NEW YORK >> Aaron Rodgers had remained silent since the Jets released him last month after two seasons.

But that changed on Thursday during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”

In his first public comments since his Gang Green exit, Rodgers had some damning comments about the Jets organization and his meeting with new coach Aaron Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey in February.

“I figured when I flew across country on my own dime, it was going to be a conversation,” Rodgers said. “The confusing thing to me, and the strange thing, was when I meet with the coach, we start talking (and then) he runs out of the room. Then he comes back with the GM, and we sit down in the office, and I think we are going to have this long conversation, and 20 seconds in, literally I’m talking to the GM about something and he leans to the edge of his sheet and says ‘So, do you want to play football?’ I was like, ‘yeah, I’m interested’ and he says we are going in a different direction at quarterback.

“I was kind of shocked. Now I’m not shocked because I didn’t think that was a possibility, if they want to move on, that’s totally fine, but shocked because I just flew across country and you could have told me this on the phone.”

Rodgers then said the Jets wanted to know how he wanted to be released from the team and the messaging that would accompany it.

“I don’t give a (expletive) about the messaging,” Rodgers said. “Why?”

Rodgers then claimed that Glenn insinuated he would “undermine” the culture that he and Mougey were trying to build with the Jets.

“I don’t want to be up in the room saying something and guys looking back at you,” Rodgers said that Glenn expressed to him during the meeting. “And I said, ‘What does that even mean? Are you assuming I would be in the back of the room in a team meeting, undermining what you are saying?’

“I said, ‘You don’t know me’ and he said, ‘You don’t know me.’ It was a very strange meeting, for sure.”

“There was no me pleading, ‘Please have me on the team.’ I don’t want to be a part of that,” Rodgers added. “It was already a debacle in some cases. That whole situation was crazy. That was a little rogue by the head coach.”