September 14, 2023 • 35 mins
Jets head coach Robert Saleh would ‘be shocked’ if Aaron Rodgers retires after Achilles injury. NFL Insider Jordan Schultz swings by for all BIG headlines from around the league. And future Laker Giannis Antetokounmpo speaks on his future in Milwaukee.
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Were We are Mike Harmon in the the Bridge day
between week one and Week two in the NFL, and
we found out much like the Undertaker, Aaron Rodgers plans
to rise. He will rise again, as he says on Instagram,
I will rise from the ashes.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I will rise again. He's going to rise, he's gonna run.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Well, he's either trying to channel his inner Frankenstein's monster
because it was doctor Frankenstein, or is it Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein. Yeah,
so we got that going, or you know, you go
Biblical and you got Lazarus, or you got you got
Jesus himself.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
I mean, what about the Jesus? Yes, how you know I.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Go WWE, which you love the WWE, and you go
everywhere else but the WWE. What I mean, I give
you a fastball down the middle and you said, Nope,
I don't want this fastball down. Give me some kind
of crazy ass curve that's off the plate that I'm
gonna wave at like your Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Just give me something like that. I gave you what.
I gave you, an undertaker fastball down the middle. That
was good.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
But I mean, you're you're the one that loves to
do the personal Pringle rev. You know, impression.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Exactly the ashes of Zach Wilson here in this herd.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No no, no, yeah, because I think of him when he was,
you know, from an earlier incarnation of Percival Pringle the Third,
when he was at world class Championship wrestling and running
around with the Texas Drawl and everything against the von Erics.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
So you know, in the many stages.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
For you, you like, you know, the urn and and
all of that imagery, and maybe that's it. I saw
a great meme of Aaron Rodgers head over the young
Forrest Gump when he was getting fitted for his leg braces,
so that was good.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I'd give him my achilles if I could, if
it would work. I get watch, I give him my
dad's achilles first, because my dad doesn't really need it,
but then I give him mine if I need it.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Is no good, I'll give it. And I've seen you
run that's no good.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
But although, although when you're not thinking about it, when
when you're actually just reacting like you did after that
punt return.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh yeah, when I ran up and that was the.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Most explosive legwork you've ever done.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was explosive.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I was really I also think I pulled something in
one of my arches on my right foot when I
did that, But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It was worth it, you know what.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I got a couple of sessions left on the cryo
therapy package that I bought, so you know, if you
want to come down to Redondo Beach, will set you
up and you can go get the negative two fifty treatment.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh nice, I dig that. I dig that guy. What
are you doing cryotherapy? What happened?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah? Well, the Jets won.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And I ran up and down the hallway too fast,
and what happened? I took like three steps and all
of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but my
arch didn't feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So three steps after the Jets won. Yeah, okay, I
haven't heard that before. Just sticks that up.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
But you know what if you said that and you
were in Wisconsin, they were thinking you were fleeing that
bar without paying your tab. So it all comes full circle.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
But you know, certainly the Rogers statement and the indication
and you know, vow that he will return from this,
it's great fodder here forty eight hours after the fact.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I mean, what the hell is he gonna say? Yeah,
I'm done. The training's gonna be too hard, it's too
many hours. I got other concert tours.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I mean, Taylor's gonna be in Europe next year, so
I'm thinking of going to a few of those dates.
And you know, Olivia Rodrigo just announced her Guts tour,
so I gotta go follow that around.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
No, he's not gonna say any of that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
He's gonna say, no, I'm coming back, and I'm coming
back with a vengeance to get revenge on the turf
From Instagram.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
The night is darkest before the dawn, Batman, I shall rise.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yet, who the hell does he think he is?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I shall rise, he rise. He's Aaron Rodgers, He's the Undertaker.
He will rise again.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He can't even walk on water right now.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
He'll rise again at some point that he said, mister Wayne,
I have no desire to spend the rest of the mind.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
So are they gonna burn him? Is that what he's saying?
Another Batman, people are just gonna light him on fire
and then he's gonna come.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Back buried so many whatever it takes him to come back.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
If you could light his achilles on fire, they're gonna
play on Sunday against the Cowboys. We'll light that achilles
on fire. Doesn't work that way, yeah, right now. The
other thing is strikes. I mean, we can't put that
into production. That whole thing you're trying to put out
there Fronsburg. Yeah, I mean that would have to be
a non union You'd have to get a bunch of
permits and uh, you.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Know, well, but you know, Aaron Rodgers on fire. Yeah,
I gotta get away. I gotta get an exemption from
the union.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
What do you want to do it?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Century City, Hollywood sign where Dody. I'll let you do
whatever you want to do.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Come on, that's only appropriate.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now Here's now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This is that you know I'm being real when I
say this, because you know what, of course I want
Aaron Rodgers to come back and everything, and I got
stars in my eyes about twenty twenty four, Rogers says
I'll rise again.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Here's Robert Solid.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Jets head coach Day was asked about the retirement question
for Aaron Rodgers, and Robert Salas said, well, I don't
quite see it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'd be shocked if he's if this is the way
he's going to go out.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But at the same time, for him, he's working through
a whole lot of headspace things that he needs to
deal with, and that will be the last thing I've
talked to him about. This falls under the category of
course he's going to come try to come back. Of course,
Rogers wants to continue to play, of course, and this
falls under my category of I hear you, but sure.
(06:23):
I mean, look, on the night of the injury, we
talked about it. Aaron Rodgers is thirty nine years old,
and this is a torn achilles. This is a horrendous
injury to have to go through. We've seen quarterbacks go
through Achilles injuries and come back and be close to
what they were before, but not quite what they were before.
We've never seen someone this age go through that kind
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of tourn happened if any Testaverty because it happened to
the Jet You every twenty years happens to the Jets,
So in twenty years, Jordan Love, it's going to happen
to you. Get ready what happened at Testaverdy. He came back,
He played a few more years, but he was never
really the same. He was kind of a get by guy.
He was never the passor he was in ninety nine.
The grueling rehab that Rogers is going to have to
go through at the age of thirty nine is really difficult,
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especially when now he's trying to figure stuff out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I don't doubt he's gonna try.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't doubt that he's not gonna sit here and
go oh that first day, yeah, I took three steps.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You know, like when you decide you're gonna start working
out and you get in the treadmill and you go
for like thirty seconds to go, Yeah, you know, I'm winded,
I'm done. IM gonna slow down, slow down, off, and
I'm off. No, he's going to give it a go.
But is he really gonna be able to come back
and be the guy? Is he gonna be able to
plant and throw the ball like he used to? Is
he gonna be able to be the same quarterback? Is
he gonna have to be a crafty quarterback where hey,
we gotta hide what he can.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And can't do.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's the big question. So if you told me is
Aaron Rodgers gonna play for the Jets. There's so many
people today that have said he's under center next year.
He's under center week one. Next year, he's under center
week one. When they get to training camp, he's coming back.
You're gonna see it. The best thing I can tell
you is, man, I have no idea. I mean, I
can't tell you he's gonna come back. In fact, if
(08:02):
I had to lead one way or the other, I
would say maybe his Jets' career is four plays.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe it's four plays.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Because you could say, yes, I want to do all
these things and the mind is great, but is the
body there for it? And Rogers is someone who has
never really had to go crazy working out, getting ready.
Got Look what he doesn't He doesn't play in preseason games.
He hadn't played in preseason games in a long time.
He had a little bit of a calf tweaked during
training camp and what happened It blew out on and
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when he tried to just go full tilt the first
time he tried to do it. So what's his body like?
It sounds great, I mean, and I'd love to see
it. It sounds great for Robert Solid to say there's no
way he's word there's stuff, and Aaron Rodgers tweet I'm
gonna try. Yes, of course he's gonna try. But what
people don't what people are forgetting is that bodies don't
listen to sports talk radio and bodies don't get on Twitter. Right,
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Aaron Rodgers left leg is not logging onto social media.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Going I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I gotta make sure he doesn't work that way, does
not work that way. He is thirty nine years old,
coming off a devastating injury which Aaron Rodgers was hoping
to get close to. The guy that was maybe a
top ten periphery quarterback in the NFL. Now, is he
comes back, is if he is an average quarterback, He's
somebody that's going to hey, well, he's got the slyness,
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but that's not gonna be enough because if he can't
make the throws, you can't make the throws. Can he
still throw off his back foot, still being be able
to throw?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Sider him?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Can he do all of these things? I know I
want to be that guy, right. I'm the one that
told you last night Jets are going to the playoffs
this year. They're gonna win ten games, are going to
the playoffs. The roster is loaded. Is Aaron Rodgers gonna play, man,
I'll tell you I don't know. I can't tell you yes,
the other guy. It sounds great yet, and I want
to be full of that fire and brimstone and positivity
when it comes to it. But I gotta be realistic, man.
(09:41):
And there's just as much a chance that Zach Wilson
or somebody else is playing quarterback next year for the
Jets Week one, then it is Aaron Rodgers. If Wilson
plays well this year, it'll be the same thing. Wilson
will come back starting. If Rogers is healthy, you'll play.
If not at Zach Wilson. If Zach Wilson stinks, then
it's gonna be somebody else they're gonna sign to come
in that could potentially start. Because you can't trust that
(10:04):
Aaron Rodgers is going to start. There is just as
much a chance at somebody else that it's Aaron Rodgers.
I can't sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, he
says it, he's coming back. Yeah, I get he wants to,
but it's not really up to him. It's up to
his body. It's up to where. It's up to what
he can do and what happens when you start rehabbing
and getting back to this and after the surgery, whoever
the surgery goes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
There's just too many variables.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
And I hate to say it because you know me,
I want to be that positive guy. I want to
see hear it and say, hey, buy your Aaron Rodgers
gear keeping it's great.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I can't do it, Mike, I can't.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, I'm on the positivity side of Hey, I like
when the guys continue to play when they're older. That
means I haven't aged out completely.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
When Brady hung him up, I had to throw stuff
against the wall. I was kind of pissed because now
I was that much older than the next guy that's
behind him, and we've got Rogers there. And while for
me it was gonna be a very conflicted year with
him under center, you know, as much as you know,
you're my best friend and all, I kind of needed
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them to struggle. But it's also not a really good story.
If they're nine to eight, nobody cares, right, so they
were gonna have to be great or fail spectacularly. And
now it's the intrigue of all, right, what is this
team now?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
But going forward?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Does Zach Wilson show you enough towards like, we love you, Aaron,
but we do need to move on because you're gonna
be forty right, and holding and pressing pause on this
and then wishing and hoping not only is he able
to come back, but how much do you fear and
other injury you know, maybe unrelated, but because of the pressure,
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what you.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Start to favor, all of those kind of things that
it adds up.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Right, we'll get Look at Lebron James, he was indestructible
and we joked about it for years, you and I
he's a cyborg. Well, now that the champ is hurt,
he's cut like Drago the Russian. He's cut so little,
little injuries pile up.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
So the same thing.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Here is that the fear is this becomes the beginning
of an end, even if you were able to make
it back that it's Aaron Rodgers in spirit, but certainly
not the player we remember. So you know, I'll root
for it, for age and for guys to battle back
off injuries. You hate to see it where he carries
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the flag and then four plays later he's being carted off.
That's about as bad as it gets. So we want
that story of redemption because if nothing else, we get
a movie out of it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Tell you just as good a chance as anybody I
wanted to do it, Just as good a chance at
Zach Wilson or Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Something I'm just saying someone else.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Thanks, Jalb Williams. I like the way you immediately dove
down that rap.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
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Well joining us now on the hotline. There is no
one better to break down everything going on in the NFL.
Let's see, he had the Aaron Rodgers news. He had
the Travis Kelcey news. I don't mean the Taylor Swift
Travis Kelcey news. He had the Travis Kelcey news, Aaron
Rodgers and he's the new backup quarterback for the Jets.
It is longtime NFL insider. You can follo him on
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Twitter at Schultz Underscore Report. Front of the show. Jordan Schultz, Hey,
Hey Jay, congratulations man. Hopefully you get to play a
little bit against the Cowboys on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
My pleasure. Guys. You know it's it's a great time
of the year. Man, I gotta tell you this week one,
Week two, it's it's it doesn't get much better.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well okay, yeah, okay, dude. Remember I'm a Jet fan.
Remember I'm not.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I'm not talking about the Jets on this on this show.
I just won't do it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
I kidding, can't do it, won't do it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Look, let's go forward here a little bit because because
you had the bit that the Jets called out to
Chad Henney, Let's let's move this Aaron Rodgers thing forward here.
Zach Wilson is the starter. They're gonna go get another
quarterback fill in the blank for me. The quarterback the
Jets are gonna go get is who.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It's gonna be. So I don't I don't know exactly
who yet. I know they narrow down their search they started,
you know, a wider net that narrow it down. The
bottom line is what they're looking for is someone who
is a veteran quarterback that can not threaten Zack Wilson
as the new QB one, but who can help bring
him along, help stablize what's not a very you know,
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fable situation, and also somebody understands his purpose. I think
the reason I've had a few people ask, you know,
why why wouldn't they go after another, you know, young
up and comer to push that, And I think the
reason is is because we're only two years removed from
them spending a number two pick on him. And part
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of the reason why they brought an Aaron Rodgers obviously
not the only reason, but part of it was because
they wanted to have him learn from one of the
greatest of all time. And make no mistake, there has
been a lot of progressor Zach Wilson internally. I think,
you know, the relationship with Rogers is real. They they
have really connected, and I think Aaron's helped them. And
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obviously we didn't think we see Zach Wilson for a
couple more years. That now changes significantly. But with that
in mind, they are looking for a veteran quarterback. Maybe
it's a Chad Henny, maybe it's the Carson Wentz, someone
that won't necessarily push Wilson for the number one job,
but that can help stabilize situation.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Joe Namas Okay, if it's gonna be Joe names actually
good veterans. So hey, So you know the other part
of today, Rogers says he wants to come back. He's
going to rise again, right, I'm gonna rise again, Robert
Salaz said today, Hey, I fully exceed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, Look, he wants to come back. I'd be shocked.
You're retired. I get all of this, but as a
Jet fan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You look, and I'm positive. I'm a guy who's gonna
tell you. I think the Jets are still gonna win
ten games this year. They're still gonna get in the playoffs.
But Rogers coming back, I think there's just as much
a chance that Zach Wilson or another quarterback starting next
year as it is Rogers because thirty nine Achilles. You
just don't know, and guys don't come back and play
very well when they have an injury like this, when
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they're talking about being forty years old.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yeah, it's the most devastating, debilitating injury that a pro
actlete can have, and you really don't know. It's the mental,
it's the physical, it's the emotional. There's so much that
goes into it. I love that he posted that I
don't know what it means. Other than that, I think
he wants to stay involved with the team and more
specifically with Zach. We'll have to see what happens with surgery.
(16:55):
But listen, they you're talking about fast forwarding the idea.
The real situation now for the Jets is that Dak
Wilson grabs the mole by the horns and showcases why
he was an All American at EYU, why he wasn't
number two pick, why he was called Morman the homes.
I mean, the guy has talent, but when you're talking
about this roster, you know they have done. I give
(17:19):
Joe Douglas like Freddy, I think he's done a really
good job of developing the roster with the secondary is terrific,
specifically with Red and you know Sauce. They bring in Amos.
You know, they have a white heat that's three interceptions
in the first game. They have young pass rushers Romaine Johnson,
you saw it. It's da a couple of TFLs. They
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have Clinton Williams. Defensively they're loaded, and then offensively they've
done a really nice job as well. I think Greece
Hall really like we talked a lot about Rogers that
night for obvious reasons, but briefs Hall looked like the
briefs hall we saw before the injury, and that's a
huge plus. So to me, when I think about the
Jets this year with Dak Wilson, I think they'll they're
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probably pushing the playoffs because of the roster, and I
think the defense will keep them in games. You do
have to wonder, let's hypothetically they go three and three,
two and four, they start off slow, would they consider
making a move for someone. I'm not reporting this, but
I'm just saying, would it make sense for them hypothetically
to go after someone like a Ryan Tannehill that's feasible
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to get potentially so that they can turn the season around.
Because right now they're saying, and this is what I've
been told, we want a veteran who's going to help Zack,
not push that. But if he doesn't play well and
they go three and three and they're not looking at
the playoffs, maybe that changes.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
So Jordan, one of the guys name always comes up
when there's a big injury and change. You got a
text message from Colin Kaepernick that just said, quote, I
just need a shot now, we're forty eight hours removed,
and it doesn't look like that's happening. But you know
when you get that text, what rolls through your head
in how that flows.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
It's so interesting because you know, Colin I've known for
a long time, probably probably six seven years since and
he hasn't played in seven years, so it was really
once he's once he retired Russians, he retired once. He
once he stopped playing. And we talked at lengths yesterday
and I just said, you know, how you doing. Have
you heard from anyone? We started talking and he said,
(19:26):
you know, we've we've reached out to the Jets. And
I thought that was really interesting because his name does
percolate whenever a team really needs a quarterback.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
He's thirty six, he's basically been in LA working out
the last couple of years and all he wanted a chance, right,
and I just you know, I would love to see
him get that chance. I know there's people that are
going to disagree with me, but I would love to
see it, just selfishly as a football fan. You know,
he worked out for the Raiders last year. I know
that he looked fine. I think that that was the
(19:58):
word they used he was he was fine, he was good.
But uh yeah, I'd be surprised, quite honestly if the Raider,
if the Jets went after CAP. But I can tell
you that we've talked a lot today and yesterday, and uh,
I can't think of anybody that wants to shop more,
you know, I mean, he really does, he invasically. The
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message he relates to me earlier today was, you know,
I just wish I could get a workout, because if
I go in and I think, then then then I
know I think, and they would know as well. But
I just want to work out. I just want a chance.
And I said, I hear you, I understand. I just
don't know if it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
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Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, so as we move on now.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
To the rest of the the the league that we
see coming off a week one into week two, I
want to hit you with the Dealer's choice right now
because three of the guys that I saw you talking
about a lot that impressed you. The most in Week
one were Bjon Robinson, Calvin Ridley, and Brendan Ayuk. Give
me the guy that impressed you the most out of
those you love those.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Guys, Oh man, give me one.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I got to choose your favorite child, be honest.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You know what, I'm gonna go with the Rooks. I'm
gonna go with John Robinson. I thought he was electric, man.
I mean, like, I'm not surprised, but to see it,
to see it at that level, and you know, Carolina
had some guys on that defense, including Brian Burns, Derek
Derek Brown. They have they have some players man, Frankluvu
(21:40):
and B'john Robinson. Just I think I said on Twitter,
he's the truth. The guy is the truth. I think
he has a chance to legally in rushing. I think
he has a chance to be the next truly trendsend
there running back. And what I was told early on
when they drafted him was that they were going to
use him all over the field. And you hear that.
(22:00):
You hear that with Jamir Gibbs in Detroit, But to
see it is a different story. And you know, I
like Arthur Smith, the head coach. I think he's innovative
and I think his commitment to the run games says
a lot. And uh you know they they I don't
know how Alan is going to be this year. I
want to assume that they'll be better, and they have
a lot of young talent offensively, but seeing Bejon Robinson,
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seeing his speed and his cuts, the way he catches
the football, I mean his touchdown, he's just different. You know,
someone that big and that physical should not be able
to move with that type of agility. He's just a
different style. And uh, man, I think the Unicorns.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I'll just wait for the Tyler all jeer love and
if they actually yeah, dangerous.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Honestly, I think you're looking at it because listen, they
they were second in the league in rush attempts last
year and when Ritter started, they average thirty six rushes
a game I believe it was, which was the first
in the league by far. So we know they're going
to run the ball, right, But you have those two
bats algier terrific. I think you're looking at a situation
where b Jonson and get twenty touches a week in
(23:09):
Algierson he gets fifteen seventeen and I see no problem
with that, and that's going to open up the play
accident for Ritter. That's gonna help Kyle Pitts, that's gonna
help Drake London. So I'm fascinated by the offense, but honestly,
VI Jhonn Robinson is Yeah, he's the guy.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yeah, that's why I picked them to win the division.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
All right, Now, your dealer's choice, which is the bigger story,
Dak and the Cowboys rising to a level of prominence
or the absolute no show effort of your New York
Football Giants, And by yours I mean all of ours.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, Okay, I'm gonna go Dak because he led the
league in interceptions last year, and honestly, it's not who
he was and has been throughout his career. Go back
to his days Mississippi State, go back to his days.
You know, his first five six years in the league.
He didn't turn the ball over very much. So part
(23:59):
of that on him, of course, but it was also
on the fact that I think he felt like he
had to win more games. Dallas's defense was unbelievable. I'm
not saying they're going to be that good every week,
but what they did since dismantled New York, who I
think is a playoff team was sensational and I talked
to Dan Quinn afterwards that the DC the message hees
(24:21):
relates to me the last few months is you know,
last year was great. This year is gonna be better.
We have so much talent, We're so diverse in how
we can use that talent and deploy everyone. And I
mean Parsons is generational, like he is a transcendent freak.
So I was just blown away by Dallas on both
sides of the ball. I think the guy that probably
(24:44):
impressed me the most was Tony Pollard because he has
comes off with essentially a broken leg eight months ago
and he looked as good as anyone. I mean, he
is a belcow. They don't have another guy that's gonna
get fifteen carries, and so I see him. I think
I use the term over the offseason. He's more of
a Ferrari, you know, like you wonder with him, can
(25:06):
you use him every day of the week? Can you
use him in the snow?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Is he that.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Physical of the back? I saw everything I needed to see.
I was really impressed with Tony Pollard and as a whole,
with Dak Prescott. I mean, the defense was incredible. But
offensively they look good and obviously Mike McCarthy's falling the plays. No,
Kellen Moore, I thought there would be a learning curve,
and at least in one game, there wasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
All right, Lastly, let me give you this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You just gave us a big surprise and the positive
the Cowboys and how now it's a Super Bowl or
bust year for them. What's your biggest surprise from week one?
That oh boy, this player, this team has problems. And
if the Seahawks that's okay, this player this they got
more problems.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yes, I was gonna say. I was going to say
Seattle in the sense that I have such high expectations
for them, and you guys know I'm from Seattle. I
mean I listen, I met my wife in the Seahawk game.
I've been going to Seahawk games in the Kingdome since
I was three years so I have allegiances to that city,
to that team. But I was really surprised now they
they struggle against the Rams traditionally, but that's not the
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Seattle we saw last year. So I want to see
them bounce back in a big way. The Giants as well.
I would say the Chargers defense, to me was concerning
in the sense that Miami was unstoppable. And I think
Miami's offense is going to be elite all a year.
But the Chargers defense, like, there's no reasons to me
(26:30):
why they can't be a top ten defense on paper.
So to see them get treaded like that was surprising.
I'd be curious for you guys, like, I don't know
how much he saw the Miami game, but Tua looked
so comfortable. I didn't see enough to pass rush. That
would probably be the concern.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, Jordan Frostburg's got his ear mufs on, you know, proudcast.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
He may never book you for the show again. I mean,
this may be your last.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It was, you know, it went through my mind as
as I sit here a few days later. You know,
I was thinking, if I bring up the fact that
the Chargers defense struggled, what's that going to do? But offensively,
he's some players now defensively, so I was actually blown
away by by their offense. I mean, I think that's
(27:16):
what we're going to see all year. But I listen,
I mean, there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot
of pressure on that on that defense. On Brandon Staley,
who's a defensive guy. I want to see it, man,
I want to see it because they have a ton
of talent.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
All right, So so now let me finish with this.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I know I said lastly, but so did you propose
to your wife in a Seahawks game, like after a
Steve Largent touchdown?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Like, tell me you did it?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Like mid wow, you you aged him very much there. No,
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I'm not, although I do love Steve Wise. No, we
actually met at a Seahawks game in college and we
try to go back once a year for a game.
And we know I did not propose there. But you
know when you meet your wife at a Seahawks game
on you know, on the field, and you've been going
to the Kingdome and my whole life growing up, they
were terrible. You know, we did not have playoff teams.
(28:07):
We're barely five hundred. John Kittna was our best quarterback.
Bro herere Rick Meyer, I mean terrible quarterback.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
So for me, the Seahawks hold a special place. And
I gotta tell you, watching them loose to the Rams
like that, I was really surprised. And again I have allegiances,
but I also am Am. I guess you can say
if I could step away thirty thousand square feet or
thirty thousand feet, I was disappointed. I know they can
be better.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
He's on Twitter at Jordan Underscore Schultz. That's at Jordan
Underscore Schultz. Long time NFL inside to check them out
again the big week he had with Roger's story.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Travis Kelsey, we'll get to Taylor Swift next week with you.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You know, I know you're gonna do somethingking on that.
But dude, as always, thanks so much for staying up
late with us. Man, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Have fun, guy, Always a pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
See you Jordan always great to talk to him, Always
great to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
He get, you know, he gives you inside stuff and
in a way that's so different from everybody else. You
wonder why why he gets all these scoops everything else
he did, he just get. He just gives you the
information in a different way and it's just awesome.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
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Speaker 8 (29:28):
I love this song.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Lorena, who is training under Alex Tyscher tonight, let me
just tell you we're gonna talk about this song later
on in the show. Okay, just so you know, we're
gonna have a conversation about this song.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
She said she's gonna break it down by every line
and its meaning and its cultural impact.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We're gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I don't I don't want, I don't want Tysher letting
people know that's okay to play this song.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
No, I tol her. It's a staple. Yet the play
at least once a night.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's this staple.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
She's a bigger fan of Tears for Fears than t is.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Not Not a staple. Not a staple, Not a staple.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
So we have more big NFL stuff coming up in
a few minutes, and way do we tell you exactly
what the long term future is gonna be for one
NFL superstar? But maybe Yannis is gonna wind up going
someplace else. Janness on Akunpo goings on the Believe Network,
who does a lot of podcasts, big podcasting company, and
(30:22):
uh is asked about his future, which he has talked about.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I want to be in Milwaukee Buck. I want to win.
I want to do all of these things.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But today he was asked about his future and he says, oh, yeah, yeah,
you ah Milwaukee unless take a listen.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I go to Lakers.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Okay, okay, okay, No, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I don't think that was johannest I don't think do
you mean honest, I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I mean, I don't think so. I don't think that
was Yanness.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
You really don't think that that's what he said?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
No, No, I impressed it. I mean that might have
been the voice in his head.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
No, I don't think that's what he said. I don't
think that was him. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Let's try to speak it into existence.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
And you know how I didn't say anything about the
next even though that's likely where he's gonna wind up going.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I mean, I didn't say anything about the Knicks, you know,
but I go to the Lakers. Yannis had this to
say about his future.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
As long as we play and we approach the game
every single day the right way, and we all sacrifice
for a common goal, I can see myself being in
walking back for the rest of my career. But the moment,
I feel like people are not committed as as as
I am to get that golden thing in the back.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
I am not you know, I am.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I'm a Milwaukee back. But most importantly, I'm a winner.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
I want to win and I have to do whatever
it takes for me to win. And if there's a
better situation for me to win, the lady O'Brien, I
have to take that better situation.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I love that he kept saying, oh, no, I want
to be here. I'm here. I'm a buh no. Sure,
but really he went out of his way to make
sure we knew, hey, there's a butt here.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Oh but but whatever happened to you working towards a goal,
it's not a failure. It steps to success. Remember that
teachable moment and all the heart strings and the violins
and all the crap. After they got bounced out of
the playoffs, he tried to sell and people took hook,
line and sinker. All of a sudden, it's like, well,
(32:30):
if I don't think they're as dedicated as I am,
because clearly I bring one hundred and thirty five percent
every damn night.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
Come on, man, h look, I'll.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Tell you this when it comes time, and I realize
we're not at it right now. We're not at it
in three weeks, not at it in three months. Giannis
is going to leave. You can already tell from Stars
because they have the itch, right certain guys. I want
to say, it's never a question, but eventually every player
who plays on a small market team, and look, he
(33:05):
was able to win a championship with the Bucks, and
that's something that should just be wow celebrated because for
a Milwaukee team to win a championship in basketball, come on,
many even Milwaukee Bucks fans, they tell their kids, you
want to be a Bucks fan? Yeah, and I love
the Bucks. Okay, You're probably never gonna see him win
a championship, to win the one with Giannis, okay, But
all stars when they get to the point of what's
(33:28):
their legacy, and everybody gets.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
To that point. Shaq got to that point midway through
his career.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Joel Embiid is getting to that point right now that hey,
I haven't won, and I want my legacy to be
a big deal and I want to win. But especially
when you're talking about a small market team, Giannis is
gonna sit here and continue to say, can I win here? Again,
or is the grass greener and that itch is just
too impossible to not scratch. Now, it could be the Lakers,
could be the Knicks, could be some player you know,
(33:54):
but to want to go someplace else, to go see
if you can make it work. Yeah, because unless he's
ending with NBA titles with Milwaukee, he ain't gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It's not gonna happen. And and the Bucks aren't making moves.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It's putting them above everybody else in the East that Look,
they got knocked out in the first round last year.
And when it comes time to it, when it comes
time to make that decision, Giannis is going to go Laker.
He's gonna finish his career, the back half of his
career someplace else, a bigger market, because the itch is
too impossible to not scratch. Everybody gets it, everybody scratches it,
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and they go. He's gonna be the guy that goes.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Really thought he was gonna, you know, lay it out
just down the line.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I want to play with guys that have the intestinal
fortitude of like an Austin Reeves and guys like that,
you know that are just next.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Level Captain America. Austin Reeves I want to go play
with him.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Yeah, I mean, and look, Frostberg's been putting every guy
in a Laker jersey like he has krans and highlighters
and markers in his bag and he prints out photos
of superstars' on there.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, I call what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, and you know by from your kids. I mean,
come on, don't do that. I don't do that with
with my teams by putting players on it because your
team professionalism. Man, I don't do that for the Knicks
and embat.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
All the it's not realistic. They'll never sign what your
team's squad.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You've never tried to speak any of that into existence.
Neither of you has been LeVar Ball on this show
at all.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Keep it down over there, Benny the Bull.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Twitter it out about a Fresco. Mike gets swollen, dumb.
Giannis is gonna leave. It's just a matter of win.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Coming up next, a big Bold prediction for Aaron Rodgers
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Were We are Mike Harmon in the the Bridge day
between week one and Week two in the NFL, and
we found out much like the Undertaker, Aaron Rodgers plans
to rise. He will rise again, as he says on Instagram,
I will rise from the ashes.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I will rise again. He's going to rise, he's gonna run.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Well, he's either trying to channel his inner Frankenstein's monster
because it was doctor Frankenstein, or is it Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein. Yeah,
so we got that going, or you know, you go
Biblical and you got Lazarus, or you got you got
Jesus himself.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
I mean, what about the Jesus? Yes, how you know I.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Go WWE, which you love the WWE, and you go
everywhere else but the WWE. What I mean, I give
you a fastball down the middle and you said, Nope,
I don't want this fastball down. Give me some kind
of crazy ass curve that's off the plate that I'm
gonna wave at like your Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Just give me something like that. I gave you what.
I gave you, an undertaker fastball down the middle. That
was good.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
But I mean, you're you're the one that loves to
do the personal Pringle rev. You know, impression.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Exactly the ashes of Zach Wilson here in this herd.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No no, no, yeah, because I think of him when he was,
you know, from an earlier incarnation of Percival Pringle the Third,
when he was at world class Championship wrestling and running
around with the Texas Drawl and everything against the von Erics.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
So you know, in the many stages.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
For you, you like, you know, the urn and and
all of that imagery, and maybe that's it. I saw
a great meme of Aaron Rodgers head over the young
Forrest Gump when he was getting fitted for his leg braces,
so that was good.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I'd give him my achilles if I could, if
it would work. I get watch, I give him my
dad's achilles first, because my dad doesn't really need it,
but then I give him mine if I need it.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Is no good, I'll give it. And I've seen you
run that's no good.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
But although, although when you're not thinking about it, when
when you're actually just reacting like you did after that
punt return.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh yeah, when I ran up and that was the.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Most explosive legwork you've ever done.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was explosive.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I was really I also think I pulled something in
one of my arches on my right foot when I
did that, But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It was worth it, you know what.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I got a couple of sessions left on the cryo
therapy package that I bought, so you know, if you
want to come down to Redondo Beach, will set you
up and you can go get the negative two fifty treatment.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh nice, I dig that. I dig that guy. What
are you doing cryotherapy? What happened?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah? Well, the Jets won.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And I ran up and down the hallway too fast,
and what happened? I took like three steps and all
of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but my
arch didn't feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So three steps after the Jets won. Yeah, okay, I
haven't heard that before. Just sticks that up.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
But you know what if you said that and you
were in Wisconsin, they were thinking you were fleeing that
bar without paying your tab. So it all comes full circle.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
But you know, certainly the Rogers statement and the indication
and you know, vow that he will return from this,
it's great fodder here forty eight hours after the fact.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I mean, what the hell is he gonna say? Yeah,
I'm done. The training's gonna be too hard, it's too
many hours. I got other concert tours.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I mean, Taylor's gonna be in Europe next year, so
I'm thinking of going to a few of those dates.
And you know, Olivia Rodrigo just announced her Guts tour,
so I gotta go follow that around.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
No, he's not gonna say any of that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
He's gonna say, no, I'm coming back, and I'm coming
back with a vengeance to get revenge on the turf
From Instagram.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
The night is darkest before the dawn, Batman, I shall rise.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yet, who the hell does he think he is?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I shall rise, he rise. He's Aaron Rodgers, He's the Undertaker.
He will rise again.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He can't even walk on water right now.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
He'll rise again at some point that he said, mister Wayne,
I have no desire to spend the rest of the mind.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
So are they gonna burn him? Is that what he's saying?
Another Batman, people are just gonna light him on fire
and then he's gonna come.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Back buried so many whatever it takes him to come back.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
If you could light his achilles on fire, they're gonna
play on Sunday against the Cowboys. We'll light that achilles
on fire. Doesn't work that way, yeah, right now. The
other thing is strikes. I mean, we can't put that
into production. That whole thing you're trying to put out
there Fronsburg. Yeah, I mean that would have to be
a non union You'd have to get a bunch of
permits and uh, you.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Know, well, but you know, Aaron Rodgers on fire. Yeah,
I gotta get away. I gotta get an exemption from
the union.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
What do you want to do it?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Century City, Hollywood sign where Dody. I'll let you do
whatever you want to do.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Come on, that's only appropriate.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now Here's now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This is that you know I'm being real when I
say this, because you know what, of course I want
Aaron Rodgers to come back and everything, and I got
stars in my eyes about twenty twenty four, Rogers says
I'll rise again.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Here's Robert Solid.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Jets head coach Day was asked about the retirement question
for Aaron Rodgers, and Robert Salas said, well, I don't
quite see it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'd be shocked if he's if this is the way
he's going to go out.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But at the same time, for him, he's working through
a whole lot of headspace things that he needs to
deal with, and that will be the last thing I've
talked to him about. This falls under the category of
course he's going to come try to come back. Of course,
Rogers wants to continue to play, of course, and this
falls under my category of I hear you, but sure.
(06:23):
I mean, look, on the night of the injury, we
talked about it. Aaron Rodgers is thirty nine years old,
and this is a torn achilles. This is a horrendous
injury to have to go through. We've seen quarterbacks go
through Achilles injuries and come back and be close to
what they were before, but not quite what they were before.
We've never seen someone this age go through that kind
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of tourn happened if any Testaverty because it happened to
the Jet You every twenty years happens to the Jets,
So in twenty years, Jordan Love, it's going to happen
to you. Get ready what happened at Testaverdy. He came back,
He played a few more years, but he was never
really the same. He was kind of a get by guy.
He was never the passor he was in ninety nine.
The grueling rehab that Rogers is going to have to
go through at the age of thirty nine is really difficult,
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especially when now he's trying to figure stuff out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I don't doubt he's gonna try.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't doubt that he's not gonna sit here and
go oh that first day, yeah, I took three steps.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You know, like when you decide you're gonna start working
out and you get in the treadmill and you go
for like thirty seconds to go, Yeah, you know, I'm winded,
I'm done. IM gonna slow down, slow down, off, and
I'm off. No, he's going to give it a go.
But is he really gonna be able to come back
and be the guy? Is he gonna be able to
plant and throw the ball like he used to? Is
he gonna be able to be the same quarterback? Is
he gonna have to be a crafty quarterback where hey,
we gotta hide what he can.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And can't do.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's the big question. So if you told me is
Aaron Rodgers gonna play for the Jets. There's so many
people today that have said he's under center next year.
He's under center week one. Next year, he's under center
week one. When they get to training camp, he's coming back.
You're gonna see it. The best thing I can tell
you is, man, I have no idea. I mean, I
can't tell you he's gonna come back. In fact, if
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I had to lead one way or the other, I
would say maybe his Jets' career is four plays.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe it's four plays.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Because you could say, yes, I want to do all
these things and the mind is great, but is the
body there for it? And Rogers is someone who has
never really had to go crazy working out, getting ready.
Got Look what he doesn't He doesn't play in preseason games.
He hadn't played in preseason games in a long time.
He had a little bit of a calf tweaked during
training camp and what happened It blew out on and
(08:27):
when he tried to just go full tilt the first
time he tried to do it. So what's his body like?
It sounds great, I mean, and I'd love to see
it. It sounds great for Robert Solid to say there's no
way he's word there's stuff, and Aaron Rodgers tweet I'm
gonna try. Yes, of course he's gonna try. But what
people don't what people are forgetting is that bodies don't
listen to sports talk radio and bodies don't get on Twitter. Right,
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Aaron Rodgers left leg is not logging onto social media.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Going I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I gotta make sure he doesn't work that way, does
not work that way. He is thirty nine years old,
coming off a devastating injury which Aaron Rodgers was hoping
to get close to. The guy that was maybe a
top ten periphery quarterback in the NFL. Now, is he
comes back, is if he is an average quarterback, He's
somebody that's going to hey, well, he's got the slyness,
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but that's not gonna be enough because if he can't
make the throws, you can't make the throws. Can he
still throw off his back foot, still being be able
to throw?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Sider him?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Can he do all of these things? I know I
want to be that guy, right. I'm the one that
told you last night Jets are going to the playoffs
this year. They're gonna win ten games, are going to
the playoffs. The roster is loaded. Is Aaron Rodgers gonna play, man,
I'll tell you I don't know. I can't tell you yes,
the other guy. It sounds great yet, and I want
to be full of that fire and brimstone and positivity
when it comes to it. But I gotta be realistic, man.
(09:41):
And there's just as much a chance that Zach Wilson
or somebody else is playing quarterback next year for the
Jets Week one, then it is Aaron Rodgers. If Wilson
plays well this year, it'll be the same thing. Wilson
will come back starting. If Rogers is healthy, you'll play.
If not at Zach Wilson. If Zach Wilson stinks, then
it's gonna be somebody else they're gonna sign to come
in that could potentially start. Because you can't trust that
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Aaron Rodgers is going to start. There is just as
much a chance at somebody else that it's Aaron Rodgers.
I can't sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, he
says it, he's coming back. Yeah, I get he wants to,
but it's not really up to him. It's up to
his body. It's up to where. It's up to what
he can do and what happens when you start rehabbing
and getting back to this and after the surgery, whoever
the surgery goes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
There's just too many variables.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
And I hate to say it because you know me,
I want to be that positive guy. I want to
see hear it and say, hey, buy your Aaron Rodgers
gear keeping it's great.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I can't do it, Mike, I can't.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, I'm on the positivity side of Hey, I like
when the guys continue to play when they're older. That
means I haven't aged out completely.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
When Brady hung him up, I had to throw stuff
against the wall. I was kind of pissed because now
I was that much older than the next guy that's
behind him, and we've got Rogers there. And while for
me it was gonna be a very conflicted year with
him under center, you know, as much as you know,
you're my best friend and all, I kind of needed
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them to struggle. But it's also not a really good story.
If they're nine to eight, nobody cares, right, so they
were gonna have to be great or fail spectacularly. And
now it's the intrigue of all, right, what is this
team now?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
But going forward?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Does Zach Wilson show you enough towards like, we love you, Aaron,
but we do need to move on because you're gonna
be forty right, and holding and pressing pause on this
and then wishing and hoping not only is he able
to come back, but how much do you fear and
other injury you know, maybe unrelated, but because of the pressure,
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what you.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Start to favor, all of those kind of things that
it adds up.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Right, we'll get Look at Lebron James, he was indestructible
and we joked about it for years, you and I
he's a cyborg. Well, now that the champ is hurt,
he's cut like Drago the Russian. He's cut so little,
little injuries pile up.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
So the same thing.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Here is that the fear is this becomes the beginning
of an end, even if you were able to make
it back that it's Aaron Rodgers in spirit, but certainly
not the player we remember. So you know, I'll root
for it, for age and for guys to battle back
off injuries. You hate to see it where he carries
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the flag and then four plays later he's being carted off.
That's about as bad as it gets. So we want
that story of redemption because if nothing else, we get
a movie out of it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Tell you just as good a chance as anybody I
wanted to do it, Just as good a chance at
Zach Wilson or Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Something I'm just saying someone else.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Thanks, Jalb Williams. I like the way you immediately dove
down that rap.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
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Well joining us now on the hotline. There is no
one better to break down everything going on in the NFL.
Let's see, he had the Aaron Rodgers news. He had
the Travis Kelcey news. I don't mean the Taylor Swift
Travis Kelcey news. He had the Travis Kelcey news, Aaron
Rodgers and he's the new backup quarterback for the Jets.
It is longtime NFL insider. You can follo him on
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Twitter at Schultz Underscore Report. Front of the show. Jordan Schultz, Hey,
Hey Jay, congratulations man. Hopefully you get to play a
little bit against the Cowboys on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
My pleasure. Guys. You know it's it's a great time
of the year. Man, I gotta tell you this week one,
Week two, it's it's it doesn't get much better.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well okay, yeah, okay, dude. Remember I'm a Jet fan.
Remember I'm not.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I'm not talking about the Jets on this on this show.
I just won't do it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
I kidding, can't do it, won't do it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Look, let's go forward here a little bit because because
you had the bit that the Jets called out to
Chad Henney, Let's let's move this Aaron Rodgers thing forward here.
Zach Wilson is the starter. They're gonna go get another
quarterback fill in the blank for me. The quarterback the
Jets are gonna go get is who.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It's gonna be. So I don't I don't know exactly
who yet. I know they narrow down their search they started,
you know, a wider net that narrow it down. The
bottom line is what they're looking for is someone who
is a veteran quarterback that can not threaten Zack Wilson
as the new QB one, but who can help bring
him along, help stablize what's not a very you know,
(14:47):
fable situation, and also somebody understands his purpose. I think
the reason I've had a few people ask, you know,
why why wouldn't they go after another, you know, young
up and comer to push that, And I think the
reason is is because we're only two years removed from
them spending a number two pick on him. And part
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of the reason why they brought an Aaron Rodgers obviously
not the only reason, but part of it was because
they wanted to have him learn from one of the
greatest of all time. And make no mistake, there has
been a lot of progressor Zach Wilson internally. I think,
you know, the relationship with Rogers is real. They they
have really connected, and I think Aaron's helped them. And
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obviously we didn't think we see Zach Wilson for a
couple more years. That now changes significantly. But with that
in mind, they are looking for a veteran quarterback. Maybe
it's a Chad Henny, maybe it's the Carson Wentz, someone
that won't necessarily push Wilson for the number one job,
but that can help stabilize situation.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Joe Namas Okay, if it's gonna be Joe names actually
good veterans. So hey, So you know the other part
of today, Rogers says he wants to come back. He's
going to rise again, right, I'm gonna rise again, Robert
Salaz said today, Hey, I fully exceed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, Look, he wants to come back. I'd be shocked.
You're retired. I get all of this, but as a
Jet fan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You look, and I'm positive. I'm a guy who's gonna
tell you. I think the Jets are still gonna win
ten games this year. They're still gonna get in the playoffs.
But Rogers coming back, I think there's just as much
a chance that Zach Wilson or another quarterback starting next
year as it is Rogers because thirty nine Achilles. You
just don't know, and guys don't come back and play
very well when they have an injury like this, when
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they're talking about being forty years old.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yeah, it's the most devastating, debilitating injury that a pro
actlete can have, and you really don't know. It's the mental,
it's the physical, it's the emotional. There's so much that
goes into it. I love that he posted that I
don't know what it means. Other than that, I think
he wants to stay involved with the team and more
specifically with Zach. We'll have to see what happens with surgery.
(16:55):
But listen, they you're talking about fast forwarding the idea.
The real situation now for the Jets is that Dak
Wilson grabs the mole by the horns and showcases why
he was an All American at EYU, why he wasn't
number two pick, why he was called Morman the homes.
I mean, the guy has talent, but when you're talking
about this roster, you know they have done. I give
(17:19):
Joe Douglas like Freddy, I think he's done a really
good job of developing the roster with the secondary is terrific,
specifically with Red and you know Sauce. They bring in Amos.
You know, they have a white heat that's three interceptions
in the first game. They have young pass rushers Romaine Johnson,
you saw it. It's da a couple of TFLs. They
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have Clinton Williams. Defensively they're loaded, and then offensively they've
done a really nice job as well. I think Greece
Hall really like we talked a lot about Rogers that
night for obvious reasons, but briefs Hall looked like the
briefs hall we saw before the injury, and that's a
huge plus. So to me, when I think about the
Jets this year with Dak Wilson, I think they'll they're
(18:06):
probably pushing the playoffs because of the roster, and I
think the defense will keep them in games. You do
have to wonder, let's hypothetically they go three and three,
two and four, they start off slow, would they consider
making a move for someone. I'm not reporting this, but
I'm just saying, would it make sense for them hypothetically
to go after someone like a Ryan Tannehill that's feasible
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to get potentially so that they can turn the season around.
Because right now they're saying, and this is what I've
been told, we want a veteran who's going to help Zack,
not push that. But if he doesn't play well and
they go three and three and they're not looking at
the playoffs, maybe that changes.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
So Jordan, one of the guys name always comes up
when there's a big injury and change. You got a
text message from Colin Kaepernick that just said, quote, I
just need a shot now, we're forty eight hours removed,
and it doesn't look like that's happening. But you know
when you get that text, what rolls through your head
in how that flows.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
It's so interesting because you know, Colin I've known for
a long time, probably probably six seven years since and
he hasn't played in seven years, so it was really
once he's once he retired Russians, he retired once. He
once he stopped playing. And we talked at lengths yesterday
and I just said, you know, how you doing. Have
you heard from anyone? We started talking and he said,
(19:26):
you know, we've we've reached out to the Jets. And
I thought that was really interesting because his name does
percolate whenever a team really needs a quarterback.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
He's thirty six, he's basically been in LA working out
the last couple of years and all he wanted a chance, right,
and I just you know, I would love to see
him get that chance. I know there's people that are
going to disagree with me, but I would love to
see it, just selfishly as a football fan. You know,
he worked out for the Raiders last year. I know
that he looked fine. I think that that was the
(19:58):
word they used he was he was fine, he was good.
But uh yeah, I'd be surprised, quite honestly if the Raider,
if the Jets went after CAP. But I can tell
you that we've talked a lot today and yesterday, and uh,
I can't think of anybody that wants to shop more,
you know, I mean, he really does, he invasically. The
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message he relates to me earlier today was, you know,
I just wish I could get a workout, because if
I go in and I think, then then then I
know I think, and they would know as well. But
I just want to work out. I just want a chance.
And I said, I hear you, I understand. I just
don't know if it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Jordan Schultz with us here, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon livethetirerac
dot Com Studios Big stuff there. You can follow Jordan
on Twitter as well at Schultz Underscore Report.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right, so as we move on now.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
To the rest of the the the league that we
see coming off a week one into week two, I
want to hit you with the Dealer's choice right now
because three of the guys that I saw you talking
about a lot that impressed you. The most in Week
one were Bjon Robinson, Calvin Ridley, and Brendan Ayuk. Give
me the guy that impressed you the most out of
those you love those.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Guys, Oh man, give me one.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I got to choose your favorite child, be honest.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You know what, I'm gonna go with the Rooks. I'm
gonna go with John Robinson. I thought he was electric, man.
I mean, like, I'm not surprised, but to see it,
to see it at that level, and you know, Carolina
had some guys on that defense, including Brian Burns, Derek
Derek Brown. They have they have some players man, Frankluvu
(21:40):
and B'john Robinson. Just I think I said on Twitter,
he's the truth. The guy is the truth. I think
he has a chance to legally in rushing. I think
he has a chance to be the next truly trendsend
there running back. And what I was told early on
when they drafted him was that they were going to
use him all over the field. And you hear that.
(22:00):
You hear that with Jamir Gibbs in Detroit, But to
see it is a different story. And you know, I
like Arthur Smith, the head coach. I think he's innovative
and I think his commitment to the run games says
a lot. And uh you know they they I don't
know how Alan is going to be this year. I
want to assume that they'll be better, and they have
a lot of young talent offensively, but seeing Bejon Robinson,
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seeing his speed and his cuts, the way he catches
the football, I mean his touchdown, he's just different. You know,
someone that big and that physical should not be able
to move with that type of agility. He's just a
different style. And uh, man, I think the Unicorns.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I'll just wait for the Tyler all jeer love and
if they actually yeah, dangerous.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Honestly, I think you're looking at it because listen, they
they were second in the league in rush attempts last
year and when Ritter started, they average thirty six rushes
a game I believe it was, which was the first
in the league by far. So we know they're going
to run the ball, right, But you have those two
bats algier terrific. I think you're looking at a situation
where b Jonson and get twenty touches a week in
(23:09):
Algierson he gets fifteen seventeen and I see no problem
with that, and that's going to open up the play
accident for Ritter. That's gonna help Kyle Pitts, that's gonna
help Drake London. So I'm fascinated by the offense, but honestly,
VI Jhonn Robinson is Yeah, he's the guy.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yeah, that's why I picked them to win the division.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
All right, Now, your dealer's choice, which is the bigger story,
Dak and the Cowboys rising to a level of prominence
or the absolute no show effort of your New York
Football Giants, And by yours I mean all of ours.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, Okay, I'm gonna go Dak because he led the
league in interceptions last year, and honestly, it's not who
he was and has been throughout his career. Go back
to his days Mississippi State, go back to his days.
You know, his first five six years in the league.
He didn't turn the ball over very much. So part
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of that on him, of course, but it was also
on the fact that I think he felt like he
had to win more games. Dallas's defense was unbelievable. I'm
not saying they're going to be that good every week,
but what they did since dismantled New York, who I
think is a playoff team was sensational and I talked
to Dan Quinn afterwards that the DC the message hees
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relates to me the last few months is you know,
last year was great. This year is gonna be better.
We have so much talent, We're so diverse in how
we can use that talent and deploy everyone. And I
mean Parsons is generational, like he is a transcendent freak.
So I was just blown away by Dallas on both
sides of the ball. I think the guy that probably
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impressed me the most was Tony Pollard because he has
comes off with essentially a broken leg eight months ago
and he looked as good as anyone. I mean, he
is a belcow. They don't have another guy that's gonna
get fifteen carries, and so I see him. I think
I use the term over the offseason. He's more of
a Ferrari, you know, like you wonder with him, can
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you use him every day of the week? Can you
use him in the snow?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Is he that.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Physical of the back? I saw everything I needed to see.
I was really impressed with Tony Pollard and as a whole,
with Dak Prescott. I mean, the defense was incredible. But
offensively they look good and obviously Mike McCarthy's falling the plays. No,
Kellen Moore, I thought there would be a learning curve,
and at least in one game, there wasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
All right, Lastly, let me give you this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You just gave us a big surprise and the positive
the Cowboys and how now it's a Super Bowl or
bust year for them. What's your biggest surprise from week one?
That oh boy, this player, this team has problems. And
if the Seahawks that's okay, this player this they got
more problems.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yes, I was gonna say. I was going to say
Seattle in the sense that I have such high expectations
for them, and you guys know I'm from Seattle. I
mean I listen, I met my wife in the Seahawk game.
I've been going to Seahawk games in the Kingdome since
I was three years so I have allegiances to that city,
to that team. But I was really surprised now they
they struggle against the Rams traditionally, but that's not the
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Seattle we saw last year. So I want to see
them bounce back in a big way. The Giants as well.
I would say the Chargers defense, to me was concerning
in the sense that Miami was unstoppable. And I think
Miami's offense is going to be elite all a year.
But the Chargers defense, like, there's no reasons to me
(26:30):
why they can't be a top ten defense on paper.
So to see them get treaded like that was surprising.
I'd be curious for you guys, like, I don't know
how much he saw the Miami game, but Tua looked
so comfortable. I didn't see enough to pass rush. That
would probably be the concern.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, Jordan Frostburg's got his ear mufs on, you know, proudcast.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
He may never book you for the show again. I mean,
this may be your last.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It was, you know, it went through my mind as
as I sit here a few days later. You know,
I was thinking, if I bring up the fact that
the Chargers defense struggled, what's that going to do? But offensively,
he's some players now defensively, so I was actually blown
away by by their offense. I mean, I think that's
(27:16):
what we're going to see all year. But I listen,
I mean, there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot
of pressure on that on that defense. On Brandon Staley,
who's a defensive guy. I want to see it, man,
I want to see it because they have a ton
of talent.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
All right, So so now let me finish with this.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I know I said lastly, but so did you propose
to your wife in a Seahawks game, like after a
Steve Largent touchdown?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Like, tell me you did it?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Like mid wow, you you aged him very much there. No,
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I'm not, although I do love Steve Wise. No, we
actually met at a Seahawks game in college and we
try to go back once a year for a game.
And we know I did not propose there. But you
know when you meet your wife at a Seahawks game
on you know, on the field, and you've been going
to the Kingdome and my whole life growing up, they
were terrible. You know, we did not have playoff teams.
(28:07):
We're barely five hundred. John Kittna was our best quarterback.
Bro herere Rick Meyer, I mean terrible quarterback.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
So for me, the Seahawks hold a special place. And
I gotta tell you, watching them loose to the Rams
like that, I was really surprised. And again I have allegiances,
but I also am Am. I guess you can say
if I could step away thirty thousand square feet or
thirty thousand feet, I was disappointed. I know they can
be better.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
He's on Twitter at Jordan Underscore Schultz. That's at Jordan
Underscore Schultz. Long time NFL inside to check them out
again the big week he had with Roger's story.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Travis Kelsey, we'll get to Taylor Swift next week with you.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You know, I know you're gonna do somethingking on that.
But dude, as always, thanks so much for staying up
late with us. Man, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Have fun, guy, Always a pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
See you Jordan always great to talk to him, Always
great to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
He get, you know, he gives you inside stuff and
in a way that's so different from everybody else. You
wonder why why he gets all these scoops everything else
he did, he just get. He just gives you the
information in a different way and it's just awesome.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
I love this song.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Lorena, who is training under Alex Tyscher tonight, let me
just tell you we're gonna talk about this song later
on in the show. Okay, just so you know, we're
gonna have a conversation about this song.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
She said she's gonna break it down by every line
and its meaning and its cultural impact.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We're gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I don't I don't want, I don't want Tysher letting
people know that's okay to play this song.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
No, I tol her. It's a staple. Yet the play
at least once a night.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's this staple.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
She's a bigger fan of Tears for Fears than t is.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Not Not a staple. Not a staple, Not a staple.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
So we have more big NFL stuff coming up in
a few minutes, and way do we tell you exactly
what the long term future is gonna be for one
NFL superstar? But maybe Yannis is gonna wind up going
someplace else. Janness on Akunpo goings on the Believe Network,
who does a lot of podcasts, big podcasting company, and
(30:22):
uh is asked about his future, which he has talked about.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I want to be in Milwaukee Buck. I want to win.
I want to do all of these things.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But today he was asked about his future and he says, oh, yeah, yeah,
you ah Milwaukee unless take a listen.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I go to Lakers.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Okay, okay, okay, No, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I don't think that was johannest I don't think do
you mean honest, I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I mean, I don't think so. I don't think that
was Yanness.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
You really don't think that that's what he said?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
No, No, I impressed it. I mean that might have
been the voice in his head.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
No, I don't think that's what he said. I don't
think that was him. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Let's try to speak it into existence.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
And you know how I didn't say anything about the
next even though that's likely where he's gonna wind up going.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I mean, I didn't say anything about the Knicks, you know,
but I go to the Lakers. Yannis had this to
say about his future.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
As long as we play and we approach the game
every single day the right way, and we all sacrifice
for a common goal, I can see myself being in
walking back for the rest of my career. But the moment,
I feel like people are not committed as as as
I am to get that golden thing in the back.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
I am not you know, I am.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I'm a Milwaukee back. But most importantly, I'm a winner.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
I want to win and I have to do whatever
it takes for me to win. And if there's a
better situation for me to win, the lady O'Brien, I
have to take that better situation.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I love that he kept saying, oh, no, I want
to be here. I'm here. I'm a buh no. Sure,
but really he went out of his way to make
sure we knew, hey, there's a butt here.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Oh but but whatever happened to you working towards a goal,
it's not a failure. It steps to success. Remember that
teachable moment and all the heart strings and the violins
and all the crap. After they got bounced out of
the playoffs, he tried to sell and people took hook,
line and sinker. All of a sudden, it's like, well,
(32:30):
if I don't think they're as dedicated as I am,
because clearly I bring one hundred and thirty five percent
every damn night.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
Come on, man, h look, I'll.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Tell you this when it comes time, and I realize
we're not at it right now. We're not at it
in three weeks, not at it in three months. Giannis
is going to leave. You can already tell from Stars
because they have the itch, right certain guys. I want
to say, it's never a question, but eventually every player
who plays on a small market team, and look, he
(33:05):
was able to win a championship with the Bucks, and
that's something that should just be wow celebrated because for
a Milwaukee team to win a championship in basketball, come on,
many even Milwaukee Bucks fans, they tell their kids, you
want to be a Bucks fan? Yeah, and I love
the Bucks. Okay, You're probably never gonna see him win
a championship, to win the one with Giannis, okay, But
all stars when they get to the point of what's
(33:28):
their legacy, and everybody gets.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
To that point. Shaq got to that point midway through
his career.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Joel Embiid is getting to that point right now that hey,
I haven't won, and I want my legacy to be
a big deal and I want to win. But especially
when you're talking about a small market team, Giannis is
gonna sit here and continue to say, can I win here? Again,
or is the grass greener and that itch is just
too impossible to not scratch. Now, it could be the Lakers,
could be the Knicks, could be some player you know,
(33:54):
but to want to go someplace else, to go see
if you can make it work. Yeah, because unless he's
ending with NBA titles with Milwaukee, he ain't gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It's not gonna happen. And and the Bucks aren't making moves.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It's putting them above everybody else in the East that Look,
they got knocked out in the first round last year.
And when it comes time to it, when it comes
time to make that decision, Giannis is going to go Laker.
He's gonna finish his career, the back half of his
career someplace else, a bigger market, because the itch is
too impossible to not scratch. Everybody gets it, everybody scratches it,
(34:29):
and they go. He's gonna be the guy that goes.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Really thought he was gonna, you know, lay it out
just down the line.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
I want to play with guys that have the intestinal
fortitude of like an Austin Reeves and guys like that,
you know that are just next.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Level Captain America. Austin Reeves I want to go play
with him.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Yeah, I mean, and look, Frostberg's been putting every guy
in a Laker jersey like he has krans and highlighters
and markers in his bag and he prints out photos
of superstars' on there.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, I call what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, and you know by from your kids. I mean,
come on, don't do that. I don't do that with
with my teams by putting players on it because your
team professionalism. Man, I don't do that for the Knicks
and embat.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
All the it's not realistic. They'll never sign what your
team's squad.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You've never tried to speak any of that into existence.
Neither of you has been LeVar Ball on this show
at all.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Keep it down over there, Benny the Bull.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Twitter it out about a Fresco. Mike gets swollen, dumb.
Giannis is gonna leave. It's just a matter of win.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
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