Latest / NFL Podcast Network Selects / Aaron Rodgers, The NY Jets, and more NFL Free Agency News (with Dan Hanzus)!!

Transcript

Aaron Rodgers, The NY Jets, and more NFL Free Agency News (with Dan Hanzus)!! · NFL Podcast Network Selects

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: pretty dangerous for on the cn tonight it's mc cornback. No,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: your role is shut your mouth. You're rody. They are
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: who we thought they were and we let them out. Hello,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: you play to win the gate. They want you to
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: cook the dinner. At least they ought to let you
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: shout for summer the groceries and on the way up,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: we're gonna buy the kneecap off playoffs. Are you're kidding me?
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just here so I won't get fine. How could
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: he not be romantic about football? Oh my goodness, Welcome
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: to bench with Vanetta. This episode is gonna get a
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: wild and crazy because the NFL world is exploding as
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: we know it. We are recording this episode on Tuesday
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: at like noon. So far, the Jets are in a
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: private jet on their way to California to go hang
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: out with Aaron Rodgers on a full moon. Okay, that's
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: number one, number two Lamar Jack's and was just franchise
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: tag by the Ravens. It absolute chaos. Fans are freaking
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: out everywhere. What is going on in the world of NFL.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: We have my good buddy and literally Monday morning, I
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: woke up and I said, I need to talk to
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Dan Hans is okay, we need to get Jets fans
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: temp this week. So without further ado, Dan take it away.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, welcome to the Bench with Banetta podcast. This
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: is a new this is a new one for us folks. Okay,
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: we are welcoming in our good friend Dan Hans Is
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: into my stinky garage. What do you think, Dan, It
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: looks nice, but it has been flooding. Okay, Calvinia is
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: not equipped to withstand rain, so it is a little stinky.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: And I also have a dog with a diaper on
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: below me, so it is extra stinky. But you've got
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: the set up I'm trying. It doesn't sound overly pleasant,
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: but I will say that I did immediately take note
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: that you kind of it looks like a twenty four
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: hour fitness There seems to be some real space that
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: you even have the TV in the corner. No shame,
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: no shame zone. No, absolutely not. And I hit that
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: squat rack every single day. Look at these little spaghetti arms,
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: my friend. Welcome back to the pod. I don't know
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: when the last time it was just you and I.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: It might have been Vegas drapped cool side Peanut. You
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: happy to remember any of them? We can get into it,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: but any of the conversation points from that particular Oh,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: that is combo. Good question because I do obviously talked
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: about Jets in the draft. Um. Yeah. Other than that,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: I do not remember much. Oh really, was I feel
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: angry about the Browns? No? I seem to remember pitching
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: the Jets as your new favorite team and explaining that
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: that they were on the verge of becoming very interesting
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: and spicy. And that was literally like forty eight hours
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: before they drafted both Rookie of the Year, and now
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: they might have well, I don't know, maybe have somebody
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: somebody You're not You're not wrong, and maybe it was
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: my fault, but I think I took you know, I
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: went through that bachelor process and at the end of it,
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: I came out being like, you know what, I'm just
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: gonna love everyone. I'm not I'm not a monogamous person.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, you know, be open to any and
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: all relationships. Speaking of your beloved Jets, we have so
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: much to get to you today. The news is exploded.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Even within like the last half hour, your shirt for
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: those of you that are listening. Dan entered the chat
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: with a green shirt. Okay, at first I was like,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: it's you know, Saint Patrick's day is close. Maybe it's
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: something to do, But no, it says Zach Wilson. I
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: think once upon a time it says Zach Wilson is good,
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: and he's crossed it out with a piece of black
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: tape and now just says Zach Wilson is go. So
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: my question to you is did you purchase this or
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: was this a gift? Did you, as a grown man,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: purchase a shirt that says this is Zach Wilson is good.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Let's start here. Pretty funny tape manipulation bit by the
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: old Zusan Zachi. Yes, yes, I did purchase the shirt
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: online forum, which is why it doesn't fit me very
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: well online for I don't know, probably about thirty five
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: to thirty eight dollars with the shipping, and it was
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: it was a decision I made because, like many other
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Jets fans a year ago, this time, you were trying
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: to kind of create Zach Wilson as something that is
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: going to work, manifest Zach Wilson as a successful NFL quarterback,
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: which clearly he was not this past season, and it's
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: put the Jets in some unprecedented territory. It is pretty crazy. Rachel.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: We're speaking right now, you know, shortly afternoon Pacific time
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: on March seventh. This is kind of one of the
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: you know, flashpoint moments potentially in the history of the Jets.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Were in the waiting period right now, and there are
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: enormous organizational and fan implications over what could happen even
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: in the next hour. So good timing on the book.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I woke up Monday morning, texted
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: my producers right away and I was like, what if
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: we had And this was just after finding out that
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: Derek Carr had signed to the Saints. I was just like, Dan,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: I need Dan on the podcast because I saw you know,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: you guys chatting. You know, Derek's a nice like backup
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: plan if we don't get Aaron Rodgers. Now that safety
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: net is gone. I was like, we gotta get zoos
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: around the pod. And then the things that have unfolded
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: within the last thirty minutes even okay, so let's just
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: update the peeps. Diana Rassini just tweeted the New York
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Jets have flown on a private plane to California to
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: meet with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers got permission to chit
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: chat with the Jets. I mean, what are you feeling
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: as a fan wearing a Zach Wilson his Goose shirt?
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: What do you what are you thinking? Like? The Jets
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: are going to Aaron Rodgers, they want this to happen.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: Is this something that could potentially come to be within
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know, the next twenty four or forty eight,
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, absolutely it has the potential. At
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: this point, getting on the plane means they are on
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: the ten yard line potentially here. You know, here's the
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: thing you know in life, when when you're maybe in
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: a bit of a rough patch and things aren't going
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: your way and you feel like you got to mix
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: things up and say yes to some things that you
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: would typically say no to, whether it's a job or
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: you know, a significant other, or you know, going on
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: a vacation or doing this or doing that, and usually
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, no, that's not me. But sometimes you're like, man,
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I gotta do something to change my life, so I
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: will say yes. And that's how I feel about Aaron Rodgers.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: That there's so much as a Jets fan that concerns
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: me about Rogers at this stage of his career and
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: quite frankly, his life that makes me wonder how this
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: would work. And I actually worry less about his statistical
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: drop off last year because he was obviously so good
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: winning VP the two years before that, and he was
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: injured and didn't have a great yeah right, they didn't
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: have a great supporting cast around him in terms of playmakers,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: So that concerns me. Last what concerns me more is
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: if he comes to the Jets and this is a
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: city and a region starving for the Jets to be
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: relevant and be a champion after fifty three straight years
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: of nothing like there is, it's going to be a
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: circus that's kind of potentially on par with Tebow for
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: people that were following football ten or eleven years ago,
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and it will just be madness. And is Rogers at
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: a place in his life where he could process that,
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: tune out the distractions and focus on giving the Jets
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl trophy? Again, I don't know. I don't
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: know if that's where his headspace is at. And I
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: think that's part of this fact finding mission that the
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: Jets are taking part in right now, flying to California,
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: face to face conversation and see where this guy is at,
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: if he's willing and capable of the responsibility of being
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: the face of this team. Okay, yes, yes, a thousand times. Yes,
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: I wanted you would potentially be excited. Let me ask
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: you this. Okay, I was scrolling TikTok last night and
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know how this ended up on my for
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: you page. You're such a zoomer. I'm not a witchy woman, Okay,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: but there was a video that popped up and that said,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: if you're watching this video before Tuesday, March seventh, you
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: are so lucky because tomorrow, on March seventh, on Tuesday,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: which is when we're recording this podcast right now, it
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: is a full moon, and it is like the end
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: of the last two and a half years is out
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: the door, and you're manifesting what's in front of you
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: in abundance, and da da da. Do you think that
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: that has anything to do with the day that Aaron
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Rodgers has chosen to meet the Jets. I mean, he's
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: kind of he's kind of a goofball, so I think
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: that yes, I'm sure he is staring at the stars
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: and looking at the signs and the astrological implications of
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: March seventh, two thousand and three. Would anything surprise me, No,
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: involving him, So yeah, it would be a full moon
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: moment now that the Jets. Like again, if you know
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: recent football history, the Jets have done exactly this. Who
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Bret Farv was just as famous, if not more so
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: than Aaron Rodgers fifteen years ago. And nobody could ever
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: imagine Brett Farve being on another team after the legacy
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: he built in Green Bay, and he went to the
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Jets and it actually there was some off the field
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: stuff that was unpleasant and we could leave it there,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: but he was actually an excellent quarterback until his arm
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: got hurt. So people look back at that as, oh,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: the Jets, this didn't work last time, why would it
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: work now? That actually did work until the football god
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: said no, Jets, you can't have nice things, and I
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: think this would work too. Like above anything else, rage,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: it's the it is such a smart football fit for
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: this roster. I know, financially it's a little dice because
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: he's so expensive, but they all they need is somebody
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: who's proficient at that position, and they could win ten games.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: If they have a star at that position, they could
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: do it. They could do the whole thing, the whole thing,
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: And don't even think if you are Aaron Rodgers like
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: he's I feel like I've constantly heard him talking about,
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: like I still have gas in the tank, I still
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: have so much love for this game, and I feel
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: still so competitive, But like you can't ignore the fact
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: that he's just had issues with the Packers, with the
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love situation, with the Javante Adams leaving last year,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Like it's just not it's just been a tumultuous few years,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: and like, if you are going to come back, this
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: is probably what he was thinking about in his darkness retreat.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: If I'm gonna come back, why don't I do it
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's style? Why don't I leave prove everyone? I
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: don't know why these men that have so many accolades
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: still feel like they need to prove that they are
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: someone special, like two time MVP and he's thinking about
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: coming back, why not go to the Jets and be
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: like I am the man, and I am rewriting all
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: of these narratives about me. But Dan, I want to
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: play a game today, because who knows if Aaron Rodgers
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: is going to come to the Jets. But you know,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: we're real friends outside of this, and I care about you,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: and I just you know, when somebody brings home a
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: new partner and you see all these red flags, you
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: know you want to make sure that they understand what
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: they're getting into and how you know they're gonna spin
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: these red flags to make me feel a little bit
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: more comfortable. So I'm gonna give you, let's say, Aaron
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Rodgers signs of the Jets. Okay, congratulations. I am going
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: to give you a couple of different scenarios of what
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: could unfold the next year or two, and you ay
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: tell me if you're okay with it and be if
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: you would, if you want to play a little yes,
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: and I would love for you to spin this for me.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you something that Aaron Rodgers
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: has done and you as a Jets plan. Look at
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: the shirt that you are wearing. Okay, you buy into
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: your quarterback, You're buying into Aaron Rodgers no matter what
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: he does. You're gonna spin it for me, and you're
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: gonna tell me why it is actually good. Okay, okay,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: spin spin zone. Okay. By the way, hashtag real friends.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: That that means a lot to me, Rachel, thank you,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: of course, of course. Okay, first things first, Aaron Rodgers
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't think the team should drink water because he's heard
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: it's actually bad for you. Well, I mean, listen, you
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: don't know, there's an issue that people have with trusting
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: the government too much. I mean, I think that's been
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: going on forever. Look what's going on the balloons. They
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: don't want to tell you everything. And I think this
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: is another case like you don't know what it's going
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: through those pipes, and until you know for sure everything
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: that's in those pipes, let's drink some you know, doctor
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: pepper or whatever. Aarons we should be drinking. Okay, I
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: love that. A Plus, Aaron Rodgers is going to go
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: on a darkness retreat during the bye week. He is
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: cutting off all communication with absolutely everybody. You are not
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: going to hear from him for you know, ten days. Yeah,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: I mean this is necessary. Absolutely. The Jets are. They're
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: nine and oz at their bye and now it's become
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: very clear that the Super Bowl that the team has
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: been looking for for half a century is within grasp.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: What better time during the bye week to clear your
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: head and prepare for a journey that will make Aaron
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the Jets immortal. So obviously it's
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: okay Aaron Rodgers to kick off the season the celebration.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: He has started a book club with Jets fans and
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the first book on the list because he wants to
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: open his mind to supernatural he wants the Jets fans
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: to keep an open mind. The first book on the
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: list is Twilight. Yeah, I mean, that's that's on the surface,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: you know, adope, vampire romance book. But if you actually
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: read it and really kind of understand the subtext, it's
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: about loyalty and it's about being ride or die and
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: coming together for a common cause. And that's obviously what
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Aaron wants the rest of the Jets to do on
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: their way to Super Bowl fifty eight. Okay. And then
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: finally the last one. He has designated himself the team
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: DJ before games and the only artist that he will
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: play is Enya. I thought you were gonna say, Kanye
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I was gonna be tough, and yeah, I mean she
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: is Irish. She is associates from the Emerald Aisle. The
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Jets are green Sonny Werblin once upon a time renamed
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: the Jets from the Titans because of his Irish heritage,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: So it only makes sense in terms of a full
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: circle organizational moment to embrace the greatest songstress to ever
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: come out of that beautiful land. I am not worried
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: about this union one bit, Dan hansis now. I want
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to go to the Jets more than anything.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Let's put him aside for a second, because we also
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: got other breaking news today. Lamar Jackson has been franchise
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: tag by the Ravens non exclusive. He has the ability
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: to shop for the best deal possible. This is what
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Schefter tweeted. Baltimore will have the chance to match any
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: offer sheet he signs, or opt for two first round
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: picks instead. What have you? What do you make of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: this first off? And is there a world I don't
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: even know if this could happen, if the Jets even
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: have what it takes. Could the Jets go for somebody
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson if Aaron Rodgers doesn't work out, Yeah,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I think so. I mean there's even you could you
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: could think and about conversations because it takes a while
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to get from Jersey to wherever Aaron is in California,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: where there are conversations on that plane about like, huh,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: that's interesting. Doesn't actually make more sense to go after
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the twenty six year old former MVP instead of the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: thirty nine year old who might be completely nuts even
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: though he has four MVPs. No. I think the Jets
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: are all in on Rodgers at this point obviously, but
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: now they have part of the thing with a Derek
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Carr situation. Although none of it was surprising because the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Saints wanted him bad from the start, and it made
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: sense for Car to go there. Every Jets fan they got,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: you know, the butts, they got a little tighter, put
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: it that way when that happened, because it felt like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you didn't really have a great clan. B Yeah, the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: cheeks clenched with Car gone. Now, if the Jets lost
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: on Rodgers, if this goes sideways, and it absolutely can,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: by the way, there's so many things you still have
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to go right for him to end up on the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Jets Rogers. I think the Jets it would make so
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: much sense to pivot and just go Ham and go
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: go for Lamar, give him the Shaun Watson contract, give
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: up the two picks, and I think they might even
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: do that, honestly, just because this regime with Joe Douglas
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: and Robert Salve, they need results. They need to make
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs at least, I think, to keep their jobs
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: in season year three, and beyond that, it would be
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: such a pr nightmare to come out of this whole
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: mess with Andy Dalton. There's something like that at quarterback.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think they're now they're in so deep and so
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: publicly have put it out there that they need they're
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: getting a big upgrade veteran that if they don't get
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Derek Carr, if they don't get Aaron Rodgers, I think
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: they will go all in for Lamar Jackson and give
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the keys to the Kingdom to him and maybe come
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: out of it a big winner, even without Rogers. But
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I think that it seems like it's gonna be Rogers,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that everything's pointing to that. But yes, that would make sense.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: But what's up of the Ravens has go ahead? Well, now,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I don't even understand the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Ravens putting the transition tag on him, because they're basically
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: saying we don't want to give you the money. Go
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: see if anybody else will give you the money that
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we're not going to give you. In what in what
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: world does it make sense that he would ever go
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: back to the Ravens where they would match someone else's offer.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: At this point, it's basically just getting the two first
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: round picks is and doesn't seem like there's been some
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: people irked, like it seems like there's bad blood there
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: now and like you were saying, sometimes you wanna you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: can need a fresh start. It's a full moon, baby,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: you got a manifest the next you know, the next
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: chapter of your life. As we're sitting here, I know
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: with this is literally just unfolded in the last like
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, um is that? Would you as a Jets fan,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: would you prefer Lamar Jackson? Do you need do you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: need a twenty four hours to process this? Like you
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: were just saying, he's younger, but he's got you know
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it is Lamar Jackson, he's got the weird illnesses that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: pop up and the injuries. And but then it's Aaron
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Rodgers who's drinking ayahuasca and is older and you know
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: both of them. Where do you sit with that right now. Yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I think Rogers is my choice as well. I've said
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that on ATN It just feels like a better fit,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and not because Nathaniel Hackett's there or anything else. It's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: just they. I think bringing in a veteran as decorated
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: as him, his ability to put the ball anywhere he wants.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Lamar as great as Lamar is, he's a very his style.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You have to kind of build an entire offense around
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: what he does right Whereas I think the Jets have
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: pieces already in place and they're going to get the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: offensive line better to really plug and play Rogers and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: be ready to roll and be a very good offense potentially.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I just think he makes more sense for where this
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: team is right now. But Jackson would be an incredible
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Console Asian Prize if that didn't work out. I just
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: think Rogers just fits. It makes sense to me. I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: could see it. I can't really see Lamar. I would
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: assume you'd feel better about the parachute plan of Lamar
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Jackson than you would about Derek Carr. Yeah, I think
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: that's an easy one. Yeah, because Lamar so special and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he's shown it. But Car would have been very good
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: on the Jets. He was a good fit for them too,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and he's a great leader. Yeah who Derek, Yeah, I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: don't know, is he? I guess I look at what
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that team just went through in the last three years.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. I always got a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: little annoyed when, like different teams would like who was it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I think it was a Joey or Nick Bosa, just
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: like when after him basically calling him weak and soft,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and I expected the team to really rally to his defense,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and I don't remember it really happening, but you're right.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: He was like doing the weird crying stuff in press
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: conferences that I don't think was necessary and was very
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: like Oscar Like I don't even know if you remember this,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but he was tearing up in a press conference and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: somebody went to ask, question, you what, huh, I'm not done?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Like it was like my performance. He just interrupted my monologue. Okay,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: this is my self tape that I'm sending in and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I got a deadline. Maybe he's a sensitive fellow for sure.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: He blocked me and Greg on Twitter I love years ago.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And then Lindsay Rhodes, formerly of NFL Network and like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a friend of the pod, got David to connect with Derek,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and then David and Lindsay came on the pod and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: got us unblocked. So wow, I just want to tell
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you that he does show the capacity to change his mind.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: He isn't someone that's a stubborn person, and I think
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you need that to be a high quality individual before
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you go. You know, we didn't have this plan, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I just remembered. You know, you guys, every single time
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I came on atn this year, you were always asking
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: for bold predictions. Obviously, in the last like hour, the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: NFL world has re exploded. Is there something that you think,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: There's something that you're craving that you really want to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: happen this offseason that all of us are going to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be like and don't say Tom Brady done retire. To
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: give me something, Give me a bold prediction for something
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I really want to happen. Uh, take your time, we'll
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: edit it. You know what I think. I think the Lions,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: excuse me, I think the Rams should just embrace the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: suck and tear it all down. And that means trading
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford to one of these quarterback needy teams. Hell,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it could be the Jets if things don't work out
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: with this current situation, and that means maybe even trading
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald to a place he would like to play.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: They're already going to trade Jalen Ramsey. They've already cut
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner. Let's not no half measures here in this
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: kind of don't reload, just rip it down, send all
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: these funds our players elsewhere and make the rest of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the league more exciting while Sean McVeigh figures out how
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to build that thing from the ground up with a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: bunch of draft picks. I would like that. How about
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that new new quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield? What do you think?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I know you like Baker more than I do, but
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think Baker is fun for a kind
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of a memorable buzzy moment once or twice a year.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. But maybe if you were embracing
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the suck and you wanted a nice four and thirteen,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I think he could give you that. Okay, I like that, Dan,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. This is what
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you need to do. I know you want Aaron Rodgers.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You need to go this. TikTok told me to take
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a stick a cinnamon and rub it on a doorframe,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and when you walk through the doorframe, just say out
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: loud what you want to happen. You say, I want
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to come to the jets, and then it's
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. Let me, let me I'm gonna do it
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: out there now. And can I can I just give you?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Can I give you a little unsolicited advice? Yeah? Find it,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: find a shirt that has some type of lettering on it,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: get some electrical tape, find the right place to place it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: And you got a bunch of like high level comedy
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: right there. You're a basically laugh comedy. You got a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: good laugh. Yeah. Okay, love it, Dan, We love you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. Come back anytime please. I'm
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so bored and I'm dying to talk to people. All right, okay,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: friend hashtag real friends? Okay friends, real friends. Okay, so people,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: get your cinnamon sticks out, rubbing on a door frame. Things,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the things we do. Okay, maybe I'm the only one
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that did these things. Is it weird that I sleep
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: with a piece of paper under my bed every single
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: night that has like all my intention on a nice
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: liep with a crystal whatever you're weird. I'm not um. Okay, guys,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: coming up after the break, the best and the worst
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: thing that I saw all weeks. So much is going down.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I love this time of year. Don't go anywhere the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: bast all right, time for the best and the worst
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: thing that I saw and heard all week. You know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of moving parts in the league
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: right now. This person's going there, this person is getting
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: dropped from this person. Everything is happening, Everything is blowing
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: up right now. And I am keeping tabs on all
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: my favorite players. And you know one that I'm going
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to talk about. We were just talking about him with Dan.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Dan does not seem to does not seem too invested
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in the future of Baker Mayfield in the NFL, but
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: there are some rumors that he could be a staying
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: with the Rams or b This one I find very interesting.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Heading to the forty niners, Albert Brier, who is a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: writer on Sports Illustrated, mentioned some some good points. Okay,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Purty's UCL surgery is reported to take anywhere from six
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: months to a year to come back from, depending on
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the type of procedure he undergoes, and he says, second thought,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers don't believe Trey Lance can stay
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: healthy or be a quarterback they can win with right now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And then he also mentioned Baker Mayfield great at starting
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in random places. I mean, he was put in under
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the utmost pressure for that Rams Thursday night football game.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I mean you could say the Rams were already bad
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and there was no pressure at all, but there was
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure for
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Baker himself because he's like, Okay, I just left the Browns.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I went to the Panthers that didn't work out. I'm
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: coming to the Rams. I gotta show that I can
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: still do this. Because people love to hate Baker Mayfield.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: They were they would have been so quick to write
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: him off. If he had an absolutely terrible game, he
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: might not have started an NFL game again, you know,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in certain circumstances. So I love this. I think it's
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a perfect match, and I want success for Baker Mayfield.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that team has so many weapons
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and stars on it that somebody like Black Purty could
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: come in and succeed. Somebody like Jimmy Garoppolo, who a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: lot of people didn't believe in, could come in and succeed.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So even if it's Baker, you know, having success because
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he's shielded by all of these very successful plays. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: am buying all the way the hell in. Okay, I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: want this to happen. I would absolutely love to see it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: When this brings me to the worst thing that I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: saw a week, lots of stuff going on. I don't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: if you live in California, if you live in Los Angeles,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you know that it has just been non stop raining,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and just when you thought that we were out of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the woods, it rains again. I am in my garage. Okay,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: this is where my new little office is set up.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Everything was flooded. There was water on the floor. My
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: house doesn't even have gutters. My house doesn't have a gutter.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: My garage doesn't have a gutter because it doesn't rain
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, and Los Angeles is not equipped
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: for wetness, water, snow, even a strong breeze. Okay, I'm
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: worried that this baby's coming down on top of me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: There's no gutters. All the water came in here. My
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Christmas tree but I'm hiding behind me, is ruined. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: just got it this year to get We're getting a
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: bad Christmas right, everything is a mess. And now I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Rachel Vanetta, one who has already built a deck, built
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a hotel, builds Hosana. I'm gonna have to put gutters
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: on my house. Do I know how to do that? No,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I'm I gonna figure it out. Yes, it does seem
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: relatively easy, but I'm not happy about it. And that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: is the worst thing that I saw a week And
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: just when I cleaned up the mess, it rains again.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I do not have time for this. Guys. Thanks for
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: listening to the pod. Thanks for our friend Dan hans
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Is for joining us. As always, I have the best peeps,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see what happens from now
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: until next week. It's chaos. The league is on fire
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and Fuego. Don't forget Polisher, Crystal Tonighter or whatever whatever
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. Okay, love you bye,