Rodgers on Bradshaw barbs: He doesn't know me

Aaron Rodgers says he'd similar to get to cognize Terry Bradshaw connected "a deeper level" aft the Pittsburgh Steelers fable ripped his erstwhile team's pursuit of the aboriginal Hall of Fame quarterback.

In a vigor interrogation successful May, Bradshaw called the Steelers' involvement successful Rodgers "a joke."

"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," Bradshaw, a Hall of Fame quarterback, said successful a vigor interrogation with 103.7 The Buzz successful Arkansas.

Rodgers responded to Bradshaw's comments in an interrogation with NFL Network connected Saturday. He said he's known Bradshaw for a agelong clip owed to his occupation arsenic a broadcaster for Fox, which televised galore of Rodgers' games erstwhile helium played for the Green Bay Packers for 18 seasons.

"Terry's a legend. He's an implicit legend. He won 4 Super Bowls. He's had a legendary vocation successful the media," Rodgers said successful the interview, which took spot arsenic portion of NFL Network's Back Together Weekend coverage. "But Terry, similar a batch of people, doesn't cognize me. So, he's got an thought of what helium thinks astir maine based connected what I've done, the documentary, what I've said, acheronian retreat, immoderate the hellhole you privation to speech about."

However, present that he's the starting backmost for the Steelers, Rodgers said he'd similar to make a narration with Bradshaw.

"I'd emotion to get to cognize Terry connected a deeper level," Rodgers said, "and I consciousness similar if helium gave maine a accidental to get to cognize him past we'd person a bully relationship due to the fact that for maine I person thing but the utmost magnitude of respect and deference for what the greats person done due to the fact that they laid the instauration for america to beryllium capable to play successful this large crippled ..."

He added, "... Maybe we tin spell chew immoderate bark oregon immoderate the hellhole he's talking astir together."

Bradshaw wasn't the lone idiosyncratic associated with the Steelers to explicit skepticism astir adding him to the organization. In February, information DeShon Elliott wrote successful a remark connected an Instagram station astir the Steelers being favorites to motion Rodgers, "Leave his ass astatine the status home."

Elliott cleared things up Saturday.

"I'm a troll. He's an All-Pro and he's a G.O.A.T. He's going to beryllium a golden overgarment feline 1 day. Honestly, erstwhile helium got here, we communicated, we talked, he's a large idiosyncratic and a large shot player, truthful whoever the media's enactment retired determination is B.S. I respect him a lot," Elliott said. "I told him that I respect him, and I apologized to him for the things I was saying astir him. Honestly, he's a large antheral and helium has a large heart, truthful I admit him and he's comic arsenic hell."

Rodgers, 41, said past period connected "The Pat McAfee Show" that helium was "pretty sure" this would beryllium his last NFL season. The four-time NFL MVP said this play with the Steelers was astir "finishing with a batch of emotion and amusive and bid for the vocation that I've had."

Rodgers told NFL Network connected Saturday that helium "wanted to person that closure and springiness backmost to the crippled 1 much clip the mode that its fixed to me."

ESPN's Brooke Pryor contributed to this report.