Patriots winning 10 games?

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00:00Patriots schedule. This is Randy from Providence. Randy, good morning.

00:05Hey, good morning, guys. How are you down there today?

00:08We're doing great. How are you?

00:10I'm good. I'm good. I'm excited with the schedule release last night.

00:14I think it looks like good news for the Patriots.

00:18Like, we already knew the opponents, right?

00:19So we already knew it was going to be the schedule, like the opponents that it was.

00:24But I think the two games that really caught my eye,

00:27the Raiders coming into New England in week one,

00:30like that's an early game at 1 p.m.

00:33And I was looking back through Ashton Gentry's history at Boise State.

00:36He only traveled to the East Coast Eastern time zone once in his college career.

00:42And that was for a 4 p.m. game.

00:44I mean, that can make a difference for West Coast kids and stuff, you know?

00:49So that's an offense we think is probably going to be running through the running back,

00:53running through him.

00:54And then the other game that really caught my eye was the Week 12 against the Bengals.

00:59Like, it's a little ways off.

01:01But hopefully, fingers crossed, we'd be coming off a home win against the Jets

01:06and have 10 days before that Bengals game.

01:09While the Bengals, on the other hand, are playing the Steelers the week beforehand,

01:13regardless of the quarterback situation.

01:15Those are always hard-fought games.

01:17And then, more importantly, they're playing the Ravens on Thanksgiving

01:20four days after the Patriots game.

01:22So they might be looking through the Patriots or at least think it's going to be

01:27the easiest of three games in an 11-day span.

01:30Yeah.

01:31And then the Patriots will have Trey Hendrickson to be able to go out there

01:35and get a bunch of passes against his former team.

01:38Well, as we speak, Elliott Wolfe is furiously working on that.

01:42Don't worry about it.

01:42And, Greg, I'm not going to overreact to a Bengals win again.

01:46So even if they win next year, I'm going to say, no big deal.

01:48Doesn't mean anything long-term.

01:49That'll be different.

01:51And then Aaron Rodgers coming to Gillette week three.

01:54Boss man pointed that one out with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

01:57Well, if he's going to be the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, yes.

02:03He will, though.

02:04He's got to sign either today or tomorrow to prove.

02:06No, he doesn't.

02:07Well, that's what everybody said.

02:09They said he was waiting for the schedule release.

02:11He doesn't.

02:11If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, honestly, and you're a playoff team, they were a playoff

02:16team last year, and they were a playoff team with Russell Wilson and a mix of Justin Fields.

02:23You're sitting there.

02:24You just, you know, went out and got DK Metcalf.

02:27You're a team that's, you know, Mike Tomlin is trying to get over the hump.

02:32And you've kind of had this relationship with Rodgers.

02:35There's no way you decide to go, all right, we're a playoff team, but we're going to go

02:39with Mason Rudolph and Will Howard.

02:41Okay, so just explain to me what he is waiting for.

02:44He has one, he only has one offer, one legitimate place that is interested, where he's going to

02:52be a starter.

02:53Yeah, I think maybe he's waiting for the very, right up until training camp starts to show

02:58up, you know.

02:59Why?

03:00I have no idea.

03:01Because he's a narcissist.

03:03Oh, he probably wants more money.

03:06Aaron Rodgers.

03:07But he already came out.

03:08He screwed himself.

03:09He came out and said he'd take $10 million.

03:11So if I'm the Steelers, I'm like, all right, we'll offer you $10 million.

03:14And if you don't take it, then I would be done with him.

03:16That was before the draft.

03:18If you're the Steelers, where are you going?

03:20I don't know.

03:21I mean, if you're the Steelers.

03:24Yeah.

03:25Sean, be honest.

03:26Where are you going if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers?

03:29Mike Tomlin won, what, nine games just a couple seasons ago with Duck Hodges and Mason

03:33Rudolph.

03:34Like, he can do it again.

03:35He doesn't care.

03:36I would bet double or nothing tattoos on my head that Aaron Rodgers is the starting quarterback

03:41of the Steelers.

03:42Yeah.

03:42No, I mean, I think it's going to happen.

03:44But I just, I think that this holding out is just a problem.

03:47He probably wants more money, right?

03:48He knows now.

03:49He's coming off an Achilles and he's like 80 years old.

03:52What are we talking about?

03:53More money.

03:54He had the Achilles two years ago.

03:55But he knows.

03:56He has all the leverage over the Steelers.

03:58Who are they going to have as they're starting?

03:59And if you say Mason Rudolph, that gives Aaron Rodgers another $3 million.

04:03Right.

04:03So, and you're not, you know, Will Howard was the six-round pick, the kid from Ohio State.

04:08So, you know, he's just basically, they took a flyer on him.

04:11You're a playoff team.

04:12If the Steelers weren't very good last year, then I would be like, okay, they don't have

04:16no expectations.

04:17Don't you think that Pittsburgh Steelers team has expectations about making the postseason?

04:21And granted, I know that Rodgers didn't have a great season last year, but you got to

04:27be, if I'm the Steelers organization, I'm like, all right, maybe he has one more shot

04:32left in him.

04:33Why wouldn't we do that?

04:35So, what do you think?

04:36What is your guess at the number he is holding out for?

04:40I bet he wants probably like, what did Russell Wilson get?

04:4320 million?

04:43I bet he wants like 20 million.

04:45I bet that's what he's looking for.

04:47You know, I bet he's looking for somewhere 20 million.

04:50I know he said the 10 M's things, Courtney, and that's probably before the draft.

04:55And now that he's seen that Pittsburgh didn't do anything, he's probably like, well, wait

04:59a second.

04:59Yeah, I know I said 10 M's, but I really want 20.

05:02And Pittsburgh, they got to make the decision.

05:04I think it would be stupid for them not to go after Rodgers and give him that money because

05:08if he does have one more kick at the can in him, you'd put yourself in a good position.

05:14And the people saying in here, like this diva talk about Rodgers, he said he had personal

05:19stuff going on while he was on Pat McAfee.

05:21Yeah, he talked about how he has like a significant other now.

05:24And he talked about how he had to reevaluate his inner circle because somebody was leaking

05:29out stories.

05:30Like the, there's too many, there's too much smoke that there's not fire that Aaron Rodgers

05:36is a diva.

05:36And that's why he's holding out.

05:37Like, I'm sorry.

05:38I don't buy the personal issue narrative when we're having Mike Florio saying he's heard

05:44from multiple sources that Aaron Rodgers is holding out because he didn't want the Steelers

05:48to get primetime games.

05:50Yeah, we know that side, but we know Rodgers is a diva.

05:53I'm just, I'm looking at it from the Pittsburgh Steelers side of things, the organization.

05:58That's where I'm looking at it.

05:59And then I'm looking at it, like if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I know that, okay, I'm a much better

06:06player than Mason Rudolph.

06:08So that's kind of where I see him probably trying to figure out, all right, I'm going

06:12to hold out until I get the money that I know I can get from Pittsburgh.

06:16And Pittsburgh's probably trying, they're both playing chicken with each other right

06:19now to see, you know, who's going to be able to either get more money or save more money.

06:26Also, I'm feeling spicy, like people on Twitch, he's not coming off an Achilles, he played

06:29last year, he stunk last season.

06:30So yeah, he's still coming back from an Achilles at 70 years old.

06:33Sorry.

06:34Yeah, he did stink last year.

06:35Like people, it was two years ago, not last year.

06:37Yep, I'm aware.

06:38Also, the age shaming is not necessary.

06:41I mean, he's old.

06:43He's 41.

06:44Many of us thrive into our elder years.

06:47Not as a professional football player.

06:50Right.

06:50Wiggy thrived last night.

06:51Greg, I would add this, I don't think Rodgers is going to be successful in Pittsburgh at

06:58all.

06:58Like, you have to be psychotic at that age to be in shape, learning a new offense, working

07:06with your team.

07:07You have to be obsessed with winning.

07:10And Aaron Rodgers is a guy that shows me every year, as long as he can find someone to blame,

07:16he'll back off.

07:17And, like, it's not, we all got spoiled by Brady at 41, 2, 3, 4, 5.

07:25Like, that is the exception.

07:26That is the anomaly.

07:27We saw it with Aaron Rodgers last year when he thought he could just come back and join

07:31the Jets and be fine.

07:33Like, you have to be absolutely insane.

07:36And Aaron Rodgers may be insane, just not football-wise.

07:39Well, I think Mike Tomlin is going to get sick of the Pat McAfee stuff pretty quick, too.

07:44Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.

07:45I think that Mike Tomlin, and I kind of agree with Curtis, I'm not saying that Aaron Rodgers

07:50is going to be good if he gets to Pittsburgh.

07:52I'm just looking at it, who's the best available quarterback out there for a playoff contender.

07:59And if Aaron Rodgers didn't want to play, he would have told everybody he's retiring.

08:05Right?

08:05So we know he wants to play.

08:07Yeah, but he has one opportunity.

08:10Right.

08:10And it's just, it's douchey when you know where you're going and you know that you're the

08:16option that they want.

08:17Right.

08:18Like, just...

08:19But it's a money thing, Greg.

08:21It's a money...

08:22In my opinion, it's a money thing.

08:24Don't give up the leverage when you have it until they give you close to what you want.

08:30Yeah, I feel like also maybe what's creating some more time here for Rodgers before his

08:35decision is that the Saints need a quarterback.

08:37So maybe he's trying to leverage the Saints against the Steelers to get more money.

08:41Because of Derek Carr's retirement.

08:43He's...

08:43Derek Carr's retiring, and they took that scrab beans.

08:46What's his name, Tyler?

08:47Tyler Shuck.

08:48Oh, so, you know, I just, I, based on what we know about Aaron Rodgers, isn't it safe

08:55to say, everybody, that he wants to play this year?

08:59Um, I would assume, I don't think he wants you to know that, but yes, I would assume that

09:03that's, that's his intention.

09:05Right.

09:05And I think if, if we know that he wants to play, and we know Pittsburgh needs a quarterback,

09:11a veteran quarterback, at least, it just...

09:14He's the kind of guy who wants a Derek Jeter farewell tour.

09:19Like, he's the kind of guy who wants everybody to know.

09:22So he will probably tell you.

09:24Right, like, this is my last year.

09:25He will tell you heading into it that it's his last season.

09:28Right, and I think that's probably what he's doing.

09:30Setting himself up right before training camp start.

09:33Like, you know, what's going on with Aaron Rodgers?

09:35Then boom, Greg, you're right.

09:36You know what?

09:37I'm going out.

09:38This is my last year.

09:39I agree with Pittsburgh.

09:40I think that we have a great team, blah, blah, blah.

09:43But it's not going to work with Mike Tomlin if he thinks he's going down there and telling

09:47Mike Tomlin what to do.

09:48No, I know.

09:49I don't think, yeah.

09:50But I don't know if he, maybe he goes into it initially and who knows how, how true it

09:56is.

09:56Like, he'll tell us like, oh, he respects Mike Tomlin.

09:59So maybe initially he has some respect for him.

10:02And the offensive coordinator down there, I believe is Arthur Smith.

10:06And I'm not sure if there's been a relationship or maybe there's some respect level there.

10:10But that's what he'll tell us in the beginning.

10:12And you'll believe it with Mike Tomlin because don't you feel like Mike Tomlin could at least

10:16get Aaron Rodgers to kind of buy in for the first four weeks of the season?

10:20But think about it.

10:20Mike Tomlin got annoyed when Juju Smith-Schuster was like doing TikToks in the locker room.

10:25Like, I think that Aaron Rodgers is going to make Mike Tomlin want to pull his hair

10:29out.

10:29Yeah.

10:30I think the other thing though, like, I know that the Steelers front office and ownership

10:34is firmly behind Tomlin and they should be.

10:37Ken is connected in that area.

10:39You know, he talks to me often about how the fans there are tired of Tomlin somehow.

10:44Like, they legitimately, there is a pressure on Tomlin to win that we may not see outside

10:49of Pittsburgh, especially when you hear guys like Derek Cullen.

10:53He needs Rodgers or a good quarterback almost as much as Rodgers needs them right now.

10:59First time I've ever heard Ken and Connected used in the same sentence.

11:02Yeah.

11:03That is a great point though.

11:04When you think of Tomlin down there, don't they, I bet you Steelers fans, and I know

11:09we talked to Derek, the Steelers fans, but they probably view Tomlin as being overrated,

11:15having all this, you know, talent and only being able to win.

11:20Aren't they one of the teams that haven't won a playoff game in some ridiculous amount

11:26of time, but they're all, it seems like they're always in a playoffs.

11:28Yeah, they've been, it's several years.

11:31Right.

11:31So I don't, I bet, well he does.

11:33He always, almost always makes the playoffs.

11:36I mean, right.

11:36They always have winning seasons, but they never get over that hump.

11:41And I think Steelers fans are like, yeah, you got us one Super Bowl.

11:44What have you done for us lately?

11:46The Steelers last playoff win came in the AFC divisional round of the 2016 season before

11:53they came to Foxborough and lost to the Patriots in the AFC title game in the Super Bowl 51

11:58Falcons-Patriots year.

12:00So they have not won a playoff game.

12:01Nine years.

12:02Holy guacamole.

12:04Yeah.

12:04That's a long time.

12:06Well, the Aaron Rodgers watch, I guess, will continue.

12:08We'll continue.

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