WEBVTT - The Season with Peter Schrager: Aaron Rodgers Instant Reaction with Hank Azaria 0:00:07.266 --> 0:00:09.706 The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the 0:00:09.786 --> 0:00:24.786 NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, Welcome to 0:00:24.826 --> 0:00:28.186 the Season with Peter Scheger. It's the podcast where we 0:00:28.266 --> 0:00:30.866 cover the league every single day, three hundred and sixty 0:00:30.866 --> 0:00:32.506 five days a year, and we give you the most 0:00:32.546 --> 0:00:36.626 immediate and in depth analysis and reactions. We typically like 0:00:36.666 --> 0:00:42.146 to interview coaches, general managers, team owners, certain players, ex players, 0:00:42.226 --> 0:00:48.586 media personalities. Sometimes we just want the voice of the fans. 0:00:49.346 --> 0:00:53.866 Last night was Monday Night Football. It was September eleventh. 0:00:53.986 --> 0:00:57.586 The Jets put on a show like no other show 0:00:57.666 --> 0:01:01.226 we have seen for a home opener for MetLife Stadium. 0:01:01.506 --> 0:01:04.146 There were celebrities on the field before the game, celebrities 0:01:04.226 --> 0:01:09.746 such as Justin Timberlake, celebrities such as Jake Paul, celebrities 0:01:10.386 --> 0:01:16.426 up and down, inside and out, football luminaries, hockey luminaries, 0:01:16.546 --> 0:01:21.146 NBA luminaries, celebrities in the entertainment field. Edie Falco was there. 0:01:22.066 --> 0:01:24.826 We get to the start of the game and they 0:01:24.866 --> 0:01:27.826 turn the lights off and all of a sudden, the 0:01:27.906 --> 0:01:32.306 U two is blasting and there in the pitch dark 0:01:32.906 --> 0:01:36.466 coming out like a light that's forty years in the 0:01:36.506 --> 0:01:40.706 making is number eight, Aaron Rodgers starting from the tunnel 0:01:40.706 --> 0:01:45.666 with an American flag, and it is hard not to 0:01:45.786 --> 0:01:50.706 think this is one of the coolest things ever. And 0:01:50.746 --> 0:01:54.306 then the game starts. Bills get a first down, then 0:01:54.346 --> 0:01:58.226 go three and out. The Jets get the ball and 0:01:58.266 --> 0:02:03.266 on the fourth snap of Aaron rodgers Jets career, this 0:02:03.346 --> 0:02:04.306 is what happens. 0:02:04.706 --> 0:02:07.706 Takes the snap drops back the middle under pressure and 0:02:07.866 --> 0:02:10.586 he King's sack back to the thirty two yard gone 0:02:10.586 --> 0:02:11.466 by Leonard Floyd. 0:02:12.706 --> 0:02:14.626 So the Bills get a big negative. 0:02:15.746 --> 0:02:19.506 And Aaron Rodgers gets up with a limp. Aaron Rodgers 0:02:19.746 --> 0:02:21.506 right now, does it looked one hundred percent? 0:02:21.626 --> 0:02:21.826 Right? 0:02:22.706 --> 0:02:25.106 Well, that's a good light lit because you got Leonard 0:02:25.106 --> 0:02:27.826 Floyd the right He's gone down. Then Aaron Rodgers is 0:02:27.866 --> 0:02:32.426 sitting down in the field, he's hurt. Eleven fifteen to 0:02:32.426 --> 0:02:36.946 go in the opening quarter and Aaron Rodgers is injured 0:02:37.386 --> 0:02:40.506 on the sack by Leonard Floyd, and the Jets training 0:02:40.546 --> 0:02:44.986 staff surrounds him and sack. Wilson pops up and starts 0:02:44.986 --> 0:02:46.826 to get ready and take some warm up throws. 0:02:48.626 --> 0:02:51.266 Look like you might have got that left ankle twisted 0:02:51.786 --> 0:02:54.186 as he went down and. 0:02:54.266 --> 0:02:58.746 As we're taking another look at the replay, and it 0:02:58.826 --> 0:03:02.026 looks as if when Floyd dragged him down he toe 0:03:02.146 --> 0:03:05.986 picked a bit and Aaron Rodgers right now gingerly walking 0:03:06.066 --> 0:03:07.066 off the field. 0:03:08.306 --> 0:03:11.786 With a trainer on either side. Rogers wouldn't take another 0:03:11.826 --> 0:03:15.226 snap after that. As we record this Tuesday morning, first thing, 0:03:15.906 --> 0:03:17.866 it has been confirmed. It's an Achilles' injury. That's the 0:03:17.906 --> 0:03:21.466 season end. There. There's no guarantee Rodgers will be back 0:03:21.466 --> 0:03:24.106 on the field next year for the Jets. It might 0:03:24.186 --> 0:03:28.066 all be over like that in a flash. Four snaps 0:03:28.306 --> 0:03:31.586 as a New York Jet, never completed a pass as 0:03:31.626 --> 0:03:35.026 a New York Jet, and after an off season like 0:03:35.106 --> 0:03:41.426 no other in New York, and for Aaron Rodgers, it 0:03:41.466 --> 0:03:45.746 could be done. I bring on my producer, Aaron wang 0:03:45.826 --> 0:03:48.506 Kaufman erin. I didn't expect this to be our Week 0:03:48.546 --> 0:03:50.866 two podcast. I didn't expect us to devote it to 0:03:50.906 --> 0:03:54.946 Aaron Rodgers, but we are doing an instant reaction podcast. 0:03:55.266 --> 0:03:57.466 Where were you when you saw the injury and what 0:03:57.626 --> 0:03:58.986 was your initial reactions? 0:03:59.426 --> 0:04:03.346 So I'm watching in my office and texting with my 0:04:03.466 --> 0:04:06.746 dad and with some friends as well, and and uh, 0:04:07.466 --> 0:04:08.946 you know, my dad and I are dissecting what the 0:04:08.946 --> 0:04:12.066 Bills are doing on offense, and then you know Jets 0:04:12.066 --> 0:04:15.346 have the ball and I was like, oh, wow, Rogers 0:04:15.346 --> 0:04:17.186 just went down. My dad's always like a few seconds 0:04:17.226 --> 0:04:19.266 ahead of me because he's watching on TV stream. 0:04:19.666 --> 0:04:22.146 He's also older, and that's just how it goes exactly. 0:04:22.986 --> 0:04:23.986 They get faster internet. 0:04:25.866 --> 0:04:28.746 And I was like, wow, that's not good, and like 0:04:29.986 --> 0:04:32.826 there were a lot of injuries on Sunday. You never 0:04:32.866 --> 0:04:35.786 want injuries at all, and I also don't want to 0:04:35.786 --> 0:04:38.546 see injuries to the team that we're playing against, like 0:04:38.586 --> 0:04:41.666 as Bills fans, like, we don't want Rogers to get hurt. 0:04:41.786 --> 0:04:45.866 You you want to win a real game. And it 0:04:45.906 --> 0:04:48.986 was it. It took the wind out of me, not 0:04:49.066 --> 0:04:51.906 even being a Jets fan, like rooting for the other team. 0:04:52.306 --> 0:04:55.626 It was I don't know it. There were so many 0:04:55.666 --> 0:04:57.866 injuries already to think that we were going to get 0:04:57.906 --> 0:05:01.786 another one, and the biggest one was terrifying. 0:05:03.026 --> 0:05:08.186 It was crushing. And I speak on behalf of NFL 0:05:08.986 --> 0:05:12.986 speak on behalf of a fan of New York teams, 0:05:13.506 --> 0:05:15.986 and I think I think now as a fan of Rogers, 0:05:16.026 --> 0:05:19.026 as a guy like he totally won everybody over this 0:05:19.066 --> 0:05:23.066 offseason and it was authentic, but I can mourn about it, 0:05:23.106 --> 0:05:26.186 you and I can dish about it. For this podcast, 0:05:26.506 --> 0:05:29.346 I wanted to go to the true fans, and I've 0:05:29.386 --> 0:05:32.146 got two of them. One of them is a world 0:05:32.146 --> 0:05:34.906 famous actor and comedian and a guy that you have 0:05:35.026 --> 0:05:39.026 seen on movies like The Bird Cage, on TV shows 0:05:39.066 --> 0:05:42.586 like The Simpsons, where he plays about twenty voices. And 0:05:42.626 --> 0:05:45.066 he's also been on the season with Peter Schrager representing 0:05:45.106 --> 0:05:48.746 an optimistic Jets fan this past summer. A very different 0:05:48.786 --> 0:05:50.426 version of him, I'm sure we're getting in a few 0:05:50.466 --> 0:05:54.826 minutes here. It's the actor and comedian Hank Azaria. And 0:05:54.866 --> 0:05:57.306 in addition to Hank, I've got a friend named David 0:05:57.466 --> 0:05:59.906 who has been a Jets season ticket holder since nineteen 0:06:00.106 --> 0:06:02.906 sixty six. We've met in recent years at a Super 0:06:02.946 --> 0:06:05.946 Bowl event. David rolls in some pretty cool circles. He 0:06:05.946 --> 0:06:07.946 knows a lot of NFL owners. He's also been to 0:06:08.186 --> 0:06:11.866 just about every Jets home game since they were in 0:06:11.946 --> 0:06:14.946 Shay Stadium till when they moved to Giant Stadium to 0:06:15.026 --> 0:06:17.706 what it is now MetLife Stadium. When you're a season 0:06:17.706 --> 0:06:20.466 ticket holder since nineteen sixty six, you've seen it all. 0:06:20.626 --> 0:06:23.146 I want to speak with David about what he saw 0:06:23.226 --> 0:06:28.026 last night in the building. But first usually laugh at 0:06:28.066 --> 0:06:30.906 him when he's doing things. There's no laughing here, mister 0:06:30.946 --> 0:06:34.706 Hanka's Area. All right, we're about twelve hours removed from 0:06:34.986 --> 0:06:41.426 the injury in the moment that shook New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Westchester, 0:06:41.706 --> 0:06:43.026 South Florida. 0:06:42.626 --> 0:06:43.106 You name it. 0:06:43.146 --> 0:06:49.306 There's Jets fans everywhere in one of my favorites, this 0:06:49.346 --> 0:06:50.866 guy here, we had him on in the summer. We 0:06:50.946 --> 0:06:55.306 talked about his Jets fandom echoes deep and we want 0:06:55.306 --> 0:06:58.666 the raw reaction. Hanka's Area. Welcome back to the season 0:06:58.706 --> 0:06:59.426 with Peter Schregg. 0:07:01.066 --> 0:07:04.026 Thanks, I guess yeah, it's great to be here, Peter, 0:07:04.346 --> 0:07:11.386 really great, great reason. How are you feeling, honest genuinely 0:07:11.506 --> 0:07:14.346 still kind of in shock, like a shock, actual shock, 0:07:14.546 --> 0:07:17.826 like a life event shock. I was just telling your 0:07:17.866 --> 0:07:22.266 producer Aaron that there's certain Jets Mets nicks. Okay, there's 0:07:22.306 --> 0:07:25.226 certain moments in that journey. Mostly it's comical and it's 0:07:25.226 --> 0:07:27.226 sad sack, and you love the team and you know, 0:07:28.426 --> 0:07:32.706 you know, the aura that hangs over them is not great. 0:07:32.826 --> 0:07:35.226 You live with it and there are times when though 0:07:35.266 --> 0:07:39.666 it's not really funny at all. The Mets collapse in 0:07:39.946 --> 0:07:44.466 seven was not funny, not fun actually depressed me for 0:07:44.506 --> 0:07:45.106 a couple of weeks. 0:07:45.226 --> 0:07:47.106 I was there that was against the Marlins in the 0:07:47.106 --> 0:07:49.306 final game of the season, and I remember I was 0:07:49.346 --> 0:07:50.666 their unbelievable collapse. 0:07:51.026 --> 0:07:55.666 Yeah, that whole three week collapse was brutal, and last 0:07:55.746 --> 0:08:00.386 year's Met semi collapse was somewhat reminiscent. This is all 0:08:00.426 --> 0:08:04.066 up there with you know, there's certain mo like you know, 0:08:04.146 --> 0:08:06.106 Charles Smith not being able to make that lay up 0:08:06.146 --> 0:08:09.306 again to Jordan Bowles, right, they just stay in your 0:08:09.426 --> 0:08:12.866 mind and you know this might be the granddaddy of 0:08:12.906 --> 0:08:13.266 them all. 0:08:13.386 --> 0:08:14.266 This might be crazy. 0:08:14.626 --> 0:08:16.026 Yeah, let's go through. 0:08:16.106 --> 0:08:18.706 I mean, because we were texting at four a m. 0:08:18.786 --> 0:08:20.586 This morning, you and I were both awake, and you 0:08:20.586 --> 0:08:22.626 were the first person I thought of when this thing's 0:08:22.666 --> 0:08:25.466 going down, because we talked about it over the summer. 0:08:25.466 --> 0:08:29.066 But like the build up of the summer is one thing. 0:08:29.786 --> 0:08:32.466 The building last night, it's almost if you look at 0:08:32.506 --> 0:08:35.226 it's like a ghastly joke of Rogers coming out in 0:08:35.266 --> 0:08:37.346 the dark with the lights on nine to eleven with 0:08:37.386 --> 0:08:40.106 the American flag, and he played it. He never completed 0:08:40.106 --> 0:08:40.626 a pass. 0:08:41.786 --> 0:08:44.626 No you couldn't. I mean, you know this old story 0:08:44.626 --> 0:08:48.586 about Red Fox, Peter Red Fox Herett was Sanford and Son, 0:08:49.506 --> 0:08:55.466 and you know that theme music was okay, that would 0:08:55.666 --> 0:08:58.066 when he played Vegas as a stand up, that would 0:08:58.106 --> 0:09:00.826 play him out. That was his intro music. It was 0:09:00.866 --> 0:09:03.306 famous in show business. We parodied it on The Simpsons 0:09:03.306 --> 0:09:05.906 one time. Apparently one night there was no audience for 0:09:05.946 --> 0:09:09.466 whatever is and there's like three people out there and 0:09:08.706 --> 0:09:14.026 the gentlemen Red Fox and he comes out. He looks 0:09:14.026 --> 0:09:16.426 out at the audience, he goes three people, I'm not 0:09:16.426 --> 0:09:19.706 playing a show for no three damn people, and walked 0:09:19.746 --> 0:09:25.986 off and they played his music when they carted Aaron off. 0:09:26.226 --> 0:09:28.986 I heard the Red Fox music in my mind, I'm like, 0:09:29.066 --> 0:09:32.026 this is that. This is just insane. You know, you 0:09:32.106 --> 0:09:32.666 run out with a. 0:09:32.746 --> 0:09:36.906 Foul Grandpa Simpson walks into Mo's with the hat and 0:09:36.906 --> 0:09:38.826 walks right out. Is that what we're thinking like that? 0:09:39.146 --> 0:09:41.186 I think it was like that. That might be when 0:09:41.746 --> 0:09:46.546 we used it, but it was It's just absurd, it's crazy. 0:09:46.986 --> 0:09:49.426 And then I was thinking like, well, because I was 0:09:49.466 --> 0:09:51.506 half expecting him to get hurt this year. He's you know, 0:09:51.586 --> 0:09:54.266 he's not a young man, He's like, well, if this 0:09:54.346 --> 0:09:56.346 happened week eight, would that be better? And you know 0:09:56.346 --> 0:09:58.306 what the answer would be, Yes, it would have been better. 0:09:58.946 --> 0:10:01.906 Lucy would have gotten to see what was what I mean, 0:10:01.906 --> 0:10:05.746 it would have been almost exactly like Brett Favre went 0:10:05.826 --> 0:10:09.666 eight and three before he got hurt for us. But Peter, 0:10:10.186 --> 0:10:11.946 it's just you know, you. 0:10:11.946 --> 0:10:15.586 Know, I have a lot of Jets fans, and one 0:10:15.626 --> 0:10:17.466 of them text me like, I'm just convinced we can't 0:10:17.466 --> 0:10:18.426 have nice things. 0:10:18.986 --> 0:10:22.506 Yeah, I texted you that too. Yeah, that's really no. 0:10:22.706 --> 0:10:24.626 You start to kind of believe it, you know, I 0:10:25.106 --> 0:10:27.626 don't actually wrote Mike Puma wrote a book about the Mets, 0:10:27.626 --> 0:10:30.146 and I wrote the forward and I wrote about being Mets, Jets, 0:10:30.186 --> 0:10:33.466 Nicks and how it's actually made me quite a negative person. 0:10:33.506 --> 0:10:37.306 It really has. It's affected me genuinely, like in business, 0:10:37.346 --> 0:10:40.266 you know, trying to get projects made in show business 0:10:40.346 --> 0:10:43.826 is very hard, and with the first sign of trouble, 0:10:43.866 --> 0:10:45.866 I'm always like, well that's it. Whenever it's not going 0:10:45.906 --> 0:10:48.786 to happen, and my partners are always like, why are 0:10:48.826 --> 0:10:51.346 you so negative, I'm like, because I'm a Mets, Jets 0:10:51.386 --> 0:10:54.266 and Knicks fan, that's why. And they laugh, and I say, no, 0:10:54.346 --> 0:10:55.186 I'm not kidding. 0:10:55.266 --> 0:10:56.026 I'm serious. 0:10:56.066 --> 0:11:00.906 It's absolutely true. I have come to expect Aaron Rodgers' 0:11:01.666 --> 0:11:05.066 outcomes like that, like that's it, we're done, forget it, 0:11:05.466 --> 0:11:07.226 you know, and of nice things. 0:11:07.546 --> 0:11:09.226 Not to rub salt in the wounds here, but like 0:11:09.386 --> 0:11:12.226 the thing that no one else was talking about that 0:11:12.226 --> 0:11:14.346 the Jets coaches who I speak with often were saying, 0:11:14.386 --> 0:11:17.386 is that Rogers would be there till eleven o'clock at night, 0:11:17.506 --> 0:11:20.146 like working with random backup running backs on, like getting 0:11:20.186 --> 0:11:23.906 the offense down. I reported this on Fox's pregame on Sunday. 0:11:24.586 --> 0:11:27.506 He did something called a firing line exercise where he 0:11:27.506 --> 0:11:29.266 would line up all the young players and they'd go 0:11:29.306 --> 0:11:31.226 through every hand signal that he could possibly do, and 0:11:31.266 --> 0:11:32.466 they had to know it. If they got it wrong, 0:11:32.466 --> 0:11:33.826 they had to keep going till they got it right. 0:11:34.226 --> 0:11:37.546 Like he was so invested in texting was Sola this morning, 0:11:37.586 --> 0:11:39.586 and it's just like you feel for the fans, you 0:11:39.626 --> 0:11:43.746 feel for us, you can pity us, you feel for Rogers. 0:11:44.546 --> 0:11:46.826 Actually, you know, I had a crazy journey with this 0:11:46.946 --> 0:11:49.866 because I disliked Aaron Rodgers by his end of the 0:11:49.906 --> 0:11:53.946 time with Green Bay. Between all that craziness that was 0:11:53.986 --> 0:11:58.146 going on there, and then the vaccination stuff and then 0:11:58.586 --> 0:12:02.346 some other stuff. Right, I was like, man and being 0:12:02.386 --> 0:12:04.946 a Hollywood creature as I am, like, you know what, 0:12:05.026 --> 0:12:07.186 you know, what you don't need in most situations is 0:12:07.346 --> 0:12:11.346 diva energy coming like old man, especially old man diva 0:12:11.466 --> 0:12:15.066 energy like we just I was like, please just get 0:12:15.146 --> 0:12:19.666 me Derek Carr, please, which is a nice daddy presence 0:12:19.666 --> 0:12:22.826 in there, nice young fella who's gonna be a good 0:12:22.906 --> 0:12:25.746 daddy and gonna work really hard. And I have a 0:12:25.786 --> 0:12:29.866 feeling that Derek Carr was going to really uh improve 0:12:30.226 --> 0:12:32.586 with a change of scenery, which we'll see if he does. 0:12:33.626 --> 0:12:37.746 And then Man Rogers completely won me over just because 0:12:37.746 --> 0:12:40.586 I didn't think he'd even show up for OTA's right, 0:12:40.666 --> 0:12:44.386 if he'd work with the young receivers, I mean even 0:12:44.426 --> 0:12:47.826 before hard knocks giving back all that money and everything 0:12:47.866 --> 0:12:50.226 he did. And I'm like, I tweeted, I whatever I 0:12:50.226 --> 0:12:52.266 put out, whatever you young people do on social I 0:12:52.266 --> 0:12:55.466 put out this thing of he's gonna do this, He's 0:12:55.466 --> 0:12:57.826 gonna he's gonna recreate your namath for us when he 0:12:57.906 --> 0:13:01.626 runs off the field. I just totally bought and I 0:13:01.706 --> 0:13:03.706 just I fell in love with the guy, you know, 0:13:03.826 --> 0:13:08.106 and I was happy for him, happy Jets, happy for Sala. 0:13:08.506 --> 0:13:10.426 I was even happy for Woody Johnson, which takes a 0:13:10.426 --> 0:13:11.866 lot for me to get happy for that guy. 0:13:12.186 --> 0:13:14.426 We talk about the humor and the gas and the stuff. 0:13:14.426 --> 0:13:16.226 It like they go to the box and what he's wearing, 0:13:16.226 --> 0:13:19.386 this ridiculous sauce gardener chain. Well, and it's just like 0:13:19.906 --> 0:13:22.426 that is so Jets. Like he doesn't take off the chain. 0:13:22.546 --> 0:13:25.066 He still has the ridiculous chain on and he's still 0:13:25.066 --> 0:13:27.546 caught up in the and it's just it is. It's 0:13:27.546 --> 0:13:28.746 the Jets. 0:13:28.786 --> 0:13:31.986 It's Samuel Jets man. At bottom line is you'll look 0:13:32.066 --> 0:13:35.906 back at this right and you'll just say, Samuel Jets. 0:13:35.546 --> 0:13:37.826 Fun well lasted. Now here's the thing. There is a 0:13:37.826 --> 0:13:40.586 whole season to play. You did beat the Bills last night. 0:13:40.666 --> 0:13:44.306 I'm not silver lining guy in this. It's almost secondary 0:13:44.386 --> 0:13:47.386 topic that they won. But can Zach Wilson just hold 0:13:47.386 --> 0:13:49.386 the fort down and rely on the run game and 0:13:49.466 --> 0:13:51.426 the defense and can we still be a playoff team? 0:13:51.506 --> 0:13:55.106 I don't know, We'll see. I mean that sucks too. 0:13:55.146 --> 0:13:58.586 It's like if Zach was gonna feels like Zach needed 0:13:58.626 --> 0:14:01.346 a year or two, didn't if he was, and now 0:14:01.386 --> 0:14:05.506 he's thrown back into the fire, which will probably end 0:14:05.546 --> 0:14:08.506 his career because he probably not ready for it. There's 0:14:08.546 --> 0:14:13.106 my you know, sunny Jets outlook coming forward. But you know, 0:14:13.666 --> 0:14:16.426 I probably here's the thing about being Jets metchniks. When 0:14:16.426 --> 0:14:21.066 you predict doom and gloom, you're usually right. And well, now, 0:14:21.106 --> 0:14:24.026 I guess we'll really see. To me, kind of looked 0:14:24.026 --> 0:14:27.506 the same last night, like I've you know, he played well, 0:14:27.586 --> 0:14:31.746 but I've seen him play that well. Yeah, but I 0:14:31.746 --> 0:14:34.226 don't know who else you bring in. Nothing else seems 0:14:34.226 --> 0:14:37.786 realistic right now. And I guess I'm a poker player. 0:14:37.786 --> 0:14:39.866 I was playing poker last night while this is going on. 0:14:39.986 --> 0:14:42.546 To me, Zach is an inside straight draw, I meaning 0:14:42.906 --> 0:14:45.146 four cards, you're outs with two cards to come. That's 0:14:45.186 --> 0:14:48.586 a sixteen percent chance. That's about how I feel about Zach. 0:14:48.626 --> 0:14:50.066 He's an inside straight draw. 0:14:50.986 --> 0:14:54.546 It's an incredible analogy. It's incredible. I'll leave you on this. 0:14:55.706 --> 0:14:58.466 You think back to the pregame. You've got Timberlake on 0:14:58.546 --> 0:15:01.346 the sidelines, you got Jake Paul being trotted out, you 0:15:01.466 --> 0:15:06.426 got all these luminary celebrities. Did you, in a little 0:15:06.466 --> 0:15:08.946 bit of a glimmer of your jets cynical mind, think 0:15:08.986 --> 0:15:11.106 this a little bit much before we get this game going. 0:15:11.186 --> 0:15:12.106 Let's just play football. 0:15:12.106 --> 0:15:12.226 Oh. 0:15:12.266 --> 0:15:14.466 I've felt the hubris of this for a while, I 0:15:14.506 --> 0:15:16.786 really have. I mean, all the super Bowl talk and 0:15:16.786 --> 0:15:20.226 I'm like, you guys, please, and I've been saying uh 0:15:20.466 --> 0:15:22.986 to anyone who listened. You know, I'll really just be 0:15:23.066 --> 0:15:25.826 happy if we play well over the first five six games. 0:15:25.866 --> 0:15:28.906 I mean honestly, you know, I mean, I want to 0:15:28.946 --> 0:15:33.786 go to the playoffs, but I really let's let's calm 0:15:33.826 --> 0:15:36.986 down here for a second. Rogers usually starts slow, and 0:15:37.026 --> 0:15:41.786 he's not young, and I mean, so yeah, it was 0:15:42.786 --> 0:15:45.466 a lot, a lot of hubrists and I feel, I 0:15:45.546 --> 0:15:48.186 honestly feel embarrassed, literally embarrassed. 0:15:48.466 --> 0:15:51.586 I feel stupid, all right, get into this because there 0:15:51.666 --> 0:15:54.306 is a you think about buying in after knowing, and 0:15:54.346 --> 0:15:57.106 you're you're coursened with this and you know this is 0:15:57.106 --> 0:15:59.266 what Jimmy and Jet Finn is and yet you let 0:15:59.346 --> 0:16:01.586 yourself get excited again. I feel that, you know. 0:16:01.706 --> 0:16:03.626 It's even worse. I had to I had, I got 0:16:03.626 --> 0:16:06.626 a little I missed it, I guess mercifully, I had 0:16:06.626 --> 0:16:08.666 a school function. Sorry, it's loud. I had a school 0:16:08.666 --> 0:16:13.026 function and I had I got to the game about 0:16:13.626 --> 0:16:15.746 I watched it with my poker buddies the game last night. 0:16:15.906 --> 0:16:17.906 Got there ten minutes lad, I walk in smiling, and 0:16:17.906 --> 0:16:20.146 everybody's looking at me like, you don't know, do you. 0:16:20.306 --> 0:16:22.986 I'm like, no, I didn't see it, and you hadn't 0:16:23.026 --> 0:16:27.066 seen it. I walked in like five ten minutes after 0:16:27.106 --> 0:16:31.146 it happened, and everybody's like, no, what. And I was like, 0:16:31.346 --> 0:16:32.946 and I thought they were, you know, poker guys. I 0:16:32.946 --> 0:16:34.946 thought they were kidding me. I thought they were joking, 0:16:34.986 --> 0:16:37.346 of course, and then I saw it was all too real, 0:16:39.146 --> 0:16:41.106 and you know, it was the saddest part was like 0:16:41.186 --> 0:16:43.266 a buddy of mine, who a couple of buddies just 0:16:43.466 --> 0:16:46.506 love ribbing me about you know, you know what's going 0:16:46.586 --> 0:16:48.186 to happen. You know what's going to happen with the 0:16:48.266 --> 0:16:51.666 Jets and the Mets. And even those guys didn't have 0:16:51.706 --> 0:16:55.066 the heart to to give me, to give me crap 0:16:55.106 --> 0:16:58.066 about it. They were like actually looking at me with sympathy. 0:16:58.066 --> 0:16:59.666 I'm like, I think that's the worst part of all 0:16:59.706 --> 0:17:01.786 this is you looking at me like you feel bad 0:17:01.786 --> 0:17:02.026 for me. 0:17:02.106 --> 0:17:05.666 Right, It's the first time like Patriots and Bills and 0:17:05.866 --> 0:17:08.906 Dolphins are like feeling bad for the Jets fans because 0:17:08.906 --> 0:17:11.746 even they can appreciate the human the feeling of letdown 0:17:11.906 --> 0:17:13.786 and just as horrible. 0:17:14.466 --> 0:17:19.266 I mean, at least giant fans can't say nothing today. 0:17:19.986 --> 0:17:23.146 What was worse winning and losing Rogers for the season 0:17:23.346 --> 0:17:25.826 or losing forty to nothing on national TV while you're 0:17:25.826 --> 0:17:28.106 wearing a blue shirt's doing a blue out. 0:17:28.186 --> 0:17:30.546 I'd probably be I'd honestly be more embarrassed by that 0:17:30.626 --> 0:17:31.266 giant loss. 0:17:31.306 --> 0:17:35.066 Personally, man, I feel you. I feel like you're the 0:17:35.146 --> 0:17:38.266 voice of thousands and thousands of fans, and you know, 0:17:38.346 --> 0:17:40.786 Jets fans they're all over La now, they're all over floor, 0:17:40.906 --> 0:17:42.026 like I met that when I let it do it, 0:17:42.146 --> 0:17:45.506 like New York fans are everywhere, and this one I 0:17:45.546 --> 0:17:47.746 felt like reverberated throughout the country. And you're the voice 0:17:47.746 --> 0:17:48.946 of it right now on the pod. 0:17:49.506 --> 0:17:51.626 That said, I mean, it was a gutty win. I 0:17:51.666 --> 0:17:53.986 got to give them credit. I mean, that was amazing 0:17:54.866 --> 0:17:57.946 and it's just but how well that defense played, because 0:17:58.026 --> 0:18:00.506 last year they were great, but they four turnovers. They 0:18:00.546 --> 0:18:02.906 didn't get that many turnovers last year, you know, and 0:18:03.506 --> 0:18:06.826 it was amazing to see them busted up like that 0:18:07.226 --> 0:18:10.906 and get that gutty Win. Who knows. Maybe football is 0:18:10.906 --> 0:18:14.746 a crazy, crazy thing. Man, Stranger things have happened. Who 0:18:14.786 --> 0:18:16.186 knows what could happen this season. 0:18:16.506 --> 0:18:19.586 So I was talking to coaches this morning from the Jets, 0:18:19.586 --> 0:18:21.306 texting them, and the real takeaway for me is like, 0:18:21.306 --> 0:18:24.346 all right, if Hackett had won, or if Todd Downing 0:18:24.386 --> 0:18:26.266 had won, or if Sala had won with Rogers, it's 0:18:26.266 --> 0:18:29.386 a great story. If these guys can do it with 0:18:29.506 --> 0:18:32.386 this team without Rogers after the deflation, now that's a 0:18:32.426 --> 0:18:35.466 really great story and it almost adds another chapter. So 0:18:35.466 --> 0:18:38.266 there is a silver lining, cool wrinkle to this. If 0:18:38.266 --> 0:18:41.106 they could put it together, It's it's almost like, hey, 0:18:41.146 --> 0:18:42.786 we won one for the Gipper, but we also did 0:18:42.786 --> 0:18:43.546 it for ourselves. 0:18:44.266 --> 0:18:47.266 Yeah, it was impressive. You gotta admit that they that 0:18:47.426 --> 0:18:52.426 was demoralizing, demoralizing and they throre down ten and they 0:18:52.466 --> 0:18:55.066 came back and won that game. I mean that's something 0:18:55.186 --> 0:18:57.906 that is, you know, proud of those guys on nine 0:18:57.946 --> 0:18:59.306 to eleven. I mean that was good. 0:19:00.226 --> 0:19:02.626 Hanka's area, We love you, Thank you for coming on. 0:19:02.746 --> 0:19:05.026 I know you're busy and obviously this morning is not 0:19:05.106 --> 0:19:08.466 a fun and happy topic for Jets fans, and yet 0:19:08.506 --> 0:19:10.426 I felt like we needed to get your insurer actions. 0:19:10.466 --> 0:19:12.466 Can I shack on a personal Notekay, I just got 0:19:12.506 --> 0:19:15.746 a hair looking okay, and I just the girl cut 0:19:15.786 --> 0:19:17.546 my hair. The young lady cut my hair, and she 0:19:17.626 --> 0:19:20.266 asked me, are you a senior? So that that was 0:19:20.306 --> 0:19:21.746 like insult to injury. 0:19:21.466 --> 0:19:23.586 Today, Good morning, Hank. 0:19:23.466 --> 0:19:25.106 I said, yes, I'm an old Jets fan. 0:19:25.506 --> 0:19:25.866 It's good. 0:19:26.506 --> 0:19:28.826 That's it. On that note, we love you man, thank 0:19:28.866 --> 0:19:36.826 you for joining. This is like a shive a call. 0:19:36.946 --> 0:19:39.546 In my culture, we call this and it wasn't enough 0:19:39.626 --> 0:19:43.106 just to have our guy Hank's area call in and 0:19:43.106 --> 0:19:46.146 give his fifteen minutes of sadness and dietract. I want 0:19:46.146 --> 0:19:49.626 to go to maybe the biggest Jets fan I know. 0:19:49.866 --> 0:19:52.026 It's my friend David. David has been a season ticket 0:19:52.026 --> 0:19:54.266 holder for many many years. He travels on the road, 0:19:54.306 --> 0:19:57.786 goes to games. He never misses a home game. And i'mlike, Hank, 0:19:57.866 --> 0:20:00.786 David is actually in the building. David, how are you 0:20:00.826 --> 0:20:01.626 feeling this morning? 0:20:02.066 --> 0:20:06.426 But today I'm daged in disbelief, but I'm not shocked. 0:20:07.026 --> 0:20:08.146 Go on, you knew he was on. 0:20:08.426 --> 0:20:08.906 Explain it. 0:20:09.026 --> 0:20:10.866 You knew he was gonna get Nick. You knew he 0:20:10.986 --> 0:20:13.946 was gonna get banned up. You have a porous offensive line, 0:20:14.306 --> 0:20:17.546 get it. A great Hall of Fame quarterback Aaric Argers, 0:20:17.866 --> 0:20:22.506 but not the most mobile quarterback. And I looked back 0:20:22.586 --> 0:20:26.346 in the top. So Douglas since day one saying I'm 0:20:26.346 --> 0:20:27.386 gonna build an offensive line. 0:20:27.386 --> 0:20:30.186 I'm gonna build an offensive line. He's ignored it. He 0:20:30.306 --> 0:20:30.706 got Allen. 0:20:30.826 --> 0:20:33.386 I's sorry, you got some other received from Green Bay. 0:20:33.386 --> 0:20:35.506 You get this guy, you got that guy. My heart 0:20:35.586 --> 0:20:41.066 is broken. The defense, solid, great young talent, great heart. 0:20:41.546 --> 0:20:44.386 They didn't quit. They won the game. They beat the Bills. 0:20:44.586 --> 0:20:47.626