Aaron Rodgers ‘thankful’ for Green Bay Packers’ response to issues last offseason, still undecided on future

Aaron Rodgers hasn’t made a decision about whether he wants to return to the Green Bay Packers next season, but he made it clear that the animosity he felt toward the organization at this time last year is gone.

After accepting his fourth career NFL MVP on Thursday at the NFL Honors in Los Angeles, Rodgers said he would decide what he wants to do in 2022, “in the near future, and I’m not gonna keep a lot of people waiting.”

In the rest of his post-awards news conference, he seemingly laid out the cases for just about every possible scenario — although he appeared to downplay the idea of playing for another team when he corrected himself after first mentioning what the best “place” for him would be.

“I think you’ve got to take some of the emotion out of it and then kind of lean into understanding what it takes to revamp and feel like what’s the best place,” Rodgers said, stopping himself briefly. “The best decision for me moving forward — not really place — more just what does it feel like to commit to a season if that’s what I want to do? The good thing is I still feel like my body is in a good place.”

A year ago, Rodgers accepted his third MVP but was privately unhappy with the direction the Packers were headed. That came to a head during the offseason, and when ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported some of the details of his unhappiness in April, it began months of speculation about whether Rodgers would even play in 2021.

When he finally ended his offseason holdout and reported for training camp in July, he detailed a list of grievances and said even though he returned to the team he wasn’t certain how — or even if — his complaints would be addressed by team president Mark Murphy, vice president Russ Ball and general manager Brian Gutekunst.

“There was obviously some things that were voiced in the offseason, privately between him and myself, and I’m just thankful for the response,” Rodgers said Thursday of Gutekunst. “There was a lot of things that were done to make…