hopeful about reuniting with his former quarterback. Rodgers was a quarterback in Green Bay during all 13 of McCarthy's seasons coaching the Packers, and the duo won Super Bowl XLV together to cap the 2010 season. Now, McCarthy is taking over the head coaching job in Pittsburgh, where Rodgers played last season.
But Rodgers will be a free agent again this offseason, and is once again pondering retirement. But McCarthy has some thoughts on why he hopes that doesn't happen. “Yes, it’d be a great story,” McCarthy said .
“I don’t know. I would love to tell everybody breaking news. It’s really cool to see Aaron at 42, a young man at 22, all that he’s been able to accomplish, and where he’s at in his personal life, trying to make this decision.
He’s in a really good place. ” Can’t take the journalist out of Kevin Harlan. Even as the emcee of his father’s celebration of life at Lambeau Field, he had to ask Mike McCarthy about a possible reunion with Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh: pic.