WEBVTT - The Season with Peter Schrager: Aaron Rodgers 0:00:07.266 --> 0:00:09.666 The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the 0:00:09.786 --> 0:00:24.706 NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody? Welcome to 0:00:24.826 --> 0:00:28.866 the Season with Peter Schrager, a brand new episode here. 0:00:28.946 --> 0:00:33.746 I'm joined by my wonderful producer, Aaron wang Kaufman. Aaron, 0:00:34.826 --> 0:00:36.786 Welcome to week two of training camp. My friend. 0:00:37.266 --> 0:00:41.306 It's pretty exciting getting lots of video seeing all these 0:00:41.386 --> 0:00:45.826 rookies making big catches, and you know it's you had 0:00:46.226 --> 0:00:48.866 your own little trip to training camp which made some 0:00:48.946 --> 0:00:49.586 waves too. 0:00:50.066 --> 0:00:52.626 Yes, good intro. That's what this podcast is going to 0:00:52.706 --> 0:00:55.546 be about. If you listen to this podcast, you know 0:00:55.586 --> 0:00:57.786 we try to get you behind the scenes stuff. We 0:00:57.826 --> 0:00:59.946 try to bring in coaches and general managers. I don't 0:01:00.066 --> 0:01:03.426 often bring in current players as guests because I feel 0:01:03.426 --> 0:01:06.106 like they're usually pretty measured and we're not getting anything 0:01:06.146 --> 0:01:08.066 that you're not going to get at the podium. And 0:01:08.146 --> 0:01:09.946 in the rare instance that you do get one of 0:01:09.946 --> 0:01:13.146 these all access interviews with a current player, it might 0:01:13.146 --> 0:01:15.786 be with a former teammate of theirs. I honestly feel 0:01:15.826 --> 0:01:19.106 like coaches and general managers and media guys and celebrity 0:01:19.146 --> 0:01:22.986 fans that's my wheelhouse. Current players often are twenty years 0:01:23.026 --> 0:01:29.826 younger than me. They're often in a pr restricted forum 0:01:29.866 --> 0:01:32.146 where okay, i'll give you this guy, but you get 0:01:32.146 --> 0:01:33.946 fifteen minutes with them, and you've got to either a 0:01:34.626 --> 0:01:37.946 plug the foundation first and foremost that he's working with fine, 0:01:38.266 --> 0:01:42.066 or be the product endorsement he is dealing with. Again, 0:01:42.346 --> 0:01:44.626 I've got great relationships with a lot of these guys 0:01:44.626 --> 0:01:46.826 around the NFL. I respect the players more anything. But 0:01:46.866 --> 0:01:51.066 as podcast guests few and far between, would it be 0:01:51.466 --> 0:01:53.106 a guy that I'm like, all right, let's go thirty 0:01:53.146 --> 0:01:56.506 minutes deep and let's really bring out what makes you 0:01:56.626 --> 0:01:59.666 what you are and tell us stories from current players? 0:01:59.946 --> 0:02:02.746 Rare exceptions. George Kittle wants to come on, always welcome, 0:02:03.106 --> 0:02:06.186 you know. And then there's one guy, one guy in 0:02:06.226 --> 0:02:10.906 the league who I think is always unfiltered, He's always himself, 0:02:11.626 --> 0:02:16.466 is always authentic, can be polarizing to many, can be 0:02:16.466 --> 0:02:21.226 fascinating to all. And that's Aaron Rodgers. This podcast is 0:02:21.226 --> 0:02:25.026 about my interview with Aaron Rodgers Sunday at Jets training camp, 0:02:25.266 --> 0:02:27.226 and I wanted to set the stage. I wanted to 0:02:27.226 --> 0:02:29.346 give you all the behind the scenes. I wanted to 0:02:29.386 --> 0:02:32.746 give you the context because we're recording this on Tuesday morning, 0:02:32.906 --> 0:02:36.466 and I was out at a local restaurant yesterday and 0:02:36.466 --> 0:02:42.066 this doesn't happen. Ever. There's a little TV and ESPN's 0:02:42.106 --> 0:02:44.346 on and PTI is on, and I look up to 0:02:44.426 --> 0:02:46.946 PTI and it's not Tony and Mike's faces. It's my 0:02:47.066 --> 0:02:50.946 mug with Aaron Rodgers. And the guy sitting at the 0:02:50.946 --> 0:02:52.386 bar looked at me and kind of gave me that 0:02:52.426 --> 0:02:54.546 weird look and I just kind of nodded and walked out. 0:02:55.306 --> 0:02:58.306 NFL network stuff is not often used on ESPN, and 0:02:58.346 --> 0:03:02.866 it was the lead story on ESPN, And this interview 0:03:02.946 --> 0:03:05.626 was actually done on NFL Plus, which is the streaming 0:03:05.626 --> 0:03:07.786 app that we were talking about last week on the 0:03:07.786 --> 0:03:10.986 Gronk podcast that the NFL is putting a lot of 0:03:10.986 --> 0:03:13.666 eggs into their basket to kind of push And I'd 0:03:13.666 --> 0:03:16.506 like to think I had the first NFL Plus moment 0:03:16.506 --> 0:03:18.426 and it had nothing to do really with me at all. 0:03:18.506 --> 0:03:22.106 It was Rogers and it was Sean Payton. And as 0:03:22.186 --> 0:03:26.026 much as I appreciate the many texts and tweet some 0:03:26.066 --> 0:03:28.466 people saying that the way I crafted the question to 0:03:28.586 --> 0:03:32.906 get to Aaron Rodgers's money quote was masterful, it was 0:03:32.946 --> 0:03:34.986 really all Rogers, and I just gave him a runway. 0:03:35.066 --> 0:03:39.546 So this is the story behind the story for Sunday's 0:03:40.026 --> 0:03:45.026 bombshell Aaron Rodgers interview that I conducted at Jets Camp. Aaron, 0:03:45.146 --> 0:03:48.466 let me first set it up a couple days earlier. 0:03:49.186 --> 0:03:52.866 Thursday morning, I'm at Good Morning Football, hosting the morning show, 0:03:52.866 --> 0:03:55.866 our first week back from a nice summer vacation, and 0:03:55.946 --> 0:03:58.346 I get a text from my friend Adam Weinberg, who 0:03:58.386 --> 0:04:00.786 is a football fan and does not work in the league, 0:04:00.826 --> 0:04:05.506 and says, holy bleep, did you read these quotes from 0:04:05.546 --> 0:04:10.026 Sean Payton in USA Today? And I'm like, USA Today, 0:04:11.066 --> 0:04:14.106 Sean Payton. Peyton's a dear friend of mine. I spent 0:04:14.226 --> 0:04:18.026 all last year with him at Fox. I know Sean Payton. 0:04:18.066 --> 0:04:20.146 What quotes did Sean payn have that are bombshow? Quotes 0:04:20.146 --> 0:04:22.346 in the USA Today? And I'm not dismissing the work 0:04:22.386 --> 0:04:25.506 of Jared Bell, who's a Hall of favorite, Like usually 0:04:25.546 --> 0:04:27.746 this comes from the Beat reporter if he's gonna have 0:04:28.066 --> 0:04:30.866 some bombshell thing, or it's coming on McAfee's show, or 0:04:31.346 --> 0:04:35.626 Jared Bell with a sit down in print that went 0:04:35.706 --> 0:04:38.186 to the USA Today, I'm like, what are you talking about. 0:04:38.386 --> 0:04:42.146 We finished the show and the article is published and 0:04:42.226 --> 0:04:46.506 Aaron Sean Payton's comments in the USA today blew me away. 0:04:46.746 --> 0:04:49.426 Let's go through some of them. This was from Sean 0:04:49.466 --> 0:04:54.906 Payton last Thursday. Jared Bell, great, great reporter, legendary Hall 0:04:54.906 --> 0:04:58.346 of Fame writer, and here's Peyton. Can I say this 0:04:58.386 --> 0:05:00.906 to you. I'm gonna be pissed off if this is 0:05:00.946 --> 0:05:03.826 not a playoff team. Winning is the salve for the 0:05:03.826 --> 0:05:08.906 whole organization, makes everyone feel better. Okay, nothing crazy there yet, 0:05:08.946 --> 0:05:12.146 I feel like that wasn't the quote that I was like, uh, 0:05:12.146 --> 0:05:16.466 and then we keep going. It doesn't happen often where 0:05:16.466 --> 0:05:20.826 an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed, and that happened here. 0:05:21.266 --> 0:05:23.986 Part of it was their own fault relative to spending 0:05:24.106 --> 0:05:27.186 so much expletive time trying to win the off season, 0:05:27.706 --> 0:05:32.346 the pr the pomp and circumstance, marching people around and 0:05:32.586 --> 0:05:37.826 all this stuff. Okay, that's a shot at the old regime, 0:05:37.906 --> 0:05:40.306 but also some guys who still work there in Denver. 0:05:40.586 --> 0:05:43.306 Yeah, getting a little muddy there, little muddy. 0:05:43.746 --> 0:05:47.506 Next line, there's so much dirt around what happened to 0:05:47.546 --> 0:05:51.866 Russell Wilson last year. There's twenty dirty hands for what 0:05:52.026 --> 0:05:55.346 was allowed tolerated in the freaking training rooms, the meeting rooms, 0:05:55.386 --> 0:05:59.586 the offense. I don't know Hackett. A lot of people 0:05:59.626 --> 0:06:02.826 had dirt on their hands. It wasn't just Russell. He 0:06:02.866 --> 0:06:06.266 didn't just flip. He still has it this bs that 0:06:06.306 --> 0:06:07.106 he he hit a wall. 0:06:07.666 --> 0:06:08.146 Shoot. 0:06:08.506 --> 0:06:10.986 They couldn't get a play in. There were twenty ninth 0:06:10.986 --> 0:06:13.546 in the league in pre snap penalties on both sides 0:06:13.546 --> 0:06:16.346 of the ball. That was the parents who allowed it. 0:06:16.666 --> 0:06:20.266 That's not an incrimination on him, but an incrimination on 0:06:20.346 --> 0:06:24.586 the head coach, the GM by the way, Aaron George Peyton, 0:06:24.666 --> 0:06:29.306 who's still there, the president, Demani Leach, former NFL league employee, 0:06:29.746 --> 0:06:35.346 still there, and everybody else who watched it all happen. Oh, 0:06:35.386 --> 0:06:39.466 all right, there's more now. A quarterback having an office 0:06:39.706 --> 0:06:42.786 and a place to watch film is normal. But all 0:06:42.786 --> 0:06:46.466 those things get magnified when you're losing and all that 0:06:46.586 --> 0:06:49.706 other stuff. I've never heard of it. We're not doing that. 0:06:50.346 --> 0:06:52.986 And and that was in regard to him having a 0:06:53.026 --> 0:06:56.386 personal quarterbacks coach with him last year in Denver, who 0:06:56.426 --> 0:06:58.906 would in addition to the coaching staff which was like 0:06:58.946 --> 0:07:03.186 twenty five deep, they also had his personal guy on site. 0:07:03.026 --> 0:07:05.906 Which is not totally unheard of, right, I mean, yes, it's. 0:07:05.786 --> 0:07:08.746 Totally unheard that you wouldn't have your own personal quarterbacks 0:07:08.746 --> 0:07:11.146 coach in the building all day. Yes, unheard of, Aaron. 0:07:11.266 --> 0:07:14.906 You'd have your quarterbacks coach, you'd have your offensive coordinator, 0:07:14.946 --> 0:07:17.226 your head coach. You wouldn't have this guy also there 0:07:17.266 --> 0:07:19.506 in addition to the staff. You would have them in 0:07:19.546 --> 0:07:21.426 the off season, or you can work with them on 0:07:21.466 --> 0:07:24.386 your own time. That was a first for me, dude. 0:07:24.906 --> 0:07:30.146 And then the last couple. Everything I heard about last season, 0:07:30.586 --> 0:07:36.106 we are doing the opposite. And the last one. They 0:07:36.106 --> 0:07:38.466 can only beat the blank out of you so much. 0:07:38.666 --> 0:07:41.426 But everybody's got a little stink on their hands. It's 0:07:41.466 --> 0:07:44.586 not just Russell. It was a poor offensive line. It 0:07:44.666 --> 0:07:46.866 might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in 0:07:46.906 --> 0:07:52.226 the history of the NFL. That's how bad it was. 0:07:53.586 --> 0:07:56.426 H Okay, So let me unpack this a little bit 0:07:57.346 --> 0:07:59.746 that happens on Thursday. My phone's blown up because A 0:08:00.226 --> 0:08:03.986 it's just an unbelievably candid interview with a head coach. B. 0:08:04.786 --> 0:08:11.266 You never never on the record here a coach talk 0:08:11.346 --> 0:08:15.186 about the previous coach like this. It's almost like what 0:08:15.226 --> 0:08:17.266 do they say, there's a code amongst thieves, and this 0:08:17.306 --> 0:08:19.706 one there's just like there's a there's a code, you know, 0:08:20.826 --> 0:08:24.226 Omerta almost like we're all in this together, We're all 0:08:24.226 --> 0:08:27.506 gonna cross paths, We're all gonna know someone who knows 0:08:27.506 --> 0:08:31.706 someone you don't do that. He did it, and he 0:08:31.746 --> 0:08:37.186 did it at Nathaniel Hackett, who universally is beloved by 0:08:37.506 --> 0:08:40.106 people who know him as a guy, like we've had 0:08:40.146 --> 0:08:42.666 him on our podcast. I think, Aaron, you got a 0:08:42.706 --> 0:08:44.066 feel for Hackett, right, like. 0:08:44.906 --> 0:08:48.666 Just yeah, very nice guy and like sweetheart. 0:08:48.226 --> 0:08:53.826 Like a good man with two kids, a wife. Hackett's 0:08:54.026 --> 0:08:56.866 you know, uprooting his entire life. He's embarrassed as is 0:08:56.866 --> 0:08:59.186 how this thing went down. And then I think a 0:08:59.186 --> 0:09:02.066 lot of people were turned off by Peyton's comments on 0:09:02.106 --> 0:09:04.066 the surface, and then you look at who he said 0:09:04.106 --> 0:09:05.946 it about, Hackett, who's a good guy and as well 0:09:06.026 --> 0:09:08.866 liked and around a lot of places, and people know 0:09:08.906 --> 0:09:10.986 that he's already been through the crap of it, right 0:09:11.066 --> 0:09:13.466 like he already was fired fifteen weeks into his season. 0:09:13.506 --> 0:09:16.506 He already was the laughing stock last year. He still 0:09:16.546 --> 0:09:19.186 got a career he wants to have, and here he 0:09:19.266 --> 0:09:21.906 is starting a new season, and gosh, for it to 0:09:21.946 --> 0:09:24.466 start off with these quotes coming out. I think that 0:09:24.586 --> 0:09:26.826 rubbed a lot of people wrong. Then there was a 0:09:26.826 --> 0:09:30.026 shot at the Jets. Here's Peyton in the article on 0:09:30.866 --> 0:09:34.506 hard knocks. We're not doing any of that. The Jets 0:09:34.546 --> 0:09:37.506 did that this year. You watch hard Knocks, all of it. 0:09:37.586 --> 0:09:40.106 I can see it coming. Remember when former Washington owner 0:09:40.146 --> 0:09:42.666 Dan Snyder put that dream team together. I was at 0:09:42.706 --> 0:09:44.786 the Giants in two thousand. I was a young coach. 0:09:44.826 --> 0:09:46.906 I thought, how are we going to compete with them? 0:09:47.186 --> 0:09:50.506 Dion's there now? Well that team won eight games or whatever, 0:09:50.626 --> 0:09:54.026 So listen, just put the work in on that like 0:09:54.106 --> 0:09:57.466 the Jets. The Jets didn't. They didn't ask for hard knocks. 0:09:57.546 --> 0:09:59.186 Like the league asked the Jets to do hard on. 0:09:59.426 --> 0:10:03.386 That's resisted. The League pushed harder, the Jets resisted. I 0:10:03.466 --> 0:10:05.426 don't think the ownership group of the Jets were looking 0:10:05.466 --> 0:10:07.986 for a Hall of Game and hard knock. So like 0:10:08.426 --> 0:10:11.146 Sean suggesting that that was the case is whatever. And 0:10:11.186 --> 0:10:14.626 then Sala obviously had his comments if they're not hating, 0:10:14.746 --> 0:10:17.986 you ain't popping, which I'd never heard that line before. 0:10:17.986 --> 0:10:21.506 I also liked it so now you've got Hackett, you've 0:10:21.506 --> 0:10:24.506 got the Jets. Jets being compared to the two thousand 0:10:24.586 --> 0:10:27.226 Washington Redskins, which was a team in infamy that was 0:10:27.266 --> 0:10:30.546 like a dream team that went bust, and for twenty 0:10:30.546 --> 0:10:34.826 four hours, everybody is a buzz. So then Sean gets 0:10:34.866 --> 0:10:36.666 to the podio. I mean, I think everyone's expecting this 0:10:36.746 --> 0:10:39.266 grand apology or him doubling down, and he kind of 0:10:39.266 --> 0:10:41.906 goes in between. This is what Sean Payton says. Listen, 0:10:42.386 --> 0:10:44.306 I had one of those moments where I still had 0:10:44.306 --> 0:10:46.306 my Fox hat on and not my coaching hat on. 0:10:47.026 --> 0:10:48.946 I said this to the team. We've had a great 0:10:49.546 --> 0:10:52.386 offseason relative to that. I've been preaching that message and 0:10:52.466 --> 0:10:55.386 here I am the veteran stepping in it. It was 0:10:55.426 --> 0:10:58.306 a learning experience for me, a mistake. Obviously. I needed 0:10:58.306 --> 0:11:00.706 a little bit more filter. I needed a bit more restraint. 0:11:01.146 --> 0:11:04.946 I regret that end quote. So he's apologizing, but he's 0:11:04.946 --> 0:11:09.226 not apologizing to Nathaniel Hackett. He's not apologizing to Robert 0:11:09.426 --> 0:11:12.986 Salah so much as to saying I'm annoyed that I 0:11:13.026 --> 0:11:14.746 said too much. I went over the line when I 0:11:14.826 --> 0:11:17.546 was talking on the record, and I should have kept 0:11:17.546 --> 0:11:20.186 that in house or I shouldn't have said any of 0:11:20.186 --> 0:11:23.266 that stuff publicly because it started this whole thing. It's 0:11:23.266 --> 0:11:27.306 a distraction. Fine, But as of now, I don't I've 0:11:27.306 --> 0:11:31.786 got no indication that he's apologized to Hackett. I don't 0:11:31.546 --> 0:11:34.146 like I said, I don't think Sean Mines is being 0:11:34.186 --> 0:11:36.466 out there. I don't think that Seawan minds. Hey cause 0:11:36.506 --> 0:11:39.786 a little chaos here, cause a little something. Take take 0:11:39.826 --> 0:11:42.666 a bat to that pinata and just whack it or 0:11:42.666 --> 0:11:45.426 the beehive, whatever you want, and wake this team up. 0:11:45.466 --> 0:11:47.826 We're going to be a relevant team, like this is 0:11:47.866 --> 0:11:52.826 Peyton Okay, but there's a human element to this that 0:11:52.826 --> 0:11:55.546 that this impacted a lot of people. So lead up 0:11:55.586 --> 0:11:59.706 to Sunday. Aaron Rodgers might be the most difficult interview 0:11:59.706 --> 0:12:03.186 to secure in that I think he sort of operates 0:12:03.386 --> 0:12:05.506 on his own as far as who he talks to, 0:12:05.826 --> 0:12:08.226 when he talked to them, what he wants to get 0:12:08.226 --> 0:12:11.666 out there, and in what forum. So if you see 0:12:11.746 --> 0:12:15.306 historically he's done Pat McAfee every week, he'll do the 0:12:15.346 --> 0:12:19.706 podium for the team, He'll do Aeron Andrews. He's great 0:12:19.706 --> 0:12:22.746 with Aaron. He did a Kyle Brandt interview one time 0:12:22.826 --> 0:12:26.426 on a podcast he does. He did PMT with Big 0:12:26.506 --> 0:12:30.386 Cat and PFT commenter and they were hilarious last summer. 0:12:31.066 --> 0:12:34.786 And he's done Good Morning Football with US super Bowl 0:12:34.826 --> 0:12:39.026 in Minnesota, and then when he was doing Jeopardy tryouts 0:12:39.066 --> 0:12:41.106 for the host for Trebek, he did our show and 0:12:41.266 --> 0:12:45.226 was awesome. But I'll be honest, completely candid, I personally 0:12:45.226 --> 0:12:48.666 haven't had any interactions with Aaron Rodgers and probably since then, 0:12:49.466 --> 0:12:52.226 so I don't, you know, I do my show and 0:12:52.386 --> 0:12:55.466 you know, since since the Jeopardy stuff, like we've had 0:12:55.546 --> 0:12:57.626 a ton of things happen with Rogers, whether it be 0:12:58.346 --> 0:13:00.786 off the field, on the field, whatever, But like, I 0:13:00.826 --> 0:13:03.586 don't have this relationship with Rogers that I do with 0:13:03.946 --> 0:13:06.986 others around the league. So I'm just wondering we're coming 0:13:07.026 --> 0:13:10.386 to Jets camp. I'm on behalf of NFL plus, it's 0:13:10.386 --> 0:13:12.466 a big thing for us. It's NFL Network. I got 0:13:12.466 --> 0:13:15.946 the NFL Network logo on me. They're sending me out there. 0:13:16.946 --> 0:13:22.026 I can probably get Sauce Gardner, Quinnin Williams or Sala 0:13:22.906 --> 0:13:24.386 to come speak with me, and those will all be 0:13:24.386 --> 0:13:27.066 great and I would love those guys and they're awesome, 0:13:27.186 --> 0:13:29.666 and Alan Lazard and Randall Cobb would be great guests 0:13:29.746 --> 0:13:32.186 to have. I was like, but I'm here for the 0:13:32.226 --> 0:13:36.026 big fish. I want Rogers. So I start playing the 0:13:36.066 --> 0:13:38.786 seed with not only the PR staff, but with some 0:13:38.826 --> 0:13:41.546 coaches on that staff, saying like, hey, I'm coming Sunday. 0:13:41.866 --> 0:13:43.466 If you can speak to Rogers, I would love to 0:13:43.506 --> 0:13:45.466 do it with you. Whatever. I don't hear anything back 0:13:45.946 --> 0:13:48.586 about Saturday night. I check in with the Jets PR 0:13:48.666 --> 0:13:51.066 staff and I say, I know it's a hail Mary, 0:13:51.106 --> 0:13:54.026 but is Rogers willing to sit with me for ten 0:13:54.106 --> 0:13:57.986 fifteen minutes on NFL Network? And the response I got 0:13:58.146 --> 0:14:01.546 was we'll see tomorrow. But he certainly didn't say no. 0:14:01.666 --> 0:14:03.426 So I'm like, all right, we're in the game, you know, 0:14:03.546 --> 0:14:06.426 like we're in the game. I'm not looking to curry 0:14:06.626 --> 0:14:08.146 favorite of Rogers at all. I just want to get 0:14:08.146 --> 0:14:12.706 the interview and all along, I'm thinking, all right, Hackett's 0:14:12.706 --> 0:14:16.346 biggest supporter is Aaron Rodgers, like biggest supporter, and those 0:14:16.386 --> 0:14:19.906 guys are best best friends. And Rogers is also candid. 0:14:20.306 --> 0:14:23.986 So if you get Rogers to talk about Hackett, you're 0:14:23.986 --> 0:14:26.946 gonna get a great defensive Hackett. And that's gonna not 0:14:27.066 --> 0:14:31.026 only rally his teammates in New York, but also send 0:14:31.066 --> 0:14:33.546 a message around the league and I'm sure we'll, you know, 0:14:33.706 --> 0:14:37.826 make news. But I also didn't want to position it 0:14:37.866 --> 0:14:40.866 as hey talk about Sean Payton because that could just 0:14:40.866 --> 0:14:42.946 shut it down right away. That is the journalism in 0:14:42.986 --> 0:14:46.466 this thing. I wanted to let him take it wherever 0:14:46.466 --> 0:14:48.706 he wanted, and if he doesn't address it, that's cool, 0:14:48.706 --> 0:14:50.546 but I want to give him the opportunity to write. 0:14:51.826 --> 0:14:55.306 So practice is going on and it's awesome, Aaron, like, 0:14:55.426 --> 0:14:58.066 the Jets are clicking and the fans are vibing and 0:14:58.106 --> 0:15:01.986 it's really cool scene and the hard Knocks cameras are there, 0:15:02.546 --> 0:15:04.746 and Rogers hits Lazard in the back of the end 0:15:04.826 --> 0:15:08.706 zone and it's it's fantastic. It's a touchdown and everyone's 0:15:08.786 --> 0:15:12.666 rather than whistle blows. Practice over and then I see 0:15:12.786 --> 0:15:14.746 Rogers and we make eye contact and it gives me 0:15:14.786 --> 0:15:16.186 the nod, and I'm like, all right, I think I'm in. 0:15:16.666 --> 0:15:20.466 And I have an amazing producer at NFL Network that 0:15:20.506 --> 0:15:22.786 does these things on remote with me. Christine Martin is 0:15:22.786 --> 0:15:24.986 her name. I think Christine's the best at what she 0:15:25.026 --> 0:15:27.746 does as far as field producing goes. And she's never 0:15:27.786 --> 0:15:30.666 in my way. She's never the story, She's never she 0:15:30.786 --> 0:15:33.226 just it's already for me. Whenever I get to wherever 0:15:33.266 --> 0:15:35.746 I'm working with Christine, she handles all the logistics and 0:15:35.786 --> 0:15:37.906 she like lets me do my thing. I'm not like 0:15:37.946 --> 0:15:40.706 every reporter when I get to these things, I'm looking 0:15:40.746 --> 0:15:43.346 to be alone. I like to mingle with a coach 0:15:43.386 --> 0:15:45.826 and have an off conversation. I like to talk to 0:15:45.906 --> 0:15:48.386 an owner. I like to talk to Jonn manager. I 0:15:48.426 --> 0:15:50.906 don't like being in a gaggle of reporters. I don't 0:15:50.906 --> 0:15:53.466 need to be with other media guys. I am solo mission. 0:15:53.546 --> 0:15:54.906 Let me get what I need to get and get 0:15:54.986 --> 0:15:58.186 conversations done. Christine lets me do that. She knows that. 0:15:58.386 --> 0:15:59.906 And when I have to be on air in one minute, 0:15:59.946 --> 0:16:01.386 She's like, Peter, you got one minute. I come in 0:16:01.386 --> 0:16:03.586 the chair and we go. Not a lot of downtime. 0:16:04.546 --> 0:16:06.746 So Christine's like looking at me, and she's like, I 0:16:07.186 --> 0:16:09.226 think we got it. We got the two chairs set up, 0:16:10.586 --> 0:16:13.826 and from what might have been Mars, I swear mors 0:16:14.826 --> 0:16:17.106 as Rogers is coming over right in front of me. 0:16:17.706 --> 0:16:20.306 Jason Garrett stops Rogers. I didn't know Jason Garrett was there. 0:16:20.306 --> 0:16:23.226 I didn't see Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett, the old Cowboys 0:16:23.226 --> 0:16:27.986 and Giants coach, and Jason Garrett now on NBC, and 0:16:28.106 --> 0:16:30.866 Rogers starts dapping him up and they're talking, and it's 0:16:30.906 --> 0:16:35.946 ten minutes, it's twenty minutes, thirty minutes, and I'm like, 0:16:36.106 --> 0:16:39.466 oh my god, oh my god, Jason Garrett, Jason Garrett 0:16:39.466 --> 0:16:41.866 better have six hours worth of air time on Thursday 0:16:41.946 --> 0:16:44.226 Night's same game, because he just talked to Aaron Rodgers 0:16:44.266 --> 0:16:45.746 longer than anyone has in the history of time. 0:16:46.066 --> 0:16:46.266 You know. 0:16:46.266 --> 0:16:48.226 I remember this another time. I was at a Bears 0:16:48.226 --> 0:16:51.906 Packers game one time and Rogers spent most of the 0:16:52.026 --> 0:16:54.306 pregame not working. Oh he was hurt, and it was 0:16:54.346 --> 0:16:56.186 Brett Hunley playing quarterack and he's just talking to Kenny 0:16:56.186 --> 0:16:58.346 Maine the whole time. So I'm like, Rogers will do this, 0:16:58.426 --> 0:17:00.226 like if he respects you, he will talk to you 0:17:00.346 --> 0:17:02.146 off camera, off mike, he will get to know you. 0:17:02.186 --> 0:17:06.266 So there he is talking with Jason Garrett, and I'm like, 0:17:06.506 --> 0:17:09.546 this might be done. Rogers finishes up, and then who 0:17:09.786 --> 0:17:13.226 as he's coming over. Tim Boyle's Family's there. Who's Tim Boyle? 0:17:13.226 --> 0:17:14.706 He's one of the backup quarterbacks of the Jets. He 0:17:14.746 --> 0:17:17.426 was with the Packers. Rogers loves that family. I want 0:17:17.426 --> 0:17:22.026 to say, Boyle's grandma or his wife's grandma was sitting there, 0:17:22.306 --> 0:17:25.026 so he's talking to her. At another ten minutes. Finally 0:17:25.186 --> 0:17:28.786 Rogers comes over and he's like, we doing this. I'm like, hell, yeah, 0:17:28.866 --> 0:17:32.986 we're doing this. We dap each other up and he's like, 0:17:33.106 --> 0:17:34.746 let's do it. And he apologized like I'm sorry for 0:17:34.746 --> 0:17:37.386 all that. I'm like, dude, it's all good. In the 0:17:37.466 --> 0:17:40.626 minutes leading up to it, I was talking with Eric Gelfand, 0:17:40.626 --> 0:17:43.826 who's the pr guy of the Jets, and a Gail 0:17:43.906 --> 0:17:46.906 fan had told me he had just seen Oppenheimer and 0:17:47.066 --> 0:17:48.506 I was talking to him about it and I'm like, 0:17:48.546 --> 0:17:49.826 I want to see it, and I'm like, you think 0:17:49.906 --> 0:17:52.106 Rogers has seen it. He's like, I don't know if 0:17:52.146 --> 0:17:55.226 he's seen it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. 0:17:55.706 --> 0:17:58.666 And I know that Rogers is a sinophile. This guy 0:17:58.906 --> 0:18:02.946 loves movies. He has thoughts and takes on movies. And 0:18:02.986 --> 0:18:05.266 I also thought that would be a great way to 0:18:05.346 --> 0:18:08.666 start the conversation. So, with no further ado, here is 0:18:08.706 --> 0:18:12.586 the Aaron Rodgers interview from Sunday afternoon at Jets Camp. 0:18:16.226 --> 0:18:19.586 Thrilled to have Aaron Rodgers here with me after Jets practice. 0:18:19.706 --> 0:18:23.506 Aaron I said it on the air, the vibes are immaculate, 0:18:23.506 --> 0:18:24.786 Like I don't know what the kids say these days, 0:18:24.786 --> 0:18:25.586 but that's what I felt like. 0:18:25.666 --> 0:18:27.586 It just feels great. 0:18:27.666 --> 0:18:30.026 Do you feel that energy when you're out there at 0:18:30.066 --> 0:18:30.946 this practice field? 0:18:31.266 --> 0:18:31.586 I do. 0:18:31.666 --> 0:18:33.666 I mean the first day that we walked out with fans, 0:18:34.346 --> 0:18:38.186 I heard a nice ovation over there, and it's been 0:18:38.226 --> 0:18:39.106 the same every day. 0:18:40.106 --> 0:18:40.706 It's exciting. 0:18:40.746 --> 0:18:42.346 There's a lot of energy around here, a lot of 0:18:42.346 --> 0:18:45.826 people proud to wear their Jets apparel, which is awesome. 0:18:46.706 --> 0:18:48.306 But we got a good thing going. I think we're 0:18:48.346 --> 0:18:50.826 progressing on offense. Our defense has definitely been ahead of 0:18:50.906 --> 0:18:54.186 us to start camp. But it's fun. I love the 0:18:54.186 --> 0:18:56.706 whole process. You gotta love the journey if you've been 0:18:56.706 --> 0:18:58.586 doing as long as I have, and I definitely do. 0:18:58.866 --> 0:18:59.106 Yeah. 0:18:59.146 --> 0:19:01.986 And you look at the last few weeks, it's been football. 0:19:02.026 --> 0:19:03.306 Of course before that, though, you got a chance to 0:19:03.386 --> 0:19:05.546 kind of do New York a little bit. And I 0:19:05.586 --> 0:19:08.426 love that everyone's talking about the Nixon raided. I love 0:19:08.426 --> 0:19:10.546 that you're at the Tony's. You go to the Tony. 0:19:10.586 --> 0:19:12.746 They're like, what's your feeling of just New York City 0:19:12.786 --> 0:19:14.666 and you've always just been there a million times. But 0:19:15.026 --> 0:19:16.986 to be living so close to the market and enjoying 0:19:17.426 --> 0:19:18.386 the fruits of that as. 0:19:18.266 --> 0:19:20.186 Well, I love it. I'm having a blast. 0:19:20.386 --> 0:19:22.826 I grew up in a small town, A lot of 0:19:22.866 --> 0:19:25.906 small towns in northern California. I've dreamt since I was 0:19:25.946 --> 0:19:28.146 a kid of being in a big city. I moved 0:19:28.186 --> 0:19:30.306 to La and San Diego, and so I've been to 0:19:30.386 --> 0:19:32.906 some of those on the West Coast, but I'm loving 0:19:32.946 --> 0:19:35.546 the East Coast. I'm really loving the city. I'm loving Jersey. 0:19:35.586 --> 0:19:37.666 Where I'm at. I met a lot of great people 0:19:37.706 --> 0:19:39.866 being out and about done a lot of incredible things 0:19:39.866 --> 0:19:43.146 from uh, you know, hockey game at MSG, a couple 0:19:43.186 --> 0:19:44.866 of Knicks games, Taylor Swift. 0:19:44.586 --> 0:19:46.106 Concert at Sharing concert. 0:19:46.586 --> 0:19:48.946 We've been to Wicked and now Back to the Future 0:19:49.186 --> 0:19:51.346 is the Future because that is a must watch. 0:19:51.666 --> 0:19:53.706 Yeah, if you're a fan, oh come on, and I'm 0:19:53.706 --> 0:19:53.986 a fan. 0:19:54.026 --> 0:19:55.266 I got the Loria and you can go deep. 0:19:55.386 --> 0:19:57.906 I'm a one three too, though it's my order. I'm 0:19:57.906 --> 0:19:59.386 a big fan of three. A lot of people are. 0:19:59.546 --> 0:20:01.906 I love three. The Western it's the second best one. 0:20:01.946 --> 0:20:02.866 Three too. That's for me. 0:20:02.946 --> 0:20:04.626 See two was my one with the hoverboards. 0:20:04.626 --> 0:20:05.026 I was a kid. 0:20:05.106 --> 0:20:05.626 I was like, oh, the. 0:20:05.626 --> 0:20:07.946 Cups been a timeline though is I don't know. 0:20:08.666 --> 0:20:12.706 Have you seen it Barbie or Oppenheimer in a dual 0:20:12.986 --> 0:20:14.386 Barbenheimer yet. 0:20:14.266 --> 0:20:14.666 I have not. 0:20:14.786 --> 0:20:17.226 I heard about you know this some stuff going on, 0:20:17.346 --> 0:20:20.386 the Adam bomb going off. Yes, d're in some parts 0:20:20.426 --> 0:20:22.186 in the movie. I haven't seen it, but I've seen 0:20:22.586 --> 0:20:23.466 I've seen Appenheimer. 0:20:23.786 --> 0:20:24.346 You've seen it. 0:20:24.506 --> 0:20:26.346