WEBVTT - Hour 3: Aaron Rodgers Has Options? 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:06.080 Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Happy twenty twenty six, 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.680 See you and yours welcome in a day full of 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.080 college football. Sun shining in South Florida, not so much 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.560 in Pasadena. Kirk kurb Street's still on his hat for 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.200 the last forty five minutes with his hat number two. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.560 Yeah, that's hat number two, but apparatus number three. He 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.680 had a blue towel, some random blue towel covering up 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.560 his head, and then he went white hat that I saw, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.320 And now he's got a gray rose bowl hat and 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.159 it looks like. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.360 Not Rhys Davis. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.360 It looks like he's wearing the trench coat that Robert 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.279 stack woorren on sold Mysteries. So there is, there's all 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.920 sorts of stuff going on there. Nick Saban clearly wearing 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.000 a jacket that isn't his. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.880 He's well, yes, true, Jake. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.360 Should I wear this Nike pullover over my turqoise ten 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.520 thousand dollars suit? 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.840 Nobody checked the weather forecast? Is nobody paying attention to, Like, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:07.920 what's what's happening? 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.240 Why does it say Stanford track on the seat like 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.800 that doesn't make much sense? Why Why is kirkirk Street's 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.920 dog taking a water slide down section the road is 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:18.840 something there. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.600 He goes sliding into the water. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.280 Redhurbstreet's dog walks into frame and just starts shaking himself 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.200 out in front of the Indiana helmet. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.240 All over my Stanford truck. Check. That's a soggy want 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.000 to Pasadena. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.720 But we are based in southern California, and I can 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.679 tell you this, the heaviest rains are gonna move out 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:41.360 by kickoff. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.679 It may not be sunny, it may not be clear, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:45.280 but there may. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.920 Not be as much precipitation as we would have thought 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.240 for the Rose Bowl. So I think that's good news 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.720 for Indiana and Alabama as they played later on today. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.520 Yeah, I won't be quite as sloppy. No, And you know, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.400 you'd assume they'd have all that figured out. And look, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.520 I know, so look, Alabama fans like to travel. I 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.320 do recall working in South Carolina back in two thousand 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.280 and nine when they were in the Rose Bowl against 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.160 Texas for the National Championship Game, and I just remember 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.040 how excited Alabama fans were with this travel package they 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.239 got hooked up with where they would fly into San 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.840 Diego and then rent a car and then go to 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.520 the Rose Bowl, and I said, are you familiar with 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.520 traffic for a five o'clock kickoff at the Rose Bowl 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:30.639 from San Diego, La? 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.680 Are you who sold you at dummy? 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.960 Geography is a lost art? Okay, it truly is. I 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.520 love maps. I know you love maps as well. I 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.920 love knowing where cities and states are. I had a 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.600 cousin once tell me that she had business in San Francisco, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.680 and she wondered if I had time to get together, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.640 what like a full weekend, because that's what it's gonna take. Yeah, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.400 for me to get from here in Los Angeles to 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.360 San Francisco. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.280 That's what it is, just right up the five. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.800 Yeah, don't worry about it. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.679 We're not the Twin Cities. It's not Saint Paula Minneapolis. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.320 I could just drive over to your place. I don't 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:05.880 how it works. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.560 I don't think people realize how far away things are 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.720 in California. Like, if you get like in any other 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.359 part of the country, if it's like, hey, how far 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.440 is that not twenty miles twenty minutes, twenty miles in California, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.360 you may as well be driving to the Sudanne. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.880 Yeah, you can't get there. It's not happening like switch 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.160 the app. It says walking, No one says driving. That 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:25.960 is that is. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.640 The route you cannot get there. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.520 That's that's what we're going to have to take. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.200 Yeah, it's impossible. There are Indiana fans here. We'll talk 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.400 about the mystique of the Rose Bowl coming up. Even 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.440 more so in about twenty minutes or so, there's a 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.680 mistake about Aaron Rodgers, and the question is, now is 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:41.800 how long will that mystiq? 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:42.520 Last? 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.240 I do think in advance of that Sunday Night came 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.880 between the Ravens and Steelers. Jonas that with all that's 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.520 being said for what's at stake, it has been a 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.800 pretty good season for Rogers. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.400 Yeah, I would agree, Yeah, I totally. I mean definitely 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.640 better than the Jets, like whatever you wouldever you call 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:00.560 that sperience. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.120 With the Jets, absolutely right, Like the even the second 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.360 year when he played was such a complete mass with 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.360 Sala being fired. We know the first year, the runout, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.640 the injury on the fourth play. The worst part about 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.480 that then was all the rumors of when Rogers is 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.560 going to come back. But none of his tenure was 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.479 good in New York and so for Aaron Rodgers, to 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.680 go to Pittsburgh and be battling for a division title 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.240 in week eighteen. I think it's something you would have 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.680 taken day one and signing on the dotted line saying yeah, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.600 I would take that. I don't think your expectations would 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.359 be more than that. And there are a heck of 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.599 a lot more than when he had to deal with 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:38.680 the last two years with the Jets. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.960 Yeah, if you just told him back in August, tay 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.200 one game to win the division final week of the season, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.160 and yeah, who wouldn't want that? 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.839 Yeah, of course. I mean, and look, we talked about 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:50.200 it earlier. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.880 We don't think it's going to last long if they win, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.560 but I still I would agree with you that it is. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.560 It has been a successful campaign, and who knows, I mean, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.560 according to Aaron Rodgers, maybe there's going to be some 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.400 options out there, and maybe there's going to be uh part, 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.880 potentially an act too in Pittsburgh or somewhere else after 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:07.400 this season. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.520 Listen, I mean, I'm thinking about this week. But obviously 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.280 I'm forty two years old and I'm on a one 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.760 year deal, so you know what the situation is. Whenever 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.200 the season ends, I'll be a free agent. So that 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.520 would give me a lot of options if I still 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:23.919 want to play. I'm in a lot of options, but 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.120 there'll be options. I would think maybe one or two 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.600 if I decided to want to play. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.760 But yeah, so there's gonna be some options out there. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.279 Rogers is never and we can get into the options 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.560 in a second. So Rogers has never held back in 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.360 anything that he's I said. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.000 I thought we were going to play the CBS drop. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.359 Over Hardy and Bert Kreischer. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.520 By the way, we may have more coming up later 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.279 on in the show, so you may want to you 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:50.400 may want to stick around to. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.120 Come to the conclusion of Jason Alden. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:55.360 A little big down. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:01.600 The Rogers speeches, interviews, everything that he's done, You've always 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.480 been his truth. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:04.839 He's never held anything back. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.960 And what I find interesting is if this was any 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.160 other quarterback in a situation, like if Tua is asked 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.520 about the same thing about his future, if it was 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:20.960 Kyler Murray, or like they're giving coach speak answers. They're 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.400 giving answers that have soft landings. For the most part. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.919 This is a pretty like hard landing. But it's not 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.240 a hard landing because we know the situation. He's forty 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.080 two years old, the Steelers want him back, yet he's 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.440 openly talking about the different options that he has. So 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.160 that's what's so unique to me about this is we 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.080 think that, say, the Tua era is over in Miami, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.920 we think that the Kyler Murray era has probably come 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.479 to an end in Arizona. But if you were to 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.480 ask those guys or talk to those guys, nobody is 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.320 saying like, yeah, I'm probably on my way out. I'm 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.800 looking different teams that they could trade me to. But 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.679 that's essentially what Aaron Rodgers saying is I'm a free agent. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.880 There's going to be options out there, one of which 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.400 could be Minnesota considering how bad that quarterback room. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.159 Was this past year. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.200 I mean, taking nine out of the equation, it's going 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.840 to say, yeah, keeping JJ McCarthy in, but leaving nine 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.600 out because Night had nothing to do with any of 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.080 that mess. But I mean, Rogers are just like openly 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.760 saying that I don't know what's coming back. Doesn't even 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.240 come off as leverage. And so it's it's so unique 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.200 to hear him just to speak freely like that, because 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.480 the thirty one other quarterbacks about their situation if they 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.920 were in a similar contract situation wouldn't be talking like 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.120 that in the NFL. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.119 No, And I think he's And you could say whatever 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.600 you want about him and the way he handles the 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.600 media and the way he handles conversations, and you know, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.000 whether he's passive, aggressive or like whatever turn whatever you 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.600 want to label him as. I also think that he's 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.960 very in the moment and I think he's very present. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.720 And I think that's one of the things that he 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.119 because he talked about this after he won a Super 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.480 Bowl in Green Bay that he remembers sitting on a plane, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.280 He's next to the Lombardi Trophy and kind of looking around, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.800 going is this it like? Is that like it was 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.760 built up and built up and built up, and he 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.920 finally got it and he was expecting it to be more. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.920 And I think that sort of changed because Kevin Durant 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.560 said the same thing before CBS cut him off. Kevin 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.600 Durant said the same thing, and I think it was 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.960 kind of like, you know, I worked my way, I 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.080 had to win a championship, I had to do this, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.480 I go and join the Warriors. I finally won a title, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.200 I went another one, and it's like, is that it 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.440 and I think I think Rogers at this stage in 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:35.600 his career is so present because I think he realizes this, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.680 this could be it, and I think I'm gonna be 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.440 okay with it. But if there's options, I'll take those options. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.200 And I just think it's a really kind of a 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:49.319 refreshingly honest approach to what could be the final game 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:50.959 of a Hall of Fame career. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.160 Did you get the sense that Tom Brady was chasing 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.600 the eighth after he won the seventh with Tampa, like 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.400 the next year he was back for another Super Bowl. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.160 I just think trying to get away from his wife. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:02.480 I could have been that could have been it. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.120 And hey, let me tell you something, Hey Tom, we're 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.960 working to buddy, So don't worry. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:13.200 Don't worries his wife's I can do jiu jitsu in 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.360 thirty minutes. The I got the sense that Brady was 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.040 always chasing that next ring because hecki said it himself, like, what's. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.240 Your favorite one? The next one? 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 It's very cliche. It's a great catchy line to show 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.080 your determination. But I do think that he wanted to 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.480 put the Super Bowl records so out of reach that 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.080 nobody would touch it. And in this day and age 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.960 of everything is built on championships, more so in the 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.400 NBA than anywhere else, but in the NFL as well. Listen, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.960 we've criticized Aaron Rodgers for only winning one. We've criticized 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.800 Drew Brees for only winning one. We've criticized Sean Payton 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.920 for only winning one and having these opportunities. But it's 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.240 not about that for Aaron Rodgers. So for Aaron Rodgers 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.079 to go in and have a nice season and enjoy 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.360 the season and enjoy being around Mike Tomlin and winning 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:05.040 games and playing football, that's okay. Like, that's okay. If 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.760 he wants to go to Minnesota and maybe try to 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.480 stick it to the pack again, I don't know. I 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.480 don't know Packer fans would feel about that, or if 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.680 he just feels the situation is better, Maybe he wants 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.960 to throw to better wide receivers, feels maybe offensively he 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.119 could do more in Minnesota. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.319 Look at that option. That's okay too. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.880 Do we think the Vikings are gonna win the Super 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.959 Bowl next year if they have Aaron Rodgers? 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:24.480 No? 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.439 So this is this is all okay. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.080 If Aaron Rodgers wants to do to do that, and 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.079 I actually feel it's refreshing. I didn't think he was 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.520 gonna come back next year, but for how well and 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.920 I use air quotes that things have gone with Pittsburgh 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.880 and they haven't even won the Division of clinch to 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.400 playoff Berth, I think there's enough there for Rogers to 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.880 be like, yeah, I could probably do this for another 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.280 go around. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:45.640 Yeah. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.559 And I also think if he does come back, I 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.319 think it's more likely it would be Pittsburgh. I think 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.680 he's comfortable there and that's if you know, if he's 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.679 if he decides he wants to come back or they 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.160 and he decides that's that's how he wants to play 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.000 this thing out, I think it would be Pittsburgh. I 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.120 also think that the best thing that happened for his 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.240 relationship with the Packers was his time with the Jets, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.920 because I think he realized, oh god, like it wasn't 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.840 bad at all, Like whatever their decision to, you know, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.480 did Jordan love stuff and all that. Like, I think 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:24.160 he he was chasing something similar to Green Bay, and 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.240 I think he's gotten it in Pittsburgh because there's a 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.240 lot of similarities between the two organizations. The history, the tradition, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.760 the consistency, like much like we see the Packers and 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.040 you know, they've had three quote unquote, you know, franchise 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.640 quarterbacks in you know, thirty five years or whatever it is. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.439 Steelers have had three coaches in sixty years. Like, I 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.320 think there's a lot of similarities between the two. And 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.920 I think the Jets being such a vomit bucket, I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.600 think made him appreciate his time in Green Bay even 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.640 more so than he did before. And I think he 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.959 found a lot of the similarities in Pittsburgh. And I 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.160 think that you're right about that. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.200 And so he had the line, if can we play 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.360 it again, Mark, I can we play Aaron Rodgers again? 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:07.960 Because there was a line that he said that I 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.160 think stands down. There's a reason why I brought up 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.959 the Vikings. But let's hear Aaron Rodgers yesterday again. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.440 I mean, I'm thinking about this week. But obviously I'm 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.319 forty two years old and I'm on a one year deal, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.000 so you know what the situation is. Whenever the season ends, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.320 I'll be a free agent, so that will give me 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.480 a lot of options if I still want to play. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.280 I'm in a lot of options, but there'll be options. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.439 I would think maybe one or two if I decide 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:34.200 I still want to play. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.440 So there that last part like not a lot of 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.120 options that he laughs, He's like, well, not a lot, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.120 but maybe one or two. And I think, like Minnesota 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.720 is an opportunity. And your point about him appreciating Green Bay, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.200 I think it's true in the sense of I think 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.800 he may also appreciate a little more Mike McCarthy at 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:57.840 Matt Lafleur because of his relationship with Mike Tomlin and 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.080 how good it's been. And I think that right may 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.079 look and this is just me guessing, but he really 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.040 respects Mike Tomlin, like there's no doubt, like there's no 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.440 different But Mike Tomlin isn't an offensive guy. And Aaron 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.560 Rodgers loves to be the smartest guy in the room, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:15.559 and that includes. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.920 If the head coach is there or not. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.600 So if it's Mike McCarthy where there was some budding 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.800 of heads and Matt Lafleur where there was some frustrations, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.680 Rogers had his way, and I wonder if he's now like, 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.040 you know what, after going through the Jets crap, I 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.720 really respect Mike Tomlin. How can you not respect what 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.520 Kevin O'Connell has done. I think Kevin O'Connell's beloved by 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.280 everyone like that, that would be an option for him 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.760 that maybe because of how things went so bad for 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.440 the Jets, he's like, Okay, maybe now. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.000 I do want to play. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.880 Maybe I would go about this differently working with a 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.320 head coach who is so offensive minded. So I think, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.120 if I'm reading between the lines, that's what I'm reading 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.000 between the lines. Is his one or two options as 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.920 a free agent would be other teams. Otherwise he would 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.240 just end up retiring. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.000 And I mean, you know, I think I don't know 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.719 if you want to apologize now or if you want 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.680 to do it later, but like to just to disrespect 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:07.440 nine like that in. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.200 The years, I just think I apologize to nine, not 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.200 to JJ McCarthy. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.720 Okay, that's fine, only to nine. We'll split the difference, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.960 that's fine. I just you know, I think it's pretty disrespectful. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.280 I mean, we open up the year and you're just 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.040 like throwing shade at the guy. I mean, he's out there. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.880 What year is it? Nine? Yeah? 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.800 Why don't they drop a nine? Why was everybody who 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.840 wearing twenty twenty six classes? I thought this was the 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:27.720 year of nine. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.720 Like what's just the most absurd thing in the world. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:31.400 I call him nine. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:32.000 Oh you do. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.160 We're glad you call him that. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.560 We'd like to call your name when we're doing a game, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:38.600 that's what we'd like to call. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.720 So who thought that was a good idea? 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:44.080 Right? 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.360 Who thought that was a good idea? 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.080 But but yeah, I would say the same teams that 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.040 were rumored to have interest in Rogers, if it's not Pittsburgh, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.480 are going to be the same teams this offseason. Like 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:03.880 I think Minnesota would be one. God, maybe that's it. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.479 Like there was conversations about, you know, maybe San Francisco, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.080 but I think that that ship is sailed. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:11.480 Clearly. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.680 The Raiders would be interesting only because there would I 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.240 think there's going to be a new coach there. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.560 But you also, number one, I don't think some gud so, well, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.120 what's going on? 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.560 What's going on with the rain? What do you mean? 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.720 The worst the worst team in the league has played 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.000 the fewest rookie snaps of any team in the league. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.560 Yeah, they fired Chip Kelly, they got too Dad, you 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:32.200 know what you're talking. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.120 Things are good when sixty seven percent of your coordinators 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.080 are fired, but one hundred percent of your kids stay 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:37.600 on staff. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.880 You know what you know, it's you know, I threw 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:42.680 out this proposal. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.520 You know, I had this idea for Raider fans. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.920 I don't know if you sign in on this, but 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.880 you know, when everyone's talking about like what the Raiders 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.400 should do in the draft, I think there should be 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.320 another draft, and I think we do a big event. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.960 I think you open up, it's at Allegiate Stadium. You're 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.120 going to sell it out. You open up with a 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.480 performance by the Blue Man Group. Then you have a 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.520 bunch of fat fake Elvis's come out in Act two 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.240 and Act three. The main event is Raider fans get 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.760 to draft a new team. And I think if you 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.880 really want to do something for the fan base to 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.680 get excited, tell him to get off Tankathon. Okay stop, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.880 you know, like like literally like Raider fans have spent 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.120 time on Pornhub and Tankathon in the last three weeks. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.520 Like that that's been that's been their algorithm and their 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.400 search history. Let it go because whoever it is isn't 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.040 going to fix that disaster that is the Raiders. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:32.440 Okay. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.640 It's like Fernando Mendoza is not going to fix the Raiders. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.920 Like I'm sorry, I know everyone thinks this is like, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.840 this is the case. It's just not going to happen. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.960 So maybe Rogers to the Raiders could be a possible. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.080 There was a point this year we thought the biggest 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.040 issue with the Raiders was that Tom Brady was in 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:49.920 the coaches group. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.080 You have a tuxedo on. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.200 He's giving up inside information. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.920 He literally looked like he showed up late for his 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.360 kids recital, like in his work clothes and just like 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:04.600 sat like so. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.000 I was in the bag the whole time I saw it. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.040 I'm here, oh man. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.200 That at the time we thought was the worst thing 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.600 that could happen with the Raiders this season. By the way, 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.040 and they played more football games. I had a buddy 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.160 try and pull that move. I had a buddy tried 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.359 to pull that move. My awful band back of the day. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.119 We were playing a show at the Whiskey of Go Go, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.280 and I had my buddy who was like, uh, I 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.320 come down off stage and he's like, he's. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.359 Like, hey, man, it's all do great show man. That 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.080 was an awesome show. I was like, yeah, you like him, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.920 So what's your favorite part? So dude, all of it, man, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:37.800 you guys rocked. I was like, yeah, all of it. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.160 It's like, hey, man, I saw you just walk up 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.879 through the side, like where they're literally offloading equipment on 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.320 from the stage for the next band to come up. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.400 I saw you just walk down. He goes, Yeah, sorry, man, 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:50.800 I you know, I thought I didn't know. I forgot 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.719 what time it was. So yeah, that's fine, man, Like, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.000 if you paid your ten bucks, it's cool. Oh, y 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.119 got our money, gave you the lebron Jains. It's your 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.320 favorite line, all of them? 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.600