"I don't have the same feeling that I did," Rodgers said Thursday afternoon on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com. (He'd watched the seven-second interview clip on YouTube earlier in the week on an iPhone at his locker.) "That interview was right after I did my interview at the podium, back behind the Green Room. I'd been picked probably 20 minutes earlier. It was an emotional day, a long day. "At the time, I wanted to play right away that day and prove the other 22 teams that passed on me that they'd made a mistake. I look at it differently now. This is where I would have wanted to be had I known then what I know now – about the kind of working environment that this is, the opportunities I would be given, the coaching staff that was going to be here. I mean, I interviewed with Mike McCarthy. He was in San Francisco."
"If they pick me, both our lives are changed," Rodgers said of McCarthy, who replaced Mike Sherman as Packers coach in 2006. "What would have happened had they picked me and things been different? I don't like doing the whole what-if game. I just know I'm really glad that I fell into God's Country here in Wisconsin and had the opportunity to spend my early years the way I did and now gotten the opportunity to be the starter and play for this team."