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Meat has been met, So a lot of consuming NCAA tournament and Aaron Rodgers questions over the next forty year old so let's start with that. I don't necessarily agree with all his political stances. But there's a Canadian psychologist named Jordan Peterson, and he has a belief and I tend to believe this too, is that you can't totally be an adult, a grown up until you love somebody more than yourself. And this psychologist believes and I do too, that to really be a grown up. It's not the only way to be an adult, but it's certainly impactful in your development as a human being. You're married, you have kids, anybody who's had kids. The minute you have a kid, you find out that your love for that child is so much greater than the narcissism and love for yourself. So, again, Jordan Peterson, I may not agree with him on some climate opinions, but I will say that I agree there that you have to love somebody greater than yourself. That is one of the first signs Young people tend to be selfish and self absorbed, and many adults are. But that gets you to the next level. So let me pivot into Aaron Rodgers appearance yesterday on YouTube. His words, he went into the retreat, his words, not mine, ninety percent sure he was going to retire. He said, I got to admit I went into the darkness ninety percent retiring, ten percent playing okay, his words. He was also surprised, his words that when he came out Green Bay had decided, you know, we we're gonna go with Jordan Loves let's make a trade happen for you. And he was surprised by that, his words. How could you be surprised by that? If you're the most important person in your world. If you were married, let's say, I think maybe your wife would say, honey, the season ended eight weeks ago. They've made you rich, They've made us rich, They've given us a great life. You probably should give him a heads up. If you had kids, maybe your son says, Dad, I love the packers. You're not going to leave the packers. Maybe you'd feel some guilt give him an answer either way. But if you're the most important person in your life, you just run on your clock, and you are mister independent and I'll do what I want on my time. And Aaron thinks he's the smartest adult, and I'm questioning this morning if he's an adult. If you're the most important person in your life, and you don't sacrifice, then you are surprised when you come out of a retreat that you went into at ninety percent retiring and your surprise, green Bay said, we want to move on. Now I am I am now not his words, but I am guessing that he had to give green Bay a heads up that he was strongly considering retirement. I mean, he's a jerk if he didn't. If I was going to leave Fox for retirement and didn't give him heads up, I'm a jerk. So I'm gonna say Aaron's not a jerk. If you're gonna leave your wife suddenly in the middle of the night, you're a schmuck. So I would assume she has a heads up if you're gonna leave. I'm going to assume Aaron's not a jerk, and that green Bay had some sense of his impending decision would lean heavily into retirement. I'll assume he's a decent human being, but he's surprised. Let me ask you if if I told one of my bosses radio TV or my wife, listen, I'm ninety percent into leaving you. I'm going to go in a retreat for four or five days by myself. When I come back, I'll be closer to a decision. You think I'd be surprised if my wife Ann said, hey, pal, hit the road, or if my bosses upstairs said, you know, we found another guy we really like him, or another woman they're going to host the show. The only surprise is Aaron is surprised. That's how self centered and deluded he apparently, is that he can't believe that people he's been stringing along, who he was threatening retirement to, would move on as mister will do things on my clock, totally dictated terms last several years. Here's another one, and again, when you're the most important person in your life, you demand things from others because nobody calls you on your bs His quote here yesterday, his words again, my only demand is for transparency, yet he never provides any. Two separate Green Bay packers on offense have told me since the Super Bowl they have no idea what he's doing. What about transparency? Again, when you're the most important person in your life and maybe haven't become a true adult yet, you demand things from others that you don't provide for them. His teammates are guessing the Packers are guessing. The fans are guessing. But he wants transparency. That's the one thing. Not my words. His He was nine percent retiring, not my words. He was surprised when they booted him when he came out. Not my words, his mere eron. They're in the bathroom staring at it's very perceptive with those lasers and that wit and that acumen, pointing fingers. Listen to yourself. Ninety percent retirement going in and surprised when Green Bay said, hit the road, champ, we're exhausted. Would any of you be surprised if your bosses, your wife, people tired of you stringing along year after year. That's surprising. I don't have to agree with Jordan Peterson on anything other than once you become something beyond yourself, then you're officially an adult. Anthony Davis isn't adult for the Lakers, but he's an adult that, even when he's paying free, doesn't play basketball. So Richard Jefferson called out the Lakers yesterday. The Lakers lost to the worst team arguably in the league, the Houston Rockets. Houston Rockets are young, they're awful, they're actively tanking, and yet despite being one of the worst teams in the league. They scored seventy eight points in the paint and they had sixty two points at half against the Lakers. They dominated the inside. Why because Anthony Davis couldn't play load management even though he was pain free, and Richard Jefferson called out the Lakers in a D When a coach says that a player is pain free, but we're still going to keep him out again if your media managing, if you're telling me that he's not having pain, if he has some soreness on the off day, if there's you know, and again there's still probably some reaction. If you're talking about the stress reaction. It's a stress reaction. So they're like, we're not going to overload it. I get it, but it's like, if you have pain, if you are paying free, then I just get confused. And I'm not a doctor, so I'm not being critical here. I just hear it, and I'm like, I just don't understand what's the old saying. People will show you who they are. Just believe them. So it's okay to be as a Laker fan frustrated with a D. It's not necessarily his decision. It is a upstairs executive management decision. So what the Lakers are telling you is going forward, this is how we deal with a D. And if the Lakers are going to run this back, they deserve to be a non playoff team. Lebron year twenty one and load management AD. That's what the Lakers are telling us, They're telling the fans, they're telling the media. This is how heads up, this is how AD is going to be used going forward. So I looked this morning. The last five years, this is the new reality for a D. He plays forty eight games a year, and they've now pivoted to he will sit out games when he's pain free. Okay, So Lebron now going into year twenty one next year, where he's given us fifty games a year, a D now given us forty seven games a year and a D and the Lakers have now pivoted two, he's also going to sit out pain free nights. If you run this back, you deserve not making the playoffs. By the way, I'm not blaming a D. It's his body, although he should take better care of it. He came in out of shape three years ago. So some of this is on a D. He you know, They joke about his dad body all the time within the organization. He's not a grinder. He's not a guy that lives in the weight room. Your body treats you how you treat your body. It's why you can see fifty year old people that are falling apart physically and sixty year old people, seventy year old people who are in great shape. Your body will treat you like you treat your body. And Ad didn't treat his body that great. So some of this is on him. But he's not thirty seven, thirty eight years old. He's thirty. He just turned thirty. So the Lakers, for a player that just turned thirty, have now pivoted two. There's nights we're not going to play him when he's pain free. Okay, people tell you who they are. Believe him. You can be mad as a Laker fan. What you should be mad about is if they run this nonsense back. Don't be mad about this. This is to help the player. You know. They sat him against a bad Okac team. Didn't hurt him. They sat him against an awful Rockets team. It did hurt him seventy eight points in the paint. You ain't getting now with a d if ads on the floor, You're not going seventy eight points in the paint. So again, you can be mad about last night, but be really mad if they run it back and tell you it's got a chance to be a championship team. No it doesn't. No, it does not. All right, by the way March madness starts, the good games are later later today. I've got Duke winning nine straight wins, only lost once all year. Week week bracket week side, i got Duke winning beating gun Zaga. Who you got? Wow, Cowhard, That's exactly what I have in one of my brackets. Now I'm in I'm in nine different bracket climb. You are six different champions in those nine. It's gonna be a crazy tournament. Duke could be in trouble against Oral Roberts, who whoa I'm not even kidding, Okay. Oral Roberts is a veteran team. They got one of the best scores in the nation, who beat Ohio State in the first round two years ago. Um, just be careful with Duke, folks. I like them as well. I have them going places. But calhard, you're gonna have a sweat in the first I guarantee. You can't wait. They've taken money orl Roberts has taken money. I think was eight down to seven, could go to six and a half. I'm excited. Just be careful with that. Um, there's no being kit Tonight is crack opening beer. Put my legs up, watch hoops. Let me just say this, if Arizona makes a run, you're gonna see a smile on my face for several days. Several days you have them winning multiple bracket. Let's just say I'm heavily committed. I did a Calcutta last night. In our group. We spent you know, five figures on Arizona. O. That's love, dope, It's a big one. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. You're now entering the Noble Zone, sponsored by Incredible Great Rates. None of the ball. So for years, the New England Patriots were viewed as the smartest team in the NFL on the field, off the field, during the season. Off season, they were just smarter than everybody else. We never viewed them as the most talented team. Those Randy Moss teams actually never won a Super Bowl. Those were arguably their most talented teams, I thought. But they were always smart, the way they worked the cap, the way they didn't have the draft guys in the first or second round, but always had great offensive lines. Maybe now the Kansas City Chiefs have become that. So I've been banging on the Patriots for three years that their tone deaf offensively, they have no sensibility, they don't get it. That was obviously year last year when they made a defensive coordinator. The offensive coordinator, Bill Belichick is all defense all the time, has no feel at all for offense. So Juju Smith Schuster. The Pittsburgh Steelers a stable organization that has always been willing Mike Tomlin to deal with some drama, a b big band for years, Lavan Bell. They bailed on Juju, the TikTok King. They bailed on him too silly, too immature. The Chiefs smartly said, well, you're talented, we'll bring in for a one year deal. We won't pay it, but we'll give you a incentive laden contract. Like seven and a half million was just incentives. Two and a half million was actual salary. Didn't pay him anything. What did he do? He was productive, he played with urgency, he was very good. So did the Chiefs resign him? Hell no, let him walk. The Patriot stepped in to give him a three year deal. Silly brand, loyal, TikTok obsessed Juju Smith Schuster. This is the kind of deal the Patriot fans would have laughed at years ago. Other teams being the sucker It was New England that would use a distracted player with talent for a year, get the most out of him. Always move off guys right before they were a pain in the butt. The Chiefs used Juju, pay him nothing, all bonuses. He hits on a lot of them. Then say, see a great We're gonna go draft guys that are really into football. And the suckers come roaring down the street. New England totally out of touch offensively and give distracted Juju Smith Schuster. He can't separate. He's a number three receiver, that's what he is. By the way, simultaneously letting go of their own player, undrafted Jacoby Myers. So last year, look at the numbers, Juju Smith Schuster. That's with Andy Reid, a real offensive coordinator, and Patrick Mahal Homes put up numbers that were identical to Jacoby Myers, and they bailed on Jacoby Myers, who did nothing but work hard, totally focused, not into TikTok, not into his brand, just into being a great NFL player. They bailed on that and signed the constantly, perpetually, habitually distracted Juju Smith Schuster Patriots. You laughed at teams that did that years ago. You laughed at him. You rolled your eyes. Suckers is what they were. When you look around the poker table and you can't find the mark, You're the mark. New England's now the mark at the poker table Kansas City. As the culture has changed totally in tune. They can bring rookies in, guys off the street. This year they won a Super Bowl with three receivers who were cast offs from other teams and a rookie sky More. I mean New England has. They are completely utterly out of touch on offense, even with their own personnel. J Mack with the news. No, no turn on the news. This is the herd line news. It's kind of nice that someone is someone besides the Jets is on the end of the jokes in the AFC East. I like taking some shots there at the Patriots, calling Bill Belichick a mark who you tell me? You tell me no, you're right? Yeah. On Jacobe Myers comes in not making a nickel all three years in a row, leading receiver, not paying him a nickel, hard work. He is the Patriot way. They bail on that because the kids, like, you know, I want to get paid and you're gonna bring in almost the same contracts are very similar, very weird. And by the way, Juju, that was with Mahomes Travis Kelsey next to him, an oc those are the numbers he produced. Doesn't make sense. All right, Let's start with this gentleman named Aaron Rodgers. Obviously, you know he is announced he wants to kind of play for the Jets. Is tension is. But apparently the Raiders were in the mix for Aaron Rodgers. He said this on the YouTube show yesterday. I think there were other teams that were interested in. Obviously, there's certain players. I have a lot of love and affinity for Davante Adams, and reuniting with especially one specific person would have been special. I'm not mentioning any names, but there's definitely one particular guy. Him and I have this special unspoken rapport. If there's anybody that I wanted to put on a demand list, if you can incorporate any person across the league, it would be this specific person. He's obviously talking about Davante Adams and the Raiders, but Josh McDaniels and company went with Jimmy. Aaron has said the list was nonsense, So again taking him at his word, I did homework on the list. Aaron did not put Mercedes Lewis on the list. Hackett did so Hackett loves Mercedes Lewis. The homework I did is that anytime Mercedes Lewis's name ended up on a list, that was going to be more Hacket going to the Jets say and get me that O b J. I've also been told that Aaron didn't make any demands on ob J. He likes him, would love to have him. Hey, if you can find a space for him. But now Alan Lazard, that was Aaron wanted to bring one of his guys over, and Lazard, by the way, in fairness to Aaron, Aaron wants to be comfortable with somebody. I mean, Brady brought over Gronk. Yeah, so I don't have a problem Bronk was retired, he was able to lure him out. Yeah, I don't. I don't have a problem with Peyton Manning Aaron Rodgers, Brady Russell Wilson saying, Hey, there's this one receiver. Man, he's my guy. So I'm not going to beat up on Aaron for Alan Lazard. I think he's a very nice number three receiver. He's a big body. Allan's a nice player. I'd love to have him on my team. So I'm not going to beat up on Aaron. I'm gonna be fair on this. Mercedes Lewis was not an Aron demand, ob j. From what I'm told, Aaron likes him, but it wasn't a demand. I do think Alan Lazard was something Aaron wanted and the Jet said, hey, man, this is one we're gonna go get for you. Because I do think Alan Lazard's a nice acquisition by the Jets. So I think he's a good player. Yeah, So let me ask about the Raiders. They decided to go with a cheaper quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, who's gonna be there for several years instead of a one year maybe two year band aid and Aaron Rodgers. What say you about that Raiders decision? Think before you speak, because you know who I'm talking about When I say Raiders, the Jets are opting for Aaron Rodgers over car over Garoppolo. Continue. So what are you saying? Well, the Raiders decided we could have Aaron Rodgers for a year, or we could get Jimmy Garoppolo for multiple years. Somebody's going to be in our system. We know we could count on him if things go sideways one year, Hey we got the next year, we're locked in. They didn't want By all accounts, he wanted to play with Davanta Adams and the Raiders. It sounds like we're like, well, I would have chosen Aaron Rodgers over Jimmy Garoppolo. Again, I think I'm I think I am absolutely the fairest person in the American media on Aaron Rodgers. I'd vote him first ballot Hall of Fame. It doesn't bother me that he pushes back on media. I don't think the list after doing homework is entirely of Aaron Rodgers making. But I think he's deluded if he's surprised his words that green Bay said we're done with you. Out of the eight and a half weeks, nine weeks of not giving them a heads up, stringing them along. Then I think he's deluded and deserves massive criticism because those are his words. I'm ninety percent retirement and I'm surprised they said we're done with you. Dude, You're deluded. I wonder if Josh McDaniel said to his front office, Hey, guys, I don't want a year of crazy, a year of distractions. We live in Vegas already enough crazy around us. Let's go for safe, smart, reliable players love him. Let's go for Jimmy garoppolom. Well, we were surprised when Brady left New England how small the market was, So why are we surprised that Aaron Rodgers leaves how small the market is? Hey, Brady was a little bit older, wasn't he like? But you got none of this distraction stuff, totally committed, right, So what it showing you is when, by the way, why are we surprised there's no market for Lamar Jackson? There's no I mean, seriously, everybody says, what about the market for Lamar Jackson. There wasn't a mark market for Brady. There wasn't a big market for Aaron Rodgers. There wasn't a big market for Lamar Jackson because in all three cases there was something to be concerned about Brady's age, Rogers commitment, and Lamar's injury. Well, have you talked to your Colts people lately? I talked to every I talked to. I talked to two gms yesterday at length, and a head coach and a scouting girl. There are rumblings that what the cults are making some quiet salary cap moves in. There's some wonder, Hey, we're not gonna get the guy we won the top of the draft. Maybe the Colts make a play here. I would just keep an eye on it, a low simmer on the back of the oven. Just keep an eye on maybe the Colts in them because they got no quarterback. They got nothing. They just dumped Matt Ryan they have. They're picking fourth, I believe, pretty good place to pick. But we said yesterday the top two quarterbacks are gonna be going. Maybe they get Stroud. By the way, if you're picking four, you're gonna get either, in my opinion, because I think you're onto something. You're gonna get CJ. Stroud or Bryce Young? What about Will Levis when Houston? I think Will Levis h is talented, But I would take CJ. Stroud or Bryce Young over Will Levis. I would would you draft CJ. Stroud or would you rather go for Lamar Jackson? Well, I would rather have Lamar Jackson. Remember, now this is something to think about. I'm glad you brought this up. Well, I think actually I brought it up. So with Brady, Aaron and Lamar, there appears to be kind of a smaller market that we would all think. They all had an issue age, commitment and injuries. But it also speaks to something as football has become, this is sort of a this is sort of a reality of the league. As the NFL had to pay almost a billion dollars for CTE in concussions, the NFL has created a lot of safety measures. The game is now less violent, more offense, meaning the quarterbacks are more valuable. Meaning the quarterbacks are now making what teams used to pay the entire roster. Meaning Brady was expensive, Roger's expensive, Lamar's expensive. As we've driven the price up for quarterbacks, if you don't have them, the homes and there's like one on the planet. Teams now, I think are thinking the Jason McIntyre theory, which is, hell with it. Let's just load our roster up and draft a quarterback every year until we find a Brock Purty. Because it's very clear the only way to win super Bowls in the NFL right now, last ten years you have a superstar quarterback Brady Mahomes, or you have a loaded roster for a Jared Goff, a Jalen Hurts, a Rock Purty that ensures lots and lots of wins and a high probability of getting to a conference championship. What you can't have is an expensive, eleventh best quarterback in the league. And right now people are wondering, is Aaron a top seven guy? No? Is Lamar injuries? No, because you got to consider injuries if you're not available. He went down this season before he was definitely top seven. He went down this he did. Let's live in the real world. Let's live in the real world. Aaron hasn't been fully committed. He's now thirty nine. So there's only two ways to consistently win a Super Bowl or get there. Superstar Mahomes Brady or don't pay your quarterback anything. He has to be pretty good and then you just stack the roster. So I think when you get these Lamar with injuries and Aaron with commitment, a lot of people are like the market shrivels up very quickly. Yeah, all right, let's go to the Eagles. Briefly, they got good news. Finally they're hemorrhaging talent. But their number one quarterback, Darius big Place Slay, they were gonna release him. He basically you know it was all gonna happen. Suddenly they found the cap money to save him. So Darius Slays very excited to be back, like I never left. Hahaha. He wrote on social media. Run it back. That's good news for the Eagles. So they're keeping Bradberry and they're keeping Slay. That's very good. Great corners. It was looking like they were gonna lose seven, six or seven defensive starting to understand it. I never I thought Darius Slay is one of the three best defensive players. I didn't get it. And a sneaky other good move they had was they lose Miles Sanders the running back, replace him with Rashad Penny. Now he's had some injury issues. But holy hell, when he's healthy, Oh, he's fast and explosive. If you're a Seahawk fan, though, Rashad Penny drives you crazy. Ye. So he was a reach in the first round because I think Nick Chubb same draft went second round. If I recall it could be wrong, but he was a reach in round one. And but but he was never available, and so if you're a Seahawk fan, you hate to see him go because when he was healthy, he is so good after contact and he's got real like burst home run speed. Yeah, he's just on it. So he's a real enigma. When he's healthy, he's fantastic. But now the Seahawks have the kid from Michigan State at running back, so they don't need Yeah, they got their home run guy. What they need now is you know DJ Dallas their backup guy. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, final story, We'll just get to this briefly. But the am NBA announced yesterday John Morant got an eight game suspension for conduct detrimental to the league after that incident with Instagram Live where he had a gun randomly in Denver. He's already missed six two of the games and he's eligible to return Monday against him as I'm sorry he's missed six so he really can return next week. Yeah, Colin, I pointed this out on social media when he was in a counseling facility. He might lose out on thirty seven million dollars if he's not an All NBA player. He hasn't played enough games to be voted All NBA. He's having an All NBA season. Interesting that, um he got sucked in to the life. Well, I just I find it very interesting that he was in a counseling facility Monday. NBA suspends him Wednesday, and now we're hearing he's gonna be back on Monday. That's a quick turnaround. He's doing like a pr blitz apologizing I'm not that guy. Blah blah blah. John Moran's gonna be back sooner than we all thought. It sounded like he was gonna be done for the regular season, and now suddenly he's coming back. A lot of money on the table for John Ran any rate. What are you stipulating? What are you I don't want to sin, I don't want to go too much into it. It feels like the league said we don't feel we can take thirty seven million from a young kid. Let's get him back to play well. And I think I think the Grizzlies to kind of need him. They're starting a free fall. And um let's just hear what John Maranz said to Jayalen Rose yesterday. It's not who I am. I don't condone and you know, any type of violence. But I take, you know, full responsibility. You know from my actions and I can see image. You know that I paint it, you know over myself. You know with my recent mistakes in the past, we didn't we didn't know what was at state. And now you know, finally me having that time, um to you know, realize everything, have that time alone, realize that now I realize you know what I have to lose. Now I can't wait to be back out there on the floor now, you know, knowing what my punishment is and you know, I accept that and I feel like I deserved, you know, that punishment for you know my mistakes and you know what I did. Can I defend him here? Go ahead, because maybe I'm on an island. He got sucked into the life. I've seen this, I got kids, you get sucked into social media. You get sucked into stuff. He's a young kid. Ask yourself this, when you were twenty two years old, if somebody gave you forty million dollars and made you an internet star, girls, money, fame, I think you could get sucked in. Like, I feel bad for him now it's all on him. I'm not saying he didn't deserve punishment. But this is not the NFL where kids come into the league with four and five years in college. The two best players in this draft aren't even playing in college. You're getting babies that cannot drink at the hotel bar. They're like nineteen, he got sucked into the lifestyle, alcohol, hall, fame, guns, crowd. It's like, there's part of me. I know I'm a softie here, but they're right. Part of me is like, it's hard for young people when they get it's hard for fifty year olds. I mean, you've heard the term midlife crisis where a fifty year old guy starts driving a Maserati and cheating on his wife with some you know, young person. That happens to a fifty year old man. So if a nineteen year old kid gets the world served to him, some of these kids aren't ready for it. Emotionally, I wouldn't have been ready for I don't know if I would have. I'm not into guns, but I wouldn't have been ready for it. I'll just say the Job Morant image rehab team did a really nice job there. You know, he's got a big sponsorship with a certain Swoosh brand and if you look at the interview, very proud swoosh and the jacket and the jewelry tucked in, not flexing anything. Good job by them. They're gonna get him back on the court. And I'm rooting for job I know what I just said. He's one of the planet's greatest athletes. Yeah, I will say some of the sideline celebration that he's done and the Grizzlies talking a lot of trash Dellen Brooks, They're gonna have to dial that back. Leagues looking at them. They have a target on their back down Golden State, Dallas. The league is better when John Morants plunder. And the West, which is goofy anyway, needs Job Morant because Memphis is good. Yeah, people make mistakes. Young people make more when you heap a bunch of stuff. I just made a lot I made many. Oh God, the twenties, I'd like to just scratch it off and never Aren't you happy social media did not exist? Oh? I could never not again. I'm not a I'm not a gun guy, but I would. I would have been closing bars and doing stupid stuff. Yeah, and mistakes doing that when I was a sportscaster making nothing. You were doing that last week. Weren't you yet? Not a bar? I mean, it's I know. So I think I've gotten less judgment, well, especially to young people as of age, because I've I've seen it, I dealt with it. It's hard, you know. I used to be able. You could party and nobody knew about it. Now you're being gassed up all the time. You the man, You're great. You'd get that occasionally if you went out. Now you get it all day. You get the criticism, the love all day, and you you open your phone on your pocket. All these people alien models are like, let's hook up and eating guys, let's go out by jump on the private jet. It's a lot. It's a tough listen you, and I know it's tough to just say no. Sometimes you gotta just back and like thank you. But no thanks. It's hard, hard, all right. J Mack with the news. Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by The Herd lot. I always believe this. People without options always criticize people with options. It is easy to sit on your you know, at the podium and go, I can't believe you did this. This this When you're never offered beautiful women, cash, private jets parties, it's easy to say I can't believe you did that. John Morant was getting every offer DMed all day. He got sucked in it happens. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd week days and noon Eastern Empacific. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more about the stories about what made these people love their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories. You download it, you listen to it. I think you like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast. Janus so Us back with the Bloodline and on a Collegion course with Sammy's ain Us after a controversial outcome, trewmacka tyrant Jamus clash to find out who'll Facecoo there at Wrestlemanium and I'll do Friday Nights back Down live at eighties thirty seventh Central Tomorrow night on Fox. So yesterday Jay McK and I tried to predict what the over unders we're gonna be now the Jets have Aaron Rodgers, though not official, and the Packers have moved off Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love. Our numbers were pretty darn close. The over under on the Jets with Aaron Rodgers would now be over ten. I would bet the under on that. I think the Jets will be an eight er and nine win team with Aaron Rodgers, especially if the Packers keep dragging this thing out. Also, the Packers over under is to me way too low at seven and a half. So remember schedules and the quarterbacks you face can determine a lot. So Green Bay gets lucky and faces the NFC South as one of their combatants next year. That means three bad quarterbacks and Derek Carr with a lousy defensive head coach lousy Dennis Allen to this point in his career. So here's the quarterbacks that Jordan Love would face. Justin Fields two times, Desmond Ritter, Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask, whoever Carolina drafts Kenny pick at Jimmy Garoppolo. That's eight right there. Not only that, Russell Wilson certainly beatable Kirk Cousins Jared Goff four times combined. Now let's just put down Mahomes as a loss, and Stafford if he's available, as a loss, and Justin Herbert it is the Chargers, but that's a loss. You could be fourteen and thirteen. I don't think you're gonna win all those games, but seven and a half is low. This idea green Bay is gonna capsize. Remember they're probably getting the Jets first round pick with Aaron Rodgers. There's a story today green Bay ain't moving until they get a first round pick, not multiple, but one, and I think that's incredibly fair. That would give them two first round picks in the middle of the first round. Yet, well, green Bay doesn't whiff on first round picks. They draft and develop top five in the NFL. Two first round picks for Green Bay. Those are two starters very quickly. So it's also much easier to navigate the NFC. And I'll give you an example of what the NFC is now. I'm not saying Jordan Love is forty five year old time Brady, but last year, at forty five, forty six years old, Brady with the worst run game in the league a defensive head coach, had multiple wins with a single touchdown pass. In fact, Brady won five games last year. This is with no run game with a passer rating under ninety. So if Jordan Love is an eighty seven eighty eight passer rating guy with a much better run game than Brady had and a much easier schedule, potentially he can't win eight games. Hell, they only won eight games with Aaron Rodgers last year. So this idea, there's this massive pressure to replace Aaron Rodgers. Aaron didn't make the playoffs. Aaron's been a postseason disappointment last three or four years, last three years. So it's not like you're you know, you're not replacing Mahomes or you know somebody Joe Burrow that leaves awake. You're replacing the guy the city was tired of the team's moved moving on from with a schedule with eight average quarterbacks. You know, Jimmy Garoppolo is better than average, but not a Ton Desmond Ritter, Justin Fields, Daniel Jones, Kyle Trash, Baker Mayfield a rookie, and Carolina Kenny Pickett. No, don't know, so I think the Jets at ten fields a little high. For me. I would bet the under on that they may hit ten, but I think it's it feels like an under seven and a half for green Bay. Does it not feel a little low? Well, I just looked at twenty twenty two and what did the Packers do last year? They had losses too. Are you ready for this? Taylor Heineke, Daniel Jones over in London and they lost at home to whoever the Jets had at quarterback. I believe it was Zach Wilson. So they're gonna be going down in quarterback from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love. The defense last year was a catastrophe. Okay, we know they were highly ready to going into the season. They had some injuries. Jaye Alexander played poorly, so I don't think you could automatically say like, this is a team that could win nine games, okay, but at eight they wouldn't make the playoffs? Is it? Don't you think it's a pretty good bet with the stability they have Jordan Love now year four with two first round starters, probably at least one a tight end or a receiver. Remember you say, well green Bay wasn't good last year. No, they were really good late. They weren't good early because Aaron didn't go to off off site or off season. They were a terrible team early. They were a very good team late. They were dangerous, right, yeah, very late. They beat Justin Fields at Soldier, they beat Baker Mayfield. Teams are gonna play this year at home. They played, they beat two in Miami and then they beat Kirk Cousins. Well again, so that's who they're playing next year. It's not like it's different. I'm just saying, do you think Kirk Cousins is going to go eleven and oh and one score games? There'll be some regression from Kirk Cousins, some some, but we I think we admit Lions are gonna be a problem. And it looks like the Lions did they sweet? Yeah, the Lions swept the Packers last year. So the big question is do you think they're going to do that back to back years. Listen, I'm telling you right now I like the Lions to win that division next year. And by the way, by the way, the Bears are spending like drunken sailors right now in free agency. They are not going to be the worst team in the league next year. They're gonna be a six or seven win team, and they're gonna be a problem fighting back. They got a lot more talent already. Colin a lot of linebackers, signed a bunch of linebackers. What's that receiver's name, Oh, dj Moore, that's right. We'll see if they can get the ball to him. Justin are you doubting Justin Field? Well, I'm sixty forty. I'm not eighty twenty. I'm sixty forty. He can play in this league as a starter. I'm not sixty forty. He's going to be a star. That to me is really low. Sixty forty. He's a franchise I'll just remind I know you know this, but when Jalen Hurts added AJ Brown, he went from like we don't know him, maybe he's a starter to potential MVP two at a Tyreek kill in mid season two. It was on track to be like an MVP Kennedy. You get these great receivers. DJ Moore's not grad, he's very good, and there's a chance Fields makes a big jump. I believe it's very possible. I do. And those are good examples that when you gave two and Hurts a star receiver, things change. And you even said, Josh Allen, I think he got Stephan Diggs right when they stole him from Minnesota, and all of a sudden, Josh Allen's numbers going through the roof. So I'm none of this. I'm denying. I'm just what I'm saying is seven and a half wins. What you're making it sound like is Green Bay in the NFC is gonna be a non factor's bad in a seventeen game schedule. You bet the under they're gonna go seven and ten in the NFC. That's a bad football team. That's a bad A seven and ten team in the NFC is not a seven and ten team in the AFC. Oh and you're taking away your great blocking receiver in Allen Zart, He's out the door. He's in the New York Football Jets uniform. Now. I love how we go back and fo I think I'm just I tend to believe that well run. You know. My rule has always been higher smart people. They'll figure it out. Green Bay's got a lot of smart people in that organization, Scouts, Regional Scouts, Guden Kounts, Mark Murphy. These are smart guys. They'll figure some stuff out. What they're making a bet on from all the video they've seen, the practices, Jordan Love can play. I trust smart guy is saying, we think he can play. That's what they said years ago with Aaron Rodgers who went to junior college and cow. They're like, this guy can play to people back in a second

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Meat has been met, So a lot of consuming NCAA tournament and Aaron Rodgers questions over the next forty year old so let's start with that. I don't necessarily agree with all his political stances. But there's a Canadian psychologist named Jordan Peterson, and he has a belief and I tend to believe this too, is that you can't totally be an adult, a grown up until you love somebody more than yourself. And this psychologist believes and I do too, that to really be a grown up. It's not the only way to be an adult, but it's certainly impactful in your development as a human being. You're married, you have kids, anybody who's had kids. The minute you have a kid, you find out that your love for that child is so much greater than the narcissism and love for yourself. So, again, Jordan Peterson, I may not agree with him on some climate opinions, but I will say that I agree there that you have to love somebody greater than yourself. That is one of the first signs Young people tend to be selfish and self absorbed, and many adults are. But that gets you to the next level. So let me pivot into Aaron Rodgers appearance yesterday on YouTube. His words, he went into the retreat, his words, not mine, ninety percent sure he was going to retire. He said, I got to admit I went into the darkness ninety percent retiring, ten percent playing okay, his words. He was also surprised, his words that when he came out Green Bay had decided, you know, we we're gonna go with Jordan Loves let's make a trade happen for you. And he was surprised by that, his words. How could you be surprised by that? If you're the most important person in your world. If you were married, let's say, I think maybe your wife would say, honey, the season ended eight weeks ago. They've made you rich, They've made us rich, They've given us a great life. You probably should give him a heads up. If you had kids, maybe your son says, Dad, I love the packers. You're not going to leave the packers. Maybe you'd feel some guilt give him an answer either way. But if you're the most important person in your life, you just run on your clock, and you are mister independent and I'll do what I want on my time. And Aaron thinks he's the smartest adult, and I'm questioning this morning if he's an adult. If you're the most important person in your life, and you don't sacrifice, then you are surprised when you come out of a retreat that you went into at ninety percent retiring and your surprise, green Bay said, we want to move on. Now I am I am now not his words, but I am guessing that he had to give green Bay a heads up that he was strongly considering retirement. I mean, he's a jerk if he didn't. If I was going to leave Fox for retirement and didn't give him heads up, I'm a jerk. So I'm gonna say Aaron's not a jerk. If you're gonna leave your wife suddenly in the middle of the night, you're a schmuck. So I would assume she has a heads up if you're gonna leave. I'm going to assume Aaron's not a jerk, and that green Bay had some sense of his impending decision would lean heavily into retirement. I'll assume he's a decent human being, but he's surprised. Let me ask you if if I told one of my bosses radio TV or my wife, listen, I'm ninety percent into leaving you. I'm going to go in a retreat for four or five days by myself. When I come back, I'll be closer to a decision. You think I'd be surprised if my wife Ann said, hey, pal, hit the road, or if my bosses upstairs said, you know, we found another guy we really like him, or another woman they're going to host the show. The only surprise is Aaron is surprised. That's how self centered and deluded he apparently, is that he can't believe that people he's been stringing along, who he was threatening retirement to, would move on as mister will do things on my clock, totally dictated terms last several years. Here's another one, and again, when you're the most important person in your life, you demand things from others because nobody calls you on your bs His quote here yesterday, his words again, my only demand is for transparency, yet he never provides any. Two separate Green Bay packers on offense have told me since the Super Bowl they have no idea what he's doing. What about transparency? Again, when you're the most important person in your life and maybe haven't become a true adult yet, you demand things from others that you don't provide for them. His teammates are guessing the Packers are guessing. The fans are guessing. But he wants transparency. That's the one thing. Not my words. His He was nine percent retiring, not my words. He was surprised when they booted him when he came out. Not my words, his mere eron. They're in the bathroom staring at it's very perceptive with those lasers and that wit and that acumen, pointing fingers. Listen to yourself. Ninety percent retirement going in and surprised when Green Bay said, hit the road, champ, we're exhausted. Would any of you be surprised if your bosses, your wife, people tired of you stringing along year after year. That's surprising. I don't have to agree with Jordan Peterson on anything other than once you become something beyond yourself, then you're officially an adult. Anthony Davis isn't adult for the Lakers, but he's an adult that, even when he's paying free, doesn't play basketball. So Richard Jefferson called out the Lakers yesterday. The Lakers lost to the worst team arguably in the league, the Houston Rockets. Houston Rockets are young, they're awful, they're actively tanking, and yet despite being one of the worst teams in the league. They scored seventy eight points in the paint and they had sixty two points at half against the Lakers. They dominated the inside. Why because Anthony Davis couldn't play load management even though he was pain free, and Richard Jefferson called out the Lakers in a D When a coach says that a player is pain free, but we're still going to keep him out again if your media managing, if you're telling me that he's not having pain, if he has some soreness on the off day, if there's you know, and again there's still probably some reaction. If you're talking about the stress reaction. It's a stress reaction. So they're like, we're not going to overload it. I get it, but it's like, if you have pain, if you are paying free, then I just get confused. And I'm not a doctor, so I'm not being critical here. I just hear it, and I'm like, I just don't understand what's the old saying. People will show you who they are. Just believe them. So it's okay to be as a Laker fan frustrated with a D. It's not necessarily his decision. It is a upstairs executive management decision. So what the Lakers are telling you is going forward, this is how we deal with a D. And if the Lakers are going to run this back, they deserve to be a non playoff team. Lebron year twenty one and load management AD. That's what the Lakers are telling us, They're telling the fans, they're telling the media. This is how heads up, this is how AD is going to be used going forward. So I looked this morning. The last five years, this is the new reality for a D. He plays forty eight games a year, and they've now pivoted to he will sit out games when he's pain free. Okay, So Lebron now going into year twenty one next year, where he's given us fifty games a year, a D now given us forty seven games a year and a D and the Lakers have now pivoted two, he's also going to sit out pain free nights. If you run this back, you deserve not making the playoffs. By the way, I'm not blaming a D. It's his body, although he should take better care of it. He came in out of shape three years ago. So some of this is on a D. He you know, They joke about his dad body all the time within the organization. He's not a grinder. He's not a guy that lives in the weight room. Your body treats you how you treat your body. It's why you can see fifty year old people that are falling apart physically and sixty year old people, seventy year old people who are in great shape. Your body will treat you like you treat your body. And Ad didn't treat his body that great. So some of this is on him. But he's not thirty seven, thirty eight years old. He's thirty. He just turned thirty. So the Lakers, for a player that just turned thirty, have now pivoted two. There's nights we're not going to play him when he's pain free. Okay, people tell you who they are. Believe him. You can be mad as a Laker fan. What you should be mad about is if they run this nonsense back. Don't be mad about this. This is to help the player. You know. They sat him against a bad Okac team. Didn't hurt him. They sat him against an awful Rockets team. It did hurt him seventy eight points in the paint. You ain't getting now with a d if ads on the floor, You're not going seventy eight points in the paint. So again, you can be mad about last night, but be really mad if they run it back and tell you it's got a chance to be a championship team. No it doesn't. No, it does not. All right, by the way March madness starts, the good games are later later today. I've got Duke winning nine straight wins, only lost once all year. Week week bracket week side, i got Duke winning beating gun Zaga. Who you got? Wow, Cowhard, That's exactly what I have in one of my brackets. Now I'm in I'm in nine different bracket climb. You are six different champions in those nine. It's gonna be a crazy tournament. Duke could be in trouble against Oral Roberts, who whoa I'm not even kidding, Okay. Oral Roberts is a veteran team. They got one of the best scores in the nation, who beat Ohio State in the first round two years ago. Um, just be careful with Duke, folks. I like them as well. I have them going places. But calhard, you're gonna have a sweat in the first I guarantee. You can't wait. They've taken money orl Roberts has taken money. I think was eight down to seven, could go to six and a half. I'm excited. Just be careful with that. Um, there's no being kit Tonight is crack opening beer. Put my legs up, watch hoops. Let me just say this, if Arizona makes a run, you're gonna see a smile on my face for several days. Several days you have them winning multiple bracket. Let's just say I'm heavily committed. I did a Calcutta last night. In our group. We spent you know, five figures on Arizona. O. That's love, dope, It's a big one. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. You're now entering the Noble Zone, sponsored by Incredible Great Rates. None of the ball. So for years, the New England Patriots were viewed as the smartest team in the NFL on the field, off the field, during the season. Off season, they were just smarter than everybody else. We never viewed them as the most talented team. Those Randy Moss teams actually never won a Super Bowl. Those were arguably their most talented teams, I thought. But they were always smart, the way they worked the cap, the way they didn't have the draft guys in the first or second round, but always had great offensive lines. Maybe now the Kansas City Chiefs have become that. So I've been banging on the Patriots for three years that their tone deaf offensively, they have no sensibility, they don't get it. That was obviously year last year when they made a defensive coordinator. The offensive coordinator, Bill Belichick is all defense all the time, has no feel at all for offense. So Juju Smith Schuster. The Pittsburgh Steelers a stable organization that has always been willing Mike Tomlin to deal with some drama, a b big band for years, Lavan Bell. They bailed on Juju, the TikTok King. They bailed on him too silly, too immature. The Chiefs smartly said, well, you're talented, we'll bring in for a one year deal. We won't pay it, but we'll give you a incentive laden contract. Like seven and a half million was just incentives. Two and a half million was actual salary. Didn't pay him anything. What did he do? He was productive, he played with urgency, he was very good. So did the Chiefs resign him? Hell no, let him walk. The Patriot stepped in to give him a three year deal. Silly brand, loyal, TikTok obsessed Juju Smith Schuster. This is the kind of deal the Patriot fans would have laughed at years ago. Other teams being the sucker It was New England that would use a distracted player with talent for a year, get the most out of him. Always move off guys right before they were a pain in the butt. The Chiefs used Juju, pay him nothing, all bonuses. He hits on a lot of them. Then say, see a great We're gonna go draft guys that are really into football. And the suckers come roaring down the street. New England totally out of touch offensively and give distracted Juju Smith Schuster. He can't separate. He's a number three receiver, that's what he is. By the way, simultaneously letting go of their own player, undrafted Jacoby Myers. So last year, look at the numbers, Juju Smith Schuster. That's with Andy Reid, a real offensive coordinator, and Patrick Mahal Homes put up numbers that were identical to Jacoby Myers, and they bailed on Jacoby Myers, who did nothing but work hard, totally focused, not into TikTok, not into his brand, just into being a great NFL player. They bailed on that and signed the constantly, perpetually, habitually distracted Juju Smith Schuster Patriots. You laughed at teams that did that years ago. You laughed at him. You rolled your eyes. Suckers is what they were. When you look around the poker table and you can't find the mark, You're the mark. New England's now the mark at the poker table Kansas City. As the culture has changed totally in tune. They can bring rookies in, guys off the street. This year they won a Super Bowl with three receivers who were cast offs from other teams and a rookie sky More. I mean New England has. They are completely utterly out of touch on offense, even with their own personnel. J Mack with the news. No, no turn on the news. This is the herd line news. It's kind of nice that someone is someone besides the Jets is on the end of the jokes in the AFC East. I like taking some shots there at the Patriots, calling Bill Belichick a mark who you tell me? You tell me no, you're right? Yeah. On Jacobe Myers comes in not making a nickel all three years in a row, leading receiver, not paying him a nickel, hard work. He is the Patriot way. They bail on that because the kids, like, you know, I want to get paid and you're gonna bring in almost the same contracts are very similar, very weird. And by the way, Juju, that was with Mahomes Travis Kelsey next to him, an oc those are the numbers he produced. Doesn't make sense. All right, Let's start with this gentleman named Aaron Rodgers. Obviously, you know he is announced he wants to kind of play for the Jets. Is tension is. But apparently the Raiders were in the mix for Aaron Rodgers. He said this on the YouTube show yesterday. I think there were other teams that were interested in. Obviously, there's certain players. I have a lot of love and affinity for Davante Adams, and reuniting with especially one specific person would have been special. I'm not mentioning any names, but there's definitely one particular guy. Him and I have this special unspoken rapport. If there's anybody that I wanted to put on a demand list, if you can incorporate any person across the league, it would be this specific person. He's obviously talking about Davante Adams and the Raiders, but Josh McDaniels and company went with Jimmy. Aaron has said the list was nonsense, So again taking him at his word, I did homework on the list. Aaron did not put Mercedes Lewis on the list. Hackett did so Hackett loves Mercedes Lewis. The homework I did is that anytime Mercedes Lewis's name ended up on a list, that was going to be more Hacket going to the Jets say and get me that O b J. I've also been told that Aaron didn't make any demands on ob J. He likes him, would love to have him. Hey, if you can find a space for him. But now Alan Lazard, that was Aaron wanted to bring one of his guys over, and Lazard, by the way, in fairness to Aaron, Aaron wants to be comfortable with somebody. I mean, Brady brought over Gronk. Yeah, so I don't have a problem Bronk was retired, he was able to lure him out. Yeah, I don't. I don't have a problem with Peyton Manning Aaron Rodgers, Brady Russell Wilson saying, Hey, there's this one receiver. Man, he's my guy. So I'm not going to beat up on Aaron for Alan Lazard. I think he's a very nice number three receiver. He's a big body. Allan's a nice player. I'd love to have him on my team. So I'm not going to beat up on Aaron. I'm gonna be fair on this. Mercedes Lewis was not an Aron demand, ob j. From what I'm told, Aaron likes him, but it wasn't a demand. I do think Alan Lazard was something Aaron wanted and the Jet said, hey, man, this is one we're gonna go get for you. Because I do think Alan Lazard's a nice acquisition by the Jets. So I think he's a good player. Yeah, So let me ask about the Raiders. They decided to go with a cheaper quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, who's gonna be there for several years instead of a one year maybe two year band aid and Aaron Rodgers. What say you about that Raiders decision? Think before you speak, because you know who I'm talking about When I say Raiders, the Jets are opting for Aaron Rodgers over car over Garoppolo. Continue. So what are you saying? Well, the Raiders decided we could have Aaron Rodgers for a year, or we could get Jimmy Garoppolo for multiple years. Somebody's going to be in our system. We know we could count on him if things go sideways one year, Hey we got the next year, we're locked in. They didn't want By all accounts, he wanted to play with Davanta Adams and the Raiders. It sounds like we're like, well, I would have chosen Aaron Rodgers over Jimmy Garoppolo. Again, I think I'm I think I am absolutely the fairest person in the American media on Aaron Rodgers. I'd vote him first ballot Hall of Fame. It doesn't bother me that he pushes back on media. I don't think the list after doing homework is entirely of Aaron Rodgers making. But I think he's deluded if he's surprised his words that green Bay said we're done with you. Out of the eight and a half weeks, nine weeks of not giving them a heads up, stringing them along. Then I think he's deluded and deserves massive criticism because those are his words. I'm ninety percent retirement and I'm surprised they said we're done with you. Dude, You're deluded. I wonder if Josh McDaniel said to his front office, Hey, guys, I don't want a year of crazy, a year of distractions. We live in Vegas already enough crazy around us. Let's go for safe, smart, reliable players love him. Let's go for Jimmy garoppolom. Well, we were surprised when Brady left New England how small the market was, So why are we surprised that Aaron Rodgers leaves how small the market is? Hey, Brady was a little bit older, wasn't he like? But you got none of this distraction stuff, totally committed, right, So what it showing you is when, by the way, why are we surprised there's no market for Lamar Jackson? There's no I mean, seriously, everybody says, what about the market for Lamar Jackson. There wasn't a mark market for Brady. There wasn't a big market for Aaron Rodgers. There wasn't a big market for Lamar Jackson because in all three cases there was something to be concerned about Brady's age, Rogers commitment, and Lamar's injury. Well, have you talked to your Colts people lately? I talked to every I talked to. I talked to two gms yesterday at length, and a head coach and a scouting girl. There are rumblings that what the cults are making some quiet salary cap moves in. There's some wonder, Hey, we're not gonna get the guy we won the top of the draft. Maybe the Colts make a play here. I would just keep an eye on it, a low simmer on the back of the oven. Just keep an eye on maybe the Colts in them because they got no quarterback. They got nothing. They just dumped Matt Ryan they have. They're picking fourth, I believe, pretty good place to pick. But we said yesterday the top two quarterbacks are gonna be going. Maybe they get Stroud. By the way, if you're picking four, you're gonna get either, in my opinion, because I think you're onto something. You're gonna get CJ. Stroud or Bryce Young? What about Will Levis when Houston? I think Will Levis h is talented, But I would take CJ. Stroud or Bryce Young over Will Levis. I would would you draft CJ. Stroud or would you rather go for Lamar Jackson? Well, I would rather have Lamar Jackson. Remember, now this is something to think about. I'm glad you brought this up. Well, I think actually I brought it up. So with Brady, Aaron and Lamar, there appears to be kind of a smaller market that we would all think. They all had an issue age, commitment and injuries. But it also speaks to something as football has become, this is sort of a this is sort of a reality of the league. As the NFL had to pay almost a billion dollars for CTE in concussions, the NFL has created a lot of safety measures. The game is now less violent, more offense, meaning the quarterbacks are more valuable. Meaning the quarterbacks are now making what teams used to pay the entire roster. Meaning Brady was expensive, Roger's expensive, Lamar's expensive. As we've driven the price up for quarterbacks, if you don't have them, the homes and there's like one on the planet. Teams now, I think are thinking the Jason McIntyre theory, which is, hell with it. Let's just load our roster up and draft a quarterback every year until we find a Brock Purty. Because it's very clear the only way to win super Bowls in the NFL right now, last ten years you have a superstar quarterback Brady Mahomes, or you have a loaded roster for a Jared Goff, a Jalen Hurts, a Rock Purty that ensures lots and lots of wins and a high probability of getting to a conference championship. What you can't have is an expensive, eleventh best quarterback in the league. And right now people are wondering, is Aaron a top seven guy? No? Is Lamar injuries? No, because you got to consider injuries if you're not available. He went down this season before he was definitely top seven. He went down this he did. Let's live in the real world. Let's live in the real world. Aaron hasn't been fully committed. He's now thirty nine. So there's only two ways to consistently win a Super Bowl or get there. Superstar Mahomes Brady or don't pay your quarterback anything. He has to be pretty good and then you just stack the roster. So I think when you get these Lamar with injuries and Aaron with commitment, a lot of people are like the market shrivels up very quickly. Yeah, all right, let's go to the Eagles. Briefly, they got good news. Finally they're hemorrhaging talent. But their number one quarterback, Darius big Place Slay, they were gonna release him. He basically you know it was all gonna happen. Suddenly they found the cap money to save him. So Darius Slays very excited to be back, like I never left. Hahaha. He wrote on social media. Run it back. That's good news for the Eagles. So they're keeping Bradberry and they're keeping Slay. That's very good. Great corners. It was looking like they were gonna lose seven, six or seven defensive starting to understand it. I never I thought Darius Slay is one of the three best defensive players. I didn't get it. And a sneaky other good move they had was they lose Miles Sanders the running back, replace him with Rashad Penny. Now he's had some injury issues. But holy hell, when he's healthy, Oh, he's fast and explosive. If you're a Seahawk fan, though, Rashad Penny drives you crazy. Ye. So he was a reach in the first round because I think Nick Chubb same draft went second round. If I recall it could be wrong, but he was a reach in round one. And but but he was never available, and so if you're a Seahawk fan, you hate to see him go because when he was healthy, he is so good after contact and he's got real like burst home run speed. Yeah, he's just on it. So he's a real enigma. When he's healthy, he's fantastic. But now the Seahawks have the kid from Michigan State at running back, so they don't need Yeah, they got their home run guy. What they need now is you know DJ Dallas their backup guy. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, final story, We'll just get to this briefly. But the am NBA announced yesterday John Morant got an eight game suspension for conduct detrimental to the league after that incident with Instagram Live where he had a gun randomly in Denver. He's already missed six two of the games and he's eligible to return Monday against him as I'm sorry he's missed six so he really can return next week. Yeah, Colin, I pointed this out on social media when he was in a counseling facility. He might lose out on thirty seven million dollars if he's not an All NBA player. He hasn't played enough games to be voted All NBA. He's having an All NBA season. Interesting that, um he got sucked in to the life. Well, I just I find it very interesting that he was in a counseling facility Monday. NBA suspends him Wednesday, and now we're hearing he's gonna be back on Monday. That's a quick turnaround. He's doing like a pr blitz apologizing I'm not that guy. Blah blah blah. John Moran's gonna be back sooner than we all thought. It sounded like he was gonna be done for the regular season, and now suddenly he's coming back. A lot of money on the table for John Ran any rate. What are you stipulating? What are you I don't want to sin, I don't want to go too much into it. It feels like the league said we don't feel we can take thirty seven million from a young kid. Let's get him back to play well. And I think I think the Grizzlies to kind of need him. They're starting a free fall. And um let's just hear what John Maranz said to Jayalen Rose yesterday. It's not who I am. I don't condone and you know, any type of violence. But I take, you know, full responsibility. You know from my actions and I can see image. You know that I paint it, you know over myself. You know with my recent mistakes in the past, we didn't we didn't know what was at state. And now you know, finally me having that time, um to you know, realize everything, have that time alone, realize that now I realize you know what I have to lose. Now I can't wait to be back out there on the floor now, you know, knowing what my punishment is and you know, I accept that and I feel like I deserved, you know, that punishment for you know my mistakes and you know what I did. Can I defend him here? Go ahead, because maybe I'm on an island. He got sucked into the life. I've seen this, I got kids, you get sucked into social media. You get sucked into stuff. He's a young kid. Ask yourself this, when you were twenty two years old, if somebody gave you forty million dollars and made you an internet star, girls, money, fame, I think you could get sucked in. Like, I feel bad for him now it's all on him. I'm not saying he didn't deserve punishment. But this is not the NFL where kids come into the league with four and five years in college. The two best players in this draft aren't even playing in college. You're getting babies that cannot drink at the hotel bar. They're like nineteen, he got sucked into the lifestyle, alcohol, hall, fame, guns, crowd. It's like, there's part of me. I know I'm a softie here, but they're right. Part of me is like, it's hard for young people when they get it's hard for fifty year olds. I mean, you've heard the term midlife crisis where a fifty year old guy starts driving a Maserati and cheating on his wife with some you know, young person. That happens to a fifty year old man. So if a nineteen year old kid gets the world served to him, some of these kids aren't ready for it. Emotionally, I wouldn't have been ready for I don't know if I would have. I'm not into guns, but I wouldn't have been ready for it. I'll just say the Job Morant image rehab team did a really nice job there. You know, he's got a big sponsorship with a certain Swoosh brand and if you look at the interview, very proud swoosh and the jacket and the jewelry tucked in, not flexing anything. Good job by them. They're gonna get him back on the court. And I'm rooting for job I know what I just said. He's one of the planet's greatest athletes. Yeah, I will say some of the sideline celebration that he's done and the Grizzlies talking a lot of trash Dellen Brooks, They're gonna have to dial that back. Leagues looking at them. They have a target on their back down Golden State, Dallas. The league is better when John Morants plunder. And the West, which is goofy anyway, needs Job Morant because Memphis is good. Yeah, people make mistakes. Young people make more when you heap a bunch of stuff. I just made a lot I made many. Oh God, the twenties, I'd like to just scratch it off and never Aren't you happy social media did not exist? Oh? I could never not again. I'm not a I'm not a gun guy, but I would. I would have been closing bars and doing stupid stuff. Yeah, and mistakes doing that when I was a sportscaster making nothing. You were doing that last week. Weren't you yet? Not a bar? I mean, it's I know. So I think I've gotten less judgment, well, especially to young people as of age, because I've I've seen it, I dealt with it. It's hard, you know. I used to be able. You could party and nobody knew about it. Now you're being gassed up all the time. You the man, You're great. You'd get that occasionally if you went out. Now you get it all day. You get the criticism, the love all day, and you you open your phone on your pocket. All these people alien models are like, let's hook up and eating guys, let's go out by jump on the private jet. It's a lot. It's a tough listen you, and I know it's tough to just say no. Sometimes you gotta just back and like thank you. But no thanks. It's hard, hard, all right. J Mack with the news. Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by The Herd lot. I always believe this. People without options always criticize people with options. It is easy to sit on your you know, at the podium and go, I can't believe you did this. This this When you're never offered beautiful women, cash, private jets parties, it's easy to say I can't believe you did that. John Morant was getting every offer DMed all day. He got sucked in it happens. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd week days and noon Eastern Empacific. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more about the stories about what made these people love their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories. You download it, you listen to it. I think you like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast. 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That means three bad quarterbacks and Derek Carr with a lousy defensive head coach lousy Dennis Allen to this point in his career. So here's the quarterbacks that Jordan Love would face. Justin Fields two times, Desmond Ritter, Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask, whoever Carolina drafts Kenny pick at Jimmy Garoppolo. That's eight right there. Not only that, Russell Wilson certainly beatable Kirk Cousins Jared Goff four times combined. Now let's just put down Mahomes as a loss, and Stafford if he's available, as a loss, and Justin Herbert it is the Chargers, but that's a loss. You could be fourteen and thirteen. I don't think you're gonna win all those games, but seven and a half is low. This idea green Bay is gonna capsize. Remember they're probably getting the Jets first round pick with Aaron Rodgers. There's a story today green Bay ain't moving until they get a first round pick, not multiple, but one, and I think that's incredibly fair. That would give them two first round picks in the middle of the first round. Yet, well, green Bay doesn't whiff on first round picks. They draft and develop top five in the NFL. Two first round picks for Green Bay. Those are two starters very quickly. So it's also much easier to navigate the NFC. And I'll give you an example of what the NFC is now. I'm not saying Jordan Love is forty five year old time Brady, but last year, at forty five, forty six years old, Brady with the worst run game in the league a defensive head coach, had multiple wins with a single touchdown pass. In fact, Brady won five games last year. This is with no run game with a passer rating under ninety. So if Jordan Love is an eighty seven eighty eight passer rating guy with a much better run game than Brady had and a much easier schedule, potentially he can't win eight games. Hell, they only won eight games with Aaron Rodgers last year. So this idea, there's this massive pressure to replace Aaron Rodgers. Aaron didn't make the playoffs. Aaron's been a postseason disappointment last three or four years, last three years. So it's not like you're you know, you're not replacing Mahomes or you know somebody Joe Burrow that leaves awake. You're replacing the guy the city was tired of the team's moved moving on from with a schedule with eight average quarterbacks. You know, Jimmy Garoppolo is better than average, but not a Ton Desmond Ritter, Justin Fields, Daniel Jones, Kyle Trash, Baker Mayfield a rookie, and Carolina Kenny Pickett. No, don't know, so I think the Jets at ten fields a little high. For me. I would bet the under on that they may hit ten, but I think it's it feels like an under seven and a half for green Bay. Does it not feel a little low? Well, I just looked at twenty twenty two and what did the Packers do last year? They had losses too. Are you ready for this? Taylor Heineke, Daniel Jones over in London and they lost at home to whoever the Jets had at quarterback. I believe it was Zach Wilson. So they're gonna be going down in quarterback from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love. The defense last year was a catastrophe. Okay, we know they were highly ready to going into the season. They had some injuries. Jaye Alexander played poorly, so I don't think you could automatically say like, this is a team that could win nine games, okay, but at eight they wouldn't make the playoffs? Is it? Don't you think it's a pretty good bet with the stability they have Jordan Love now year four with two first round starters, probably at least one a tight end or a receiver. Remember you say, well green Bay wasn't good last year. No, they were really good late. They weren't good early because Aaron didn't go to off off site or off season. They were a terrible team early. They were a very good team late. They were dangerous, right, yeah, very late. They beat Justin Fields at Soldier, they beat Baker Mayfield. Teams are gonna play this year at home. They played, they beat two in Miami and then they beat Kirk Cousins. Well again, so that's who they're playing next year. It's not like it's different. I'm just saying, do you think Kirk Cousins is going to go eleven and oh and one score games? There'll be some regression from Kirk Cousins, some some, but we I think we admit Lions are gonna be a problem. And it looks like the Lions did they sweet? Yeah, the Lions swept the Packers last year. So the big question is do you think they're going to do that back to back years. Listen, I'm telling you right now I like the Lions to win that division next year. And by the way, by the way, the Bears are spending like drunken sailors right now in free agency. They are not going to be the worst team in the league next year. They're gonna be a six or seven win team, and they're gonna be a problem fighting back. They got a lot more talent already. Colin a lot of linebackers, signed a bunch of linebackers. What's that receiver's name, Oh, dj Moore, that's right. We'll see if they can get the ball to him. Justin are you doubting Justin Field? Well, I'm sixty forty. I'm not eighty twenty. I'm sixty forty. He can play in this league as a starter. I'm not sixty forty. He's going to be a star. That to me is really low. Sixty forty. He's a franchise I'll just remind I know you know this, but when Jalen Hurts added AJ Brown, he went from like we don't know him, maybe he's a starter to potential MVP two at a Tyreek kill in mid season two. It was on track to be like an MVP Kennedy. You get these great receivers. DJ Moore's not grad, he's very good, and there's a chance Fields makes a big jump. I believe it's very possible. I do. And those are good examples that when you gave two and Hurts a star receiver, things change. And you even said, Josh Allen, I think he got Stephan Diggs right when they stole him from Minnesota, and all of a sudden, Josh Allen's numbers going through the roof. So I'm none of this. I'm denying. I'm just what I'm saying is seven and a half wins. What you're making it sound like is Green Bay in the NFC is gonna be a non factor's bad in a seventeen game schedule. You bet the under they're gonna go seven and ten in the NFC. That's a bad football team. That's a bad A seven and ten team in the NFC is not a seven and ten team in the AFC. Oh and you're taking away your great blocking receiver in Allen Zart, He's out the door. He's in the New York Football Jets uniform. Now. I love how we go back and fo I think I'm just I tend to believe that well run. You know. My rule has always been higher smart people. They'll figure it out. Green Bay's got a lot of smart people in that organization, Scouts, Regional Scouts, Guden Kounts, Mark Murphy. These are smart guys. They'll figure some stuff out. What they're making a bet on from all the video they've seen, the practices, Jordan Love can play. I trust smart guy is saying, we think he can play. That's what they said years ago with Aaron Rodgers who went to junior college and cow. They're like, this guy can play to people back in a second