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Aaron Rodgers signs with the PITTSBURGH STEELERS! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I believe the Mets are going to give him a significant.
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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A.
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Game where you got to go before? I told you, giant feet Saquon
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Barkley at this Let's do it.
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And yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a crazy day.
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Aaron Rodgers, as we will get into it a little bit later in
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the show, is now a Pittsburgh Steeler.
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Let's jump for joy. What is that spell for the
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Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh, I would say Pittsburgh Penguins,
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the Pittsburgh Steelers, You know what it spells?
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It spells LOSER. What is that spell?
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Speedy, loser, loser. That's what they're going to be
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this year. I don't know what the Pittsburgh
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Steelers are doing, but hey, at least they got their
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quarterback. And it's not Mason Rudolph.
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Yes, it's 86°. And it's been a crazy, crazy
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week for me. And it's not just the weather.
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I was going to the weather, but it's the world.
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It's the world and what we are watching.
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And I'm not going to get into politics and I'm not going to
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get into any of that crazy religion crap.
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No, I'm going to get into the Errol Marx life.
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And my life is, it's still, it stands still because obviously
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I'm going on vacation in about a week and a half.
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I'm going to go to Bermuda. Hopefully I get caught up in
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that damn triangle. I'm going to enjoy the the
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wonderful beaches, which I can't even go in the water because I'm
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so deathly afraid of sharks. So you won't see the Big E in
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the water. I will have my feet just in the
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water enjoying the aftershave of of my feet because I shaved my
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feet, ladies and gentlemen. And by the way, I want to, I
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want to say something for people out there.
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Any guy that doesn't shave their feet, their hands or their
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chest, shame on you. Because the first thing a woman
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looks at as far as if you're barefooted is your feet.
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If it's hairy, if it's dirty, and they look at your hands,
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they look at your nails and they look how hairy your hands are.
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They don't like that. They don't like to see, they
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don't want to, they don't want to shake a werewolf's hands.
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OK, so that's all I'm going to say about that.
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So when you, when you're approaching a woman or you're
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looking or you're trying to go out there and meet a woman, make
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sure you, you take care of yourself.
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And Speedy doesn't do very much of that.
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So we try to tell Speedy over and over and over again that you
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have to trim yourself. As we always say, we have a
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bunch of drops for him and he says why should I have to trim
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and he says I don't care about the ladies, all I care about is
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myself. Do you not say that, Speedy?
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Nathan cares about the ladies. But what about you?
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You care about Nathan, cares about the ladies.
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Well, that's to me, think you. Care about the ladies too, right
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Errol? He definitely does.
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That speed he's been caring about the ladies.
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He definitely does and you know, my my producer forgot to put in
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the the wire in this this drop right here and unfortunately I
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had no drop. So I had the perfect drop for
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speedy and and the plug wasn't in.
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But nevertheless, Speedy does like to reach out to women on
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Instagram. He has a ton of them.
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I think he's got like 12 of them lined up.
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He speaks to every single one of them every single day.
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He remarks to every single post that they have.
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I mean, Speedy's the real ladies man, as we always say.
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He keeps saying Nathan's always about the ladies man.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, the speedster loves his women,
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right? Speedy?
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What would you rather a blonde or brunette?
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Don't care, You don't care. What do you mean you don't care?
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Don't care Blonde or blonde, I don't care.
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You got to pick one. No, I don't.
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You got to pick one. No, I don't.
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What do you like? Large or thin?
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You like large women? Do you like large women?
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I like people. That are nice.
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So you, so you're going to tell me if if a beastly woman was
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hanging out with you, you would like her and you, I don't know,
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make out with her? Is that what you're saying?
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You do You know, You know he you know what it is, Fish.
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He knows what I'm talking about. He just doesn't want to answer
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it because he's ashamed of it. I don't know why he's ashamed of
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it. I'll tell you this.
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Question, Speedy. How do you know that one of
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those women aren't Kevin Durant on one of his fake Instagram
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accounts? Speedy, probably.
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Has not know that, yeah, Speedy makes fun, you know, fish.
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Speedy makes fun of Kevin Durant with all his Twitter accounts.
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Could you imagine if Speeder Speeder has about like 7 or 8
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Instagram accounts and he's talking to multiple women?
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I, I I could see speedy doing that.
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I really could. I mean he has different
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pictures. What's his fake name?
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Too legit to quit, that's what I didn't.
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That would be one of his posts a year.
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Ago it was. It was a James Greenbush.
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No, no. That would be his porno name.
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That would be his porno name, yes.
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You know if anybody doesn't know how to discover what your porno
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name is, it's very simple. Your middle name, if you have a
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middle name, you use your middle name and the 1st St. you lived
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on. So just think about it.
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If you ever want to pick a porno name, if you're going to be in a
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porn or you're reaching out to one of these porn organization,
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you got to use your middle name and the streets you lived on.
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So just think about it. You post it up, you guys get
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posted up on a board. I would love to see what your
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porno name would be. So mine would be Joseph
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Washington. That would be my porno name.
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Oh, Kevin, says Michael. Roll Stone.
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That's good. Mine is Samuel Ocean.
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Samuel Ocean, Frank Ocean. I like Frank Ocean.
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I like that. Maybe that's how he got his
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name. Speedies would be James
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Greenbush. He was his middle name is James
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and Greenbush. So it is pretty funny.
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And if and guys, if you ever want all the people out there on
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all the social medias, if you want to post it up on our
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different social medias, we'll definitely read it out.
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We'll get all your names and we'll stack it up and we'll take
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the top ten. We'll take the top ten porno
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names and we'll see. We'll vote on the next show on
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Monday. We'll vote on the Monday show
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who has the best porno name. That would be cool.
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And we'll send you here's even better, we'll send you a job and
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a mouth T-shirt. That sounds cool.
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What about that? That'll be cool.
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So we'll work on that anyways, yeah, it's been a crazy 1 and I,
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I'll just say this before we get into the show, we have a great
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show lined up for you. I will tell you this today I was
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very upset. So I've been dealing with, I've
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been dealing with throat problems.
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All right, so I, I have, there's a couple of things I have, but I
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have tonsillitis. OK, so over the last couple of
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days, I was I went to a Vietnamese restaurant and I
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thought I was having an allergic reaction, so I rushed myself to
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an urgent care. So I had to wait on line.
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By the way, never go to an urgent care at 9:30 at night
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because it takes about an hour and a half to go and see a
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doctor or a nurse nurse practitioner.
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OK, so I got in there and she told me I have tonsillitis and
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she she tested me for COVID. She tested me for I don't have
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to everything strap everything in the book.
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She she tested me for it came up negative.
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All right, so then she looked at me.
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I was getting puss in my tonsils.
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She says you have tonsillitis. So she sends me home with well,
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I had to go to ACVSI had to get myself an antibiotic and it
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hasn't been working. So the other day I have a call
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to one of my friends. I'm not going to mention any
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names. I don't want to get him in
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trouble. And he's like, he's like a
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pharmacist, OK? And he gave me some steroids.
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Not the steroids that get you jacked up, guys.
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The steroids that helps, you know, helps your throat and gave
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me some Prednisone. And I've been on it for the last
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24 hours. And I'm feeling a little bit
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better. So these tonsils are getting a
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little bit stronger. So you might hear me screaming
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roar tonight because of it. So, yeah.
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NFL Networks Tom Pelisar reports that the Steelers have
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officially signed Aaron Rodgers to a new deal.
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The terms of the deal have not been discussed, but Rodgers told
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the teams publicly he would play for around $20 million.
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He added that the perimeters of the contract have been in for
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months, but it took a while to finalize the contract.
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Rodgers is expected to fly to Pittsburgh on Friday and be a
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full participant in the Steelers mandatory mini mini camps on
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Friday. Steelers owner Art Rooney said
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that even though Rogers said on the Pat McAfee Show he was
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unsure of his future, they always knew he was going to
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play. Rogers had 3897 yards, 28
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touchdowns, 11 interceptions, a 63 completion percentage and a
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90.5 passer. Raining glass seizing.
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Rodgers will be 41 years old entering his 21st NFL season.
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I, I, here's the thing. We expected this to happen.
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We knew Rodgers was not going to retire because of the season he
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had last year. He did have a good team around
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him. Now, The Jets obviously put him
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in a good position. They went after Devante Adams,
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They added all these different Packers.
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They thought it would make him feel comfortable, and he didn't.
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I wouldn't say he laid up a lousy goose egg for the New York
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Jets, but he didn't give The Jets what The Jets wanted him to
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give him. And that was a playoff
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appearance and maybe a contending team over the last
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two years. As we all know, Aaron Rodgers
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went down the first game of the season against the one and only
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Pittsburgh Steel. I'm sorry, was it the
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Pittsburgh? I'm sorry, no Bills.
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It was the Bills. I'm sorry, the Buffalo Bills.
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He ran out on the field with the flag.
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The American flag looked like he was Captain America and he was
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going to save the world in olive green where the lights were down
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and dim and the lights were flashing on.
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Aaron Rodgers, ladies and gentlemen.
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He couldn't even stay on the field for four plays.
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He eventually tore his Achilles. He was out for the rest of the
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season, tried to come back. Thank God he didn't.
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He came back. Last year, Netflix put on a
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documentary that made Aaron Rodgers look so special, look so
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fantastic. And again, he came in in a
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season that looked like he didn't want to play.
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He seriously didn't want to play.
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And even though his numbers don't look bad, the perimeter of
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what you thought Aaron Rodgers was going to give the New York
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Jets is just absolutely appalling.
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Now, when you look at these numbers, there's there, they
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could be the best numbers we've seen a Jets quarterback put up
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in about 25 years. So when you expected it from the
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great Aaron Rodgers, did he deliver?
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The problem with Aaron Rodgers, he didn't deliver it in in in a
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situation where it gave them an opportunity to win.
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His numbers basically came at the end of the game.
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It basically came when The Jets were out of that game.
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They weren't winning that game. They were down by 1417 points in
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the fourth quarter with 10 minutes left where The Jets were
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going to have to make a run, unbelievable run to win that
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game. And The Jets have never done
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that. As a matter of fact, the last
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time I I remember The Jets coming back from a significant
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lead was against the Miami Dolphins when John Hall kicked a
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field goal to win the game for the New York Jets.
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I remember that was like in the late 90s, OK, It was that's
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that's the last time I remember The Jets coming back from a an
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incredible, it looked like an incredible loss.
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The Jets have been an organization that have been
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looking for a quarterback and the same thing I could say for
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the Pittsburgh Steelers. I could say that for probably I
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would say 14 teams in the NFL still looking for a quarterback,
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first round draft pick, second round draft pick, third round
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draft picks. They can't find them because
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it's very hard to find a number one goaltender, A goaltender,
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another quarterback. That tells you what I'm thinking
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about last night's Edmonton Oiler game.
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We'll get it to that a little bit later, but Aaron Rodgers is
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to me, the best quarterback in the last 15 years.
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If you look at Aaron Rodgers numbers and speedy, could you
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sit still for five seconds, 5 seconds?
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He's like this. Aaron Rodgers has not been the
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same quarterback really for the last four years.
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The last time I remember Aaron Rodgers put up those numbers
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that really stood out to me was when they faced San Francisco in
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the first round and they were the number one team in the NFL.
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They lost. It was snowing.
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I remember it was in Wisconsin and a lot of people thought that
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was Aaron Rodgers last year and they probably were right.
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And then you look at what Aaron Rodgers has delivered the last
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three years. It was one season because he
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missed one and it's not good. But I'm not saying Aaron Rodgers
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going to the Pittsburgh Steelers is not going to give you a good
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quarterback play. Only time will tell.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers last year had problems with their
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offensive line. The Pittsburgh Steelers last
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year were undecided who their starting quarterback was.
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They had Justin Fields, who's now a New York Jets quarterback.
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It was kind of like a flip flop. They had Justin Fields that was
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four and two at 1.4 and one at one point with the Pittsburgh
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Steelers. And then after the 6th game,
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they decided to start Russell Wilson when he was 100% healthy
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and Russell Wilson got him into the playoffs.
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And what happened once again, eight years in a row, get
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eliminated in the first round. I don't care how talented the
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Pittsburgh Steelers defense is. And then they make a trade.
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George Pickens. There were stories coming out
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from the Pittsburgh Steelers at the end of the season that
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George Pickens wasn't happy. He didn't like the coaching
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staff. He didn't like some of the
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players that he was playing with.
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Well, they eventually shipped him out to the Cowboys and we'll
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see how that works. But they added DK Metcalf, they
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made a trade, went to Seattle Seahawks, they get DK Metcalf.
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And then you heard that Aaron Rodgers was throwing with DK
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Metcalf over the last couple of weeks.
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Oh, Aaron Rodgers could be coming to Pittsburgh, but it
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took him, what, a month and a half to decide?
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And I don't want to hear it from the Pittsburgh Steelers in the
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organization. And Art Rooney, well, we knew he
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was going to come. We knew that he was going to
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play another season. If he didn't, you would have set
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your team back another season. You made a trade for DK Metcalf.
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You made all these moves in the offseason to suit your
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organization to make a run going into a new season.
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And what did you guys do? What did you guys do?
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You waited for Aaron Rodgers just like the New York Jets did,
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just like the Green Bay Packers did.
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And we all know the Green Bay Packers and the stories behind
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the greenback. And is this a perfect night to
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talk about the Green Bay Packers?
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Because we're going to have one of the greatest Green Bay Packer
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defensive players of all time coming on the show.
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So it'll be fun to hear what he has to say from this absolute
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debacle. And he never really played with
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Aaron Rodgers. He might have.
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Aaron Rodgers was a backup quarterback.
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He was sitting at the tail end of his career.
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But I don't think Leroy actually played with Aaron Rodgers.
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But nevertheless, if you look at this situation with the
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Pittsburgh Steelers, they're in a division that is is really run
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by the Baltimore Ravens. Lamar Jackson is the best player
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right now in the NFL. He's the best quarterback.
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I don't want to hear about Pat Patrick Mahomes.
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I don't want to hear about Joe Burrow, who, by the way, Joe
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Burrows in the same division as the Pittsburgh Steelers and
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Lamar Jackson. If you think about the
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quarterback play in this division, it's probably the best
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in the league. When you hit the additions of
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Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and now Aaron Rodgers.
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And Aaron Rodgers, like I said to me in the last 15 years, is
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the best quarterback in the NFL. That's over Tom Brady.
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Yes. Tom Brady is a winning
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quarterback, yes, over Peyton Manning, over Drew Brees.
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If you look at the numbers, the numbers don't lie.
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The completion percentage and what Aaron Rodgers does, well,
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yeah, he won 1 championship. It's very hard to win a
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championship. It is, but if you look at what
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Aaron Rodgers was ranked as a quarterback in the 15 years that
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he was as good as anybody, it's amongst the league's greatest
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quarterbacks, greatest players to ever play the game.
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I look at the Pittsburgh Steelers right now.
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Are they really going to be fighting for first place in this
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division? The answer would be no.
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You had DK Metcalf to this team. Is he that much better than the
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weapons that they had last year? I, I don't know now, DK
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Metcalf's a good player. Last year he didn't have a good
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season. He didn't.
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And you, you spent a lot of money because after you made
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that trade for DK Metcalf, you paid him a load of money.
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And DK Metcalf is what, 28 years old now?
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He he's got another good four years left in him if at best.
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And Aaron Rodgers had his wide receivers.
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The Jets brought in two or three wide receivers from the the
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Packers. Devante Adams, you could argue,
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is the greatest Packers wide receiver of all time and they
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still couldn't win. The Jets still couldn't win with
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Aaron Rodgers, number one guy. They had Garrett Wilson, one of
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the more young, elusive wide receivers, one of the best route
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runners in the league. He still couldn't get the ball
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to Garrett Wilson. And this is what I'm going to
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say about Aaron Rodgers. There's questions where this
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team and this organization is now.
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If if this fails for Pittsburgh, where do they go?
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If Aaron Rodgers gives you just enough wins to get you in the
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playoffs, you're not even going to be in position to get a
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quarterback in next year's class because there's five good ones
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and they're probably all going to go in the top 10 or top 12.
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If Aaron Rodgers gets you 9 or 10 wins and you sneak into the
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playoffs, are you going to get one of those guys?
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The answer would be no. So what does this do for the
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Pittsburgh Steelers? What does this do for Mike
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Tomlin? What does this do for an
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organization that's been craving a championship?
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This isn't Ben Roethlisberger and his prime guys.
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It is Aaron Rodgers. But it isn't Ben, and this is,
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and I'm going to say this, Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
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they've had since Ben Roethlisberger.
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Even with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, he's the best
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one. But that doesn't spell anything
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when it comes to a championship. Aaron Rodgers is at the tail end
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of his career. Again, when you look at his
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numbers on paper, they don't look bad.
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But if you look at now the traditional new statistics, the
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PFFS and the quarterback numbers that you're trying to compare to
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the great quarterbacks in the league right now, they're they
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were amongst the league's top 15, top 16 instead of the top
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ten. You, you have to look at these
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things. And again, I'm looking at the
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Pittsburgh Steelers and I'm still wondering, is this the
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right guy for the what this team for right now?
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I the the problem was is they should have taken Justin Fields,
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but they screwed Justin Fields last year after putting Russell
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Wilson in when he got healthy because he was the veteran and
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he won a Super Bowl. And then Justin Field Fields was
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bitter in the offseason. He said, you know what?
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You don't want me. You didn't want me in the middle
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of the season when I could have taken you to the playoffs.
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And maybe Snucky snuck a win at what?
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Winning in the playoffs, maybe make a run in the playoffs.
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Well, guess what? I'm going to The Jets.
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You could go after whoever the hell you want.
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You're not going to get me, that's for damn sure.
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And Russell Wilson's happy right now.
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I mean, Russell Wilson's happy right now with the Giants.
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And Justin Fields is happy right now with The Jets.
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As you're reading stories that he is so absolutely happy about
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Aaron Glenn as his head coach, that his his performance has
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been much, much better in the OTAs, in the practices.
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He feels like he's going to be a better quarterback this year
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because he has a a coach that believes in him.
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So that when he, when you hear Justin Fields come out and say
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that, what is that say for Mike Tomlin, who everybody says is
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one of the great coaches in the NFL, one of the winningest
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coaches in the NFL, by the way, in the regular season, but in
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the playoffs, he lays the lousy goose egg up every single year
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for eight years in a row. So what does that say?
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Aaron Rodgers is not what you call a flamethrower in the
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playoffs. Go ask the San Francisco 49ers
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that have crushed him many, many times.
22:31
Then they've met in the playoffs.
22:34
Kyle Shanahan has his number. A lot of coaches has his number.
22:37
Bill Belichick had his number. This is a problem.
22:42
And I'm going to tell you this right now, Pittsburgh on paper
22:46
right now is not making the playoffs.
22:48
On paper right now, they're not making the playoffs.
22:50
Their offensive line is limited. Aaron Rodgers The Jets put on.
22:55
They added so many offensive lineman last year.
22:57
They added Smith, they added all these guys, Moses, Morgan,
23:01
Moses. They added all these guys, these
23:03
veteran players to play with, Aaron Rodgers to protect them.
23:06
And even when it was in, he was in a better situation with the
23:09
offensive lineman The Jets gave him.
23:11
It didn't help. It didn't help and Aaron Rodgers
23:15
made excuses that he couldn't plant his feet, He couldn't
23:18
stand in the pocket. He was running for dear life.
23:20
You wanted all these guys you asked The Jets to to deliver and
23:24
they delivered it. They traded a third round draft
23:26
pick for Devante Adams. Devante Adams put up numbers.
23:31
You didn't. And when Devante Adams put up
23:33
the numbers in the later quarters when The Jets were out
23:37
of those games. And that's again goes to the
23:41
situation for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
23:44
Are you willing to believe in Aaron Rodgers, by the way, who's
23:49
now showing up to mandatory OTAs?
23:52
He didn't practice with the team.
23:53
He hasn't gone to these camps. He decided when he wanted to
23:57
sign that contract. That tells me Mike Tomlin
23:59
doesn't have control. That tells me Art Rooney doesn't
24:02
have control. That tells me Aaron is in the
24:05
driver's seat. And that you know what that
24:07
spells? Ask Tom Brady, who always he
24:09
showed up to OTAs, practically showed up to all the practices.
24:12
Go ask Ben Roethlisberger when he was playing for the
24:15
Pittsburgh Steelers, even if he was trying to rape people in
24:18
bars and and drive his motorcycle into cars or whatever
24:21
the hell he was doing in his in his spare time.
24:24
And all these guys, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, they all
24:27
showed up to these these not even non mandatory practices.
24:31
They were there with his teammates trying to build
24:33
relationships. Aaron Rodgers does whatever he
24:35
wants. And this is coming from an Aaron
24:37
Rodgers fan. You don't want Aaron Rodgers to
24:40
believe that he's in charge. You don't want Aaron Rodgers to
24:43
think that he is in charge and he's in the driver's seat
24:46
because that tells the coach he has no control of this team.
24:50
He doesn't have any control of what Aaron Rodgers is going to
24:53
do in the locker room or what he's going to do on a football
24:56
field. Yeah, and he created unnecessary
24:58
hoopla this offseason, which is not something that the Steelers
25:01
organization usually does. Obviously, Antonio Brown was a
25:04
special circumstance because he's just that crazy.
25:06
Le'veon Bell had his own circumstances.
25:08
It's just that crazy. But I think at the same time
25:10
those were a lot more player driven.
25:12
The Steelers could have said in March, Aaron Rodgers, we're
25:16
you're on our radar, but we're going to prioritize bringing
25:18
back Justin Fields. What are The Jets do the first
25:20
week of free agency sign Justin Fields because the Steelers dead
25:23
in that relationship way too much.
25:25
Russell Wilson signs with the Giants a couple weeks later with
25:29
it and they dead in that relationship.
25:31
Russell Wilson said he wanted to go back to the Steelers, which I
25:34
thought was a bit surprising. I don't know how much I trust
25:36
it, but that's the report that the Steelers are getting.
25:39
And we discussed with many of our guests the NFLPA ownership
25:43
rankings. The Steelers were third to last.
25:46
All of a sudden this Rooney family that like we joke about
25:49
all the time, was respected for years, just like the Giants
25:51
respected for years, and all of a sudden has to resort to the
25:54
Aaron Rodgers drama in the offseason fiasco that got more
25:58
storylines for the Steelers during their draft than the
26:00
actual draft picks themselves. Because you're wondering, oh, is
26:03
he going to sign there? Is he going to draft this
26:04
quarterback instead? This Are the Steelers going to
26:06
draft Dart? Are the Steelers going to draft
26:08
Shidor Sanders? Why?
26:09
Because Aaron Rodgers was the only other QB option that they
26:12
had, because Mason Rudolph was the only QB option on the team
26:16
right now, because nobody else wanted to play there.
26:19
And it creates a culture that it, like you're saying, Errol is
26:22
going to be parallel to a Aaron Rodgers running The Jets.
26:25
And you don't want to have to stoop so low if you're the
26:26
Steelers to do that. There's a reason Mike Tomlin
26:28
hasn't won a playoff game in nine years now.
26:31
And maybe he doesn't have any control of the players anymore.
26:33
I don't think ownership does either.
26:35
I don't know if it's control of the players.
26:38
I personally think that they just are putting all their eggs
26:42
in next year's basket because the draft is supposed to be good
26:45
and they're just going to go get their quarterback and if they
26:47
can't get their quarterback in the draft, they're going to
26:50
trade a whole bunch of assets. They got 12 picks next year,
26:53
they got 3 thirds, I think 3/4 or two fourths, 2/5, two sixths.
26:58
They they'll trade their higher end picks and the following year
27:00
picks and just hope that they draft well and get those deaf
27:03
guys because they want to get their guy this year.
27:06
They just don't want to be an embarrassment.
27:08
Aaron Rodgers. You might get into the wild card
27:10
with Aaron Rodgers. Theoretically, I think that's
27:13
the idea. And then you know, you get a
27:14
seat, you get a seat at the dance, you know you got a chance
27:17
to win. And that's what I think they're
27:19
banking on. I don't know.
27:21
I I personally wouldn't have done it.
27:23
I don't know why they kept Tomlin.
27:24
If they're trying to do that, they're like, maybe they think
27:26
they could hold him over and then when the team's good again
27:29
in a year from now, you know, we have Tomlin still, but smart
27:32
money would have been fire the the long time coach rebuild now
27:36
bottom out and you know, get get these high end picks and rebuild
27:40
your team like it traditionally is done.
27:43
I respected them for not wanting to lose, but I got some bad
27:46
stats on Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodger, Well, he's I'll
27:49
start with this. I thought he moved around a lot
27:51
better physically second-half of the season because he had that
27:55
Achilles didn't. He didn't look great in his
27:57
mobile. He was famous for being able to
27:58
throw on the run his whole career and be able to get his
28:02
hips around and his shoulders around at a level that nobody
28:05
else. We haven't really seen that
28:06
until Mahomes. Well, he wasn't doing that at
28:09
all. The first half.
28:10
He couldn't do it and then the second-half is a little bit
28:12
better. He also had Devante Adams in the
28:13
second-half, like you said, Earl, and it definitely made a
28:16
made a lot easier for him. Here's the numbers that make you
28:20
worry about Aaron Rodgers, 25th in the league last year in QBR
28:24
rating, 48 point O. That's well below average in the
28:28
clutch, a 55.9 passer rating. That's out of like 148.
28:34
So he had a 55 in passer rating. And.
28:39
This is the receiver, the receiving core he has outside of
28:44
DK Metcalf. They have Calvin Austin, the
28:46
third, Ben Swaronic, Scotty Miller, Robert Woods, who I
28:52
guess is still in the league. 36 or something.
28:55
And the Michigan rookie that got hurt and didn't play last year,
28:59
Roman Wilson, so he's I guess is technically is still his rookie
29:02
year, right? Because he didn't play.
29:04
So that's that's it. Think about this.
29:07
Think about this. Garrett Wilson, who was one of
29:09
the best young wide receivers in the league, one of the best wide
29:13
receivers in all of the NFL. And then all of a sudden Aaron
29:17
Rodgers, you heard all these practices.
29:19
Aaron Rodgers was juicing the ball to him in the end zone.
29:22
He looked unbelievable. The press was writing all these
29:24
crazy stories. The one hand grabbed that
29:26
remember the end of the regular season, which we have it in our
29:28
clip, the unbelievable catch that he had.
29:31
That was probably the best catch he had all season long.
29:35
And the reason why is because during the season this guy,
29:39
Garrett Wilson went to Robert AK, Bambi Sala in the middle of
29:43
the season and said, I can't play with this guy.
29:45
This guy and me do not get along on the field.
29:48
And he got very uncomfortable really, really early in the
29:51
season with Aaron Rodgers. And that's why they had to make
29:54
that move for Devante Adams because it was never going to
29:57
work with Garrett Wilson. And Garrett Wilson at the end of
29:59
the season said, I am not extending with you guys if this
30:03
guy is here. And that's why what did The Jets
30:06
do? The Jets went after his college
30:09
partner, his college quarterback in Justin Fields.
30:13
Why to make Garrett Wilson happy this season.
30:17
So if Garrett's happy in the offseason next year, he gets his
30:21
contract, they get their number one wide receivers only 2425
30:25
years old. He's he's got an opportunity to
30:27
put up great numbers this year as the number one guy.
30:30
He's happy. They're happy there's defense
30:33
that is amongst the league's best because really, for the
30:36
last two seasons, Robert Sala's defense was amongst the best in
30:39
the league, top five in the league.
30:41
It'll be that way exactly what it was last year because you
30:44
have Aaron Glenn, who had one of the best defenses in the league
30:47
last year with the the Lions and he lost so many big players.
30:50
Hutchinson was out for the season last year.
30:53
They lost a ton of great defensive players and they still
30:56
had one of the elite defenses in the NFL.
30:59
Why? Because Aaron Glenn is a great
31:00
defensive mind. So again, you have an you have
31:04
an advantage now, I would say Aaron Rodgers because he goes to
31:08
a team that's winning all the time.
31:10
So there's no excuses for Tomlin and and Aaron Rodgers.
31:14
This team has had a winning season every single year.
31:18
Mike Tomlin's been there. So if Aaron Rodgers fails to
31:21
have a winning season with this Pittsburgh Steelers team, it is
31:25
not Mike Tomlin. It isn't the organization, isn't
31:28
the players on the football field.
31:30
It is him. It is Aaron Rodgers because
31:33
Aaron Rodgers can't shut his mouth and just play the goddamn
31:36
football game. And that's the problem right now
31:38
with the Pittsburgh Steelers. You took on a responsibility, a
31:42
guy that is not a leader. He's all about himself.
31:45
And I love Aaron Rodgers. For all the people are saying
31:48
you hate on Aaron Rodgers, I love the guy.
31:50
He's my favorite quarterback. But after watching him with the
31:54
New York Jets and after seeing what he's all about off the
31:57
field, going to all these different games, he's going to
32:01
Ranger games, Islander games, Knick games, Yankee games, and
32:05
not really spending time on the football, football field getting
32:08
to know the players are trying to get these guys to play and
32:11
and play the way he wants them to play.
32:13
Do you know what Aaron Rodgers was doing during the the week
32:17
they were off what he was doing? He was in California hanging out
32:21
with his friends and different, you know, all his different
32:23
friends and his new girlfriend, who, by the way, at that point
32:26
he was dating, I think the Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks.
32:30
I think it was the Milwaukee Bucks's daughter, the, the, the
32:33
owner's daughter. OK, That's what he was doing in
32:36
his spare time. And by the way, did you hear
32:38
what Danica Danica Patrick said on a a podcast recently about it
32:42
if you're. Going to bring this up.
32:43
Yeah, pretty wild accusations saying it was an abusive
32:47
relationship by by Rodgers towards her.
32:50
Just think about that. Danica Patrick, who's one of the
32:53
most respectful athletes we've seen, one of the she was the
32:56
first woman NASCAR driver. She went on a podcast when they
33:01
asked her questions about Aaron Rodgers.
33:02
She didn't want to answer the questions and when she did it,
33:06
it would make your mouth drop. She said that he was very he
33:09
wasn't abusive where he wasn't putting his hands on her.
33:12
He was very mentally abusive to her, made her feel low about
33:16
herself and made it seem like he was.
33:19
He was all that and she was a bag of bounce.
33:21
She wasn't worth anything to him and that he could he could do
33:24
whatever he wants and he could say whatever he wants.
33:26
And a matter of fact, she also said that at the tail end of
33:30
their their relationship, the sex was bad.
33:34
I mean, she was pretty honest, honest about Aaron Rodgers in
33:37
the bed. Just think about it.
33:39
Aaron Rodgers. The first thing that pops into
33:41
my mouth, my mind now when it comes to Danica Patrick is, oh,
33:45
this guy can't, he can't get it up.
33:47
He can't really take care of his woman.
33:49
And Danica Patrick's a pretty hot woman.
33:51
Get his hips around, you know, it's she's struggling getting
33:53
his hips around later in the career.
33:55
You know, obviously some injuries is affects the toll
33:58
both in personal relationships and then I guess on the field as
34:01
well. Not great for him.
34:04
I just think that if you're a, if you're a Pittsburgh Steeler
34:07
fan, you can't be very happy. And I'm by the way, we had a
34:10
couple, we had Benton on and Benton told me there's no way
34:13
Justin Fields goes to The Jets. He told me there's no way Justin
34:18
Fields is going to The Jets. I said once the the offseason
34:23
opens up and players can sign to a team, one of the first
34:26
signings are going to be it's going to be Justin Fields going
34:29
to the New York Jets. I told, I said Benton, let's
34:31
make some money. Let's let's, let's make a deal.
34:33
It's been a wheel make the deal. He told me, no, I don't want to
34:36
make a deal. Thank God he didn't, because one
34:38
of the one of the, the first moves in the offseason was
34:42
Justin Fields going to the New York Jets.
34:44
I told everybody that he was talking to Aaron, Aaron Glenn in
34:48
the offseason, that he wanted to be coached by Aaron Glenn and
34:51
Aaron Glenn wanted Justin Fields.
34:53
As a matter of fact, he told The Jets if he takes the job, he
34:56
wants Justin Fields. So I, I just, those are facts
35:01
and I don't, I don't know why anybody doubted that.
35:03
No, I'm not always right, but I don't know why people doubt what
35:06
I say when I say it. And I'm going to tell you this
35:09
right now, this is a catastrophe for all you flair.
35:12
What do they call them? The black black towels.
35:14
Terrible Towels. The Terrible Towels, because
35:17
you're going to be absolutely terrible to this year, so you're
35:19
going to be waving those towels outside of the stadium when this
35:23
will be the first time Mike Tomlin doesn't make the
35:25
playoffs. So good luck to the Pittsburgh
35:28
Steelers. This is a terrible, terrible
35:30
move. There's no question.
35:32
And again, this is coming from an Aaron Rodgers fan, so I I
35:37
don't want to hear it from people on social media saying
35:39
I'm a hater and I can't stand Aaron Rodgers because he he
35:42
didn't do well for The Jets. I actually thought that Aaron
35:45
Rodgers did better than any quarterback The Jets have had in
35:48
over 1520 years and that's not good enough.
35:52
It's not good enough for what The Jets gave him.
35:55
They gave him draft picks. And what I mean by that, you
35:57
traded for Devante Adams. You did all this, you made all
36:00
these moves, signing all these guys and it didn't work.
36:04
It didn't work. You even went after fetching
36:06
offensive lineman and it didn't work.
36:09
And then you heard Aaron Rodgers on the pad, McAfee show taking
36:13
down pressing, pointing fingers at the New York Jets and
36:16
coaching. And by the way, he was the one
36:19
before the season started says I wouldn't want it any other way.
36:22
I want Sala as my coach. I think he's a great coach.
36:25
And then what was what was going on in the middle of a season?
36:27
He said Aaron, Aaron Rodgers went out on the Pat McAfee show,
36:30
didn't mention any names. He said the coaching staff
36:33
socks, socks. So what does that tell you about
36:37
Aaron Rodgers throwing his team, his coaches and everybody onto
36:40
the bus? Quickly about the baseball
36:42
stuff, just, you know, we did some power rankings, see that
36:45
the Mets are still crushing it even, you know, they I was going
36:48
to put them ahead of the Dodgers if they swept, but I still have
36:51
the Tigers on top and those two guys behind them.
36:54
I'm trying to find the the drop over here.
36:56
Some injuries. Pablo Lopez out two to three
36:58
months with his with his shoulder strain.
37:00
That's pretty bad. He's definitely their best arm.
37:03
So they've been hot. I don't I expect them to fall
37:06
back a little bit. What else do we have in the?
37:09
In fact, I could probably bring it up right now.
37:12
Honestly, it it it'll be interesting to see if the
37:14
central stays as strong as it has.
37:18
Yeah, I Cleveland, you know, the Yankees are playing Cleveland
37:21
right now. I'm not super impressed with
37:22
them. I I goody seems to think that
37:25
they just win close games. They're good like that.
37:28
I don't know, I think there's a lot of teams kind of in a
37:31
similar state and I'll just show you what I had up here.
37:34
So just quickly and we'll just move on to this story, but Pete
37:38
Alonzo crushing it for the Mets was big part of everything that
37:42
happened over the weekend and had another home run today.
37:45
The Mccullers story out doing Skins.
37:48
But then we found out that harassment you heard, remember
37:50
we covered this a couple of weeks ago was traced to crap
37:53
over, you know, overseas Canadian thing.
37:56
The Rockies swept the Marlins, which is crazy and it's their
38:00
first series win in 22 straight series is a streak.
38:05
Spencer Strider's getting murdered.
38:06
TJ Friedel and let's end with this.
38:08
I got a highlight to show you. TJ Friedel won a game with
38:12
robbing robbing a home run. I don't know if anyone saw it.
38:15
It was an incredible play. Who's their closer Speedy Pagan
38:20
over there? Emilio Pagan, Yes.
38:22
Emilio Pagan. Yeah.
38:23
Yep. So here.
38:24
Almost. Gone former met you know he
38:27
likes to serve some dingers almost met serve some dingers
38:33
here we go and he that's with two outs in the 9th that would
38:37
have tied the game. What a play and run it back one
38:41
last time. Just have you seen the Kirby
38:45
Yates one? The Yates one, no, I didn't have
38:48
that. What do you got on that Java?
38:51
I I, I've been scared a lot of times in my life.
38:55
Oh, did not Kirby Yates, George Kirby.
38:58
George Kirby, yes. Yes, that I didn't have that.
39:00
I didn't want to even look at that. 102.7 miles per.
39:04
Hour that was that was rough it like.
39:07
Right off the face. As a pitcher, that's it.
39:10
It's it's one of those things that I've been hit every place
39:14
but my face and I've seen it happen to dude I went to high or
39:21
college with. I've seen it teammates and I was
39:24
fortunate enough that it never happened to me.
39:26
But man, when when you get 1 back at your Dome like that, it
39:32
I mean, it's all reaction in the 1st place anyways, just because
39:36
it's coming so fast. But yeah, it's just I, I, I see
39:40
those guys and I, I can't say I know how it feels because I
39:47
don't, but it's scary as shit because you don't know like is
39:52
my face broke? Is my eye broke?
39:54
Is whatever it is and because. You're like in shock.
39:58
You have to be because. Like, yeah, right when it
40:00
happens, I I've seen my son hit in the forehead.
40:03
He didn't get hit in the face, but I saw my son get hit in the
40:06
forehead and it was just, it was the scariest thing of my life.
40:12
And I'm like, and then you see it and you're just like, you
40:15
know, you watch these games and, you know, as baseball players,
40:19
like, it's obviously not the most entertaining sport most of
40:25
the time. But like when you see things
40:28
like this, when guys get hurt, it's just it, it's you feel for
40:32
him and being in the position that you know, I've been in and
40:38
a lot of guys that have played baseball, whether it's been
40:42
Little League, whether it's been whatever, it's you know, you
40:45
have that experience and let alone from one of the best
40:49
people, you know, in the in the world to play the game and then
40:53
get one off your coconut. It's it's not fun.
40:57
Yeah. So, you know, we'll, we'll,
40:59
we'll cover more baseball, especially when Goody comes
41:02
back. We'll talk a little bit more
41:03
next week, and that's going to be our little truncated version
41:07
of Inside Baseball. We've got a big baseball story
41:10
left to go, Errol. The Los Angeles Times reports
41:13
that Trevor Bauer was one has won his lawsuit against Lindsay
41:17
Hill, one of the women accusing him of sexual assault in 2021.
41:22
The judge said that Hill has to pay Bauer over 300 thousands for
41:26
the violation terms of the settlement agreement.
41:28
Bauer and Hill struck a deal two years ago to end their lawsuit
41:34
against each other and allowed Bauer to be eligible for in
41:39
baseball again after his suspension of for almost 200
41:44
games was over. Bauer filed a new lawsuit
41:47
against Hill in October, claiming that Hill had multiple
41:51
social media posts claiming that Bauer gave her financial
41:54
compensation from her when that was isn't supposed to be public.
41:59
Because Hill didn't respond to the lawsuit, the judge ruled in
42:04
Bauer's favor and she has to pay anywhere between 10,000 and
42:09
$300,000 for any other lawsuit she had involved in.
42:16
Bauer has been out of Major League Baseball since April of
42:20
2022 and has pitched in Japan and Mexico in the last three
42:25
season and won two Cy Youngs in in those three years, one in
42:30
Japan and the other one in Mexico.
42:33
And now he's going in his third year and if the season were to
42:36
end today, he'd be the Cy Young winner over there in Japan once
42:40
again. Honestly, I, I don't know if
42:44
Trevor Bauer is a nice guy. I, I don't know him personally.
42:47
Honestly, Jabba knows him. Nick Goody said that he was a
42:51
good guy and he knew his father good.
42:53
I don't know him personally and I've seen the antics on the
42:56
foot, on the, I'm sure I said football field, on the baseball
42:59
field over the last couple of years before he stepped away or
43:03
got in trouble and, and, and missed 200 games because of all
43:06
these accusations. What I do know about Trevor
43:09
Bauer is he's one of the best pitchers still in the world and
43:12
nobody can argue that. And when you look at these
43:15
professional baseball teams and, and Cheryl, Tony still playing,
43:18
he bet on baseball. I know it's not what women or
43:20
anything like that, but there are guys over the last couple of
43:24
years in in professional sports that have done thing on and off
43:27
the field and gotten away with it.
43:29
Greg Hardy, look what he did and he got another contract from the
43:32
Cowboys, played another 4-5 years in the NFL.
43:35
There are a ton of players that have had extra chances.
43:39
You think Tucker, Justin Tucker was going to those massage
43:42
parlors? You don't think he's going to
43:44
get an another chance to play in the NFL?
43:46
He's one of the best kickers of all time.
43:47
He absolutely will. Deshaun Watson got a $240
43:51
million contract after all the stupid stuff that he was doing
43:54
on and off the field, even in his own quarters on, you know,
43:59
in the facilities, he was doing these things, but he got away
44:02
with it. So we got Trevor Bauer who's
44:05
done, you know, interesting things, not very nice things of
44:08
what we've heard. And, and I'm not saying they
44:10
were false or they were true accusations.
44:13
All I'm saying is is that he's done some things and he has
44:17
never been proven to be guilty and in law in in, in in front of
44:21
a jury in front of a judge. So knowing that, why are
44:25
baseball teams, why are professional baseball teams that
44:28
are looking to bring in pitching or looking for help in pitching
44:32
in certain aspects of the season?
44:35
Why don't they go after a guy like Trevor Bauer who can
44:38
absolutely fill in as their third or fourth guy in their
44:41
rotation, maybe even their second guy or first guy
44:44
depending on the team. Kansas City right now could
44:45
definitely use a Trevor Bauer. So I just think that obviously
44:50
baseball has been scrutinized over the last couple years and
44:54
what they've done to many different people going to the
44:56
Hall of Fame. Bud Selig, he's in the Hall of
44:59
Fame and he was the one that allowed steroids to happen and
45:03
go on in baseball. But he's in the Hall of Fame
45:05
because of Rob Manfred or whatever you want to call him,
45:08
furred or fur ball ass, whatever you want to call him.
45:12
He's the one who allow Bud Selik, his mentor, to go to the
45:15
Hall of Fame. But George Steinbrenner, that
45:17
saved baseball, OK, save baseball.
45:20
Mark McGuire that save baseball. Sammy Sosa at the time, save
45:23
baseball after that strike in 9596, all these guys that are a
45:28
part of that era help baseball grow back to where it needed to
45:32
be. And they're out of the Hall of
45:34
Fame. I don't care if they did
45:35
steroids. I don't care if they did
45:37
amphetamines because a lot of players in the 60s and the 50s
45:40
cheated using amphetamines. And that makes you concentrate
45:43
better, which is probably worse than doing steroids.
45:46
So honestly, if you look at the situation for what it is, Trevor
45:51
Bauer should get another chance to play in the major leagues.
45:54
That baseball team should be lining up and giving him a call.
45:57
But they're not because Rob Manford and some of these other
46:00
players or former Hall of Farmers that sit there and say,
46:04
oh, this isn't God. They're not a good people.
46:07
Albert Bell should be in the Hall of Fame.
46:08
You know why Albert Bell is not in the Hall of Fame?
46:10
Because baseball writers didn't like them.
46:13
Baseball riders couldn't stand him.
46:14
And Albert Bell, if you look at his numbers, are some of the
46:17
greatest numbers we've ever seen in baseball history.
46:20
So I, I just, I am so appalled by the way baseball treats
46:24
people. I'm not saying Trevor Bart
46:26
powers a good guy, He probably isn't.
46:28
But it doesn't take away from what we have seen over the last
46:31
couple of years in court, this guy has never been, has never
46:36
lost in in front of a court system ever yet.
46:40
And and the fact that that is true, this guy should absolutely
46:44
get another chance to play in the major leagues.
46:46
Will he? No, he won't because baseball's
46:48
going to keep him away. Keep baseball's going to keep
46:50
him far, far away from an organization for an organization
46:53
that thinks they're growing. They're falling flat on their
46:56
face because they think that they know better than everybody
46:59
else. Shay Ohtani should have been out
47:00
for the whole season after those accusations were to be true and
47:04
they found a way to brush it under the rug.
47:06
But Trevor Bauer, because nobody likes him and baseball and the
47:09
writers don't like and players don't like him.
47:12
Hey, you know what? Let's get rid of them.
47:14
Let's forget Trevor Bauer even existed.
47:16
It's it's despicable. Absolutely despicable.
47:19
Java quickly before you vent, I'll just take it on the case
47:21
angle with with Lindsay Hill because we were talking about
47:23
Lindsay Hill a couple years ago as being kind of that unreliable
47:26
source that was kind of twisting information.
47:27
But there were like six others too that had a little more
47:30
truthful cases. So what's interesting with this
47:32
of development is like there's 22 other cases that she could
47:35
potentially be connected to and that would probably be the next
47:37
progress for Bauer to be able to get anywhere.
47:39
The question is, will it be in time for him to still be like
47:42
he's 34 years old right now, but will that be enough time where
47:45
his career won't run out? Obviously pitching well, but
47:47
like you said, are any team going to take a chance on him,
47:49
especially if it's like 2 years later?
47:50
All right Java, have at it. See what you're saying when it
47:53
comes to the steroid side of it and, but when it comes to women
48:00
and children, it's completely different.
48:04
And whether and, and I've experienced this first hand with
48:09
a teammate of mine and he never got the opportunity to ever
48:16
pitch in the big leagues again. When you come to treating women
48:22
like that and how it's portrayed, whether guilty or
48:27
not, like as we stand on this country, right, it's innocent
48:31
till proven guilty. But there are some, there are
48:35
some statues where sometimes that isn't what it is, even
48:40
though you are innocent, right? And when it comes down, like
48:46
look at all the guys that have had that in their career.
48:50
Look at Ozuna. He was a prolific closer for the
48:54
Astros. What happened?
48:56
He got ADA against his wife. Did he ever pitch in the big
49:01
leagues again? No, and they don't.
49:05
You don't want that in your clubhouse because you know what
49:08
that does? You have to answer questions
49:11
that you don't want to answer. I want to play the game.
49:15
I want to know I failed or succeeded.
49:18
I don't want to have to worry about the dude that's sitting
49:20
right next to me and have to answer questions about him that
49:25
I know nothing about. And that's what they're going to
49:28
have to deal with. And why.
49:31
And can Trevor Bauer still pitch?
49:33
Yes. But is he more focused on what
49:36
he's doing on YouTube and all the other stuff and wearing a
49:40
mic when he's pitching? Like that's what he's doing now,
49:44
if he really, really wanted to be in the big leagues, we would
49:48
hear more talk about him wanting to get the big leagues other
49:51
than his YouTube channels, other than his Tik Toks and other than
49:54
all that stuff. We would hear about that.
49:58
And he hasn't done that because at the same time, his agent was
50:04
a chick he was banging in college.
50:08
So I mean, let's, if you want to have that conversation, let's
50:11
have that conversation. And Trevor Bauer can come at me
50:15
all he wants. I don't care.
50:16
I was his teammate. You want to come at me?
50:19
Come at me. I know the back story.
50:23
I can let it all out if you want me to.
50:27
What are you going to do to me? Nothing.
50:30
I don't care. But at the same time, when it
50:33
comes to women and children, people in the clubhouse will not
50:39
stand for that and they're not going to want to answer
50:42
questions. Why do you think he's gone
50:45
through this the entire time, but yet he's never come forth
50:53
and said I want to be back in Major League Baseball.
50:58
He's never said it. Now, if he said it OK, then give
51:04
him a chance. If he's good enough to help you
51:09
and win right now, why wouldn't you?
51:11
Don't disagree with you whatsoever.
51:13
But are people willing to take a chance on that because of the
51:17
other questions that they're going to have to ask or they're
51:20
going to looking over their shoulder and be like, is this
51:25
going to happen again? Well.
51:28
Jabba I, I went into like the case and I was just reading up
51:32
on what the ruling was, why he was given this 3 something
51:35
around 309 point $8000. And it's because not that he
51:44
didn't do anything wrong necessarily, it's that she they
51:48
settled and she wasn't supposed to say that she received any
51:52
money and she went public 22 different times and and he asked
51:57
for like 10,000 plus lawyer fees for each time that she did it.
52:01
So that added up to 309,000. The judge awarded it because she
52:04
broke the terms of her settlement.
52:05
If if you're not guilty, why do you settle?
52:08
And that's kind of that was kind of my point is if to go with
52:13
your side of the argument and I want to go to play do the other
52:16
side as well. But, you know, if you're
52:19
settling, there's there's something there, right?
52:22
You know, there's obviously something there you don't want
52:24
to get out. And it's a lot easier to pay
52:26
somebody off. No money was exchanged at the
52:28
time. The rule what was going to
52:30
happen is he was going to give some like insurance settlement,
52:32
I'm sure from some injury that he was going to get and she was
52:34
going to have that money and that was going to be it.
52:37
That's what it says on in this long article I just read while
52:41
you guys were talking. I'll tell you, Bauer, his stats
52:46
say it in worst case scenario. Ariel, we were talking about
52:48
this earlier today. Worst case scenario, the guy's a
52:51
top 30, Top 40 pitcher in the league right now.
52:54
I think that's still a #2 starter on any staff.
52:58
I don't understand, say, maybe he's a little worse than that.
53:00
Maybe he's a #3 starter. You still need guys like that.
53:03
Guys like that get paid double digit millions of dollars per
53:07
season. They do.
53:09
He said that he's willing to take the league minimum to come
53:12
back. If I'm a team that doesn't have
53:15
a lot of money and I think I might have a chance to contend
53:18
or I think my if my team gets hot close to the deadline, maybe
53:22
I go all in. Maybe I I get Bauer from
53:25
overseas and I make a couple of moves.
53:28
May's get hot maybe because, you know, they don't have money.
53:30
They would love they would jump at something like that if they
53:32
got close to a wild card spot. You know, I don't know who else
53:37
is small ball. We just saw the twins lost Pablo
53:40
Lopez by far. They're ace for two to three
53:43
months. How are they going to stay
53:44
relevant in that that real tight division?
53:48
I I would give him a shot. You know, he's older people
53:52
learn. Maybe he hasn't, but he hasn't
53:55
been arrested. He hasn't been charged with a
53:58
crime. It's it's a free country and the
54:01
guy you know. There's, there's, there's no
54:04
doubt that he can pitch there. There's no doubt in that.
54:11
But what I think happens, and I've seen it happen when it
54:18
comes to a clubhouse and how that team works, if you want
54:25
them to be great, yeah, We've all played with assholes, we've
54:31
all done it. We've coached them, we've seen
54:33
them, we've done all that. But when I have to deal with
54:37
other stuff and surrounding me with questions, because they're
54:45
going to be questions, be like, how do you feel about him being
54:48
on your team? What do you feel about this?
54:51
Even though he is is innocent, you're still going to you're
54:57
still going to have to deal with it.
54:59
And if I'm sitting on my locker minding my own business, doing
55:04
nothing and they're like, hey, you just signed Trevor Bauer,
55:08
you know, what do you, what do you think about that?
55:12
And it's you, you take your own stand on something.
55:16
And that creates animosity because whether right or wrong,
55:22
convicted or not, we heard about it.
55:28
And so we have an opinion. We're human beings.
55:31
I don't think any team takes a chance because of the mere fact
55:37
of kind of how he's put himself out there.
55:42
Do I? Do I deny his ability to throw
55:46
baseball into get outs? No, I do not.
55:50
But getting outs is one thing, but dealing with all the other
55:55
stuff is another thing, and I think that's where that comes
56:00
into play. Do I think deservingly well
56:03
enough? 60 feet, 6 inches.
56:07
Does he deserve a chance? Heck yeah, heck yeah.
56:11
But are they willing to deal with the other stuff that comes?
56:14
I got to say one more thing before we go on to analytics.
56:18
I'm going to say one thing, A roll dish.
56:20
Chapman is still in baseball. OK.
56:24
This guy shot at his wife. OK.
56:28
So I don't want to hear. There are other guys that we
56:30
have seen that played for the Yankees, pitchers that have been
56:33
a part of the Yankees organization, numerous amount of
56:35
pitchers that we've heard. David Wells used to go on the
56:39
mound and drink, get drunk and go out on the mound and, and,
56:43
and yeah, he pitched well, but he was doing things that you
56:46
don't you don't do as a professional athlete.
56:48
So I but that's not women or children.
56:52
Our oldest, Chapman did, but he's in baseball.
56:54
We could go on and on and on of guys that I think he shoots.
56:57
Like his basement wall, while his wife was next, he was.
57:00
Beating up his wife. He was beating up his wife.
57:03
Part of it. There was a lot of these guys.
57:06
They're playing Domingo Herman. There are bunches a bunch.
57:10
Rodriguez beat up his his his father-in-law right in the in
57:14
the bullpen. But what was the kicker's name
57:17
on the Giants? Josh Brown.
57:18
Josh Brown. Josh Brown.
57:20
Yeah, I know. Listen, Greg Hardy played.
57:22
Guess guess where he went to college?
57:24
Nebraska. Wouldn't take pride in that job.
57:26
He's a great dude. What I'm trying to say here is
57:29
if all these guys get a chance to play because the league and
57:32
the Riders don't like Trevor Bauer, oh, we're just going to
57:35
completely erase him, just like they did the Shoeless Joe
57:38
Jackson, just like they did to Pete Rose.
57:41
They completely tossed him away for all the great things that
57:44
they did. They threw him away because they
57:47
didn't like him. And I'm tired of it.
57:49
I'm tired of looking at baseball.
57:51
Baseball. That's that's part of it Errol.
57:54
I understand like that's part of do.
57:57
You know why baseball has lost a lot of their accolades.
58:00
Remember, baseball was the most popular sport in the 80s.
58:04
It wasn't basketball, wasn't football, it was baseball.
58:07
Why did they lose the accolades? Because of remember did.
58:12
You not see their viewership that was up almost 70% last
58:15
year. Listen, that's fine.
58:17
From the 1920s to the I would say 1920s, early 90s, early 90s.
58:22
So like the early 90s till Jordan really I would say took
58:25
over a little bit. It was, it was baseball
58:28
dominated this country. I mean, I always think about
58:30
that Field of Dreams. It was.
58:31
Line what transitions? In 1988.
58:34
What transition football was the Cowboys?
58:37
I know everybody doesn't want to understand that and they hate
58:40
the Cowboys and it's fine. When the Cowboys dominated in
58:43
the 90's the way they did, that was what transitioned football
58:47
into the new era in the early 2000s and when football took
58:50
over, it was the Cowboys. You don't want to hear it,
58:52
that's fine. You hate the Cowboys.
58:54
Good Giant fans, Eagle fans, whoever fans, Commander fans,
58:59
you all hate it. You don't want to hear it,
59:01
that's fine. Those Cowboy teams changed
59:06
football and made football and took football to that next
59:09
level. And the same thing goes to
59:11
basketball. Was Michael Jordan Think
59:13
whatever you want and then. I'd like to throw some love to
59:16
some other guys related to that, like Marv Albert with
59:19
basketball, like John Madden and Pat Summerall with Mike Green
59:22
that were Mike Green with basketball a couple some years
59:26
like a generation later. John Madden just.
59:29
Yeah, right. So those are the guys for me, I
59:32
think really helped put it over the top.
59:34
And baseball's always been more regional.
59:36
You don't really have those national announcers like that
59:38
for baseball. And I think that hurt baseball.
59:40
I think just the way you're able to film football and the pace of
59:43
it and basketball and being live.
59:45
Basketball wasn't live until the mid 8th.
59:47
The I think it was, it was the first final.
59:49
It's also two It's the same time.
59:52
Football is once a week, baseball is every day.
59:58
So it's like you get used to like I loved getting done with a
1:00:02
game and turning on MLB Network and listening to Vin Scully.
1:00:09
I loved it. Vin Scully I I mean, there were
1:00:12
a lot of great play by play guys and, and stuff like.
1:00:15
That I mean, the the the only announcer ever to get traded for
1:00:18
a player like I mean, let let's just I was fortunate enough to
1:00:22
be Bob Shepherd and Vin Scully. Bob Shepherd The word Scott
1:00:27
Shepherd. Yeah, two of our icons as of now
1:00:31
through Bob Shepherd and obviously, let's not forget Twib
1:00:38
this week in baseball. Yeah, Why don't we?
1:00:40
Why don't we bring up Michael K? No, I'm just kidding.
1:00:42
I don't wanna go into that. No, no.
1:00:46
He's not even on the he's not even on the hill.
1:00:49
He's not even on the hill to Mount Rush well.
1:00:51
There's a hill, alright. There's a hill I want to kick
1:00:53
somebody off of after tonight, but that's a whole nother story.
1:00:56
Thank you to the fans, thank you to the guys, our interns for
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joining us, Zach, congratulations, Jake.
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Thank you to Aaron, thank you to the Mr. Poops over here, our
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Thank you to Blue wire. Thank you to what what blue
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wires doing right now and, and, and, and the contract that we
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signed with him. So thank you to them and thank
1:01:19
you to Mr. Goodwood. He is 2 and O right now.
1:01:22
I don't know if he won tonight, but Mr. Goody, 50, I think he
1:01:27
said 57 strikeouts in two games of some crazy number.
1:01:31
So it's it's pretty cool. He's he's he's doing such a,
1:01:34
such a good job over there. 57 Something like that, 4047.
1:01:38
Only 27 outs? That'd be 54 outs.
1:01:41
And it was 47, that was maybe it was 40 something.
1:01:43
It was something high. It was a high number, so it was
1:01:47
definitely in the four. It was either a 40s or the 50s,
1:01:50
I don't know. Anyways, that's it for a show.
1:01:52
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1:02:00
knocking off OKC. I enjoy that win because I don't
1:02:05
think that's going to last. But congratulations Al Burton
1:02:08
and the crew over there in Indiana and congratulations to
1:02:11
Rick Carla. I love Rick, so I as much as
1:02:15
everybody hates right now the Indiana Pacer, I love Rick
1:02:18
Carlisle and I want to see him succeed, so congratulations to
1:02:21
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