Florio: Jets handled Aaron Rodgers’ absence ‘extremely poorly’ | Dan Patrick Show | NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio joins the Dan Patrick Show to discuss Aaron Rodgers’ unexcused absence at New York Jets minicamp, the new criteria for NFL Comeback Player of the Year and more. #NBCSports #DanPatrickShow #NFL
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uh John caliper Arkansas head coach will stop by as well so has Mike Florio from pro football talk live co-host and NBC football night in America you can find Mike and uh Chris Sims on peacock it’s the show that precedes ours Monday through Friday Mike thanks for joining us and of course this is the biggest story in my opinion this week the comeback Player of the Year award has been sort of redefined or re-emphasized now we will never have to worry about about a pesky story like Joe flacko with what he did because he didn’t come back from anything other than not being any good so what is the NFL doing that I know they wanted Demar Hamlin to be the comeback player of the year because he came back from dead but uh why are they doing this well this has been lingering for a while and it actually started when Gino Smith won it Dan in the 2022 season coming back from sucking and that goes back to Ryan tanah Hill frankly in 2019 after his time with the dolphins and he wasn’t very good he gets traded he replaces Marcus Mariota he plays well he’s the comeback player of the year there’s never been any guidance for the voters on what comeback Player of the Year means so they’ve been trying to make it more clear that you’re coming back from something that caused you to mtime the prior season now it’s still not hard and fast rule it’s going to be determined on a case-by casee basis I’ve come up with various questions that I’ve been peppering the AP with like what about this what about this how about this how about that and it again they’re not going to reject ballots for example if Aaron Rogers had come back last year during the season after tearing the Achilles week one comes back and plays and vaults the Jets to the playoffs under this new characterization he wouldn’t be eligible because it speaks to injury or illness the prior year so there’s still some stuff that’s got to get worked out the goal is come back from injury or illness and they need to have and they’ve tried to do this a separate category of most improved player then you have an award coming back from sucking and coming back from injury or illness You’ got two separate Awards why not just do that Aaron Rogers can’t be comeback Player of the Year this upcoming season if he’s great no this year yes this year yes because he missed almost all of last year okay my point is if he’d come back last year and played the last five games which is all Joe Flaco did and had taken the Jets to the playoffs after suffering the Torn To Kill he’s T and remember there was that talk is he coming back is he coming back maybe I’m coming back if he had under this standard he wouldn’t have been eligible but I’m told they’re going to look at it All Case by case so we’ll see how it plays out we’ll see how it goes I like this is a big deal you know well I I think it is for the people who bet on it it definitely is and there were some people you know Jake Croucher with NBC Jake Croucher had a lot of money on Demar Hamlin winning comeback Player of the Year and when that didn’t happen there’s a lot of people that bought those tickets where it looked like a no-brainer it’s the big it was the biggest sure thing ex exactly he came back from the dead Mike I know but the problem is he played like 17 snaps on defense all year and I think that’s what kept Him winning Mike he came back from dead to 17 snaps yes maybe he should have won it in 2023 or 22 the year that it actually happened I don’t know I mean because he he lived it was week 17 he lived after that you could argue he should have been the comeback player of the year that why don’t you name the reward after him Mike I think even though his case didn’t cause this I think it accelerated it and cemented it and ensured that the AP was going to make it clear for the first time we do have guidance on what it means to be the comeback Player of the Year thank goodness by the way what is the news with Aaron roggers a lot of these shows and I know it’s it’s it’s got to be clickbait that their metrics will tell them talk about Aaron Rogers is there anything that fans should really be aware of concerned of with Aaron Rogers hey Dan some of us are still trying to make money oh my bad at least you admit it Mike at least you admit it that it’s clickbait come on I can’t I can’t do it but I we’re not We’re Not Gonna force feed vegetables when they want cookies they want cookies they get cookies baby look here’s here’s the the thing that was my big takeaway two things one I think the Jets handled this whole thing extremely poorly just excuse the guy’s absence from mandatory mini camp or do the mandatory mini camp the prior week and make last week a couple of days of voluntary OTAs then it’s no big deal this was a strategic and PR blunder by the Jets to call it an unexcused absence secondly from Roger perspective hey don’t schedule your trip to wherever the hell you went in the middle of June you’ve been doing this 20 years you know when mandatory miniamp is quite possibly to be and when he gets in front of microphones and cameras and he wags his finger in January about how next year it’s got to be all about winning not some of the time not most of the time all the time we got to get the BS out of the building that has nothing to do with winning oh you know what I might run for vice president and ghost the Jets and I’m gonna go on all these different podcasts and spew these crazy ass conspiracy theories but that doesn’t count because it didn’t happen in the building he’s very good at crafting a standard and not applying to himself some would say he’s perfectly suited to going to politics which I think is inevitable so that’s the other side of it too he comes off as hypocritical by not being there because of what he said in January how would it go if you met Aaron Rogers you you not well for me not well for me I can’t wait to turn 60 Dan I’ve done some research Most states have laws that protect us once we reach 60 so if someone hits us they get slapped with elder abuse charges so I’m gonna be even more of an ass I think you’re due for an ass kicking though Mike I’m gonna be more of an ass when I turn 60 but yeah I I would love I think that Aaron Rogers and I have some things in common I’d like to think I could maybe get through to him and we could have a real debate but that’s the thing he never wants to talk to anybody who might disagree with him he goes on all these safe space podcasts and says all this crazy stuff and the hosts never say dude you got you got to maybe try decaf or you know maybe read a different book or everything isn’t a conspiracy I I I love a good conspiracy theory I love one not a thousand of them it can’t be that everything is the product of some massive government conspiracy anyway he’s my yeah can you set it up can you broker it sure we can do it Milford I’ll come up get him there I’ll be there and he’s not far away Mike Florio pro football talk live co-host is there anything to this Chiefs Kansas City Miss situation well this is great for the Chiefs Chiefs and Royals win no matter what because you’ve got voters in Jackson County Missouri who have said no way no how we’re not going to extend to sales taac to renovate Arrowhead and build a new stadium for the Royals so fine what do you do we’re going to keep our options open well they’re not going to relocate you just have to go across the border this is perfect this is the great option for any team that’s trying to get taxpayer money you get two states that are right on the state line and all you got to do is slide across to the other side and you get what you’re looking for so Kansas passes the House of Representatives passes a measure to pay for new stadiums for both teams the Senate’s got to act on it but they’re moving quickly special session off they go Chiefs have a lease through 2030 Nothing Stops them from striking a deal with Kansas but I assume Missouri is going to try to come up with something and whatever it is Chiefs it’s great you have two suitors they’re going to bid and bid and bid and bid you just sit back and wait for the best offer and you pick one or the other this is great for the Chiefs they don’t have to threaten to move they’re going to get what they want either from Kansas or Missouri what does it mean to the fans with this lawsuit the NFL is fighting right now well it potentially means that the way NFL games are made available out of Market games games that aren’t just served up on Sunday afternoon by your local CBS or Fox affiliate that will be revolutionized it will be cheaper you might be able to buy it one team at a time if you want the Sunday ticket package not the whole thing for the whole season I’ve always thought something seemed off about Sunday Ticket they Market it as hey if you’re a Packers fan living in Pittsburgh you can watch all the Packers game well yeah you also can watch all the others because you have to buy all the others you got to buy the whole damn thing every week for every team it’s always seemed wrong to me so if this results in a loss for the NFL you’ve got the potential for a major payment that’s going to be made to millions of class members but the NFL is going to have to change its ways to avoid future liability so that’s the and I know the NFL probably not probably definitely doesn’t want me to say this but all fans should be rooting for the NFL to lose this because then true choice at an affordable price likely will happen for fans who want to watch out of Market games but we’re talking about Alec cart yeah okay and I mean ESPN was willing to according to evidence that came out in this trial so far pay or charged $70 for the whole package when the Sunday Ticket was up for bid a couple of years ago $70 for the whole year plus a per team option and there’s a document where the NFL makes it clear they don’t like that because the whole argument is the NFL is fixing the price of Sunday Ticket at a level that is high enough that a lot of people won’t get it and they’ll just watch whatever games are available to them in their local market so if you knock that out and you let ES PN YouTube Direct TV Apple whoever say we’re going to maximize the subscribers to this thing we’re going to give it away Apple there was a report at one point was going to give it as part of their current Apple TV plus package at no additional cost so you could get a lot more people and a lot more choice for the consumer if you don’t want to watch whatever happens to be on your local CBS station at one o’clock Eastern on a Sunday before I let you go this Brandon iuk situation he keeps saying they don’t want him in San Francisco San Francisco says they want him I know that there was talk of Debo Samuel and Brandon iuk maybe one of the two being traded uh so does this just is this just negotiations here well I think the 49ers really want to hold the band together for one more year and that includes Brandon iuk at 14.1 million in the fifth year option of his contract from 2020 they definitely want him for 141 the question is how much do they want to pay him and I think Dan as we see the receiver Market kind of start to look like the running back Market where there’s so many great receivers coming out every year you have to ask yourself which guys are going to get thee we’re not paying you 30 million a year response from their team look at what Malik neighbors the six overall pick in the draft taken by the Giants he’s getting 29 million for four years total so if you can go get great young receiver get him under a cheap contract then you might say no to a Brandon iuk only the best of the best are going to get top of the market and I think Brandon iuk fall in this no man’s land and hey Dan if there was somebody else that was willing to pay him what he wants he would have been traded before the draft and now I think he’s just trying to agitate for something because he knows the 49ers aren’t going to give him what he wants and Trevor Lawrence’s deal I know Dak Prescott is just saying all right that’s you know let’s let the cash register go up even higher here how does this play out is Jerry Jones going to be make a a a good business decision when it comes to Dak Prescott for a change well for a change Chang his key because they waited too long to get him signed to his second contract after his third season when the window opened they made him play out his rookie deal at like two or three million do which was laughable then they tagged him for a year and then they realized when they were tagging him the second time we’re kind of screwed here because he’s one year away from doing the Kirk Cousins thing where he’s going to walk away because we would have to give him an exorbitant amount to tag him a third time so they were forced to do a contract that put them in the position they’re now and Dan they’ve got a $55 million cap charge for Prescott this year and if he leaves after this year they have a54 million cap charge next year even if he’s not on the team their only way to engineer that and get those numbers down is to extend his deal that’s where his leverage comes from what Trevor Lawrence gets what Jared gof got what Tu aanga baoa might get it doesn’t matter okay Jack has everything in his favor and the Cowboys have painted themselves into a corner that they aren’t willing to to find a way out of that 18 game schedule is just it’s lingering and it feels like the NFL puts it out to get kind of Rea well you know how this works it’s like let’s let people talk about it and then you can ask the commissioner and go well you know we’re taking everything into consideration here how real is 18 games I think it happens at the latest with the next CBA because when push comes to shove Dan the owners will say we want 18 games and if we don’t get 18 games we’ll lock you out until you agree to 18 games and the players as we know from 2011 before that 1987 with the failed strike they will not go A Year Without football the owners will because they already got their luxury yachts and their billions stashed away here or there not I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with that I’m just saying they can go without it for a year you’re a football player you’ve got a finite number of years you can play we have seen time and again they will not shut down the sport for a year so that’s the latest that’s going to happen they will cry uncle when it’s time for the next CBA I think the league is currently trying to figure out is there a way to go to them now and get them to agree to 18 games before the CBA expires because I think Dan what the NFL is looking at when you consider what the NBA got on its new TV deals yes the current NFL deals go through 2033 the league has the right to pull the plug after 2029 on all of them and I guarantee you they’re going to pull the plug because it’s not going to be any worse than what’s currently due to be paid to the NFL under the media deals and if you can go to the table with NBC CBS FOX ABC Etc with 18 game regular season you get even more great stuff Mike as always thanks for joining us thanks Dan see buddy that’s Mike Florio pro football talk live you can uh watch it Monday through Friday it’s the show that precedes ours