FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to shocking Aaron Rodgers news ahead of the 2024 draft

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to shocking Aaron Rodgers news ahead of the 2024 draft

here to Blake Griffin number one pick
rookie of the year six time Allstar and
has Peak absolutely Electric Duncan on
kendan per one of the best game dunkers
ever yeah I’d say so um how are we going
to remember Blake Griffin here one of
the best game duners that’s how I
remember but I don’t think a Hall of
Famer oh well I but it a perfect world
correct in the current world is probably
first
ballot what we we we don’t have to name
wide open boys
wonderful flyball the short left oh Z de
Cruz bit of a slump at the plate but he
still makes weird and wonderful Mariners
win though there’s three games under 500
weird top of the ninth Cubs down one
Herer on second GLE with the wild pitch
Herer comes all the way around third
says you know what I’m just going to try
to score here Cubs win it in the 11th
they move to 10 and six wonderful
Orioles twins Cedric Mullins with the
grabbing Center just nice catch Orioles
win this one 7 and4 there in second
behind the Yankees and final wonderful
WNBA draft Caitlyn Clark goes number one
joins last year’s rookie of the yearly
of Boston on the Indiana Fever Brew your
expectations huge I expect her to go
there and get busy yeah I heard an WNBA
player say yesterday uh she’ll average
between 12 and 17 points I was like
really if she averages 13 points I’m
going to be severely disappointed I’m
looking at 19 game they don’t score
quite as much as seems in the WN but
yeah I’m I’m almost as disappointed as I
am for the Royals rting get snub what
what did every else do have oh I don’t
know we were basically tied for first in
the division passo standings what it’s
cool
place Griffin retirement speaking of
cool sorry let’s talk about the Jets
Jets started their voluntary offseason
workout with Rogers in attendance also
some fashion news the Jets uh debuted
some new uniforms oh oh that’ll fix it
yeah last year the team found way I
don’t understand I think it’s a shinier
hel the owner loves years ago they had
new unic the owner loves endorsing Trump
and rolling out New Jersey I click on
all these unicorn videos and it they
never do it for me uh uh last year they
won seven games this year Vegas has
their win total at N9 and a half do you
expect the Jets who underperform or
overperform I brew I bet I can convince
you under is the right answer oh go
ahead good luck full list of AFC teams
with a higher win total than the Jets
Kansas City
Baltimore Buffalo Cincy full list that’s
they have the same projected win total
as your beloved Houston Texans as your
beloved Green Bay Packers they have a
higher win total than the Rams they have
a two game higher win total than your
extra beloved Pittsburgh
Steelers so with those being the level
set do you think they’re going to over
or
underperform I’m in
I’m
in such a
bad how can you be in I’m looking
because I’m looking at the paper okay
I’m looking at the paper and saying
what’s not the light well I can sell you
several things really cuz they added
Tyron Smith’s future Hall of Fame
offensive tackle they added Mike
Williams Dynamic receiver when healthy
once all right Hassan reick to a defense
that already was third in the leag Total
Defense re yep well got points or yards
yards Total Defense but hold on you’re
going to give up a lot of points when
you got the worst quarterback play in
the league they and and and I know Nick
you’re not a fan of Robert Salah who I
happen to see in the airport on on the
way to Kansas City past weekend we
didn’t talk but I just saw him from afar
all right but seven and 10 the last two
years again with the worst quarterback
play in the league or right or arguably
you had I don’t know if Aaron’s going to
be closer to MVP Aaron or what we saw
the last year in Green Bay probably what
we saw last year in Green Bay but better
I expect them to be like good not
vintage Rogers but good and in the
division Nick we got to admit The
Division come on what’s Buffalo doing
the Miami and obviously the Patriots I
mean I I just think if they’re and I I
hate to even throw it in there if
they’re healthy you know that’s a caveat
yeah they going to be pretty good
playoff no you know my take is everybody
knows it Aaron Rogers is not a solid
quarterback anymore and that’s why Green
Bay moved that’s why Green Bay solid I
don’t know Green Bay moved on it said
it’s time to have give the keys to the
kingdom to Jordan love and Jordan love
was excellent and he has been thrown for
300 yards in 23 games and let me say one
other thing Brew cuz you think I’ll be
very quick here hubs that Russell Wilson
last year was much better than I think
he was right so what happened to Russell
that one year oh Nat Hackett was running
his offense and Nat hackett’s going to
be running this offense so even if
you’re saying Rogers is going to be the
level he was the last year in Green Bay
when they were barely 500 and he had a
down down down year by his standards
that same level of player going from
Matt laf fla Nat Hackett is going to be
worse so like there is an element of
does how much does coaching and
coordinating matter plus the injury plus
all the nonsense so no I I will bang
that under and I know you don’t gamble
but we might find a way to make that a
show bet or something because if you
want over 9 and a half you can have it
they’ be they could be 9 and8 they beat
Buffalo could they be n and8
Philadelphia 9 and8 you lose n JJ
Mahomes named one of times’s most
influential people of the year in a wide
ranging article momes talks about the
longevity needed to be considered an
alltime great but does know he’s off to
a pretty good start quote he’s now
entrenched in the goat conversation
Brady wanted his third Super Bowl MVP
when he was 37 years old we start
counting MVPs now I guess uh Montana was
33 Mahomes just 28 I’ve had at least one
of the top three starts to her career
says Mahomes I’ll put it that way solid
your reaction Nick well it’s
unquestioned the best first seven years
of any NFL player ever and by I’m do
when I say seven that includes the year
he didn’t play at all because it just be
fair to everybody uh and so it’s not top
three start to a career it’s even better
than Brady’s start to a career because
they are equal in MVP I’m sorry in Super
Bowl wins he’s the force and right and
right he’s got the MVPs he also has
another appearance but the other thing
that separates him and we’ll see how
long he can keep this going is unlike
any of the other all-time greats never
never a stumble never a down year never
a miss the playoffs never a you know for
pton Manning playoffs playoffs Aaron
Rogers first year as a starter Brady
second year as a starter all those guys
Montana had it like none of it and so he
we’ve never seen him bad in fact in his
worst year he ever had he won the Super
Bowl anyway and was great the entire
postseason so what I he’s 28 he’ll be 28
when next season starts
so I think he’s going to have his fourth
Super Bowl before he turns
30 could he have five before he’s 32 if
he’s 28 now is that a reasonable like
it’s not
stand put it this way quick and I’ll be
quick so you finish I can’t even fathom
him going a decade without winning the
Super Bowl and that’s not a shot at
Brady but I’m just saying can you even
fathom that and I know some people would
have said well we couldn’t fathom that
with Aaron right and Aaron went more
than that but the difference he’s
already proven right he’s already proven
that there’s the moment will never be
too big for him he’s proven he can play
through injury obviously because
football you know devastating injury can
throw things off and he is Miles better
than Brady was as a player at this point
of his career and so for all like no I
don’t think a drought is coming and no
matter what my pal Mike Florio tries to
stoke to the media Andy Reid’s not going
anywhere anytime soon and so for all
those reasons like I Patrick is being
humble and I appreciate that he’s had
the best start to a career ever and I
think I think right now in Vegas if you
set the you know odds like what does he
finish his career out Super Bowl wise
what do they said to that five and a
half they said at five and a half I
would hammer the over they said it at
six and A2 it’s a hard bet but that’s
but it’s but it’s not going to run into
some bad luck though you know you’re
going to get the but I feel six is a
really good number like he’ll win six
Super Bowls that’s a good number but go
ahead so when Josh Allen talks about the
Super Bowl we like pump the brakes even
when Joe burrow starts FLIR and when
Super Bowl we say pump the breaks and
Mahomes is always very careful to keep
the moment right in front of him but he
was talking about um how his wife sent
him home at 4:30 a.m. because they had
to go to Disneyland the next day and
then there was this my favorite
sentence Oh I saw this too next year’s
Super Bowl Mahomes points out is in New
Orleans quote so it’d be Disney World if
we go again so he’s already planning
that it’s a you know it’s a short flight
to Disney World once we win again also
on Fox hey hey but also because that’s
because he’s been if the if the Super
Bowl’s West Coast you go to Disneyland
the Super Bowl’s East Coast you go
Disney World and I I I don’t think
people should look at at Wilds as six
and a half they should look at it as
three and a half like Will Patrick MMS
get to Seven Super Bowls it’s will he
get four more yeah that you know what I
mean Will Will Patrick mes who’s 28
years old and has been in the final four
every year of his career and me in the
final Kelsey factor I got to see him
without Kelsey we’ve never seen it and
Kelsey does seem in don’t get me wrong
but I I got to see him without right but
the other and then but the other
question is can’t like how good is this
defense going to continue to be true