Aaron Rodgers, New York Jets defeat helpless Patriots on TNF

Hour 2 of Friday's program begins with an examination of the Jets win over the Patriots on Thursday Night Football.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday. Things are going well for you. Things are looking
up and getting better for us all the time. I'm
Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. First hour of
the program, you heard from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian
talking about the matchup with U al Monroe coming up
in a few minutes. You'll actually hear my conversation with

(00:21):
the head coach of the Warhawks of Louisiana Row. We
intended to bring it to yesterday and that's when we
visited with Bryant Vincent, and there was a studio technical
snaffoo thing and it caused for a lot of scrambling
and we weren't able to bring it to yesterday. In fact,
we thought that we had lost it entirely, but thanks

(00:44):
to Chip Jellison, our engineering expert in the building, we
were able to restore it, salvage it. And you'll hear
the conversation coming up in just a few minutes with
the head coach of the Warhawks of ul M. We'll
have that coming up. Also in the four o'clock hour,
Gene Watson from the Chicago White Sox organization to talk

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about the amazing day of show Aotani yesterday. We talked
about it in the first hour of the program. But
just a tremendous day from shoe Heotani, record setting, historic,
all of that other kind of stuff, and they're still
in a pendent race. They still have work to do.
They clinched the playoff spot, but the Dodgers still will
have work to do just to try to win the division.
But anyway, we'll get in all of that with Gino

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coming up next hour. Did you, Cameron, get a chance
last night to watch any of that Thursday night NFL game?
I can't remember. If you have Amazon Prime.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I do, well, I'm not in the Flickerville ID broadcast booth.
I do have access to Amazon Prime. I forgot about it,
and I was able to watch Jets and Patriots and
see Drake May get the play.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, not that impressive. Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, when the Jets are sending a three men rush
and he has five blockers and he's been sacked within
two See, I'm not going to put a lot of
blame on him, that's for sure. But hey, he's meers
Park High School native, went to high school with his brothers,
so always rooting for Drake.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
May Okay, I didn't know you went to high school
with his brothers. Okay, all right, that's cool. Would you
think Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
He looked good twenty two or twenty nine. I think yeah,
he looked like the Aaron Rodgers that we saw towards
the end of Green Bay, which is he knows his
command in the pocket is incredible. And the side arm
throw the Garrett Wolfson for the touchdown pass, I mean,
that was insane. There's a throw that not many quarterbacks
can make, so he still has it. And the kind

(02:37):
of the same thing with Kirk Cousins right where it
felt like it took Kirk Cousins about six quarters to
kind of get back to Kirk Cousins. Same thing for
Aaron Rodgers. And might add the Patriots have a really
good defense. They've looked very impressive in the first two weeks.
So I came away impressed with Aaron Rodgers. And I
know all the off the field stuff, the Pat McAfee stuff,

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all of his weird stuff, a lot of people don't
like it, but when he's on the football field, he
is one of the most enjoyable quarterbacks to watch play
the position, and it's good for the NFL to have
a healthy Aaron Rodgers, and I hope he can stay healthy.
I hope this Jets team can contend because they're fun
to watch and it'll be fun to see them play
the Bills later on this season.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah yeah. How about the stat of him throwing the
touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson, that it was the first
time in his career, in Aaron Rodgers' career, that he'd
thrown a touchdown pass to a number one draft pick,
a first round draft choice. Think about all the guys,
all the guys. That's amazing to consider that.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
And it kind of shows the problem Aaron Rodgers had
it with Green Bay just refusing to draft offensive weapons
towards the end. Now the Vontae Adams, he was in
a first round draft pick, right.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
What round you see? I think third.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
That's insane considering especially how well he's played. So goes
to show you don't always need a first round draft
pick to establish good chemistry. We know Rogers did that
so many times in Green Bay with all all the
receivers he had that he was thrown to. But him
and Garrett Wilson is a nasty combination. How about the
former Iowa State product Alan Lazard. Yeah, getting in a touchdown.

(04:09):
Thank you for that. To my fantasy team. I needed
some good points.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know. What didn't look good was when he went
to the sideline and Robert Salad tried. They tried for
the bro hug thing, and that thing did not work.
For folks who didn't see this, after he threw touchdown pass. No,
it was after the one yard run by Bruce Hall
to make it fourteen nothing in the second quarter. So
Rogers comes over to the sidelines and he slapped hands

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with the Jets head coach Robert Salah. He didn't kind
of moved in for a hug, and Rogers kind of
shoved him, bumped him a little bit, and then walked away,
and it looked like he was saying doing that hug thing.
But then afterwards Rogers said, he's not a big hugger usually,
so I didn't know he was going for the hug.

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He likes to do the two hand chest push as well.
He talks a lot about two score leads, so I
kind of gave him a push and said two score
lead that kind of thing. So it was kind of
funny about that. It was it might have been just
a little bit uncomfortable. You ever have one of those
moments where you kind of get caught up between the

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hug and the handshakes that ever happened too, of course, Yeah,
you don't know what you're doing there, and it's really awkward,
and you just you just want to move on from
it and everything about it. Every again, Yeah, it happens
all the time. Okay, all right, So so here's here's
my counter story to the to the Jimmy Johnson, uh,
the Jimmy Johnson munchos incident that you know so much
about about when he glared at me when it was

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in the way in the back of this studio and
I was trying to eat some lunch and it was starving,
and and it was munchos. My friends at the Ticket
in Dallas, George Juhman, Craig Miller thought it was funions.
I don't like funions, so it wasn't Funnians. It was muncho's.
I can tell you that I was eating a sandwich.
I think I'd gotten a sandwich at seven to eleven or something,
a bag of a bunch of starving at and eating

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press conference, all this kind of stuff. And to be Fair.
It was nineteen eighty nine, so it was Jimmy Johnson's
first season. We know what happened in nineteen eighty nine.
The Cowboys went one in fifteen. So he wasn't having
a lot of fun. No, he wasn't. And it was
during that point in Bradsham was sitting down to do
the interview. I was way in the back of the
room and I'd set up there and it was this
It was a television studio at Valley Ranch. I mean
I was thirty feet from him at least, and yet

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I probably crunched just a little too loud, and he
stopped and he snapped and he said, do you you
want to eat lunch? You want to do this? Or
something like that. And then and then before I could
even say anything, he said, I'm sorry. I know. He
went on about it. So. Uh So, the guys that
the ticket had a lot of fun with it over
the years. Well, Craig Miller, who was one of those guys,
he kind of caught caught between. It wasn't a handshaking

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a hug with Jimmy Johnson, but it was a how
you doing handshake? You know. He put the hand out,
pull it back, put the hand and pull out, you know,
one of those awkward moments. So you know that that
comes to mind, you know, is it you know, do
you ever have one of those awkward moments handshake, hug, hug,
handshake or handshake just how you're doing kind of moments there.

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And that goes too if it's someone that you don't know,
and maybe it's a woman or something like that, and
you don't know if you hug there or you know,
you don't want to be kind of accused of being
a creeper or anything like that. So I mean it's
sometimes we have socially awkward and clumsy moments. Those happen.

(07:31):
You do have those those things, so we're all victim
to it a little bit, I suppose. And that was
kind of a socially awkward and clumsy moment on the
sideline there. But Jad's got the win. They looked impressive,
they beat the Patriots. Patriots look good in week one,
not so much in the two weeks sense. So and

(07:52):
I guess maybe what folks think is going to be
the situation where the Patriots may well wind up being
the situation the Patriots there that they're going to struggle
mightily this year with Jeron Mayo at the helm kind
of left with an empty cupboard with the departure of

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Bill Belichick, So we'll see how that goes. There is
college football tonight, We're gonna get into that. I'll mention that,
and then obviously we'll have the conversation with Bryant Vincent,
the head coach of the Warhawks of u EL Monroe,

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who provide the opposition tomorrow night at Royal Texas Memorial
Stateiument's at seven o'clock kick, and you can hear our
pregame coverage beginning at four o'clock, three hours prior to kick,
with long Orange game day coverage coming your way from
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the Winship Circle area, right in the middle of all
the action because you have Cameron Parker and Mike Hardball

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hard and Mark Henry all down there for that. So
that starts at four o'clock. The network pregame starts at six,
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All right up next, we'll visit with Bryant Vincent, the

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head coach of the Ulm Warhawks. When we continue on
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