(00:00) Davante Adams on requesting trade
(20:31) Aaron Rodgers on loss to Broncos
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Raiders WR Davante Adams on requesting trade + Aaron Rodgers on loss to Broncos
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I go around, well, their coach argues that I can't carry the bat to first base. And the umpire agrees and we lose the freaking game. So, I was like, "I hate this sport." I hate baseball for different reasons. It goes back to 1992, NLCS, Game 7, Pirates trying to close it out and get back to the World Series for the first time since 1979. Sid Bream scores from second on a routine single by Francisco Cabrera, I believe. I try to shut it out of my mind. I can't. That was the moment that I knew it was going to be a very long time before the Pirates were relevant again. A very long time before I would be interested in baseball again. I love that I know it would be 32 years in counting for the Pirates to be. Oh, they made the playoffs once or twice, right? Yeah. And they were gone before you even noticed they were in it. That's something that still bothers me about baseball. The season is so long. 162 games. And then you get to the playoffs if you're fortunate enough to earn a spot in the postseason. And it's over like that. At least they don't do one game wild card anymore. They do best of three, I think. I was looking at the scores last night of the games. That's like, I didn't know any of these teams were even in it. I just don't pay attention anymore. When you are football all the time, NFL, 12 months out of the year, hashtag no days off, I just don't have the bandwidth to be interested in other sports the way I used to be when you're all in with the NFL. I was watching more college football before I got into the whole Saturday. I'm traveling and you're getting bits and pieces of games routine. It's all NFL all the time. And there's always something in the NFL to talk about, which is why we do this show most weeks out of the year. Now, most days out of the year, I have a co-host doing part to the fact that Chris Sims is down to one day per week. You're going to see more of these until I get him back for three days a week unless I decide by the time he's ready to come back after college football season ends. I like it this way. See, I adjust well to change and then I don't want to change. Even though I know I'll adjust well to change, I still don't want to change. Today, it's just me, but we've got four guests. Aiden Hutchinson might have heard of him. Lions, pass rusher, taped an interview with him yesterday. We're going to play that in its entirety coming up later in the hour. Miles Simmons getting him up early, not as early as usual, not 4 a.m. specific time. 4 a.m. hell time, but 4.45 or thereabouts. He'll be joining me. We'll chat for a bit. Paul Allen, voice of the Vikings getting ready to go to London. Coming over to the land of Sky Sports. Vikings jets this weekend. Vikings trying to get the 5 and 0. Who would have ever dreamed? You know, the last two remaining under beaten teams. Chiefs, yeah. Vikings, no way in hell. Vikings try to get the 5 and 0 this weekend. We'll talk to Paul Allen about what's going right and why the Vikings might need to be concerned about an upcoming reunion with an old nemesis in the form of Aaron Rodgers. And then, bottom of the second hour, 8.30 p.m. Eastern time, or thereabouts, or a.m. Long show if it's p.m. Long, long show. I don't even want to be around myself that long. Trust me. It's only going to be an hour and a half from now, not 13 and a half hours from now. Jason Garrett, former Cowboys head coach, now a mainstay at NBC, Notre Dame football. Football Night in America. We'll talk about some of the things happening in the National Football League. So, what is happening in the National Football League? Well, look, I've seen this one coming for months and this is one of the benefits of being plugged into the NFL Matrix. Pretty much every waking moment. Now, I do acknowledge that over the last four years, I have embarked on a hobby as you might have heard of fiction writing and I steal a couple of hours three or four nights a week. It's my hobby. It's my balance. It's my getaway from everything, just so I am. I don't know. What's the word I'm looking for? Sane. Or close to it. But, when you're constantly on, when you're constantly in, when you're constantly following everything that's happening in the National Football League, and when you've been doing it for 24 years, you understand the patterns, you understand the rhythms, you understand how to read between the lines, especially when it's not all that hard to read between the lines. I'd like to think I wouldn't have needed 24 years to see this one coming. Devontae Adams traded by the Packers to the Raiders in 2022. Big first season when Derek Carr was there, then came 23. Carr gets cut. They bring in Jimmy Garoppolo. We heard just enough. Just enough. Devontae Adams, bits and pieces, reports and comments. Not all that thrilled with the path of the team and then, then, after a fairly disastrous season that resulted in Josh McDaniel's being fired, Antonio Pierce being promoted to interim coach, Pierce finally getting the job, then comes the receiver series, the follow up to the quarterback series. They had to call it receiver because they couldn't get any back any quarterbacks to do it. David Stafford was willing, but nobody else. So they did five receivers, Devontae Adams, one of them. And the big takeaway from the Devontae Adams portion of the receiver series is he wanted to get the hell out of Las Vegas last year. It was unsatisfactory. It was obvious to the point where I was amazed when this thing came out in July that he hadn't been traded before then. So then some trade talk emerges. There's some suggestion that maybe he'll end up with the Jets, whatever the case may be. The Devontae Adams is like indignant that anybody would dare suggest he wants out of Las Vegas. Dude, we watched the show unless that was a body double. That's you wanting out of Las Vegas. And I came to the conclusion that Antonio Pierce approached Devontae Adams. And I don't know this, but I think this is just the application of logic and common sense to the circumstances. I think Antonio Pierce went to Devontae Adams and said, I got a deal for you, okay? Give me a chance. Just give me a chance. It reminds me of a Seinfeld scene with Jerry and Elaine. Just give me a chance, season four, episode one. Give me a chance, pre-Mango, and I've completely lost my train of thought while thinking about that episode, but give me a chance. And if it doesn't work, we'll trade you. One of those deals that I've said from time to time is only worth the paper it's not written on. You take the leap of faith, Antonio Pierce, a former player, respectful of just that code that players have. And I think we all should have that. Our words should be our bond. You shouldn't have to have something in writing. You should be able to trust people. And we know there's liars everywhere. But I think this was the loose quid pro quo. Give me a chance. And if you get to the point where you decide you don't want to be here, we'll deal with it. And I think that moment came week three, raiders after somehow beating the Ravens in their own building, come home and I'm reminded of some of Chris's more colorful phrases of things that you do in your bed that you ordinarily don't do in a bed. Two of them that'll Chris will mention from time to time, sometimes in the same breath. But they did that at home against the Panthers. Antonio Pierce says, we got some guys making business decisions. We're going to have to make some business decisions about them. I can't help but wonder whether he was talking about Devante Adams to some degree. I don't know. I don't know who he was talking about. But next thing you know, on Thursday of last week, Devante Adams gets injured and practiced. The report comes out over the weekend that late in practice, he pulled up, grabbed his hamstring and he's weak to weak with a hamstring injury. And I'm not suggesting that the injury is exaggerated, embellished or fabricated. The point is he's got a hamstring injury and he's weak to weak. And the moment that I saw that report on Saturday night is the moment it all came together for me and I said, look, he's played his last game with the Raiders. It's done. It's all fitting together exactly the way that the breadcrumb trail would indicate. And I said on football night in America, I pointed out the salary next year that phony baloney, also a phrase used in that same episode I was referring to earlier, that phony baloney Meryl Streep, that phony baloney, $35.64 million salary next year and the year after aimed at taking a $22.9 million per year, three year deal and boosting it to 28. We see that from time to time. We talk about it from time to time, pay no attention to that maximum number that gets leaked to the information robots who thumb race each other on Twitter. The real numbers are in the contract when you break it down and look at a 22.9 year three. This is year three. It's done after this year. He's not going to be back with the Raiders next year and they'll cut him after this year if he doesn't redo his deal, which means they don't get a compensatory draft pick when he goes somewhere else after this year. Oh, so he doesn't want to be here. The only way we get value for the remainder of his contract is by trading him. We're not going to be contenders this year. And that's the one caveat I'll mention in a second. But all things considered, let's trade it. So it's no surprise. It's no surprise after I planted the flag on Sunday night, expect to hear the chatter of Devontae Adams being traded. It's no surprise that here we are just a couple of days later. And the development, it's almost like once the genie came out of the bottle or the court came out of the champagne or Pandora's box was open and Pandora was in there as Sims would say, once all that happened, it's like one after another. So it kind of reminded me of the day that the Aaron Rogers report started 2022 draft day. Like it's fast and furious throughout the course of the day. And before too long, Devontae Adams reportedly, and this comes from NFL media partially owned by the Raiders, Devontae Adams reportedly tells the Raiders he wants out. And then the report comes out that the Raiders are willing to part ways with him for a second round pick. And the report about Adams wanting out, followed a report from the Las Vegas review journal that the Raiders were already reaching out to teams to gauge their interest in a potential Devontae Adams trade. So here we are, it's just a matter of when at this point. And I know he's got an injury that he's weak to weak, and I think the week that he's traded is the week that he'll be closing in on being able to play, whether it's now, whether it's five weeks from now. And remember the window on all trades for 2024 closes coming up in four weeks and six days. That's it. I'll be stunned if it's not done before that, stunned. The only way it's not done, and this is the caveat I mentioned a little while ago, if the Raiders go on a heater and just start ripping off win after win after win. And Devontae Adams, while not playing, decides my best option is to finish the year here. I don't think that's going to happen. He's already been linked to the Jets and Aaron Rodgers, and I'm going to try now. I pre-made a list. You know how you'll watch those cooking shows? Not that I do, but I remember watching them when I was a kid. They would do the whole, here's how we make it. And then, oh, here's the one we've already baked. So here's the one we've already baked. Here are the teams that when I scoured the, and I always do it in my mind, AFC East, AFC North, AFC South, AFC West, and I do it for the NFC, and I think about each team when something like this comes up. So who are the teams that could be, would be, should be, interested in Devontae Adams? And this is just me spitballing. We know about the Jets. And somebody told me on Sunday when all this stuff first started to come up, hey, watch the Jets and a para third round picks. Now, I don't know how in the broader NFL trading center balance two threes and a second rounder. I don't know how that, that works, but two threes to the Jets was kind of the, hey, watch that's what'll happen thing that I was told on Sunday. I don't know that that's, I mean, that's, that's, I'm not saying that's what's going to happen. I'm just saying that's something that someone suggested predicted. I don't know what the right word is. Just keep an eye on Devontae Adams, the Jets for two threes. And I don't know, maybe two threes is what you settle for if you can't get one, two. Maybe it's a three and a five. Maybe it's a three and a six. You know, how they do that thing where it's a three and a seven and you get a six back. We see more and more trades where that happens. Like they're getting very granular and you give us an extra pick in this round. We'll give you a pick back in that round. So Devontae Adams plus a pick for what, who knows, Jets, why not the bills? And if you're the Raiders, you kind of want the bills to get involved. You kind of want the bills because if the bills are involved, the Jets might offer a little more if they really want them. And I look at the bills and I say there's a greater need there than with the Jets. We're going to talk about some issues with the Jets coming up, but you already got Garrett Wilson, Alan Lazard and Mike Williams. How does Devontae Adams fit into that? Would you trade one of those guys to the Raiders? Who do you trade to the Raiders? If you're going to clear out one of your receivers and make room for Devontae Adams so he can have his reunion with Aaron Rodgers. The bills have a greater need on paper of an established veteran receiver. The Steelers, when I talk to Calvin Austin, the third after the week three win against the Chargers, when he had that 55 yard catch and run for a touchdown, he said, look, we went into the game with four receivers. Van Jefferson gets injured early. We got three receivers. They haven't done anything to get a number two receiver to George Pickens. Would Devontae Adams be an option there? Depends upon what the Steelers would be willing to give up. They were ready to give up something for Brandon Iue. What would they give up for Devontae Adams? The Colts, I look at them and say, hey, they're a contender. They just beat the Steelers. They're two and two. Would Devontae Adams be a guy that they would want to pursue? Just spitballing here. We know about the Chiefs. Jason Garrett, who's going to join us coming up later in the program, I already said it, but I'm reminding you of it again. He was hot on this idea on Sunday of Devontae Adams to the Chiefs now that the Chiefs have a need at the number one receiver position. I don't know that Mark Davis would do that. I think Devontae Adams to a division rival that's trying to win three Super Bowls in a row. The commanders, the commanders are legit. The commanders are the best team arguably in the NFC East. Would they benefit from Devontae Adams? Hell yeah. Would he be interested? You look at what Jaden Daniels is doing. Hell yeah. What about a reunion with the Packers? Christian Watson's injured. The Packers are contenders. Go back to Green Bay. Play with a different quarterback. There's some appeal in that. There's an allure to that. The 49ers. I don't know. Do you trade Brandon Ayuk to the Raiders now? The way the contract was written between the 49ers and Ayuk, it's arguably tradable. It just would be weird to give him a bunch of money and then trade him a month later. So those are the teams that have come to mind as we embark on this process of what I think is an inevitable trade of Devontae Adams, unless, unless, as I said earlier, the Raiders start rattling off wins to the point where Devontae changes his mind and we've already seen him change his mind from last year to what he called a fresh slate going into the 2024 season. He changed his mind and now his minds changed again, obviously. Could he change it back maybe? But this is going to be, I think, a key focal point of the never ending NFL news cycle until a deal is done. Where will he go? And how will he do in his new city? And one other thing too. You're renting him for half of a year. I don't know what value that has to a team unless they work out an extension other than the 35.64 million he's due to make in salary next year and also in 2026, same amount each year. And remember, this guy is in the third year of a contract it paid on average a true and actual 22.9, look at where the market is, what's he going to want? That could be an impediment. The Jets already got themselves into a Hassan Redic mess by not getting a deal done with a guy they traded for. I highly recommend the Jets or anyone else. If you're going to trade for Devontae Adams, you better make sure he's happy with his deal. And if you're interested in more than just the balance of the season, you work it out now on the way in, not later, not later, if you don't work it out on the way through the door, the player gets all the leverage, not that Devontae Adams wouldn't show up. 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Aaron Rodgers now in his second year with the New York Jets. This is the year where we actually get to see how it all plays out weekend and week out because last year obviously we only saw him for four snaps. Here he is, his weekly visit with Pat McAfee in season talking about how he's feeling after Sundays unexpected 10 to 9 loss to the Denver Broncos. Yeah, you know, I'm feeling a little banged up, took some shots, knees a little swollen but you know, just kind of wear and tear week four, I'm just, you know, I'm hoping that we can all have a little perspective here that seemed like an outlier game obviously Denver has a real solid defense but you know, the weather and their defense and our lack of execution made us a pretty bad combination there to only put up nine points. Outlier's been his word of the week, he must be pretending to read Malcolm Gladwell's book currently. I don't know that it's an outlier. I think the Jets that we're going to see this year so far it's settling in as up and down. One week he's going to look like an MVP candidate. The next week he's going to look old and he's going to look rusty and he's going to look like a guy who played four snaps last year and is going to be 41 in December. He mentioned the knee being swollen. When you're 40, a swollen knee is a pain in the ass that does not quickly go away. When you're 25, ah, your knee's a little swollen by tomorrow to be fine. You get a swollen knee, I mean, I remember when I was 35, we used to get together here locally group of guys play a game of touch football. It took me the full week. We do it on Saturday. It took me the full Saturday to feel normal again, week to week, knee swollen, hip hurts, ankle hurts. We're not even hitting. He's 40. He got banged around on Sunday by the Broncos defense and he's going to face a defense in London on Sunday that is very unpredictable that sends blitzes when you, proving the meaning of the word unpredictable when you don't expect it. And we're starting to get maybe a blueprint courtesy of the Broncos. How to rattle him. How to take away the things he likes to do. So you're going to be easy, not going to be easy at all. Already played four games after playing all the four snaps last year. The injuries, the wear and tear. It could be something that he has a hard time getting over and it bears watching. The next three games are critical for the Jets. They've got the Vikings and they come home. They have a Monday night game against the Bills that sounds familiar and ominous. And then they have a Sunday night game on NBC and Peacock by the way at Pittsburgh. Two and two can become two and five quickly. They got to win one of these three games. If they're going to be contenders this year, they can't be team that wins the games they're supposed to win and loses the game they're supposed to lose, especially since they've already lost a game they were supposed to win to the Denver Broncos. They can't be up and down. They can't be inconsistent. So far they're consistently inconsistent. One of the things that happened on Sunday, five false starts, prompting head coach Robert Salah to question whether or not the cadence, one of the superpowers of Aaron Rodgers historically is a problem. That prompted Rodgers to say it's not the cadence. Just hold the guys accountable for moving early, which caused Robert Salah to get out the mop in the bucket, clean up on a five on Monday and say it's more operation than cadence. Operation is the word that I'm looking for. Here's Rodgers with the words he used on Pat McAfee's show when talking about this whole cadence conundrum. Everything that we do in the game, we do in practice. And that's why I said after the game that it felt like, I say used to word outlier, maybe a better word as anomaly, it was one of those games where we just jumped off sides five times and before that we had one false start in three games and nobody complained about the cadence. And I don't know why Robert would get any or even hack it. I mean, nobody deserves any crap for that except for the players. We got to make sure that we're staying on sides. And I don't think it's an issue, it hasn't been an issue in practice, it's again another talking point for outside the building. Obviously it hurt us in some situations. We got to be better, but cadence is cadence is cadence. There's always going to be messaging and narratives out there and you have two choices. You can ride the wave, we're really a roller coaster, or you can say fuck it, I don't care. And I'm the latter, you know, I don't get into what the conversation is going on outside the building around myself, the relationships that I have. And the most important ones are looking a guy in the eye in a locker room or in a medium room. And no one, you know, he's got your back, you get his back. Rob and I have a great relationship we have since day one when I got here. By the way, we apologize on behalf of the delicate genius for the F bond that was not scrubbed out of that clip. And I love it. I love it. I mean, if we're going to drop them from time to time, why should we edit them out of the clip? Life is rated R baby. We're on peacock. We're on FCC regulated. So Aaron Rogers, thank you for spicing up our morning a little bit and on his behalf, sorry, Manchester. I will say this though, and this is one of the reasons why I try not to pay attention to Aaron Rogers. It's similar to why I'm trying not to pay attention to the current political nonstop back and forth sky is falling. There's only so much you can take before you begin to lose your mind. And Rogers has that way of twisting reality to fit his own narrative and agenda. And he wants to blame everything on outside noise. Dude, your coach is the one that created this problem with cadence. We're just reacting to what he said. He's the one that said cadence. It wasn't taken out of context. It wasn't forced on to him. He wasn't grilled under a hot light, admit that it's the cadence. He said it himself. And then you said it's not. And then he came back the next day, all sheepish, kind of smiling like, yeah, yeah. I got called to the boss's office. Yeah. So we have each other's back. He didn't have your back on Sunday. This whole thing is a thing because of what the coach said. So there's tension there and he knows that it's in his best interest to obscure it. You don't want it to become a thing. You don't want the house to be on fire. In this instance, the coach is the one that was playing with matches. Don't blame us, Aaron. This isn't an outlier. This isn't an anomaly. This isn't what other fancy word you want to use. This is reality. And this is the Jets. And the Jets have pretty much been for the last 50 years. On that note, here at Wilson, appearing on the Bart and Hahn Show on 98-7 ESPN New York, on the issue of the team's current identity on offense. All right, you guys struggle with your identity and trying to find it because it feels like you guys try a lot of different stuff. You guys have a lot of good players, but sometimes you have a lot of good players. It makes things just appropriate. I don't think we do a lot of different stuff. To be honest, on our large football on Sunday, I see a lot of teams run and mix it up and stuff like that. I don't feel like we do that. But I think we know our identity is just about going out and executing it or figuring out whether or not it don't work. But I just truly think that we are not trying. I don't think we're trying a lot of different things. I know personally, my raw tree hasn't been what it has been on the last two years as far as the stuff I've been running and stuff. Yeah, it's just about figuring out whether or not it's the right identity. And if it's going to win games at this year, you know, if it's going to do what we need it to do, give the defense the wrong support they need to be the best defense in the league. Rich Samini of ESPN.com shared some of the quotes from Garrett Wilson and called them interesting comments about the offense. Garrett Wilson responded on Twitter and said, I didn't just comment this. It was my answer to this strung out question and he's kind of right. Bart Scott was taking him in a place where he didn't want to go that they're basically experimenting with this, that and the other as they try to find an offensive identity. But, but, but his point was we don't do a lot of different things. His point was my route trees limited. His point was this is kind of who we are. And when you look at his numbers so far this year, 20 catches 191 yards and a touchdown. He's not all that far ahead of Alan Lazard, who was MIA last year without his BFF Aaron Rogers around. Garrett Wilson is clearly the best option in that passing game. The one piece of high level analysis that I gleaned from Bill Belichick's debut on the Manning cast week one was throw the ball to Garrett Wilson. I think he said that multiple times. And this gets back to the whole who's Aaron comfortable with. And you never know and again, again, I'm at the point where I don't care anymore. You never know what's going to set off a delicate genius. You never know what that thing that you said or he thinks you said or the look that you gave him. When you're dealing with someone who is so sensitive that he's sensitive about being called sensitive. Remember that when you have the 60 minutes profile and he was mad because they characterized him as sensitive and 60 minutes actually issued a statement saying, thank you for proving our point when you're dealing with someone that is that damn sensitive. You never know what's going to cause him to seek comfort from a guy who's figured out how to tip toe around a delicate genius like Alan Lazard has like all of these relationships that Aaron Rodgers have. They're on his terms. They're people who know how to cow toe to him. They're people who know what to say, when to say it, what to do, when to do it, lest they disrupt the sensibilities of the delicate genius. And I'm not making this up. This comes from Eno Connors out of the darkness, the mystery of Aaron Rodgers, the island that friends that family members, immediate family members get exiled to because they dared to say something that the delicate genius didn't like. And you know, one of the through lines of the Aaron Rodgers bio is always a sense that he was overlooked. He was disregarded that his talent, his obvious talent was never able to shine through. And even though it's not said, and I think this is the skill that is required when you're trying to craft a narrative that doesn't express opinions, it just states facts, but constructs the facts juxtaposes Aaron would like that word. He may start using it. Listen for Aaron to use the word juxtaposition, but the juxtaposes those facts in a way that allows the reader come to a conclusion. When you look at all the things that have happened Aaron Rodgers, how he had no offers coming out of high school, he went to butte community colleges, the only place that wanted him. And then when he was tearing it up there, it was only Cal that wanted him. And then the 49ers went with Alex Smith instead. And you look at all the things that have happened since then. You know what the through line is? This is my takeaway. This is my opinion. This is my read on the situation, coupling the Aaron Rodgers bio with covering the NFL for the entirety of Aaron Rodgers career. It's kind of an asshole and the people who deal with him on a regular basis have to factor that in to what they say, what they do, how they say it, how they do it. And if you cross whatever that line is and who knows where that line is, I crossed it a long time ago. I'm on that island, baby. I'm cooking brats on that, on that, on that island. It's getting a little crowded. Hey, Gary Wilson may be joining us, Robert Salah may be joining us, but you know, that's the bottom line. We need a break. All right. Got plenty to get to today, and that was fun. I like having the ability every once in a while to just talk and keep talking. Even if I need to drink a water, even if allergies are causing me to need the cough, you fight through it and you say what you need to say, especially when it culminates in a hammer like Aaron Rodgers is kind of an asshole. In my opinion, don't sue me. I don't know that you can sue somebody for saying someone's kind of an asshole, probably not. If so, there's a lot of people I could sue. Let's take a break. Huttonson from yesterday afternoon, you'll hear the full interview next year on PFT. That was pretty good. Learn more at fidelity.com/baskets. Listing involves risks, including risk of loss, Fidelity Broker Services, LLC, #NYSCISIPC. The $5 meal deal at McDonald's means you get to pick between a McDouble or a McChicken. 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