The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 172 - Kyle Rudolph Confirms He Pushed Off Against The Saints.. & Aaron Jones Joins Us For A Feel Good Friday

Episode Date: March 6, 2020

On today's show, Pat and the boys chat about The Boston Herald report that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick had a phone conversation that did not go well, and what that means for Brady's upcoming decision. They also try to figure out whether Brady will end up back in New England, or move onto Tennessee, San Francisco, LA, Miami, or somewhere else. Later, 2x Pro Bowler, one of the best Tight Ends in the NFL, friend of the show and current Minnesota Viking, Kyle Rudolph. He explains to Pat whether or not he pushed off against the Saints in New Orleans in the playoffs this year, how things are going to be different in Minnesota after losing their OC, his relationship with Kirk Cousins, and his thoughts on the 450 page document that the NFLPA is sending players to sift through ahead of their vote on March 12 (12:49-27:01). Also joining the show is the starting Running Back for the Green Bay Packers, last year's league leader in rushing touchdowns, Aaron Jones. Pat and Aaron chat about his relationship with Aaron Rodgers and what their relationship is like, what his offseason has consisted of thus far, why he thinks he took such a big jump on the field this year, and what the Packers need to do in order to reach the Super Bowl (28:28-37:35). Also included in today's show is some News We Missed With Nick, and Pat and the guys react to Nik Wallenda's "death defying" volcano walk from the other night. Today's show is a fun one, come and laugh with us. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

hello how's it going it is friday march 6th already 2020 time flies when you're having fun isn't that right oh we're having a blast here today's show is a good one nice feel good friday to send you in the weekend in beautiful fashion we have a conversation with kyle rudolph who breaks down the play from the new orleans Saints playoff game that you would want to hear the answer from. Has a very good answer. Also, Aaron Jones of the Green Bay Packers and all the other conversation that you could potentially want to hear

about life. We can't thank you enough for choosing to listen to this show. I mean, you could do a lot of other things with your ear holes right now. A lot of other things. People say you shouldn't use Q-tips anymore. I use them. I use Q-tips all the time. I love Q-tips anymore i use them i use q-tips all the time i love q-tips me too i love q-tips too there's a war on q-tips by the way though because they you know the propaganda against q-tips is that you push it in there and you burst your eardrum i already got a

burst jokes on you q-tips house money house money exactly exactly there's not much better but sneezing feels good oh yeah a good q-tip after like a couple days in the morning when you wake up and you go in there and you get a good good swoop and now i've seen the way my lady's q-tip looks and my q-tip looks i think i create and generate a lot more earwax than her so i think i might generate a lot more happiness from the particular feeling but boy when i get in there and then i flip it over and i wipe clean it off and i go the other side that feeling it just feels like i'm massaging my brain when it happens my leg starts twitching yeah it triggers like that dog muscle you just get that oh that's what happens sorry what what what exactly happens when the Q-tip goes in there?

My leg starts twitching. Just the feeling I feel. It's like 80 deeper. Foxy. Foxy's walking in. He just found out that his roommate barks like a dog whenever he puts a Q-tip in his ear, which I respect. They try to say that there's a wax you can drop in. I guess it flushes it out. Wax on wax crime? Yeah. I don't know's There's a wax you can drop in I guess that flushes it out Wax on wax crime

Yeah I don't know if it's hot wax They melt your It disintegrates the ear wax I don't know I don't know how it happens There's all these different styles He's one of those baby things That pulls it out

Have you ever I've gone to one after I busted my eardrum Where they actually put like a little camera in there And they sucked it out Like it was a tooth Like a They did that like a vacuum yeah it was for your ear so we used to have those cameras where i used to work and there was a guy who worked there huge nerd that claimed that his ears were super clean because he used the wax gun every morning we checked his ears out full wax we checked mine out q-tipping clean as a whistle. That's research. Sold me.

That's research right there. That guy's dumping wax into his wax-filled fucking ears telling us that our wax It was disgusting. Dump them out. That guy's a nerd with disgusting ears.

Big tips, win it. We hope that guy's listening to this. He probably can't hear us because so much fucking wax in his nerd ass ears. Idiot.

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sports you name it speaking of let's get to some sports talk right now it is alleged that yesterday uh or the day before that depending on reports and insiders, that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick spoke on the phone. I think the interesting advantage that the Patriots have over every other team that could potentially want to sign Tom Brady is they have the ability to talk to him currently. Their people could have met in Indianapolis. We're not 100% sure. No reports came out that the Patriots met with Tom Brady's people. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, though, on the phone talking about his potential future. The Boston Herald reported that the call did not go well. They said that it went almost catastrophic is basically what the headline was saying. And then if you listen to Adam Schefter,

Adam Schefter said it was business as usual. What is a business as usual conversation between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick go like? That is a very interesting question that I have. Boston Herald said Tom Brady, Bill Belichick phone call Tuesday didn't go well. How can that be? What is Bill Belichick? What do you think? I've been watching you on the Snap Face And the Twitter And the Face Note

And all that stuff I've seen you Been around You went to a fight You see Conor McGregor You also saw Mark Davis On that guy And Tom's like

Yeah I also just Talked to Dana White On Instagram Live I have no idea I have no idea What I'm gonna do And Bill You know

You know I can deal with it Here And Tom goes Maybe I just want to see what there is and then imagine belichick goes well fornicate you there hangs up on it imagine if bill belichick does it i wonder if bill belichick is getting to the point where he's sick of this where he's sick of watching this now remember belichick and the patriots could have already signed this deal with tom brady they could have already made him offer they could have already extended him they could

have already made this thing be settled in that this conversation isn't even happening on every single sports show every single morning until it gets settled this could have happened it has not but this could have happened and i assume that's what tom brady's thinking is like hey they could have already told me what's going to happen they could have already promised me a couple more weapons they could have already promised me a couple more weapons. They could have already promised me a lot of money. They have not. So instead, I'm getting on Instagram Live with Dana White, and I'm having full conversations with him about being patient through the process and kind of experiencing something for the first time in 20 years. The conversations are heating up on where he's going. Yesterday, the San Francisco 49ers were

the talk of the town. They were the team that Tom Brady was going to. They were going to trade Jimmy G back to the New England Patriots. Just the day before that, it was the Tennessee Titans were the conversation because Mike Vrabel was FaceTiming with Julian Edelman while he was with Jimmy Fallon and Tom Brady at the Syracuse basketball game. Every single team is still in play, and the team that has been able to sign him and lock him up has not done it, and that's the New England Patriots. And whether you're listening to adam schefter who says it was business as usual or the boston herald who

says it didn't go well that is just a matter of fact that they have not locked tom brady down and if you're a patriots fan with the things that he was saying to dana yesterday it's been a great ride for 20 years this is my first time getting to experience this listening to him talk about his free agency for the first time really that via a dana white instagram live conversation through a phone because dana and instagram got into a beef and he couldn't get tom brady on the instagram live with him so he did it via speakerphone that entire conversation made me think even more that there's no chance that Brady's going back to the New England Patriots I could be wrong I could be wrong and we have said in the past like within the last two weeks because of how

much this has been talked about and anytime you talk about something and and you know dive into it there's different opportunities and conversations go different places and we said just a couple weeks ago that if he was to leave, this would be the biggest troll job in the history of professional sports. Worse than the decision was. Now, granted, he did bring championships to New England, six of them. He's the greatest of all time. LeBron hadn't won for Cleveland yet whenever he decided to take his talents elsewhere and go win.

But this has been a long, drawn-out thing here between Tom and the Patriots fans, and it just feels like every single day that we go by, there's a new team that he's definitely going to, and none of them are the New England Patriots. And that has to be something that's a tough pill to swallow up there in New England. It's not easy, but the Boston Herald, the only reason they reported that it didn't go well is because Belichick told them to so that other teams could get some hope.

Hey, maybe Brady's going to come to us if the call didn't go well. Everything's fine. Business as usual. So you think Bill Belichick leaked to the Boston Herald that the most prime free agent potentially in the history of the NFL, the most spotlighted topic of conversation right now in the NFL. The first conversation that he and Belichick have had did not go well.

You think Belichick is like, yeah, I want to leak this out there. I would like to leak out that this did not go well so that everybody knows that, yeah, the teams that think they have him, you still have a very good chance because it didn't go great. Exactly.

The ultimate villain move is having everybody think that there's little hope and then snatching that hope away That's what Belichick's doing right now. How did that conversation go? How did that conversation go? How does how did Bill Belichick and Tom Brady coexist first of all, I mean for the last 20 years How have they coexisted there? They seem to be very different individuals Bill Belichick could care less about his appearance Get care less about how anybody thinks about him anything like that. I don't think he's eating healthy i don't think he does anything like that and tom brady is this alien of a human obviously enjoys looking good i mean we all do he has a lot of these i mean just

every i don't know how that conversation could even possibly go with tom brady knowing what's going on and how belichick is going on knows what's going on i don't think there's a single bone in belichick's body that begs people to do stuff. And especially at this point, when you're known as the greatest coach of all time, there's no way he's going to be bending over backwards to try to win over Tom Brady, a man who he probably thinks like,

hey, either stick around or go. I don't care. Like, I think Bill Belichick has had enough with it all, I would assume. And that's probably how the conversation went. Yeah, we need to find out whose side Schefter's source is on, whether it's Bill's side or Tom's side to get the business as usual side.

My guess is Bill would be the business as usual side guy. And Tom would leak that the conversation did not go well. 1,000%. I think you're 100% accurate on that. I just don't know. I'm excited for it to happen.

Tom Brady said to Dana White that he's got a vacation coming up here in the next 10 to 12 days. He's going to get away for a little bit i won't let you know if that vacation is a beach town look for the chargers to be back in the top you know what i mean did he enjoy his vacation on the beach oh maybe he'd like to be around the beach a little bit more let's assume that he's probably going to go to a beach town maybe the dolphins maybe beef flow maybe the chargers maybe he goes to a beach and there's a picture of him not happy like oh he doesn't like the sand.

Maybe he'll go to the Tennessee Titans. I mean, every little thing could potentially be a blues clues on where old Tom Brady ends up. I think I've flipped completely, and I think he's staying in New England now. Like, I just – Every day. Well, it's like – Every day. It seems like it's so obvious that he would leave now with that coming out

and all the 49ers stuff yesterday. I'm just starting to think it's just one big smokescreen and he is going to end up going back to New England. Yeah, I mean, Connor said it. And I said yesterday, we all get this hope that this Patriots thing is going to be done and it's going to kill them and blah, blah, blah, blah. Tom's going to be starting from week one. I thought he was gone yesterday.

Me too. And here we are. I still think he's gone. After that Dana White conversation, I thought he was gone yesterday. Me too. And here we are. I still think he's gone. After that Dana White conversation, I think he's gone. Now, I had been on the train that he's going back just a week ago. I think he's gone, though. Tom seemed a little bit over it on the Dana White call. Yeah, Tom's done with talking about it.

But, Tom, don't know how to tell you this, pal. Because of how you've played football for the last 20 years, you potentially being on the move is a massive ordeal, especially in the offseason where there's nothing to talk about. We are being joined by an all-pro, pro bowler, superstar, big country, tight end of the Minnesota Vikings, Kyle Rudolph. Yeah, attaboy, Kyle! Attaboy, Kyle Rudolph!

Attaboy, Kyle Rudolph! Wow. Thanks for having me, Pat. I hear a baby in the back and I see a bunch, Kyle Rudolph. Wow. Thanks for having me, Pat. I hear a baby in the back, and I see a bunch of game balls. Come here, baby. Come say hi. Oh, nice. What is this?

My oldest daughter. Hi. Hi, beautiful. How are you? Can you say hi? Hi. Say hi, Pat. Hi.

Oh, my God. She's such a sweetheart. I know that if I have a child, she's going to be a nightmare, so I'm trying not to do that. Good for you, Kyle. That know that if I have a child, she's going to be a nightmare. So I'm trying not to do that. Good for you, Kyle. And that's why you have more than one. Once you have three, it just becomes a circus, and they kind of run around with each other.

Speaking of circus, did you see the circus act last night of Nick Wallenda walking across that volcano? I did not. Yeah, you didn't miss anything. The guy was tethered. The guy was tethered. There was no danger involved. I have one question I have to ask you.

You pushed off on that Saints touchdown? Absolutely not. We've talked about this. It's a reviewable play. The rule was changed for them because of what happened the year prior in the exact same stadium. So if anyone was going to get called for opi in that situation it was going to be me in that stadium because of that rule didn't happen

they reviewed the play and we carried on i just thought kyle it sure looked like you did the exact same thing that george kiddo did in the super See, I had my arm out, but I never pushed. That's the thing. As an offensive player, if I want to keep you there, I'll keep you there. That's not a push. They grab, we hand fight, all that. It's the extension. That's what gets you.

If I just keep you at bay, now I'm not pushing. Hey, couldn't make it more clear than that. I mean, what you just said broke it all down let's talk about the vikings right now you guys had a hell of a run this past year started out then that big thing happened with it when your offense kind of took a change you guys went on an absolute heater you know one more year with kirk cousins under contract at least 31 million dollars guaranteed for next year what do you guys think is what's the mindset going into next season i know we're early in the off season but what's the mindset going into next season? I know we're early in the off season,

but what is your mindset going into next season for the Minnesota Vikings? Oh, for us, we got to build on the success that you mentioned on the offensive side of the ball from week five on. You know, the first four weeks of the year, there were frustrations. We were two and two.

Anytime you have the amount of talent that we have on offense and you're 2-2 and not everyone's producing up to their own personal expectation, tempers are going to boil over. You're going to have frustration. That's life in the NFL. But then you kind of see our offense take stride from week five on. And we know our identity as a football team.

We've got to run the football, and then we take advantage of the run game with boots and play actions. And that's what makes Kirk so successful. He's comfortable outside of the pocket and vice versa. We know what makes us really easy to defend. And that's exactly what we did against the 49ers in the divisional round. You know, getting behind, getting into a drop back pass game, allowing all these talented rushers in the NFL to get after Kirk.

That's when we struggle. And, you know, the formula is there. We know what we have to do to be successful. Obviously from year to year, rosters change, guys come and go. But we feel like we have a really good core group of guys here that are currently under contract for next year, and we can make another run. You guys were fun to watch.

I mean, that offense was fun to watch whenever it was humming seeing kirk cousins kind of i don't want to say reach his full potential that everybody thought he had but it was fun to watch you guys you guys lose your offense coordinator he's now a head coach for the cleveland browns he's probably never gonna be heard from again now he's a coach but uh losing stefanski a what type of coach are the browns getting and b what does that affect the offense and what you guys are going to be able to do next year? Well, for us, you know, as an offense, this will be our fifth coordinator in five years.

Yes, we've had some carryover in terms of, you know, Pat was here with Norv, so he knew what we were running the year before. And then Flip comes in, Kevin, and now we moved on to Gary. And obviously, Gary was here last year and kind of was overseeing everything. And we ran a lot of the Kubiak, Shanahan system type stuff. So, you know, it won't be a huge transition for us from a terminology and a system standpoint. But again, it's another transition from year to year, coordinator to coordinator. So it's, you know, first of all, that's what the Browns are getting in terms of their head coach.

They're going to get a really, really smart, talented, buttoned up, sharp. You know, he's been around sports his whole life. Obviously, his dad being incredibly successful in the NBA. So, you know, I think he's ready for this opportunity to be a head coach. I knew that his dad was obviously very successful in the NBA. I am a sports show host. That is something that I obviously knew. What did his dad do in the NBA?

So his dad was in the front office like all through the 90s with the Sixers. Of course. Currently the GM of the Detroit Pistons. Oh! They stink, Kyle. And not because of Mr. Stefanski. It's because Evan Fox, the guy we got in here.

The new CBA right now is obviously a massive deal for everybody involved in the business that is the NFL. Are you a player, Rep? And if you're not, have you read through the 450 page CPA proposal that the players are supposed to vote on? I actually just printed it out to try to read through it because they said they were going to send over the vote thing. And I think my printer ran out of ink. You can't even zoom big enough on an iPhone to read all the fine points that they have in there i know i'm

not a player rep um but you know i'll try to read through it as best i can and educate myself before i make a vote dude whenever like little pieces of information were being leaked in a pr war whether it was through schefter or the people at espn or insiders who were obviously getting their information from the nfl and then every once in a while, a player was going to leak some things. It became this PR battle. And all I kept saying was like, hey, this is going to be like a thousand pages long worth of stuff. And it actually came out. It's 450 pages.

And you've got a lot of players that don't do the school. I'm excited to hear how many people actually read through this entire thing and take their vote actually seriously. And do you think the ogs in annavel yourself included men who have had a lot of success who have been there done that for a lot of things the business side of it and on the field stuff off season in season all that stuff do you think their way their words are going to carry a lot more weight than people think or do you think this is going to be something where each guy is voting individually uh well i mean i think you're going to have your guys who don't want to be influenced they want to create their own vote their um kind of own opinion um but i i went through the same

situation when i came into the league in 2011 we were currently locked out when i got drafted and um you know i looked up to guys in our locker room like steve hutchinson chad greenway guys that have been in the league for eight nine ten years ten years and kind of what to do, where to go. You know, at the time, I didn't have a vote because we had just got drafted, but just kind of feeling out the whole process and what that was. So, I hope our young guys will lean on the older veterans, the guys that have gone through this before, and make an educated vote instead of just, because like you said, it's 400 and something pages. I can't tell you the last time

I read a 400 and something page book and I'm Notre Dame educated. So it's not going to happen. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I know it's not a Mountaineer education. I dropped out. Me, Steve.

Me too. I talked about this a couple times whenever the CBA negotiations were just starting and how they thought they were going to have a deal done early was the original reports that the NFL was putting out there to kind of put pressure on the NFLPA. There was a lot of regret with that last CBA that was signed, like the year following the CBA being signed. Trips home on flights, in the locker room, there was a lot of regret. There

was a lot of buyer's remorse in the people that signed that. That's why I think whenever the OGs speak, I think it's a lot more important than what people are thinking, just them being greedy. It's like, well, they've been there, done that with this one last time. And they heard a conversation from everybody afterwards that was like, oh yeah, we got screwed in this thing. And I'm assuming that a lot of people are trying not to do the same damn thing well and i think too uh you've been around this league long enough nothing gets done until the 11th hour uh the nfl can say they want to get something done early the pa can say that we're going to try and we're going to convene and try to get something done early um but when has that ever happened

you know until the pressure is on and it's going to get to that 11th hour, we'll see. Kyle Rudolph, what are you working on for Kyle Rudolph to get better? You're in what year now, nine? You're going into year nine? Going into year 10. Going into year 10. You're an old man. You're in great shape, by the way, great shape.

You obviously are. You're a big, white, tight end, obviously. You take a lot of hits. You've got to block. You've got to do a lot of things you gotta block you gotta do a lot of things you gotta be agile you gotta be athletic what is something you've added into your off-season routine or your workout routine that you never expected you would have been doing whenever you were younger pilates really it's hard sounds impossible it's it's like yoga but with weight right isn't that what pilates is yeah well and it's like it's uh you're on those reformers,

so a lot of it is just your body weight. I compare it to the old Chuck Norris total gym. It's a similar type machine. And it's literally the worst hour of my day. I do it two or three times a week, and by the end of it, I've never felt more defeated in a workout without touching a single weight. There's not a weight.

It's all your body weight. A lot of it is either on the reformer or on the floor and it's tough. So I've had my fair share of surgeries in my core, hamstring, all that kind of stuff and it's really good for that. So in year 10, I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life physically, and I credit that to a lot of the different things I'm doing now than when I was 21. Congrats, by the way. 10 years is not easy,

especially in a banging position like tight end. Kyle, do you take offense to Adam Thielen tweeting, Kirk Cousins every single morning, good morning, looking for more targets? Yeah, you're probably not going to get the ball this year. Yeah, I'm not uh that's that's not my style i uh i tend to just go with the route of if you throw it to me i'm gonna catch it so you

might want to throw it again um that's just that's been the way i've done things with all 10 quarterbacks that i've played with in nine years. Ten quarterbacks? Yeah, Kirk was number ten. Oh, my God. We make fun of the Browns, and we make fun of these other organizations. Ten quarterbacks for the Minnesota Vikings in the last nine years. I would have never guessed that. I would have never. I didn't even know that was a thing.

That's insane. Nobody talks about that when they're talking about the greatness of Kyle Rudolph. Well, thank you. Yeah, ten quarterbacks, and I think this is my sixth offensive coordinator. So we've had our fair share of shuffling on the offensive side of the ball over here in Minnesota. I remember back in the day, and it seems like it's a long time ago now because Teddy's about to be a free agent for the New Orleans Saints.

There was talk about him changing the game before he got hurt out there. He was like MVP consideration, and he got hurt in training camp, I think, and it all changed from there. Do you still keep in contact with Teddy? And if you don't, what do you expect from Teddy as he goes forward as being a starter in this league once again? I do. I do keep in contact with Teddy.

We obviously played in the playoffs last year, but we played in the preseason as well, so I got to see him at the beginning and the end of the year. That was one of the more unfortunate things that I've ever been around in sports because he had such a he was coming off of a Pro Bowl appearance he had such a great preseason that year and it was kind of from a Minnesota Vikings standpoint the keys to our offense were being passed from Adrian to Teddy up to that point our offense was Adrian Peterson 30, 35 times a game,

and that torch had been passed. It was Teddy's offense, and unfortunately, he was hurt in training camp that year. So to see Teddy bounce back and to put the work that he's put in to put himself in this situation, he's going to make a lot of money this offseason, and the team is going to get a really, really good quarterback in the future of their franchise because he still is young. I mean, he's in his mid-20s. He's got a lot of football left. I've never seen a free agency frenzy like it is right now with these quarterbacks. I mean, everybody's on the shopping cart.

It is. It's absolutely nuts. It is insane. Have you followed along at all? A little bit. You know, I've always been a football fan. So, you know, following along in the offseason, I'm following along no more than just a fan.

And I remember a couple of years ago when we had the opportunity to sign Kirk in free agency. It was so wild because, you know, to that point, the last quarterback to hit free agency was like Drew in 06. So you don't see quarterbacks that have been franchise quarterbacks hit free agency very often. And this year it seems like there's 10 quarterbacks that have either been a franchise quarterback or could be a franchise quarterback in a free agency. It's good for the NFL. It keeps us talking about it, and that's what the NFL absolutely loves. We've got to get to a hard out here.

We can't thank you enough for joining us. You're the absolute best. Enjoy your Pilates, enjoy your push-offs, and have a great day. Thank you. Have a good one, guys. You push that guy. Hey, you push that guy. I do not.

Your daughter's in the room. Do not lie to her. We can ask her. She'll tell you it was a touchdown. Ladies and gentlemen, animal Kyle Rudolph. Thank you, Kyle. Thank you. Notre Dame educated.

He's a good dude, man. Great teeth. I love Kyle Rudolph. Handsome, great teeth, Pilates guy. Notre Dame educated. He's a good dude, man. Great teeth. I love Kyle Rudolph. Handsome, great teeth, Pilates guy. Good football player. By the way, I'm a Pelicans fan now. I assume we got a lot of New Orleans people watching. I had to take a stand for my people.

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How y'all doing? Aaron, we're good, man. We're trying to get a hold of you there. I think there's a little bit of a tech issue. We appreciate you kind of waiting it out and staying on the line with us, my brother. No problem. What are you up to right now? Where are you at? You at home? On vacation? What's going on in Aaron Jones' life right now for the offseason? I'm at home in El Paso, Texas.

Just training uh getting ready for next year uh what is training like for aaron jones uh are we sprinting we doing anything weird we do any weird workouts we just had kyle rudolph on in the last hour he said he does pilates weekly that has really helped his body is there any weird exercises that you do or is it all old school olympic lifting type stuff uh i do a a lot of single leg stuff. Just because when you get back to both feet, if you're strong on one leg, when you get back to both feet, I feel like you'll be great.

So that's something I like to do. And when you get both feet in the ground, I feel like it's over if you're equally strong on both sides. Why did you take this massive jump this past year? Is it because you weren't given the rock earlier? Or what do you think it was? Was it something mentally?

Was it physically? Was it the scheme? What do you think made you have so much success this past season with the Green Bay Packers? The opportunity mixed with the help from my teammates. I mean, they did a great job, the whole blocking unit, everybody just making sure that I had length to run and I could pick and choose wherever I wanted to go.

I'm still bummed that you got yelled at for waving in that guy's face. I think that was something that could have potentially became your signature move. Oh, man. It was worth the fun, though. I got a good picture out of it. So, I mean, it was just in the moment. I didn't even realize I did it until after.

And I'm like, oh, man, it was pretty cool, though. Yeah, I mean, it could have been a personal foul, I guess, is what everybody told you, and you got fined for it. But, hey, we're in the show business world here of sports. You lit it up in Dallas. That's just one of them. That's a great move. If I was ever able to just run away from another human like that,

a professional athlete, I'd probably attempt to wave in their face as well. I wish you would do more of that. Green Bay Packers made it to the NFC Championship. Got slaughtered there, but made it to the NFC Championship. What does the team need to do next year to kind of take that next step, obviously, to the Super Bowl? We just got to come out. We got to play together. Offense has to feed off for the

defense. Defense has to feed off a special team and just play together and come out with a lot of energy. Just fly around. I just feel like that was lacking a little bit, but we got the guys in the locker room to get right

to where we need to be what year is this for you you're going into what year four okay so you're going into year four a lot of the ogs who are around for the last cba conversation have come out very against a lot of them have been very against the new cba you're a younger guy i don't know if you've gotten broken off yet i don't think so going into year four what are your thoughts on the entire cba you're a younger guy i don't know if you've gotten broken off yet i don't think so going into year four what are your thoughts on the entire cba negotiation are you listening to the older guys are you kind of doing research for yourself or is it a combination of both um it's a combination of both because a lot of those a lot of the veterans were there um for the the previous lockout and they they know they know what it takes and they just want we just want

things to be fair so um and then you also have to always educate yourself as well so you know what's going on you you can talk about and everything so um but i do both uh we got great leaders in our locker room uh great veterans so um they they keep us they keep us updated they keep us they so we're in the loop and we know what's going on are you going to read that 460 page proposal uh it's going to take me some time but i am by the way i think you have to say that you're going to publicly if you were going to say no there i think some people would like not us because there's no way in hell if I was in the NFL right now, I'd be reading that 460-page thing.

But as soon as a player says he's not going to read it, the pundits are going to be like, this is the problem with the players. They won't take the time to read the 460-page proposal. So that was a great answer, by the way. I'm happy you said that, and I'm sorry for putting you in a position to potentially look terrible. Oh, no, it's okay. so did that come through your email like you got an email this morning from the nflpa that said hey listen this is a long one we need you to read through it

to see what's going on is that how it came or what was the the delivery process of the new cba uh i just got a link to my phone uh text texted to me and then um i just clicked on it and started reading right away and um i found it pretty interesting uh like this is my first time ever going through something like this and uh i just i just found it pretty interesting and you see a lot of changes but it's not huge so i. But it was pretty interesting to see how business works. What was your major in college? General studies. What do you plan on doing after football?

Have you even thought about that? Are you so just involved with football right now you haven't even thought about that? No, I'll think about that. I want to either get onto TV or coach so I can stay close to the game, whether it be talking about it or developing young players. Is this the first time in your football life, you love the game of football, you've played your entire life, is this the first time that you've kind of been dropped into the world like, hey, this isn't a game, a game this is 100 business and how is your reaction to that entire thing um i mean you always hear about how it's a business um when you're when you're in college

and things like that and you you don't really understand it until you get there and you start you start seeing things happen and uh you see so many guys come and go. And then just when you've seen it all, something else happens, something new happens, and you're like, wow. You just continue to learn and grow on the run, and you really see it's a business. What has Aaron Rodgers meant to your career thus far? Because Aaron Rodgers has come out and spoke against not only the CBA,

but Aaron Rodgers has also come out and spoke about how great you were this year how great the packers were he's he's kind of had this revitalized energy about football with this new hiring of the floor and with how good the team is potentially what does aaron rogers mean to a young guy like aaron jones who's potentially about to hit his real superstardom uh i mean, he means a lot to not only me, but a lot of our, all of our running backs. I mean, in our room, we never really had a vet. We came in young. So we never really had a vet in our room. Nobody looked up to, but A-Rod, he's a true leader.

I mean, I remember my first time going on the field and he was like, I'm one of your biggest fans in this organization. He was like, now it's time to get the job done. When you hear that from a future Hall of Famer, it's going to do nothing but wonders for your confidence. So that's in the huddle, or is that when you're standing next to each other and he's in a shotgun or something like that? That was actually my week.

It was either week four or five running on the field for my first offensive snap what a cool moment that is just jogging on the field you have a goat next to you like hey man i just want to let you know i'm a massive fan now it's time to show the world basically and that is just that has to be so powerful you don't hear those stories about aaron rogers by the way by powerful. You don't hear those stories about Aaron Rodgers, by the way, by the media. You don't hear those stories at all. You hear about him being condescending or saying something bad. You never hear people talk about, hey, how he instilled confidence in a guy to basically go have his best career he's ever had. That is a magical moment.

Is there any other moments like that that you can recall? My first time walking in the locker room right after we got drafted, there was a box of shoes for everybody in there. A pair of Adidas in there for everybody. I have a twin brother. There's even an extra pair for him. I was like, wow. This dude really cares.

What a great guy. Story never comes out about that. I'm excited to watch the Packers take the next step. I want you to enjoy the hell out of your offseason. I'm excited to see if you vote yes or no, and I can't wait to hear how long it takes you to read 460 pages of BS. I'll be reading for a little while, but I'm going to get through it. Hey, we're proud of you, ladies and gentlemen.

Aaron Jones. Thank you, Aaron. Thank you for having me. Hey, no problem. Cheers, man. Yes, sir. I'm a big fan. Hey, I want to let you know,

I'm the biggest fan of yours in this organization. Now it's time to show. Cheers, man. Yes, sir. I'm a big fan. Hey, I want to let you know, I'm the biggest fan of yours in this organization. Now it's time to show the world, man. Yes, sir. Hey, cheers, dude. Have a great offseason. Thank you. No, no problem. He's really good at football.

That 460 pages, though, there's no way in hell I would have read that if I'm in my fourth year, third year, second year, whatever it is. I mean, maybe when I was in the substance of abuse policy and they wouldn't let me do anything and i'm just sitting at home all by myself with the lights out maybe i read it then but boy that is a lot of reading to do and they say they got a week right to get their vote in i was gonna say how do they expect guys to read 460 pages of this

just dense stuff in like eight days and by the way they're gonna get buried if they come out and say they didn't read the entire thing. People would be like, well, this is why the NFL gets a better deal because players won't even read through the entire proposal. It's like 460 some pages. There's no way.

I mean, that is, you got to do what you got to do though. Hey, for the better of the shield, for the good of the players, you got to read 460 pages. I'd look at them and go like, somebody else can read that and let me know. It should have been like a book on tape thing. Spark notes type thing. Oh'd look at him and go like, somebody else can read that and let me know.

It should have been like a book on tape thing. Spark notes type thing. Oh, I wonder if there is like a podcast type thing of it. There should be. It's Richard Sherman reading it. See, that's the issue though. People are talking about how they should make like a spark notes version or a bullet point version. It depends on who's making the bullet points, right?

David Bakhtiari put out a tweet last night that had all the reasoning why he thinks it's a bad deal i don't know if he wrote it or who wrote it but it was like very in-depth and it's like oh now i understand why players are voting no but if you listen to nate soldier and he puts together his bullet points it's like oh this is a good deal so now you have to trust who's putting together the spark notes version of that or the audio book of that it's like nothing can be trusted right now i have no idea what the hell's gonna happen i had a fan tweet me he's like should i care about the new cba at all as a fan i'm like well i think you should i think you should strictly because how the players feel about it maybe players are going to retire earlier because it is it's going to affect the game do you

get more games do you get less games you have more players hurt are they going to play less games is the business going to be good a price is going to mean, there's so much to be affected in the sport of the NFL. If a strike happens, I know one thing and one thing alone. The players are not going to be liked by the fans. That's just the way it goes. So sorry to interrupt this incredible conversation that you're listening to. We hope you're enjoying yourself. If you are, tell your friends.

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people's minds. And I would assume the people at ABC that signed on to do this knew of the grandpa or the great, great grandpa that used to do wildly crazy things. But in the world that we currently live in, nothing that he does is impressive and i sorry nick i am very sorry i i respect the fact that you believe in the god and you've written a book and you're selling all these things and i respect the fact you think of these grand ideas but if i'm going to be sold on death which is what a daredevil act is being sold on on death i don't want to turn on that thing especially in the middle of the best crap television time of year which is politics right now i mean it's just great crap television out there let alone zion and luca playing i'm being told to change the channel to abc because

there is a daredevil doing death defying stunts and i turn it on and this guy's walking across a volcano with a gas mask bigger than Laramie Tunzel and I'm like oh this is cool this is really cool but just like when he walked across Niagara Falls and just like whenever he did the building it's hard not to look at him and be like look at the volcano and be like this is cool and then you immediately see that tether that's just right behind him and then if if you have a brain, all you think is like, oh, so if he falls, nothing happens. If he falls, he's just bungee jumping over top of a volcano, which, by the way, really cool. Like kind of jealous of the guy getting to do that. I was jealous of him when he did it to Niagara Falls.

I was jealous of him whenever he did it to buildings. I'm jealous of him when he did at the buildings I'm jealous of him when he does over a volcano and I'm not saying it doesn't take a massive gut sack to get up that High and walk on a very thin line But as somebody you know that skydive and has bungee jump before like yo, it's very scary It takes something to really get up that high so I respect it But when you see that tether behind it, this is not must-see television This is not primeetime cable network ABC television. Maybe whenever his family back in the day was doing this stuff without the tether,

and there's a chance. Now, listen, I'm not wishing for anybody's death, but if I'm being sold on death-defying stunts, I would like to know that that first word is possible. And if it's not possible, I feel like I'm lied to. I feel like I'm being scammed. And there was no chance of Nick Wallenda experiencing anything bad last night other than completing a 31-minute walk across a volcano.

Congrats. Put that on your Twitter bio. Or he went bungee jumping over a volcano, which is cooler than anything anybody else has ever done. Here's five things that just came to the top of my mind that are more dangerous than what Nick Walenda did last night. Okay. Number one, licking your fingers while giving a press conference about how dangerous it is to touch your mouth with your hand during the coronavirus era like that lady did in that press conference just the other day.

She comes up. She says, listen, the way this thing gets spread is if you touch your nose, mouth or eyes. And then two seconds later, the lady sticks her entire hand in her mouth to change over to the next page because she has incredibly dry fingers. That is more dangerous than what Nick will end it did last night, especially with this Corona virus. That's taken out the olds, which I'm not saying she was older,

that's more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did. Number two, being an old on the sideline of an XFL game. Hal Mumby, this past weekend, offense coordinator for the Dallas Renegades, the guy who created the air raid offense, was just staying on the sideline with a towel around his neck, calling in incredible plays, and all of a sudden one of his own guys comes through spears him breaks his leg he calls the rest of the game that's more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda

did last night number three all of a sudden this thing is dropped out of nowhere what's more dangerous to know what Nick Wallenda did last Nick Wallenda did last night getting soup from a grocery store is now more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did last night? Getting soup from a grocery store is now more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did last night. You got these old whites going into these grocery stores, taking the ladle, dipping it in and drinking straight out of it and putting it back into the thing. Coronavirus is bouncing around the earth. That's more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did. that's more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did. Number four, definitely more dangerous than what the Wallenda guy did last night is diving headfirst off of a pontoon into four foot water. The lights that could have a brick under there, a log under there. You can't see through it.

When you sailgate at a Baylor game and you go face first belly flop off the top of a pontoon boat, that is more dangerous than what Nick Wallenda did last night. And number five, this video made its rounds on the internet just the other day. This is more dangerous than almost anything going. He tried to bungee jump. These guys try to bungee jump, but they make the bungee longer than the actual fall. the bungee longer than the actual fall so these dudes in africa are just base jumping off the top of something face first right into earth pow that's more dangerous than what nick wilenda did last night i would pay top dollar to watch all of these things instead of what nick wilenda did last

night and maybe i'm gonna ask for that but that's just truly how i feel no no fans of nick will end in this room none he's a hustler like i respect the fact that he's a hustler he's a carny he's a circus act and all that stuff but maybe 10 years ago when there wasn't all the rules and i understand it's not him forcing the tether on it's probably the network but that's not my fault either no that's not my fault either don't be shoving it down my face find another network i'm done with it and then i was told then i was told by somebody on twitter last night whenever i tweeted it's like so the worst thing that could happen this guy is he's bungee jumping over the volcano and somebody was like no no no that harness if he does fall could tighten up he could lose circulation to his legs and potentially lose his legs i'm like so

that's the worst thing that could happen is this harness? That was the biggest harness I've ever seen. I've gone bungee jumping, and my harness was smaller than what he was wearing last night. They're like, well, that thing could tighten up and cut off the circulation to his legs. So in Nick Wall and his eyes, he's walking. He's like, if I fall, I'm going to lose both of my legs. That's what I'm being sold on? Get me out.

I'm done with it. I hate the guy. It's not his fault. It is his fault. He's a hustler. That's what I'm being sold on? Get me out. I'm done with it. I hate the guy. It's not his fault. It is his fault. He's a hustler. He's a scammer. He's making money off of this stuff. It's not his fault.

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That's theblacktux.com, code PAT for 10% off your purchase. The Black Tux, formal wear for the moment. There's some things we should be talking about and every time that happens we go to our friend nick for things that are happening brought to you by at nick maraldo yeah it is it is brought to you by me uh sports business journal reports that the nfl network experienced a three percent ratings increase on the combine uh the league owned network averaged 242,000 viewers over the four days of coverage in comparison to last year. Is it worth the move to primetime with that small of a bump? I didn't love the move to primetime because I liked watching it during the day. Now, I am somebody who's never had a normal job, so my days are normally rather free to do things like that.

I like whenever there's soccer during the day. I like whenever there's football during the day. I like whenever there's football during the day. I like whenever there's wrestling during the day. I like whenever people debunk the theory that everything has to happen in prime time and go during the day to give people a little bit of entertainment. Now, is that incredibly selfish?

I think so, because I'm thinking just strictly of me. But now that the business has come out, the Business Who, who is who? Who is this? Who did this? The business who? Sports Business Journal. They know what they're talking about. A 3% increase to move it to primetime is obviously a move

that didn't succeed for the NFL Network. I saw after the first night, everybody that was associated with the NFL Network was pumping out how we had 100% increase last night's thing. Moving to primetime was the right move and all that stuff. But I think it turns your back on your loyal viewers of the combine. I think the loyal viewers of the combine are the people that are at work hating their jobs, trying to figure out what to watch.

I'll watch some men in tights run fast, jump high, and maybe something electric will happen during it. I think you're missing out on the college kids who are sitting at home during the day, got nothing else to do you know what we'll watch our our old buddy who used to play for our team maybe compete in a three cone drill do the jump and things like that when you move it to prime time now you're getting in the way of people's social life now you're getting in the way of these dudes that are watching the combine on a regular basis getting in the way of their drinking schedules and maybe they have other stuff going on. I understand the thought like, hey, if we put this in prime time, it'll help

out everything. But I think you're turning your back on your loyal audience that has kind of built you up to this point, which are the people who are trying to spend the day with you before they go back to their regular life. The people who are trying to avoid any responsibility by watching other things during the day before they go and do other things. I think it's a bad decision. I think they will potentially go back to the daylight thing. But the NFL knows that if there is a dollar to be made and if they can take advantage of something, I would assume primetime pays a lot better. But if your numbers don't match the time slot,

will you still put it there? I'm not sure. Maybe run a rerun up there. Maybe get a twofer out of the thing. I just don't, I don't love the move. I like watching during the day. I like passing the time with it. I think that's a bad decision. I maybe get a twofer out of the thing i just don't i don't love the move i like watching during the day i like passing the time with it i think that's a bad decision i like to know that a lot of other people feel the exact same way i like thursday night being on prime time possibly with the quarterbacks kick it off but then friday you can't go friday and

saturday night prime time combine because combine is great but it's not great enough where people aren't gonna like go out to dinner and go out to bars on Friday and Saturday night and stay at home and watch the combine. And they're not allowed to cover it as a spectacle. It's not allowed to be covered as a spectacle. I think if something's on a Friday night or a Saturday night, I think it has to be a little bit grander as opposed to like a golf. By the way, golf is perfect during the days.

Perfect. At night, golf would not work because it's kind of slow. It's not a spectacle. It's kind of quiet. I enjoy the thought of maybe kicking off in primetime on Thursday night to kind of introduce the world to the combine happening. But man, during the days with Rich Eisen and his gym dance routine, doing the golf talk with Daniel Jeremiah, breaking it down, a couple of ex-players on the field who are entertaining,

it just feels like the perfect fit. So hopefully they'll adjust that and make a little bit of a move. Do you think if Joe Burrow would have thrown or if Chase Young would have worked out, that would have had any impact on the ratings? But they won't. Yeah. Going forward, I don't think it's going to get better.

I don't think you're going to get it. Now, Patrick Mahomes threw, but nobody knew Patrick Mahomes was Patrick Mahomes at the time. I don't think you're going to get the superstars that work out at the combine going forward. I think it's going to go the other way, actually. So I still think with no-name people, not no-names. I understand in their college towns and regions they're big. But to the casual NFL fan, the no-name players working out, it's just a spectacle to see the athleticism.

But it's not a spectacle grand enough for primetime television in my eyes now i could be wrong and i assume i was a person who was against the draft becoming the way one first round one night second round one night third how it used to be anytime you change something there's always going to be a little pessimism that it's met with but for this i think they should take it back to the day and treat it like golf as opposed to a primetime spectacle i think you're 100 right though do the opening night out there and then it's kind of ease into it a three percent increase though is not good that's not no it's not good whenever you take it from 10 a.m to yeah 7 p.m it's like well that's not great yeah i would assume they were anticipating those numbers

to be much higher than much higher let's go to nick anything else bob uh alex trebek recently tweeted out a video on his difficult year leaving living with stage four pancreatic cancer, sudden massive attacks of Great Depression, and his commitment to fighting on. No mention of stepping back to Jeopardy. And he also donated $100,000 to an L.A. homeless organization recently. I love Trebek. I'm a big Jeopardy guy. His interviews with the nerds of the Nerd Super Bowl every single night, he is just fed up with them.

He's at the point where the other night he was telling people how to tell their story better. The other night somebody said something. They're like, this happened, this happened. He was like, next time say this instead of that. And then he goes to the next guest. And then somebody says something. He's like, all right.

Trebek is just the model of consistency. And whenever I watched that interview he had with the TMZ guy, what's his name? Harvey Levin. His interview with Harvey Levin, I learned that Trebek is like a full-time savage. Took a couple shots at Pat Sajak. I mean, I love Trebek.

I'm happy that he's battling. Had an 18% survival rate just a year ago. Now, if he was to make it another year, it's at a 7% survival rate. And at the end of that video that he put out yesterday, that was very emotional, by the way. He talked about how he thought about just quit fighting against the chemo and against the cancer, but then he said he would have been a coward, basically,

if he would have done that for his wife, his family, his fans, and other people. It was a very emotional video video and i'm proud to say i'm an alex trebek fan even more so and i hope he makes it another year i think he will because the guy's a badass him him savagely destroying pat sajak though is one of my favorite uh harvey asked him he said you are always introduced um as the host of jeopardyy! Alex Trebek, not the star of Jeopardy! And he goes, well, I'm not the star. The players are the stars. The categories are the stars, blah, blah, blah. And then Harvey goes, well, you know, Pat and Vanna, they are introduced as the stars of the show.

If you were the host of Wheel of Fortune, would you be introduced? And he said, no, even though I know every letter in the alphabet or something. It was just, I love Trebek. I hope we see him for another 30 years somehow. That'd be great. Anything else, Nick? Folks in the Italian town of Modena had wine coming out of their kitchen taps after a local winery accidentally leaked

into their local water system. Oh. Not bad. In Italy, that's probably like, that's all you could ever ask for. They dream of those days, right? A boobity bobbity. If we could get the wine to come out of the faucet,

that would be great. Who needs the water? I think I'm supposed to be offended, but that was hilarious. I'm Italian. Good point. I don't know if you're that Italian. I'm Italian.

You're Italian, but I don't know if you're that Italian. What you did was okay, except for the very beginning. That was the best part. I'm Italian, but I don't know if you're that Italian. What you did was okay, except for the very beginning. That was the best part. I'm Italian, Diggs. Listen, I don't need you questioning what I can do as an Italian. All right? I understand that D'Aguilio is much more Italian than McAfee,

and Moraldo is much more Italian than McAfee, but I did my 23 and me. I spit into the thing. It said I'm 1% Italian, a 0.09% Italian. You name it, whatever it is, I'm Italian.

I'm allowed to say whatever I want. And if I want wine coming out of my damn faucet, I'm allowed to say that. However, whatever Italian accent I want to have. Boobity bubity. We're going to get to a break. Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.

For the love of God. Brady, come back! You can blame it all on Bill. We need you, Tom. Don't leave us with a massive hole to fill. Please don't. Brady, come back! Dolphins, Jets, and Bills to kill!

The Super Bowl's in Tampa Bay. Let's go get our seventh ring, you know the drill. New England's your home, Tom. Are you too good for your home? I don't think so. But please, for the love of God. Brady, come back! Watching you play is a dream Please don't leave us Tom

We can all eat avocado ice cream Delicious Brady come back Are you ad-libbing for your song or not? Yeah Brady won't feel the same Now's the time to sign It's wicked sick that Brady

fits the rhyme. Brady, come back! Please? Well, that's the show for today. We appreciate you all so much for choosing to listen to not only our conversations and chitter-chatter, but also our record-breaking songs

that are recruiting humans to do things that they probably don't want to do. Brady, come back! Ty Schmidt, please play some independent music. I hope you all have the best weekend of your entire life, honestly. I really do. Like, I hope your Saturday, if you're just going to sleep, I hope it's the best sleep

you've ever had. I hope if you're going to go out, I hope it's the best night you've ever had. I hope somebody walks in there and just says, hey, free tab for everybody. Eat and drink whatever you please. I hope somebody does that for you. I hope even if that doesn't happen, you have a great night. I hope there's no drama. I hope you wake up on Sunday with no hangover.

I hope you enjoy everything about this weekend. And then when you come back next week, bang, we're off and running to make each and every day even better. Like Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom.

Zoom. Zoom. Yep. All right. Or you just sleep all weekend if you're a little tired. Can't wait. There might be some people that do that in this room. There's somebody wearing a gladiator helmet right now.

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