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Speaker 4: Well he filled in for me last week.
Speaker 2: Popular talk show host in Chicago, really talented guy, Danny Parkins.
Speaker 2: I never wanted to be an eighty percent NFL show.
Speaker 2: And as I've done this, the longer I've done this,
Speaker 2: the NFL now has so separated, for a variety of
Speaker 2: reasons from every other sport that there was a point
Speaker 2: about a year or two ago when college football was
Speaker 2: still very Bama dominated that I wasn't talking college football,
Speaker 2: and I thought, God, you could put my show, it
Speaker 2: feels like, on the NFL network, And that's not a
Speaker 2: goal of mine. I actually the WNBA to me has
Speaker 2: been such a breath of fresh air, not because I'm
Speaker 2: woke or not because I feel that women deserve attention
Speaker 2: in sports, because it's good. It's polarizing, it's kind of tribal,
Speaker 2: it's captivating, and it allows me to get out of
Speaker 2: the NFL bubble. Do you ever feel a little bit
Speaker 2: sometimes like God, I'm doing seventy five percent NFL talk
Speaker 2: and I can do more more than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it was funny filling in for you.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in that pitch meeting and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: pitching people the your terrific staff takes and I had
Speaker 1: you know, his NFL Team USA things like that, a
Speaker 1: little bit of Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Rokie of the Year,
Speaker 1: and so I had all the takes that I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. And then I said, so, but you guys
Speaker 1: are the experts on like how Colin would structure a show,
Speaker 1: what should be like the lead, what's what's the a
Speaker 1: block because it was July eighth. There's nothing going on,
Speaker 1: which is why you were on vacation, and and they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: your DAC take should be the lead. I'm like, but
Speaker 1: nothing's happening with the like They're like, they're like, say
Speaker 1: that he took off his.
Speaker 4: Boot and then do your DAC take.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so that's like, that's like enough, and
Speaker 1: I and of course there's a reason for it. Everybody
Speaker 1: cares about it. Huge team, huge fan base and all
Speaker 1: of that. But yeah, it's definitely something that if and
Speaker 1: when I'm doing more stuff in your world in orbit,
Speaker 1: I'll feel that way. But local radio baseball still matters
Speaker 1: a lot, Yes, so I do a lot on the Cubs.
Speaker 1: The White Socks are historically bad, and that's actually kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. Either be great or be awful. Don't be
Speaker 1: a seventy six win team. So the White Socks are
Speaker 1: historically bad and that's providing a little bit of humor.
Speaker 1: And then the Cubs are really interesting with a huge
Speaker 1: fan base that's super engaged, and we air the games
Speaker 1: so there's a new baseball game every day and so
Speaker 1: there is at least something there. So locally I am
Speaker 1: not as starved for topics sometimes that have mass appeal.
Speaker 1: But Angel Reese is in our backyard here in Chicago's
Speaker 1: like I do think while I am not watching games
Speaker 1: first quarter to fourth quarter and like completely locked in,
Speaker 1: people are more interesting than teams. Yeah, and these people
Speaker 1: are interesting stories that people have a lot of opinions about.
Speaker 1: So I'm all for it, and we have been doing
Speaker 1: some and frankly, we're probably gonna end up doing more.
Speaker 2: So I always kind of roll my eyes, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of I am numb to kind of criticism.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I work hard, I do what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: I got a great staff, my staff, we just don't
Speaker 2: really you know, we do content. We don't have time
Speaker 2: to look back. My rule has always been I have opinions.
Speaker 2: You can have opinions on my opinions. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to have an opinion on your opinion of my opinion.
Speaker 2: Like I got three hours to fill tomorrow. But I
Speaker 2: like and I see it infrequently. I think sometimes the
Speaker 2: Internet has scared away a lot of sports hosts. Not
Speaker 2: political hosts, they don't care, but sports hosts are either
Speaker 2: more insecure are more defensive, you know, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Oberman.
Speaker 2: They don't care like I, but a lot of sports
Speaker 2: guys are bothered by getting picked on by, you know,
Speaker 2: whatever the site is, and so nobody wants to be
Speaker 2: told you have a hot take.
Speaker 4: But the truth is, I like sportscasters who are.
Speaker 2: Like, I wanna lay it out here, like I don't
Speaker 2: get this, And about two years ago, this was my
Speaker 2: hot take, and I'm gonna ask for your hottest take,
Speaker 2: and my hot take was Luca is just a much.
Speaker 4: Better version of Carmelo.
Speaker 2: Anthony not in great shape, and after about four years,
Speaker 2: you're never going to be Steve Prefontaine, Okay, I can
Speaker 2: come to terms with it. A prodigy offensively therefore never
Speaker 2: really had to be engaged defensively to matter. In the end,
Speaker 2: his teams will be lobsided and he'll go through teammates,
Speaker 2: he'll work with some, never ideally with any. But he's
Speaker 2: a better version of Carmelo. And I don't think it's
Speaker 2: a hot take because Mellow did not complain to the
Speaker 2: officials as much as Luca. Luca is much more like
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson, like it's just a constant chatter. But my
Speaker 2: take is that he's better than Mellow. I'm not, I'm
Speaker 2: and both their first belt Hall of famers. I mean
Speaker 2: Mello for his lack of postseason success. As an all
Speaker 2: time score, He's way up the list.
Speaker 4: Right, is that Luca is.
Speaker 2: A better version of Mellow. He's never going to be
Speaker 2: in great shape. He was such a prodigy, like being
Speaker 2: a pianist, a prodigy at seven, you're probably not going
Speaker 2: to be great at sports. You're not going to be
Speaker 2: great at other things because you're just going to lean
Speaker 2: into your artistry on the piano. Right, And I think
Speaker 2: they're so gifted offensively, where Lebron never had a great
Speaker 2: jumper early, he was just he was gifted physically, but
Speaker 2: he wasn't a pretty offensive player.
Speaker 4: He really had to work at it.
Speaker 2: Mellow at twelve could hit an eighteen foot and it
Speaker 2: looked like art.
Speaker 4: It was a monet.
Speaker 2: And that that's my hot take, is that Luca we're
Speaker 2: gonna look back. He's going to be a top five score.
Speaker 2: He may get a ring. He's never in great shape,
Speaker 2: that really engaged defensively, and he'll he'll go through a
Speaker 2: series of teammates. Somebody gets along with many, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: That's my hot take, where's yours?
Speaker 1: It's a good one. It's a good one. Luca a
Speaker 1: better passer than Mellow, so I even like more complete
Speaker 1: all around the game.
Speaker 4: Like Mellow. Mellow up your score, Lucas Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have so many that like age poorly
Speaker 1: and like immediately like you do this for a lot,
Speaker 1: for long enough you do. Like if people like pick
Speaker 1: on me or get mad at me for like me
Speaker 1: just being wrong, I'm like, Okay, then you document twenty
Speaker 1: hours of.
Speaker 4: Opinions a week and won't see how you like?
Speaker 1: You know what actually like first to sensitized me to
Speaker 1: not caring about being wrong. Gambling like I've been. I've
Speaker 1: been gambling on sports longer than I've been hosting radio
Speaker 1: shows professionally. I started gambling on sports when I was
Speaker 1: recovering from back surgery in high school. I was fifteen
Speaker 1: or sixteen years old. It was like, yeah, you're wrong
Speaker 1: sometimes on your prediction. I mean, I said it was
Speaker 1: there was a zero percent chance that Tony Laruss was
Speaker 1: going to get hired as the manager of the White Sox.
Speaker 1: He was hired four days later. I said John Baldwin
Speaker 1: was going to be a Hall of Famer. He was
Speaker 1: an incredible bust. There are so many that are Listen.
Speaker 1: I said that I would trade my dog for Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson for him to be the quarterback of the Bears,
Speaker 1: and five days later there were sixty five accounts of sexual.
Speaker 4: Misconducts that came out of it. Oh God, I've I've
Speaker 4: had some real ones that blow up my face. But
Speaker 4: it's funny.
Speaker 1: You know the one from your from the six hours
Speaker 1: of doing your show that I'm getting killed for the
Speaker 1: most in my group chat with like my friends, Nick
Speaker 1: has gotten on me. You think Justin Herbert's the third
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the world to start a franchise with.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I do. Like you know, he has
Speaker 4: no playoff wins. Yeah, but there has to be an
Speaker 4: eye test.
Speaker 1: I have to be able to say that, yes, he
Speaker 1: has no playoff wins, he has a horrendous blown lead.
Speaker 1: He's there have been multiple coaches that have been there.
Speaker 1: But I have to be able to trust myself that
Speaker 1: no matter what a grave looks like from a scouting service,
Speaker 1: or a yards per attempt or a win loss record,
Speaker 1: I have to say that when I watched these games,
Speaker 1: when I watch eleven hours of football, start to finish
Speaker 1: on a Sunday. Who's more physically talented than that dude
Speaker 1: throwing a football.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the list, and my list was Mahomes won, Allen two,
Speaker 1: Herbert three, Stroud four.
Speaker 4: People like, how do you not have Stroud in front
Speaker 4: of him. I'm like, well, Stroud was amazing, but he's
Speaker 4: done it. One time.
Speaker 1: He had twenty three passing touchdowns like it was. It
Speaker 1: was an incredible year. Five interceptions over four thousand yards.
Speaker 1: It's a rookie. No one thought Nico Collins and Tank
Speaker 1: Dell were going to be things. And now he's you know,
Speaker 1: made him into great players.
Speaker 4: But like he did it once.
Speaker 1: No one's thrown for more yards through the first five
Speaker 1: years of a career than Justin Herbert. And I know
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn was terrible at clock management, and I know
Speaker 1: the Chargers have been cursed with injuries, and I know
Speaker 1: he's had three different play callers or four different play
Speaker 1: callers now since he's been into the league. I'm like,
Speaker 1: at some point, I just have to trust my eyes.
Speaker 1: And there's no doubt in my mind that Harball and
Speaker 1: him are gonna win big so I haven't sold a
Speaker 1: share of Justin Herbert stock. Like I if the Bears
Speaker 1: would have traded the rights to Caleb Williams for Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: I would been like, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: I It'd be hard for me to pound the table
Speaker 1: because Caleb is so much cheaper. But I just think
Speaker 1: that that dude's so unbelievably talented that I'm willing to
Speaker 1: go down with the ship.
Speaker 2: Now, is there a hot take that you're proud of?
Speaker 2: I'll throw one out. I said, Johnny manziel And Zach
Speaker 2: Wilson can't play a lit.
Speaker 1: Oh good for you.
Speaker 2: I was like, nope, Johnny manziel And, by the way,
Speaker 2: I've met Johnny. There's qualities about Johnny that I think
Speaker 2: are great. I think he's probably a great hang and
Speaker 2: a great friend. If you had to pick NFL quarterbacks
Speaker 2: to go party within a Friday night, he'd be a blast.
Speaker 2: He'd be funny, he's cocky, he's smart, probably tells great stories.
Speaker 2: I just I said, I don't care what Nick Saban says.
Speaker 2: That is not an NFL quarterback. He's not disciplined enough,
Speaker 2: his shoulders, his waist, he's too tiny, he's small. People
Speaker 2: think Baker Mayfield, but I always said Baker's overdrafted, but
Speaker 2: he can play. He's a franchise quarterback. People think I
Speaker 2: hated Baker. It's like, no, no, no, he's draftable. I
Speaker 2: just wouldn't draft him as a GM. I don't like
Speaker 2: his temperament as a twenty year old. I also said
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson, and I think Joe Douglas is a good GM.
Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, go to the three best teams he
Speaker 2: played in college. He won during a COVID season.
Speaker 4: He can't.
Speaker 2: This is not an NFL starting quarterback. So pat myself
Speaker 2: in the back. Do you have one you took shit for?
Speaker 2: But in retrospect, you're like, I'm kind of proud of
Speaker 2: that one because I was on an island.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, again, there's a hundred of them, because
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, I'm so right.
Speaker 1: About so many things and so wrong about so many things.
Speaker 1: Then I don't even really like think about it in
Speaker 1: those terms. But so my wife went to Clemson and
Speaker 1: we were in Mexico and Clemson was playing Georgia and
Speaker 1: there was like a twenty inch TV on in like
Speaker 1: the sports bar and the all inclusive resort that we
Speaker 1: were at, and Clemson in their first game of the season.
Speaker 1: They were starting fifth year senior Cole Stout. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I don't really. We were just
Speaker 1: like dating at the time. It's like one of our
Speaker 1: first trips we took together. So I'm like trying to
Speaker 1: I'm watching more college football because of her. She's super
Speaker 1: into it, Like, all right, let's check out this Clemson team, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: cole Stout, this guy stinks. Three possessions into the game,
Speaker 1: they bring in a true freshman by the name of
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, and this guy throws a ball sixty yards
Speaker 1: in the air and it's.
Speaker 4: I'm just like, who is that?
Speaker 1: And she's like, she's like, I don't know, but she's
Speaker 1: a fan, but she doesn't know that, like she's not
Speaker 1: following like recruiting. I'm like, who is that.
Speaker 4: She's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like googling it, like that guy's your quarterback, that
Speaker 1: guy's gonna win a Heisman Trophy, that guy's going to
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's gonna be the first pick.
Speaker 4: In the draft. And he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Uh, But I ended up watching every game that he
Speaker 1: played in college. We went to Arizona to watch him
Speaker 1: in the title game against Alabama when he had four
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns a rushing touchdown, and they lost because Nick
Speaker 1: Saban on sidekicked to kick the to keep the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hands. So it's not like the hottest
Speaker 1: take in the world because he was obviously a big
Speaker 1: time recruit. But I pride myself on actually watching the
Speaker 1: games same. I'd like, I'm going to watch the games,
Speaker 1: and I try not to be terribly on Twitter during
Speaker 1: the games. I try not to see everyone else's opinion
Speaker 1: on things while I'm watching the I try to watch
Speaker 1: the game, have an opinion, and then see if I'm
Speaker 1: in the majority of the minority or I'm alone on
Speaker 1: an island. And so I felt like with him. So
Speaker 1: the Bears had the third pick in the draft. They
Speaker 1: traded up, and I was like, I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't get the Mahomes thing. I
Speaker 1: don't get the Trubisky thing. Mahomes is from the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: They've never put a good quarterback into the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: the air raid. There's no way that'll work. Mitch Drubisky
Speaker 1: he's in the ACC with DeShawn Watson. He's started for
Speaker 1: one year, and you're telling me that a guy who
Speaker 1: played Bama in back to back title games one to one,
Speaker 1: lost one and the first four thousand and one thousand
Speaker 1: yard guy in college football history, you're telling me that's
Speaker 1: not the number one pick in the draft. And so
Speaker 1: I was just banging the drum for the Bears to
Speaker 1: take to Sean Watson, and obviously he goes third. He
Speaker 1: would have been much better than Trubisky. The personal off
Speaker 1: the field stuff. Who could have known that aged very poorly.
Speaker 1: But when he had that five thousand yard forty eight
Speaker 1: hundred yard season with Bill O'Brien at twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: Like, I told you.
Speaker 1: I was like, I told you this better than Mitchy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I shuld be the GM of the Bears. So,
Speaker 1: and honestly, isn't that an obvious point? Like what do
Speaker 1: these guys get paid for it to do twenty hours
Speaker 1: a week of work? To say that a one year
Speaker 1: starter at North Carolina is? How does that happen?
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Speaker 2: Well, I only get the opportunity a couple times a
Speaker 2: year because he's the hardest working man in print journalism
Speaker 2: in America. You know, Connor, my friend, He's got a book.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to read it. I've already had several
Speaker 2: shots at several chapters, and it's so in depth. It's
Speaker 2: called Out of the Darkness, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: It comes out next month. You know, as she written
Speaker 2: this book, it helped me to laugh. But Aaron's like
Speaker 2: a story a week guy. At I keep thinking, do
Speaker 2: you have to keep doing updates for the book?
Speaker 6: I did, actually, Colin, and thank you very much for
Speaker 6: the kind words I handed in the book in January.
Speaker 6: And at that point, after asking to get him for
Speaker 6: months and getting no response or being told he's he's
Speaker 6: thinking about it. Assuming at that point he's not going
Speaker 6: to talk to me, and generally my biographies they've been
Speaker 6: unauthorized with limited or no cooperation from the main subject.
Speaker 6: So then in February I got a message from the Jets, well,
Speaker 6: he's actually now willing to talk to you. And it
Speaker 6: wasn't going to be a ten hour sit down where
Speaker 6: he told me his life story, but it was more
Speaker 6: a fact checking hour or two. So I got two
Speaker 6: hours with him and great. So he answered him questions,
Speaker 6: he made the book better. And then after that you
Speaker 6: had the RFK Junior story drop. After that you had
Speaker 6: the Sandy Hook conspiracy story drop, and then some podcasts
Speaker 6: he did after my access to him, where more conspiracies
Speaker 6: were talked about. And so listen Aaron Rodgers. He was
Speaker 6: a very difficult subject to get your arms around. I
Speaker 6: thought Belichick was tough, but compared to Rogers, I think
Speaker 6: Belichick was a walk in the park because he was
Speaker 6: a mystery that I felt like there was the same
Speaker 6: to it at the same time, and he was right
Speaker 6: in front of me. And I always felt that Rogers
Speaker 6: was a moving target, and so it was a challenge
Speaker 6: and hopefully I conquered it. I guess the readers will
Speaker 6: will let me know if I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think, you know, complex people are interesting, and
Speaker 2: I've said Aaron's really good content for me. There are
Speaker 2: parts of Aaron that I've said on the show before.
Speaker 2: My theory on Aaron. One of them is he just
Speaker 2: pushes back on authority. His family was very religious. He
Speaker 2: pushed back on it. He pushed back on the Packers,
Speaker 2: He's pushed back on the media. He's pushed back on
Speaker 2: the government vaccines. Whether that's a good quality or not,
Speaker 2: it can be unsettling to people covering him. But my
Speaker 2: belief is he's a non conformist. Many of the people
Speaker 2: in our lives, musicians and artists, we have celebrated our
Speaker 2: non conformists.
Speaker 4: Is there a bit of.
Speaker 2: Artistry to his personality. That's probably the wrong word, but
Speaker 2: in my life we have often celebrated there's a construct
Speaker 2: of football that we want organizational, dependable, reliable personalities. And
Speaker 2: is it arguable or debatable he's more of an artist
Speaker 2: in a structured sport.
Speaker 6: And that's a great question. And I'm used to Eli Manning,
Speaker 6: that model that Eli Manning Derek Jeter model in New
Speaker 6: York and Aaron is the complete opposite of that. And so,
Speaker 6: but there there is an art to creating a news
Speaker 6: cycle rolling out of bed, and that's what he can do.
Speaker 6: He can do that better than anyone else, maybe in
Speaker 6: all sports. He can create a news cycle like that. So,
Speaker 6: and we've seen that over the years. And I think
Speaker 6: he loves being interesting. I think he loves being talked about,
Speaker 6: he loves being analyzed. Don't think he loves the way
Speaker 6: the news media has treated him in recent years. I
Speaker 6: think his viewpoints politically generally are in contrast with what
Speaker 6: he believes is the liberal media, largely liberal media, and
Speaker 6: he's right for the most part. And you look at him, though,
Speaker 6: what's interesting is his life. His public life. Colin changed
Speaker 6: with COVID because before COVID and the I've been immunized
Speaker 6: press conference in August of twenty one. He was not
Speaker 6: considered a villain. He was a guy who was very
Speaker 6: socially aware. He backed Colin Kaepernick and the right to
Speaker 6: kneel in protest. He actually rebuked the fan who screened
Speaker 6: out or shouted out an anti Muslim slur in the
Speaker 6: middle of the national anthem I think it was right
Speaker 6: after the Paris terrorist attacks, and got a letter of
Speaker 6: congrat congratulations or thanks or appreciation from President Obama. Mina
Speaker 6: Cones had that, and so he was sort of known
Speaker 6: as as an athlete who was socially aware and engaged
Speaker 6: the issues and really on the right side of the issues.
Speaker 6: And all of a sudden, COVID and his stance against
Speaker 6: vaccines changed everything for him in terms of his public image.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw this out and you can latch onto this,
Speaker 2: and if there's any story in the book that corroborates
Speaker 2: or refutes this, go ahead. But I've said one of
Speaker 2: the statistics with Aaron that doesn't make a lot of
Speaker 2: sense on the surface is his lack of come from
Speaker 2: behind wins in the NFL twenty one playoff games. He
Speaker 2: has won that would be low for a bad quarterback.
Speaker 2: He's an all time great. And I've often used, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's fright, a little glib. He's more of a
Speaker 2: Baylor than a baller. Is that when he plays poorly
Speaker 2: early he quits that he's not a fox hole guy.
Speaker 2: He's just brilliantly gifted. Jeter was more of a leader,
Speaker 2: a Rod was more talented. Brady's more of a leader.
Speaker 2: Aaron's just more talent. And that I look at him
Speaker 2: that there's a lack of fundamental lack of trust in
Speaker 2: a process, and when he struggles early in games, his
Speaker 2: body language shifts. When he trails latent games, there's a
Speaker 2: lack of trust for the play calling. And that's part
Speaker 2: of his personality. It's the only thing I can figure
Speaker 2: out and decipher why a gifted quarterback in twenty one
Speaker 2: playoff games has only one come from behind win. Does
Speaker 2: any of this line up with some of his unique
Speaker 2: personality quirks or his fundamental base personality.
Speaker 6: Well, when he was younger, he was a fearless postseason player,
Speaker 6: and I think he what He won four of his
Speaker 6: first five postseason games, and the throw he made to
Speaker 6: beat Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. The third down throw
Speaker 6: over the middle to Jennings is one of the great
Speaker 6: throws in Super Bowl history on third down. If that
Speaker 6: passes incomplete, I think the Steelers win that Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: And so he makes that play and other plays in
Speaker 6: that game and in that postseason run. If you go
Speaker 6: back Colin as I did, of course, and looked at
Speaker 6: particularly the game against at Land and the playoffs that
Speaker 6: year that he wonted, you cannot play the position at
Speaker 6: a higher level than that, right. He had some Alan
Speaker 6: Irison type ankle breaking moves to escape guys in the
Speaker 6: pocket that were just unbelievable, and the throws he made
Speaker 6: and just the way he played in that game was
Speaker 6: it was art. It was just hard to believe somebody
Speaker 6: could play at that level. And after watching that game
Speaker 6: and seeing him win the Super Bowl, it is really
Speaker 6: hard still after studying his career in his life, to
Speaker 6: come to grips with the fact that the Packers could
Speaker 6: not figure out a way to win a second ring
Speaker 6: with this guy. It's just unbelievable. One thing I'll point out,
Speaker 6: so this doesn't really relate to his upbringing or character traits,
Speaker 6: but he listen, if they recover an onside kick. He's
Speaker 6: in the second Super Bowl. They don't recover it onside kick,
Speaker 6: and didn't do six other things in the final minutes
Speaker 6: of that game. And by the way, and by the way,
Speaker 6: that comeback drive to tie and send it into overtime
Speaker 6: against Seattle is totally forgotten. Was an amazing drive by
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers to get that game into overtime after the
Speaker 6: team and really the coaching staff around him fell apart.
Speaker 6: So that doesn't count because they lost, but just in
Speaker 6: that building, the loudest building in the NFL, after the
Speaker 6: rest of the team really folded around him to drive
Speaker 6: that team down the field to force overtime and lose
Speaker 6: it basically on a coin toss. So that's a tough one.
Speaker 6: Because they get to the Super Bowl that year. They
Speaker 6: had beaten New England in the regular season, so they
Speaker 6: would have a lot of confidence against Brady in the
Speaker 6: Super Bowl that year. But he did not have Belichick. Okay,
Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy was not a bad coach, but he's not
Speaker 6: even close to Belichick. Tom Brady also had the best
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator of his generation, and Brady had this great
Speaker 6: system that Belichick created, right, and Aaron Rodgers had had
Speaker 6: a slightly better than average head coach and didn't have
Speaker 6: that system or offensive coordinator a lot of times, didn't
Speaker 6: have a great defense, and so I think that's that. Hey,
Speaker 6: it's there, and it's part of his legacy. The lack
Speaker 6: of comeback victory certainly is right there on his record.
Speaker 6: But he very easily, in a different situation would have
Speaker 6: the multiple rings that he doesn't have right now that
Speaker 6: everybody holds against him, and he has a part in
Speaker 6: that too. There were postseason victories that he left on
Speaker 6: the field that he could have made a play to
Speaker 6: overcome somebody else, and he didn't do that, and certainly
Speaker 6: that is part of his record as well.
Speaker 2: Now, I always thought there was such a unique, interesting
Speaker 2: contrast between this great looking hipster it went to Burke
Speaker 2: that ends up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the smallest talking
Speaker 2: about the loneliest places in the NFL. Do you think
Speaker 2: Aaron on a social level, what was Green Bay like
Speaker 2: for him? That's always been fascinating. I know he goes
Speaker 2: to Malibu in the offseason, but for about twenty weeks
Speaker 2: you live in Green Bay, Wisconsent.
Speaker 4: Didn't you think he liked it? Appreciated it?
Speaker 6: He did and it's funny because after he got drafted,
Speaker 6: of course, he's very disappointed that he plunged in the
Speaker 6: first round. He was supposed to a lot of people
Speaker 6: thought he should have gone number one to his childhood
Speaker 6: team San Francisco. That was his dream. The Niners pick
Speaker 6: Alex Smith instead, so he falls to twenty four to
Speaker 6: Green Bay and Thomas Weatherspoon, former NCAA champion sprinter, was
Speaker 6: a trainer for Aaron Rodgers. A guy made him faster,
Speaker 6: and he said to him, this is great. This is
Speaker 6: like Chico with snow and the green Bay Quarterbacks. In
Speaker 6: green Bay, they're gonna build a statue for you and
Speaker 6: they're gonna love you to death, and there's no better
Speaker 6: place to be. So this plunge in the first round
Speaker 6: is really a blessing in disguise, and I think Aaron
Speaker 6: saw that. And now I don't think the Green Bay
Speaker 6: community embraced him like it embraced Brett Farr, because they
Speaker 6: saw Farv as one of us, even though he was
Speaker 6: from the South. Yes, right, hunter fisherman, hanging out with
Speaker 6: the boys in the bar, high fiving fans over a
Speaker 6: beer by everyone around in the bar, until, of course
Speaker 6: he went into until he got sober and and then
Speaker 6: that changed a little bit. But yeah, they saw he
Speaker 6: is one of us, and I don't think they ever
Speaker 6: saw Rogers as one of us. But I think it
Speaker 6: was a really good fit for him, coming from a
Speaker 6: small market being overlooked, coming a Juco guy, and then
Speaker 6: he ends up in Green Bay and it really was
Speaker 6: a great marriage, even though it wasn't the same relationship
Speaker 6: with the fans that Farv had. And it just can't
Speaker 6: believe that they only won one championship with him when
Speaker 6: you look at the talent, and some of it is
Speaker 6: his fault, but it's a shame. And really, at the
Speaker 6: end for John Elway, he got a second ring, got
Speaker 6: his first ring and a second ring at the end
Speaker 6: of his career, and Peyton Manning got that second ring
Speaker 6: right at the end of his career. And I think
Speaker 6: that it would be a good thing, really to see
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers get that second ring before he retires, because
Speaker 6: he's too good to retire with one ring. Thankfully he's
Speaker 6: got one and not zero, because we'd be really destroying
Speaker 6: him for that, but he really should retire with multiple rings.
Speaker 6: And hey, listen, the Jet fan base is the most
Speaker 6: fatalistic fan base I've ever encountered, and at some point
Speaker 6: it's going to happen. Entering the two thousand and four season,
Speaker 6: the Red Sox fan base thought it would never happen,
Speaker 6: and it did. Entering twenty sixteen, the Cubs fan base
Speaker 6: thought it would never happen, and it did. New York
Speaker 6: Ranger fan base in ninety four thought it would never happen,
Speaker 6: and it did so at some point it will happen
Speaker 6: for the Jets. Hopefully it'll be the this year.
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