Out of darkness, Aaron Rodgers says decision on future coming soon

Aaron Rodgers said he found an inner peace during his four-day darkness retreat last week with whatever his football future holds, but he did not reveal what that decision is — or even whether he has made one.

But the Green Bay Packers quarterback, during a one-hour and 41-minute interview on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast released Wednesday, promised that it won't take much longer to decide.

«It's best for anybody who has an interest to make a decision sooner rather than later,» Rodgers said.

A day earlier, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said at the NFL scouting combine that there has been little or no conversation with Rodgers since they wrapped up their end-of-season meetings in mid-January. Gutekunst said he hoped for a decision before free agency begins in less than two weeks.

«I feel really good about the conversations that are gonna be had, that have been had with important people in my life, yourself included, that helped orient me,» Rodgers told Marcus. «But I'm not looking for somebody to tell me what the answer is. All the answers are right inside me, and I touched on many of them — and definitely the feelings on both sides — during the darkness, and I'm thankful for that time. There's a finality to the decision, and I don't make it lightly.

»I don't want to drag anybody around. Look I'm answering questions about it because they asked about it. I'm talking about it because it's important to me. If you don't like it, if you think it's drama, you think I'm being a diva or whatever, just tune it out. That's fine. But this is my life, it's important to me and I'll make a decision soon enough and then we'll go down that road and be really excited about it."

It appears both Rodgers and the Packers are still