Rodgers: Saleh and I have a 'great relationship'

Aaron Rodgers eased concerns about his relationship with New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh after the two appeared to be on different pages following a penalty-ridden 10-9 loss in Week 4.

"There's always going to be messaging and narratives out there, and you have two choices: You can ride the wave - really a roller coaster - or you can say, 'f--k it, I don't care,'" Rodgers said Tuesday on "The Pat McAfee Show." "I'm the latter. I don't get into what the conversation is going on outside the building around myself (or) the relationships that I have."

He continued: "Rob and I have a great relationship. We have since Day 1 when I got here. We have text message conversations, threads that we're in, conversations about a number of different topics outside of football. We got a good friendship."

Saleh said postgame Sunday after the loss to the Denver Broncos that the Jets needed to determine whether they could handle Rodgers' cadence after five pre-snap penalties. The veteran, who has used his pre-snap verbiage to take advantage of defenses throughout his career, instead thought Sunday's messy performance was an "outlier game."

However, Saleh later walked back his concern Monday, stating that his team was "always going to push the envelope with cadence."

"Everything that we do in the game, we do in practice, and that's why I said after the game that it felt like, I used the word outlier, maybe a better word is anomaly," Rodgers explained. "It was one of those games where we just jumped offsides five times, and before that, we had one false start in three games and nobody complained about the cadence."

Rodgers added that his knee is a "little swollen" following Sunday's game but attributed it to "wear and tear."

The 2-2 Jets take on the undefeated Minnesota Vikings in Week 5 at 9:30 a.m. ET in London.