Aaron Rodgers Trolls A Bears Fan For 45 Minutes

this grit week interview is presented by coors light um okay we have him we got him it is uh he's won one super bowl which we can get into because i have the theory that if you win one super bowl you actually have none uh he is a four-time mvp of the league he has an 11 and 10 post season record uh one in four in nfc championship games i'm just introducing you uh one of the best quarterbacks ever aaron rodgers welcome to the show thank you okay i don't i don't really know where to start other than like how dare you how dare you big cat when i ask you any any questions that aren't threatening so i'll start it because we we asked everybody this yeah sure i forgot about that i got white blindness what does grit mean to you wait are you recording this i know you like to you don't trust the media uh means you're from pittsburgh ooh okay that's actually an answer we haven't had yet that's a great answer and it's true that's what's been ingrained in me since i was a second year player in the league i've been surrounded by pittsburgh people everybody from mike mccarthy to tom clements to ben mcadoo dom capers darren perry frank zignetti a lot of pittsburgh people and all they talk about is just toughness yeah that is true pittsburgh grit putting fries on sandwiches wait so are you saying that you miss mike mccarthy i love mike mccarthy yeah yeah so why didn't why don't you marry him why don't you just have him back here have him be your coach i think he's doing pretty good in dallas yeah okay yeah all right so we're gonna sidetrack we got a lot of stuff to get to i can't wait did mike mccarthy ever smash a watermelon in front of you i never saw that no okay because he did that with the cowboys and they won a big game and we were wondering if that was like a party trick he pulled out for all of his teams no i haven't seen that okay nina never did that in 14 years okay are you a little disappointed that he never thought highly i am disappointed now we did do a lot of fun things the mccarthy olympics was was one fun thing that we did every year in training camp but no watermelons what's involved in the mccarthy olympics there was a dunk tank there was a penalty shot on we had it at his property uh he obviously like anybody would in green bay bought a 30-acre property and then spent who knows how much money building this big berm so nobody could look at him on one side of the road and uh then he bought up all the houses around him so he had just a massive property so it was you know there was like a 100 yard golf shot there was a soccer thing there was indoor basketball there was golf you know long drive there was three point competition there was dunk tank there was lawn darts you know all the good stuff beer chugging which i would have won probably oh i've seen that yes that's i don't know i have that written down you're you can't chuckle see i'm gonna take all your information and just put it out there you can't do it i have a feeling that you've done some opposition research going into this interview no of course not i don't believe that for a second you're confident enough what's opposition research you know you know stuff about mostly him i would imagine i do yes yeah so you caleb told me a lot listen okay all right let's just let's just cut through it put our cards on the table if you had to go to jail or prison which one would you pick what's the difference oh well jail's probably a little lighter like his prison county jail i've said i see listen maybe you like the manhattan correctional facility with like a real jacked up former cop as your cellmate foreign yeah from what i've read i think if anybody in this room and i don't know some of the other people in here um and tom has a sketchy past but i think you would probably be most likely to go to jail between all of us really yeah i have committed some crimes that's fine but i also admit to the crimes i commit where you don't and you yeah kind of skirt around it but listen i'm i'm actually very realistic about you as a player i've always said you're a very good quarterback very good quarterback even league mvp four times right i do think that you are you should be in jail or prison and i'm fair to say you get to pick i think jail's better than prison so you can have that and i will meet you halfway uh no okay all right well i'll work on it let's do let's try a different angle how close were you to retiring honest close i don't know how close is close i was thinking about it yeah so jeopardy that would have been cool yeah that would have been cool yeah did you want that job i did i feel like it's a thankless job though because that's become one of those shows where no matter who's hosting it it's almost like the jeopardy community loves to like nitpick at the host and be like you're not alex trebek well yeah i mean that's the case and i would say for many of the shows that i grew up watching that is definitely the case you know price is right nobody can ever be bob barker best show ever but i will say one guy who's transcended all of that and even surpassed louis anderson who nobody thought i ever could is steve harvey with family feud he's america's host family feud you know i mean that show went through so many different people and i all they didn't maybe to have one iconic host other than louie you know i think uh i think steve definitely did that so i was actually like you know like i said i'm actually fair with you you might think i'm not fair but when you were you know saying that you want no offense but i don't watch your stuff what my what we don't think about you at all yeah okay all right so i i either way uh that's fine you don't have to watch anything uh but i was i'm a big portnoy fan like i'll watch his you know pizza reviews cookie reviews and yup ice cream reviews you know you never think about us that's fine i wanted you to have the jeopardy job i was pushing for it just you could slam me or no i wanted you to have the job so you could be happy and because clearly you don't like playing football so i was like let's get this guy happy oh i'm a humanitarian you want me out of the north i got it i also would like to say like i saw your golf game see that yeah yeah i don't know what's going on i saw your golf game liv is offering a lot of money so have you thought about that 150 for last place seems like a pretty pretty fair it's a strong offer fair offer so we were actually just talking about this the other week we all have a number like saudi arabia could give me a hundred million dollars yes instant yes what's your number uh probably around tiger's number eight hundred million so there is a chance i'm gonna make some calls everybody i'm gonna work everybody's got a price yeah yeah it's true yeah we've all got a price i will work my ass off to try to get live or jeopardy or anything you want to do i'm an aaron rodgers fan i'm going to make sure that you're happy doing anything besides football in three more years ooh okay so you're saying you're gonna retire after three years maybe four oh [ __ ] you're never gonna retire you're never gonna retire you i wait i just got one follow-up are you really sensitive about what i said last year after i scored that touchdown okay let's get into it um so you said i own you yeah i [ __ ] own you to the city of chicago the city of chicago has 38.7 billion dollars of debt so are you going to pay that that's a good one i mean no i'm not if you own us no i was i don't think i was saying that about the entire city now maybe soldier field every fan who was flipping me off mm-hmm you know that negativity that was kind of coming my way it was a pretty substantial fcc fine that came fox's way do you want to you can't just say [ __ ] on tv it's supposed to be a 10 second delay so i think that's out of my hands yeah well i i actually own you because i'm a packers owner fact yeah so i own you you own him you own a piece of paper that is no it's the actual value it's i actually stole it from our goldfish so our goldfish owned you then he died then i inherited the share now i own you you own big cat so i kind of i guess i yeah i inherit that debt okay do you feel bad for what you've done to my friend big cat no i don't at all like not at all because like i don't know i think he's conflicted you know he's conflicted it's kind of like darth vader and luke skywalker remember you know he's like i can feel the conflict within you and he says this fake statement like oh there's no conflict i'd move on inside he went to wisconsin yeah yeah i hate you though i hate he's seen some of my all-time best moments on the field not only at soldier field but also at ford field so i was a lions fan for 24 hours but i i went to go help support the lions fans to try to beat the packers and then you threw the hail mary right in my face directly in my face like i said you've tortured me they had me on the way over here they were like what's the worst moment aaron rodgers versus the bears and i just started listing like a laundry list and it goes on forever do you get extra like do you do you actually relish in the fact that you beat the bears the way you do every single year yes [ __ ] i mean i i mean i knew the answer to that because it's a great sports town you know if we're beating up on a town that doesn't have a great sports history it's like just another win but chicago is chicago you get 100 years of bears football almost right you have the chicago bulls i grew up a bulls fan you know back on my old tv we had like seven dials you know and you had to like hit it just right with the antenna doing we could get wgn so we could watch you know cubs baseball and harry kerry you know that was like iconic and bulls basketball so i grew up watching chicago sports so all right what's your favorite memory i'm just going to do this because everyone's going to want to hear it what's your favorite memory of beating the bears what's your favorite bears all time because there are a lot i actually like weirdly i'll tell you mine first because there's you know randall cobb was terrible the nfc championship game was terrible uh when you faked you had an injury with khalil mack that first half and he came back weirdly though the one that just kills me the most because actually hank and dave we were in arizona for some college football thing and we watched sunday night football it was a game that you put up like i think you guys are 42 nothing at half and they just laughed at me for an entire half and they're like how do you watch this that one hurts i think weirdly the most so what's your favorite go ahead well that one hurts because it was 42 whatever at halftime and i'd thrown six touchdowns yeah and the record is seven and mike was and mike was gonna sit me and i was like ah how about one more possession he goes okay one more so we got down to the nine yard line and threw it three times three in completions so ben don't break yeah so we went up 45 nothing yeah all right so what's your favorite probably 2013. okay only because i came back from my collarbone randall came back from his knee injury and then it was for the division you know after so many things happened you know for us to be able to be in it and i believe that detroit was still in the week before then they had a bad loss to somebody so then it came down to like our game and you know neither team i don't think was great that year but we're still playing for a home playoff game and i started off i threw a pick to chris conte um on a rollout and i'm like [ __ ] like is it gonna go like this you know tonight and then i threw another pick to uh to jennings it in i think the second or third quarter and then we had that weird fluky pep you know cause of fumble and boykin picks it up and nobody's doing anything and he runs in the end zone and on the last drive we converted uh three fourth downs you know fourth and like inches on a dive play a fourth and three and a throw to jordy but that last one was was pretty amazing so what this is this is terrible i don't i i actually hate that i'm doing this is actually my least favorite thing i've ever done coming here uh right now but what are you doing you look good thank you no i mean sometimes no i mean i you know i know that we've all struggled with our own issues and i know weight's been kind of up and down for you but i feel like you look well you don't you don't watch anything i do no i just heard oh okay okay you heard about the weight all right yeah when you're looking you're looking good thank you when you saw like what did you see when chris conti was just not there were you like holy did you did you think you were hallucinating no one's ever been more open in the history of the nfl well you have to understand you have to put it all together i think people throw blame on uh chris or whoever it was on that side i think bowman was outside as well on the play but the you guys brought seven and we blocked with six right so there should have been a free guy so it was really the the rush pattern that got you now the back side evan dietrich smith and and i believe that josh sitting did a good job blocking like two or three and then john kuhn comes over and cuts julius so i guarantee on the defense that they were expecting the ball to come out quick right that's why they were playing at 10 yards in fact there was probably a illegal contact on the play i think major wright just dropped jordy who was in the number three in that spot but um that was a fun feeling he was so open he was so open well because they're playing for what they should have done was change the they should have changed the call i mean i knew what the i knew what the check call was okay was that one of those plays where when when the when you get up to the line you see what they're doing you just know it's a touchdown no i don't know it's touching at all i was literally trying to throw it hot to dirty and then i felt john come out because i didn't think he was going to block peppers because he was pep should have been the free guy in the play but john was smart and he saw that evan and josh had blocked those guys so he came over and caught julius so question off of that real that's which is why i think major hit jordan because i was going to throw it to geordi stop route so off of that real question real football question at what point in your career have you been able to be like i just see everything better than like you know i know what the defense is going to do i've done this so many times like you almost feel like you're playing at a higher level than everyone else that takes a long time and i don't ever feel like that i don't think consistently it's more certain teams you play or certain defensive coordinators you start to get into rhythm and even in a game they ran that same pressure i think two other times with the same signal so we came out they did a signal i made a check and was thinking about throwing a hot to jordy now it all just came together because john made a great block and it shouldn't have been like that but you can get into a rhythm with seeing certain things i think the most important thing for a quarterback is to figure out what i'm doing and once you can wipe your mind from that to be able to see what the defense is doing takes you to a whole nother level because then you're reading the fronts you're seeing signals you're hearing things out there that you might not hear if you just think about what my guys are doing and what this guy's doing and this guy's doing you know it's playing on the other side of the football is how you kind of take that jump because it does feel like it at times where again there's going to be a compliment but like you are you're seeing things and processing things so much faster than everyone else that it feels almost unfair i don't know if that's just us watching it and being like holy [ __ ] aaron rodgers or you actually feel that yourself where like i'm processing this so much faster than everyone else i feel like that sometimes for sure but it's a certain game some games teams will be so good at disguise you're guessing a lot yeah and sometimes you guess right and sometimes you guess wrong and there's going to be mistakes but certain teams that we played over the year you kind of feel the rhythm of certain guys and alignments and the movements and different things to you know it's always a chess match with brian urlacher because he was so good they would make everything look the exact same and run a couple different coverages out of it and he would change all his checks so we'd be studying the checks the week before and have like three or four word identifications and we get in the game and he called the same word it means something completely different so it's but he was doing what i was doing inside the ball right he could play that game back to the offense and mess with you and um but i i feel like you and i can can be like brian and i because brian and i we were on the field now we were you know i can't say we were friends but you know we were harsh competitors and i respected him and tackled him once um but he picked me off quite a few i think the most in my career is brian picking me off three times but uh but now we're friends yeah i mean i just spent on your brain i feel like i feel like we could do these guys know they see me watching like i i do really truly hate you but i also watch you and i'm like holy [ __ ] like the plays he's making are insane like that's a fact i i feel like we could hang out we could you know have a guinness and and eat some pizza and of course like yeah of course like cruise light sponsor yup yup yup i appreciate that i'll be honest i like you i don't like what you've done to my friend because you've probably aged in like 30 years well you're a washington fan so you don't care yeah but you don't watch anything that we do right i'm a nihilist okay like i'm convincing myself to root for carson once this year that's how bad things have got i'm i'm actually a commander's fan don't forget about that name change but i do like you um i noticed that you had almost like a significant change in perspective over the last few years you become it seems like you're having more fun from what i've seen you're enjoying your teammates you're enjoying the process you're enjoying what you get to do while you're still still able to do it which i think is very cool and you have a good perspective on like where football fits into your life i think a lot of people don't have that especially from the outside so i guess my question is when did you first try ayahuasca a few years ago yeah yeah straight from the source what source ecuador i don't think i don't think that would be the source amazon amazon yeah by the way the tattoo looks better in person thank you that's another thing i admire about you yeah you're totally go ahead you're like listen if you want to put a needle in my arm and inject whatever you want in there i'm totally on board with that i could never do that well i actually it's very very important these i immunize this part of my body right here can you actually explain the tattoo because we're trying to figure it out when the picture came out and trying to analyze what it was no i think your analyzation is probably better than my explanation so you're just like give me something cool i actually i did not make fun of you for the tattoo because i am i what are you 38 no you're you're 40 are you 42 you should probably retire keep going um i i do want to get a tattoo i don't have are you what are you in your late 30s i'm 37 yeah nice so i'm gonna why don't we retire together i'll walk away from this you walk away from that we'll just do it together yeah sounds good we both made enough money let's just [ __ ] it let's get out of your screen rich dude let's go play golf come on but yeah i didn't i i actually respect the fact that you got a tattoo so late in life because i want to get a tattoo at some point but i don't it's hard to be like the late 30s early 40s guy and be like oh here's my first tattoo because either you're a tattoo guy or you're not but you now are i am and i don't care [ __ ] about whether you like it or don't like it but i actually don't care we think that it's cool i think our analysis was what it looks like the inside of kyrie irving's brain mm-hmm nice yeah i also said i live in brooklyn now so i was like yeah humble brothers basically see that tattoo every single day humble break yeah yeah brooklyn's almost friendly here's a real question huge brag live in brooklyn a place that has like liver brooklyn three million people yuppy yeah can we run through some uh just like some football scenarios here because as big cat was saying i'm sure yeah you see everything before it happens you're playing seven dimensional chess out there yes all right uh you score a touchdown you're down 14 in the fourth quarter you score touchdown time's running out do you go for two the first time or do you wait to go for two later i like going for two later but our analytics guy likes going for two now yep yeah okay um another one let's say it's fourth in inches at midfield coach sends out the punt team what would your play call be a little hard count probably fake punt fake punt yeah they'd never know it's coming okay then the last one i had here hypothetically fourth down at the eight yard line there's two minutes nine seconds left you're down eight you kick the field goal there just take the points yeah just take the points take the pen that's it yeah yeah what was the line uh i think it was three yeah it didn't help us yeah you're very upset about it yeah you guys hit us in the points yeah yeah so every time we talk to your coach lafleur um we give him a hard time about that and he's put all of it on you he's like aaron wanted to you know kick a field goal he want to get off the field he didn't trust his arm he was in that situation he was late for a flight to go hang out with miles teller in the jungle yeah so it was he wanted to get out of there we're like all right fine it's credit to him he's never said it publicly i think maybe he was thinking if i get three now then we stop them get three again get on side kick and then another three yes yes yeah yeah championship but seriously i i was joking around earlier but i i have noticed that you've like changed your perspective as your career has matured um do you think that you love football more than you did when you first started playing in the nfl i think i have a better perspective about life now than i did as a 21 year old and a more of an appreciation and gratitude for still doing it i mean that's the reason the other part is just you know people like dan and others you know have created this idea of what i am and what i'm about and and who i am uh felon yeah i should be in jail arrested and it's been fun to you know do mcafee's show uh be a little more open with the media finally do you know this with you guys and hopefully let people see a different side uh but either way i'm not trying to be anything other than myself and i do i think deep down realize this chapter of my life is coming to a close soon so i'm trying to enjoy it a little bit more than uh when you're 21 you're thinking you play forever and 38 you're a [ __ ] old guy you know yeah 38 you're like damn like the years have really gone by and i'm thankful for it you know i want to leave this place better than i found it i'm gonna throw you a great retirement party that's my promise to you we'll go hang out do whatever you want you just say the word maybe next saturday we'll do it all right we're gonna we're gonna [ __ ] hang out uh off that we're gonna fly on that jet you flew in here on yeah nice that's grit baby that's actually hey listen so you have me by the street i mean like behind the scenes people don't realize i had to basically beg aaron for three weeks i was annoying him with text messages i wanted to like kill myself every day that i had to text you and be like hey will you come on the show but i will suck up i guess i'll suck it up for the for the people i got you the people want to see the the there was we were talking about it there was a small part of me when we were gonna go down to austin i was like he's probably not even gonna be in austin and he's just getting me to fly there and i'm just gonna we're gonna show up see that's what you do so you present this image of me this perspective of me that's totally doesn't match the facts you've been doing it for years i'm going to give you credit you were very nice on tax you said i want to do it i just got i'm going to sue you for libel and you can choose a cash payout or jail yeah he's going to put you in here so you're down in austin how was doing the alex jones show [Laughter] no you were you were very nice and accommodating the media part i do have a question off that do you get a little bit of like pleasure out of trending and having people like you you've done some cryptic instagram posts and some cryptic tweets i think yeah no you're like there's been many times where you've posted something and i'm like it's over he's done he's leaving green bay and like i get my hopes up are you doing that like knowing you're just you just like to rile the people up because you do it very well every now and then there's a situation where you might you know push the send button before counting to 10 and talking to a friend and making sure this is something you want to put out there and i think we're all probably guilty of that you for sure i've read some of yours i mean do you want to get into the wonders the one that devonte was was uh him and i kind of put her heads together and you know wanted to stir some [ __ ] up oh the last dance oh that one had me so happy i was telling everyone i was like it's over it's over and it was done right yeah it was i guess he's in vegas yeah so you said like you know there's certain image out there of you that you've tried to well you don't care really what like strangers think necessarily but it's not necessarily accurate big cat i mean dan yes i do care about him yeah how how would you describe yourself i i just i think in general i'd like to i'd like to present myself how i see myself so unapologetically authentic you know and feel i mean you like me or don't like me that's not my concern at this point you know my concern is just speaking the truth and and you know and people say oh immunization vaccination i did i said yeah a lot yeah you did yeah but how many people do you think you killed what's your count how many grandmothers yeah let's just do grandpa i mean i know you guys are [ __ ] wrong i don't find that that part funny i really don't like oh [ __ ] we got john cena no yeah yeah yeah yeah no the uh it actually is one of my favorite things i was able to do off of that whole immunization thing is tweet that you should be in jail and then i would have people who get the joke and then there would be like a ton of people would be like oh you like you think covet is so real he should be in jail and it was just my mentions would just be a mess and probably a lot of people said [ __ ] yeah put them in oh yeah oh yeah no i haven't that liar in jail yeah get them in jail kept in jail probably um okay a real question those are the ones you were all retweeted and like oh yeah i was like yup good point good point good point um real question kind of a grit question for grit week please um did you know first of all let me i just i need to share this i feel like aj hawk would never forgive me if i didn't but in our old grading system so we play a game and the next day you know every play is graded at one point went this huge grading format where there was like 20 different things somehow they were graded and i swear to god on every single play there was a grit grade for each player grit grade there was a nm for needs more and st was standard and then an alpha plus so alpha plus yeah you know if you got that alpha plus grit grade you probably did something [ __ ] that's that's john [ __ ] incredible yeah for sure he probably where's john from in great yeah pittsburgh yeah yeah yeah great great we gotta start quick reading yourself yeah you do yeah um all right so grit grade i would i would grade this interview on a great grade schedule a standard of somewhere between sd and nm okay okay so we got it i don't want to be yeah all right so this is the real question this will this will help the alpha plus um your story of getting to the nfl so you got you were lightly recruited right you i think i read that you at one point were thinking about like just quitting football and going to be a lawyer right i was thinking about it how how close were you at that point like because i just want to go home and fantasize about like a different world where you just never played football but how cause you you stuck it out and it is you know people think aaron rodgers your talent is so out of this world they don't think grit but then when you read about you know having to start at cheek oh it was chico yeah right right by chico and then going to cal and not getting all of those scholarship offers and like you know falling in the draft were there moments where you're like this just isn't going to work out for sure and it was when i think about there was like one day that kind of course corrected everything the it was in february of 2002 and the baseball coach who had been my jv football coach had been kind of prodding me to to maybe come out and play baseball and pitch and i hadn't played since eighth grade and so the pitchers and catchers were like playing catch on the blacktop or something he said i'll come out and throw a little bit and they had the gun out there and that one day i think changed my kind of turned back on my competitive fire really i came out of the the winter had no offers uh and really know what i was going to do obviously the jucos in the area wanted me to come play there but when you growing up you don't not dreaming about playing you know juco ball you're dreaming about playing on saturdays on abc with keith jackson calling your games you're not thinking about playing at cowan stadium in oroville california in front of 500 people but playing baseball that spring really kind of gave me my competitive fire back and then i played this all-star football game that summer and i say all-star very lightly because it was northern california kind of north south there were only a few of us from that game who kind of went on to play in college but that kind of gave me my fire back i went to junior college at butte had a fantastic time still very close with my coaches there and then the rest is kind of history that's crazy so there is like there's an alternate world where if that invite doesn't happen not saying that you would have stopped playing sports but you might have been like all right i'm gonna figure out something else in life yeah i mean there's there's a world i was dealing with a major knee injury that was frustrating for two years in in high school and i was like maybe i'll just rehab and maybe i'll get surgery or i don't know what i wanted to do and then that day kind of oh okay let me get into this next challenge how can i be the best pitcher this year and that kind of got my mindset uh adjusted and that competitive fire kind of came back and what was that guy's name i just want to know for personal reasons i just want to call him up and uh daniel katz i think [ __ ] am i going to build a time machine i want to find that guy yeah if i build a time machine one thing i can do is find that that baseball coach don't invite aaron to practice today then you're a lawyer you would have been a terrible lawyer oh my god really yeah you would be a terrible lawyer i can just feel it no you just wouldn't have been a good lawyer i just know it it's all i got right now probably true i'm grasping all right uh you got to hurt me with the bears stuff what's the worst loss that you've had what's the one that's stuck the most nfc championship against seattle yeah yeah that was that was a very fun game from my perspective if one play goes our way out of all these you know they don't call it offsides i thought picked a sherman obviously the onside kick fake field goal two point conversion you know all there's like eight plays if one of them goes our way we get a pick and the guys you know our guys slid down instead of running back inside the 30. and one of those plays goes our way you know we uh we win that we played new england who we had beaten earlier that year at home but we beat him 26 21 that year but uh yeah that one hurts that was a fun one always gonna hurt i was just like this is really happening this is really happening holy [ __ ] is this still happening and it just kept on happening do you have a photographic that's great it was great i remember the bar i was in chicago and i was like tell me more tell me more about it it was so um did you guys like run you you didn't run offense at the end of the game right it was there time left and you and you kneeled it or no i know the onside kick they scored yeah and then they went for two and he threw up that wild one and somehow guy caught it and scored it so we're down three then we went down and got a field goal that's right you kicked a field goal yeah right right and there was but there was moments where it felt like your offense wasn't you guys were kind of playing not to lose situation towards the end where it's like all right oh the last couple of possessions yeah and i that was that was one of my favorite parts i was like what are they doing like they've been able to well we'd got after them in 20 the entire game and 20 personnel so two backs and three receivers and that was kind of the plan and then we went cut last couple possessions in 22 personnel so two backs two tight ends like a jumbo set which you know seattle's iconic you know one of the best defenses of the generation for sure last 30 years probably the legion of boom and and people forget how good they were up front as well and obviously with kj and bobby backer you know they were as stout as can be but they had a front that was pretty nasty but we had found some things in 20 personnel that got after them pretty good and the last couple of sessions we you know didn't do it but you know as well as we played on defense that day we picked them off five times we had the ball inside the two twice and kicked two field goals yeah which obviously hurt um yeah there were a lot of things that was a great game and then i don't know overtime yeah but where were you where were you i was at a bar um i have a friend who's a die-hard packers fan and as it was happening i started to slowly move away from him because i thought he was going to legitimately punch me so by the end when russell wilson threw the touchdown i was like basically standing in the doorway like away from where we were sitting the whole day because i was like he's going to try to fight me and uh yeah it was great it was great then he was just defeated and it was just beautiful the whole thing can i ask you a non-condescending in an unconscious anyway a question yeah i'm going to so that question was that was a rhetorical question that intro question was a little bit condescending it was rhetorical yeah okay truly is it hard for you as a bears fan yeah that some of your greatest moments are cheering against me when the bears aren't playing okay good question um very good question no it's it's actually great because what i've told everyone is um i'm very realistic about the bears not a great franchise just don't do the right things for the most part every year i look forward to the playoffs and the game that you're going to lose and i've told this story on the air but like when you guys lost to san francisco this year we were watching the game in new jersey and i drew drove back to brooklyn bragg um and i listened to uh tauscher espn wisconsin for three hours i sat in my car at my i arrived home it's a 20-minute drive i'd ride home i sat for three hours listening to callers be like blow up lambo get 12 out of here we need to build a dome this team isn't built for the outside and it was that was the highlight of my nfl season and i have no problem saying that because i know i'm a loser that's the best part i've come to grips with the fact that i'm a loser so yes watching you lose in the playoffs is my that's my super bowl and i've i've won a lot of super bowls if you do it that way more than you [Laughter] yeah i like that spin zone i just died yeah yeah i have a dynasty cooking you actually answer do you like playing in the cold i do really because i know brett was saying like he had that amazing record in the playoffs and lambeau field was a place nobody could win it and he hated playing the gold but you enjoy it i do i feel like it slows the rush down and i think it that kind of even some things out up front so we play in a front that's really really dynamic footing can get in the way especially at playing in chicago in the course that field's terrible it's unique it's it's i mean it's a sand pit it's uh is there uh like one coach that you go up against and you know that you know we were talking earlier about how sometimes you can see exactly what's going on sometimes things are more disguised but one coach that you know that when you play against them they're going to throw some stuff at you they're going to disguise things and you're going to be a little confused i think todd bowles has done a good job at that over the years i think he's a really good coach he has a you can always tell schematically what coaches are the best based on how the league adjusts and offensively you know when this offense that we're in has kind of there's like nine different teams running now and it started with mike shanahan and his son kyle running really really well in atlanta going super bowl and then everybody copied it and then there was a seattle defense i think you're seeing the rams defense that kind of branched out across the league there's probably six seven teams running the same thing and then there's some teams trying to do what uh um what coach bowles does with the pressure package mike zimmer for a long time was as hard as it came playing against because they had eight up looks you know double a gap and then double edges and then they had every variation both edge guys four to a side for the other side both inside guys dropped those guys out and the best disguisers in the game including you know harrison smith who's been there forever but the backers when bar and kendricks are in there you know and they had that front that played together for a long time it was one of the toughest defenses to go against yeah uh your coach was telling us before you came in you know one way to counteract that is by running a lot of motion on offense he said you love that he said that you're really enjoying yeah why is that so we're idiots obviously i mean you've heard us talk for the last 20 minutes so you know that we're [ __ ] morons yes but no but what it what is it interesting people what is it about installing like a motion office that you're like god damn this is kind of pain in the ass because to me it's just like you go out there and you do what coach says oh yeah i mean if he's smart and he knows what he's talking about then yeah you do what he says he's one of the smartest in the game but that implies that you've maybe played for some coaches that weren't smart no that's not what i'm saying i'm saying if the scheme is smart and makes sense then yeah you do it sometimes in this scheme and i tell matt all the time this scheme has flaws i think this scheme uh is way different i grew up in the west coast offense west coast offense i think is the most beautiful offense ever created it's very it's about timing and rhythm and balance and everything makes sense protection wise you know where your hearts are you know where your eye is going every single time you know how the concepts fit together this is a schematic offense that was not a schematic offense that was built on timing and precision and rhythm and guys being the right spot at the right time and putting the ball in the proper number um and it you know started with bill walsh and montana and and uh paul hackett and on down to the iteration that we got to and i loved it in that offense though it's not predicated on off on motion it's predicated on uh winning 101 matchups and then being accurate throwing the football and so that's what i grew up in i marveled at peyton manning during his prime would run all two by two and three by one formations with no motion just because he wanted to look at it and use his cadence variation to get movement and then be able to go with tempo as well when you have so much motion it's hard to get tempo going you know it's because you always got to make sure you're set and you got a motion maybe a double motion maybe this thing maybe this adjustment off of it i just like sometimes i tell them the same thing i'm not telling you guys anything i wouldn't tell him i got after him a day because every freaking play there's goddamn motion i'm like can we run one play without a motion and pass so we can get some tempo going because i like to switch the tempo but in this offense it does put a lot of stress on the defense because you have a motion you have an outside zone look you have a guy sealing back side and we have off of that we have a run we have a screen we have a keeper we have an action pass so you have so many different looks up the same stuff um that's why it works uh it's a little frustrating when you grew up in the west coast offense and your mindset is all about protection and exes and adjustments and different things when you're playing an offense that doesn't have a lot of those things and maybe could use it at times and also when it kind of [ __ ] up the protection uh schemes and lanes and and identification sometimes it just makes it uh you know it makes it a little extra strenuous sometimes on the quarterback i'm starting to think you might know football a little bit do you think football is beautiful i do i can tell when done right yeah what's the most beautiful play good question we used to we used to run this play many many times unfortunately hit the bears against it a few times but hard play action to the left half roll back to the right and then a double move by 87 off the front side with some sort of adjusting you know some sort of compliment around either a deep cross or kind of a throwback route but it was the weave like corner post off of hard action and we probably hit it for i don't know seven or eight touchdowns over the kind of three or four year span and when that one comes clean and you know safety goes and doubles the x and jordy's you know up there and running this corner and you just know he's gonna be wide open i think that's pretty play [ __ ] i mean you can tell like that yeah that's football is beautiful um we know you got to go in a second we got a couple more questions we'll wrap it up quickly thank you though i do appreciate your time um i appreciate you guys coming up here yeah you know i mean we dropped that i hope it's all a write-off and you guys you know running out of pockets for all of it david yeah thank you dave you think the bar still fun was going to restaurants [Laughter] um all right favor we'll go quick here favorite throw you've ever thrown is it the one against the cowboys i like that one i like the couple in the super bowl that felt good but my favorite throw is the one that you got to witness in detroit i don't think i've ever thrown a ball that came off that good and went that high that far you killed detroit dot his soul left his body if you watch the video back like he literally his his body he he had no spine he had no bones he just collapsed you killed that man he is he he's still alive there he is yeah i think but he uh he like spiritually yeah yeah he made it back the worst part about that before that video they were doing the math on how they were going to make the playoffs they're like i would win this game all right guys but it's [ __ ] aaron rodgers like this is not over and then you did that um all right let's we'll wrap up with a couple of last questions i is the the discount double check the championship belt you think that's a little ironic now since you haven't won one in a long time yes okay all right good answer good answer um let's see uh what else do we have do you think that if the nfc north was a better division then you'd have better success in the playoffs is big cats or is bears actually not preparing you enough no i think that the north is a tough division it's a gritty division i think we can all agree on that it is gritty okay um when you said that the 49ers were going to regret not drafting you um when they went when they're 4-0 against you in the playoffs is that regret or is that what is that what would you describe that as uh how many super bowls have they won in the last 18 years doing the math right now i mean the lights went out that kind of screwed them i don't know that actually helped them i think yeah yeah okay i win that one they all said they also had one of the most iconic defenses in the last 30 years as well and didn't win any before and all when you're dropping down on on draft day are you like doing the math like please god somebody picked me before washington well washington would have put campbell i think anyway so i suppose they like them more and they like me i was i was honestly thinking when the raiders straight up at 23 i was like here we go maybe maybe take somebody else when it's green bay and you know the situation that you're going into it's you know brett favre is the guy yeah also it's called your cali boy yeah were you at first like uh [ __ ] yeah of course i mean i couldn't have picked it out on a map to be honest with you yeah um and i feel like i'm pretty good with states and capitals and geography but the packers was the worst interview out of the combine so it was at the combine i was sitting in front of a group like this but camera right here mike sherman all the the whole room and it was a tough interview i felt like they were grilling me i thought this was like you know a little like love session where we're kind of loving you know you're loving me up a little bit and i'm kind of you know being you know nice and funny maybe but it was not that i came back i was like well doesn't matter they're picking 24th will never last that long damn another sliding doors moment famous last story um i love asking athletes this what's the one thing that fans just totally get wrong in terms of your day-to-day like season life everything this is where you can basically sub tweet everyone it's a grind but it's a balance grind i think a lot of guys like to talk about you know oh i'm up at 5 30 watching film and doing this and grinding all night that's overkill to me you know it's somebody who's had success in the league it's a it's balanced people was like oh your schedule must be crazy like i gotta talk to you in the office no no no like wednesday and thursday are busy and you tuesday you're working on the plan but the schedule the nfl is pretty nice and we're creatures of habit we love the routine um it's a mental grind but it's not a crazy i feel like there's treasures when you're watching film too it's like you can watch eight hours of film a day and at some point you start to phase it out you can't watch eight hours or anything you can't no i mean why would you want to do that do you have anything in your contract saying you have to watch four hours over the course of a week i don't all right last question uh row back question put in promo code take you get 20 off your roback purchase uh q-zips polos look at these these are row back no big deal i was going to say i like those shirts yes thank you we actually is okay yeah uh sure yeah okay am i gonna get some swag i don't want yours no no no no you send me something what are you got underneath this said is this oh actually you'll like what i have underneath it's another podcast i do it's called macro dosing right up your alley nice love it i got a uh gift for you what are your macro dosing uh you know pizza you know what are you in excel yeah here you got some large hey thank you i'll fit in lose some weight i appreciate that all right i got you a gift cause i did say we were you were nice enough to do this um so please accept my gift i guess that's not a question but please accept my gift if you want to open it on air this is a joke i got you no i got you your favorite scotch snake in here nope they told me this is aaron's favorite scotch so i got him his favorite scotch in the entire world what is there something gonna bite me so there you go there's a card in there too you want to read the card to the people hey thank you yeah that's your favorite scott scott my favorite scotch wolf burn i actually couldn't find your favorite scotch so i just got you that yeah you didn't try very hard obviously yeah i love it okay all right and then you maybe read the card and then we'll end there so oh how's the kobeto by the way yeah it's pretty good okay the lesions are gone i believe yeah thank you what do i open first oh no those are just that was just filler so it looked like the bag was bigger i just had to find random pictures and stuff and just what oh is it it's the same picture it's the same picture the same picture is that shane mcclellan that's the highlight of his career i think it is so high it is listen if you told me when we draft him in the first round he would break your collarbone and be like and do nothing else and like sign and sign me up that's yeah that's really nice oh there's another oh [ __ ] there's another one there too oh yeah yeah so i said thank you yeah thanks so much what did i say in there i can't remember what i wrote thanks for coming on pmt you're the worst love pmt not love just dash pmt and shay mcclellan yeah two of them on here thank you to shay yeah yes well thank you aaron we actually apologize after that it was a nice apology on the field that was 2013 on the field before that game yeah that was that was a that was a great moment when you got hurt i mean it was for me personally i don't root for injuries they did but when they happen what are you gonna say no let me just say this let me ask you a question to finish this 2018 right i go down the first quarter and then mac has pick six sack fumble uh it's 20 to three 20 to nothing and then you see me come back on the field what do you think um i think my tweets at the time were like uh mac is the best player on this field the packers have no answer for this defense the bears are going to ruin aaron rodgers life for the rest of his career and then you came back and you did that and uh yeah that was a bad one that was a really bad one that was the uh the post game where you had the spontaneous southern accent yeah i love that you sprinkle that in sometimes right my knee my trick knees yeah that was a bad one listen we'll end will you get to thanks eric appreciate that you're 23 and five against the bears am i gonna allow him to do that yeah he just half would you dan campbell is the only one that's allowed to call me that why because he's an alpha plus he's got a lot of grit yeah he does yeah all right thank you aaron this this you were one of our white whales so we appreciate it um still don't like you but i respect you more i like you i don't like what you've done to him don't say that i like you and i really like you [ __ ] you

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Published: Thu Aug 11 2022