Best of NFL News Part 2: EXIT STRATEGY for A.J. Brown after the Eagles make moves to REPLACE him, Aaron Rodgers playing games?

Summary

Club Shay Shay – Best of NFL News Part 2: EXIT STRATEGY for A.J. Brown after the Eagles Make Moves to REPLACE Him, Aaron Rodgers Playing Games?

Date: April 14, 2026
Host: Shannon Sharpe with co-hosts and former NFL analysts

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Episode Overview

This episode spotlights the turbulence in the NFL offseason with a dual focus: the developing exit scenario for A.J. Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles, and Aaron Rodgers’ ambiguous status with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shannon Sharpe and his co-hosts use real talk, humor, and personal experience to break down player mindsets, teams' strategic decisions, and what these moves signal for the future of the league and its stars. The episode also features a compelling interview with NFL draft prospect Colton Hood, who shares his journey, influences, and aspirations.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

[00:34-15:53] Colton Hood Interview: From College Standout to NFL Prospect

• Life Lessons and Adaptability
  • Colton Hood discusses moving from Auburn to Colorado to Tennessee, focusing on the value of "being where your feet are" and adapting to new teams and people.

    “Just learning to be where my feet are and be able to gel with new people. … I feel like I can take that into an NFL locker room, be myself, and gel with my teammates.” — Colton Hood [01:11]

• NFL Influences and Family Ties
  • Grew up with uncle Rod Hood (NFL vet, former Patrick Peterson trainer), modeled his game on Peterson’s patience and ball skills.
  • Press man coverage and physicality is his calling card.

    “I want to dictate to the receiver, make them do what I want them to do. … My press man ability would definitely be my biggest strength.” — Colton Hood [03:10]

• Coach Prime’s Influence
  • Emphasizes the leap in film study under Deion Sanders—“Coach Prime”—and how intentional, focused film watching turns "good" into "great."

    “The intent that he taught it to us, how to watch [film], I think, could definitely take somebody’s game from being good to being great.” — Colton Hood [05:03]

• Testing and Athleticism
  • Dispelled doubts about his speed and explosiveness with strong combine numbers: 4.4 forty, 40.5” vertical, 10.5’ broad jump.
• Multi-sport Background
  • Played football, baseball, basketball, and track in high school.
• Georgia Roots and Motivation
  • Grew up in Georgia, attended Eagles Landing Christian.
  • Family is his biggest motivation—parents’ sacrifices, setting an example for his seven siblings, and honoring his oldest brother (injured, lost chance at NFL).

    “My family… my dad would wake me up early to run hills, my mom worked hard as a doctor… I want to make life easier for them.” — Colton Hood [10:26]

• Vision Boards and Goal Setting
  • Started writing long-term goals at age 8 per his father’s guidance, with vision boards for 5/10/15/20-year plans.

    “Every day I woke up I’d see it…. It was a big poster board on my wall.” — Colton Hood [12:39]

• Spending Attitude
  • Plans to be modest with his first paycheck, but jokes about wanting a Bugatti eventually.

Notable Banter & Quotes

• Discussion of who was the better trash talker, crossing paths in Atlanta, and lining up for drills:

  “I’m putting them hands on his chest. That’s what I do.” — Colton Hood [08:45] “I got my uniform at the dry cleaners every Sunday with a crease in it for a reason.” — Former NFL Player/Analyst [08:52]

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[17:24-26:27] Aaron Rodgers and the Quarterback Succession Dilemma in Pittsburgh

• Steelers in Limbo
  • Team expects Rodgers’ decision before the draft; uncertainty lingers. Running back Jalen Warren won’t speculate.
  • Hosts debate the Steelers’ lack of a succession plan, noting Rodgers’ age (42) and the power elite QBs wield over franchises.
• Quarterback Privilege
  • Rodgers criticized for “playing games,” but it’s seen as intrinsic to the privileged position of top QBs.

    “He can pull the shenanigans… You know you coming back. Why even play this game?” — Former NFL Player/Analyst [18:44]

  • Teams' reluctance to antagonize star QBs leads to “quarterback purgatory”—delaying tough decisions until it’s too late.
• Drafting the Future
  • Sharpe insists the Steelers must invest in a successor soon, even if it angers Rodgers:

    “Within the first three rounds, we’re going to take a quarterback. Boom. That’s it.” — Shannon Sharpe [22:56]

  • Comparison to Green Bay’s succession planning (Favre → Rodgers → Jordan Love) and the consequences for teams that don’t plan ahead (Miami, post-Marino).
• Rookie Quarterback Struggles
  • Hosts argue that the modern rush to start rookie QBs under immense financial and performance pressure is harming player development.

    “They just think guys are supposed to come in… you are our future… But have you set me up for success?” — Shannon Sharpe [29:58]

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[32:45-39:30] A.J. Brown’s Imminent Exit: The Eagles’ Wide Receiver Shakeup

• Trade Signals and Locker Room Dynamics
  • Eagles trade draft picks for WR Dontayvion Wicks and reportedly extend him. Move signals prelude to A.J. Brown’s departure.

    “The writing is on the wall. I mean, it’s been that way.” — Former NFL Player/Analyst [33:14]

• Front Office Autonomy
  • Teams operate independently of media and even player pressure; only GMs/owners move the needle.

    “You really think anyone outside [the building] has influence on their decision making? … Nah.” — Former NFL Player/Analyst [33:57]

• A.J. Brown’s Frustration
  • Persistent frustration—two seasons running—over inconsistent targets and role within the offense, even after a Super Bowl win.

    “All these great guys, coordinators can find ways… Here, we haven’t consistently found a way to get me the ball.” — Shannon Sharpe [34:53]

  • Owner Jeffrey Lurie personally intervened to address Brown’s concerns, agreeing to “try to make the best of the situation… then make a decision after the year.” [36:24]
• Anticipated Divorce
  • Both sides expected to pursue a split post-June 1 for financial reasons; New England identified as a top potential landing spot (connection with Mike Vrabel).

    “It's okay, there are irreconcilable differences and we choose to part on amicable terms.” — Shannon Sharpe [37:53]

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[39:30-End] Locker Room Banter & Off-Field Real Talk

• Transition to Life and Career Reflections
  • Shifting into more personal territory, the crew reminisces about high school, college days, and the difference between NBA and NFL player lifestyles.
  • Nostalgia about simpler times—before social media, caller ID stories, “vision boards,” and how young athletes today navigate a world of exposure and pressures the previous generation never faced.

    “Ain’t no way I could have survived with social media now in high school...” — Shannon Sharpe [49:32]

• Humor & Locker Room Culture
  • Lighthearted debate about dating and relationships after sports stardom, hometown rivalries, and tongue-in-cheek stories about players, girls, and memories of "who was fine" back in the day.
  • The tone is playful, reflective, and candid—delivering the “barbershop talk” energy that defines Club Shay Shay.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “If you’re a DB and you run at full speed nine times out of ten, you beat.” – Colton Hood [05:58]
• “You can't let the name dictate how you play... You gotta believe.” – Host/Analyst [09:23]
• “Teams are in quarterback purgatory... pinning all your hopes on a 42-year-old.” – Shannon Sharpe [25:53]
• “Quarterbacks have a privilege ... the point of being a leader is not taking advantage of the privilege you’ve been given.” – Shannon Sharpe [24:58]
• "You really think anyone outside [the building] has influence on their decision making? … Nah." – Former NFL Player/Analyst [33:57]
• “It's okay, there are irreconcilable differences and we choose to part on amicable terms.” — Shannon Sharpe [37:53]
• “All you did was delay it… put a little donut on … and you see people drive around two, three weeks on that tire … that was a temporary fix.” — Shannon Sharpe [21:00]

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Conclusion: Takeaways

• A.J. Brown Situation: The Eagles’ moves and Brown’s continued frustration forecast an inevitable split, amplifying the ongoing challenge of supporting star receivers in modern offenses.
• Steelers & Aaron Rodgers: Pittsburgh’s waffling on a succession plan exposes the pitfalls of QB dependency and organizational fear—underscoring the rarity (and luck) of seamless transitions like Green Bay’s.
• Player Insights: Colton Hood’s journey typifies the current generation of NFL prospects: multi-sport, family-driven, media-savvy, and molded by elite coaching.
• Culture & Realism: Club Shay Shay offers a mix of football intelligence and raw authenticity, pulling no punches about how the league really operates, what motivates players, and how “the game” extends far beyond the field.

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For listeners:
This episode is packed with layered analysis, inside stories, and candor that goes beyond box scores—delivering both the NFL’s business realities and the locker room spirit in equal measure.

Transcript

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[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

What's up? Why?

[Host / Analyst]

Where you at?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I'm in, I'm in Kansas City right now.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, okay.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Okay. Yeah. What's up? What's going on?

[Host / Analyst]

All right, we got a time to welcome our very special guest. He's a cornerback at the University of Tennessee, a 20, 25 second team all SEC pick, a projected first round pick, Colton Hood.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Colt, how you doing, bro?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

No, me, I'm living.

[Host / Analyst]

So, man, thanks for joining us.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

What's going on?

[Host / Analyst]

From Alabama, from Auburn to Colorado to Tennessee, what did you learn at each stop along the way that prepared you for this moment?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I would say just, you know, just how to be where your feet are, you know what I'm saying? Each, each spot was, you know, different in their own ways. But just learning to be where my feet are and just, you know, be able to jail with new people at each spot, you know, definitely taught me that. And, you know, I feel like I can take that, you know, into an NFL locker room, you know, being able to go in there, be myself, you know what I'm saying? And be able to gel with my teammates. So,

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

hey, speaking of NFL locker room, what does the process been like? Obviously the schools that you've been at and in, learning from different coaches, learning from different players, getting insight, watching NFL players that you might mold your game after. What has the process been like so far?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I would say it's been like a dream come true. You know, like as a little kid you dream of, you know, being in this position. So it's been a dream come true. Being able to, you know, go to the different, different teams and see all, see all the different places. So it's been a dream come true. And, you know, I'm definitely excited for draft night for sure.

[Host / Analyst]

T. Hood, what's going on, man?

[Co-host / Analyst]

Tell me a little something about your game. Tell me about yourself. Who you model your game after guys you enjoy watching, you know, as you was growing up. Tell me a little.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, so, you know, my uncle played in the league. His name, Rod Hood. He played nine seasons, and we got done. He was Patrick Peterson's personal trainer. So, you know, I got to grow up. Grow up watching him a lot around him, even seeing, like, a lot of his, you know, all 22 stuff. So Pat Pederson is really big one. Someone I looked up to, try to model my game after, you know, his patience at press, you know, his ball tracking ability, returnability as well, you know what I'm saying? So definitely that.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Okay, that's what's up.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, when it comes. I want to just ask. I'm. I'm a huge fan of DB play, even though obviously I play receiver. But if you had to talk about your best asset, your best attribute, your best strength when it comes to playing defensive back, what would it be? Man to man, off ball skills, technique?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I mean, yeah, I would definitely say, like, my technique. And when I'm playing man to man, you know, a lot. You see a lot of guys backing up when they're pressing, you know, allowing the receiver to dictate to them. I'm kind of like the opposite. You know, I want to dictate to what. To the receiver. You know what I'm saying? Make them do what I want them to do. You know what I'm saying? That type of thing. So I say definitely my press man ability would definitely be, I'll say, my biggest strength. So, yeah, I remember seeing you. I remember seeing you up at Colorado a couple. Couple times. You know what I'm saying? And we gotta line it up, bro. I'll be seeing you talking.

[Host / Analyst]

That's what I'm talking about. Hold on. Hey, hey, hey.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Good.

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[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Let me say. Hey, I think Monica, who got that song?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Aj.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

But Ain't nothing but a number.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Aaliyah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Aaliyah. Okay, Aaliyah. But listen to see who. Let me tell you something real quick, right before you get drafted, if you want to get some work in. My feet didn't age.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I did.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

So if you want some of this work, we can go, Hey, this ain't what you want.

[Host / Analyst]

Hey, play that song. Welcome to. Yeah. So you. You leave the sec, you go to Colorado, and then you return to the. You return to Tennessee, back to the SEC and your time with the Colorado and Coach Prime. What? Because that's what Coach Crime was the best DB to ever play the Game. And so I'm sure that you. You took something. What. What. What did Coach prime teach you about how to play this position? Obviously, it's like, look, the thing that you can't do with a corner, and we see a lot of corners. Nocho and I was talking about this, is that they panic. That's the thing. And you get a pass interference when all you have to do is just turn around. But they panic because they feel they're beat, and they don't trust their instincts. They don't trust their. Their technique. So what was some of the things. Some of the. The Nuggets that Coach Prime.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I think, honestly, the biggest thing I learned from Coach prime was just, like, how important watching film could be for you, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think he would harp on, you know, film watch, you know what I'm saying? And I would watch film before, but, like, the intent that he taught it to us and how to watch it, you know what I'm saying? I think could definitely take somebody's game from being good to being great, you know what I'm saying? And I think that was the best. The. The biggest thing I would say that I learned from him, for sure.

[Host / Analyst]

You know, athletic. I mean, you take. You tested off the chart. How did you think that changed the perception of you coming out because of what you were able to do?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, I think, you know, I think a lot of people were, I guess, doubting, you know, my speed, my, you know, athleticism, things like that. But, you know, I was always taught, like, if you're a DB and you run a full speed, nine times out of ten, you beat. You know what I'm saying? So I guess, kind of. That's kind of why.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, say that again.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

So if you're a DB and, you know, you run a full speed at some point, then you.

[Host / Analyst]

You.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Nine times out of ten, you be so, you know, like, I guess on tape, people don't really see me running full speed a lot. I'm not beat a lot of this time, so, you know, I got to go out there and show that at my pro day and my under combine. So I think that was the biggest thing.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, because when you look at your speed, I mean, you're four. Four, which is plenty fast enough. The 40 and a half inch vertical and the 10 and a half long jump. So it lets me know that you're explosive.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You dropped 40.

[Host / Analyst]

Okay.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, well, I did a little bit in high school, but baseball is my main. My main second sport.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Okay.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay. Okay.

[Host / Analyst]

Oh, so you. You are.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Griffith.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah. That was my favorite, bro. That was my favorite player growing up, bro, I swear. Oh, yeah, I was left handed too.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey.

[Co-host / Analyst]

See who you played four. You played four sports in high school?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, I played football, baseball, basketball, track.

[Host / Analyst]

What you running? Track.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I just did the 4x1. I only did it my senior year though, because. Because, you know, this date. Yeah, they the same time. And baseball season, track, they the same time. But then like so like we got knocked out of the playoffs early in baseball my senior year. And so the track coach was like, somebody got hurt and they needed me to come run and so shoot, I just ran the last leg on the four by one.

[Host / Analyst]

What was y'. All, what was y'. All. For about one time.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I can't remember the exact time, but we got runner up in state, so we did pretty good.

[Host / Analyst]

Where you from?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I'm from Georgia.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah. Okay.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I went to Eagles land in Christian. The private school.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, man, Georgia is a melted. I'm talking about, man. They got so much talent running.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, yeah, man, I'll be trying to telephones, man. Georgia, boy. Shoot, we different.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, you hear that, Ocho? Different. We different.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I know we gonna see when we lay.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Come on, bro.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I mean, you.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

But this, this the thing though. You don't got my number. You don't got me on Instagram, you feel me? So I feel like you just talking, you know what I'm saying?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You got.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Go ahead, follow me on Instagram.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Think about this. Hey, we have. We have your information.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

That's how. Okay, so that's what I'm saying though. Let's get it, let's get it lined up. You know what I'm saying?

[Co-host / Analyst]

I only you.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You in Kansas City. When you back in Atlanta?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I'm gonna be back home. I'll be back home. What, Wednesday? I'll be back home Wednesday.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay, Wednesday. Matter of fact, I don't even have nothing to do this week. I'm already in shape because I play soccer. So if you need me to come to Atlanta.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Come on.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Come to Atlanta.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You got a cameraman?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

You got a camera? Yeah, I got a cameraman.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay. Okay. Because you're not gonna out talk me,

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I'm tell you that right now.

[Host / Analyst]

That's what I do. Hey, just put. Hey, just put him. Hey, hey.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I'm putting them hands on his chest. That don't do to him. I'm putting hands in his chest. Come on.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, hey, listen. Hey, hey, brotherhood on all 85 of my kids. Ain't nobody ever touched me off the line of scrimmage. I live for that. What we talk about. Listen, I ain't taking no lie. I got my uniform at the dry cleaners every Sunday with a crease in it for a reason.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, man.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

All right. I ain't gonna do too much more talking. I told you what it is, what it ain't. You feel me? We just gotta lace it up.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hold on. And you started. You started to talk. You talking to a real trash talker.

[Host / Analyst]

But physicality, you mentioned, like, you like to press. Physicality is kind of what you're known for. And I think the thing is, is that. Look, a lot of people don't want to be physical anymore because they're afraid of the initial surge of the wide receiver. These guys are really good. They got. I mean, you look at it, you have to be dealing with Chase and Puka Nakua and JSN and Justin Jefferson. These guys are really, really good. But if you are what you believe you are, you can't let the name dictate how you play. A lot of times, guys dictate. Let that. Let the name dictate the type of COVID Man, man out. No, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta have that fear. Regardless of who you go up against, you gotta believe.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, like, I. I ain't gonna lie. You're gonna have to show me you better than me. I'm saying, like. Like, you feel me? I'm. If I'm going out there, I'm not. You feel me? I'm not thinking nobody. I think I'm the best thing out there. You know what I'm saying? You don't have to show me. Like, my first ever start was against Terrell McMillan. He had to show me, and he ain't show me, so.

[Host / Analyst]

I like that.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I like it.

[Host / Analyst]

Through this whole process, what's been your biggest motivation?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I would definitely say, like, my family, my parents, they sacrificed a lot for me. You know, just growing up, just waking me up early in the morning, taking me to the hills. My dad would do that all the time. My mom, she. She worked hard. She worked her butt off. She's a doctor. So she'd be up. I'll be seeing her up, like, 3am doing charts and stuff like that. So definitely them, like, I want to, you know, make life easier for them. You know, I think about the time. And then I would say, my siblings, too. I got seven siblings. I got older brothers, three older brothers, and then five younger siblings. Two younger sisters. Three. Two younger sisters. Oh, man. Four younger. Some younger siblings. I have two younger sisters, two younger brothers. So this is them for real, like setting an example for my younger siblings. And then, you know, my oldest brother, he told us he tore his ACL four times, so he didn't really get to live his dream. So I definitely want to, you know, go out there and, you know, be able to allow him to live his dream vicariously through me, for sure.

[Host / Analyst]

Wow, man, that's, that's, that's unbelievable, man. Check this out. You say your brother tore his ACL four times. Did they find out what the imbalance was? Because it has to be an imbalance for you to tear your ac. Yeah, I think it was whether the mechanics was his hips, Was his hips on the line, his knees, the. His quads too dominant, hamstrings too weak, two hamstring tooth dominant, quads too weak. Did they find out what was wrong? What was causing it?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I don't really know exactly. I know that, like, I know that after the first time he did his surgery and he tried to come back too fast and that caused the second time. And then like once you get it like twice and it's just like, you know what I'm saying? Everything is kind of out of whack, you know what I'm saying?

[Host / Analyst]

So did they, how did they use a cadaver or did they, you know, partially take the. A patella?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I. I don't know. None of that. I. I don't know.

[Host / Analyst]

Okay.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I don't know. Hey, hey, hey. See? Hood, check this out. I heard you talk about your family, your pops. I, I read that, you know, he made you write down your goals at a young age. How, how old were you when you started doing?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I was like, shoot, I was like 8 years old, I think. Yeah, I was like 8 years old. Me and my. He made me and my brother, like make a vision board with like 5 years, 5 year plan, 10 year plan, 15 year plan here, 20 year plan.

[Co-host / Analyst]

And so how often, how often, how often did you look at.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Oh, it was in my bedroom, in my wall. So it was like every day I see it, I was in like on the walls, like a big poster board. So it's like, you know, like those Porsche boys people take in for like school. Like a big poster.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Each part of the section had like, my five year plan was here, 10 year, 15 year, 20 year. And every day I woke up, I'll see it. So.

[Co-host / Analyst]

And that's dope, bro.

[Host / Analyst]

That's like update. That Thing I got you.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I'm gonna steal the idea. I'm gonna steal the idea for. For my younger kids. I like that. That they're 5, 10 year, 15 years.

[Host / Analyst]

I like that you decided, like, when you get that first. When you get that first big check, what you. What do you want to buy? What do you want to do?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Shoot, I ain't gonna lie. I'm pretty modest. I would say, like, I'm not really a big, I guess, spender. I do kind of want a new car, though. So if anything, I'll probably get a new car.

[Host / Analyst]

What you getting? What you get?

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I don't even. I don't even know yet, to be honest. Like, I'm. I'm kind all over. I don't know if I want to b. I don't know. I don't know what I want, to be honest.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I'm saying you had. You had a need for speed.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Nah, I'm not really. I. I like to be smooth. You know what I'm saying? Like, cool, just chilling type.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

When you was growing up, when you was growing up, say, man, if I ever get some money, what was the first car that you said? Man, if I ever get some money, I.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Well, I'm not going to be able to get the car that I said, like, off my first contract, but the car I. The first contract, though.

[Host / Analyst]

Hold on. You said something like, boo, Halloween. I know you ain't saying no. Bugatti.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah, get that off the first contract.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, listen. Hey, hey, I got a Bugatti. I think I got a Bugatti. At least one for a year. I think I was in years seven, I think maybe year 708, if I'm not mistaken.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

At least.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

At least one. Six months. Did it for six months. And I think I got. Fine. I tweeted on the sideline in the middle of the game, I got hit. I came to the sideline and I tweeted that, it's okay, guys. I'm okay. And the NFL fired me, like 30 grand for that. And that was one of my payments. And at that point when the season ended, I said that. I sent that back.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Because, hey, when talking about an experience and doing something one time just to be able to say I did it.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Not getting caught up in the lifestyle, in the image of having to keep it. Great.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

For sure.

[Host / Analyst]

Wow, man. Well, congratulations. Tell your family I said hello. Congratulations on all your success. Remember, now you get into the NFL, that's not the end of the journey.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

I got you. This is the beginning. Yes, sir.

[Host / Analyst]

Look. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. So congratulations. One Georgia boy.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Appreciate you.

[Host / Analyst]

Hey, keep doing what you do. Keep making.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Hey. Oo. Hit my phone. Hit my phone, bro.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I got you. I got you. Hey, you. You know the saying. I get open in the phone.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

All right, all right.

[Host / Analyst]

Hey, make sure you play the song welcome to I got you.

[Fan 1]

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[Fan 2]

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[Fan 1]

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[Fan 2]

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[Host / Analyst]

One of the main remaining unanswered questions for the NFL this offseason is whether Aaron Rodgers will be back with the Steelers this fall. The Steelers have indicated that they expect an answer before the draft gets underway on April 23, and it doesn't sound like he shared any hints with one of the team's top offensive players. Jalen Warren said he's not making any bets about whether Rogers will play or retire. At this point, you know, I'm not really expecting anything. Whatever happens, happens. I'm rocking with whoever that quarterback at the Quarterback position. But if he comes back, great. If he doesn't, then we'll miss him.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, I know Aaron Rodgers is loving this. I think any quarterback is loving this. We got where you can have a team by the balls being, what, 42. Wait, how old is he?

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, 40. Yeah, 42. 42 sounds about right, Ocho.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah. You know. You know, and this. This lets people know, those in the chat that are watching or those that are fans of the NFL game on how important the quarterback position is because they understand how valuable Aaron Rodgers is, even though he's not the same Aaron Rodgers of old. Yes. The other options that you do have aren't the answer.

[Host / Analyst]

They don't have no options.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I mean that, too. Well, Will. How Will Howard is there? I'm not sure Will Howard is. Is the answer for the foreseeable future, but, I mean, Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers. Even though he's not the same one, he still gives you your best chance to win. I mean, he just does. That's why he can pull the shenanigans. Shenanigans that he does. And you know what? I'll let y' all know when I'm ready to come back, knowing good and well, you know, you coming back. Why even. Why even play this game?

[Host / Analyst]

But even if he's not, let them have an opportunity to go get somebody in free agency.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Ain't nobody to get.

[Host / Analyst]

There was somebody, maybe. Maybe they want to make a. Maybe they make a trade for somebody, Ocho.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Nah, because they're making a trade for somebody. They're making a trade for somebody that.

[Host / Analyst]

What about Kirk Cousins? Kirk Cousins was available.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Where did Kurt go? Kirk signed somewhere to the Vegas.

[Host / Analyst]

To Las Vegas.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. Right. He gonna mentor Mendoza?

[Host / Analyst]

Maybe. Hey, hey, he could have meant he could have mentored Will Howard.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Listen, I don't know why Aaron Rodgers playing these games, but it is what it is. He did it last year. He's doing it again this year. He'll probably do it again next year as well. If the Steelers don't find, you know, his successor, you know, he gonna keep doing it.

[Host / Analyst]

You know the one team that he didn't do it with?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Green Bay.

[Host / Analyst]

The Jets. The jets said no. We good.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. AG Wasn't playing that.

[Host / Analyst]

No, because he doesn't. They seen this for far too long. Even Green Bay. Green Bay said nah. But it. He should have known. He saw it play out with Roger. I mean, with Brett Favre. Right? They got Tired of playing Brett Favre's game. You thought, because you want, he was a three time league mvp, won a Super Bowl.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Right.

[Host / Analyst]

You thought they weren't gonna get tired of your shenanigans.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Just like they drafted you to replace him. Why do you think they dropped, drafted Jordan Love to sit on the bench for the next 10 years?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, you're right. But, but listen, this is, this is the hard part. This is the hard part for the Steelers. When Ben Roethlisberger was there, they didn't draft a Jordan Love. They didn't draft anyone even as close because they didn't want to piss Ben off. Now you're stuck in quarterback purgatory. Look at somebody else. We have to rely on a 42 year old, 43 year old old quarterback to let you know when he wants to come back and let you know if he's going to come back.

[Host / Analyst]

And if he does come back, what you got him for another year and all you did is kick, all you did was kick the can down the

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

road and you're gonna be right.

[Host / Analyst]

Having addressed the issue, which is finding your long term quarterback for the future.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

All you did was delay it. It's like, hey, hey man, look here. This tire, well, we can patch it. I don't even patch tires anymore. But hey, we, they put a little donut on.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

He.

[Host / Analyst]

The little donut. The donut tied the little donut tie. They say drive at a slow rate of speed and you probably got 50, 60 miles of distance in it. And then you see people drive around two, three weeks on that tire and then it was. And when it put it down outside the road, well, I don't know what happened. Well, what happened was this was a temporary fix.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

No matter how great Aaron Rodgers was and he was great, he was historically great.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Historically, yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

He is a temporary fix for the Pittsburgh Steelers and if somebody sees him as anything other than that, they're sadly mistaken. If the Steelers. But I don't know why and because I don't know why teams are so afraid. You got to. I mean, especially when the quarterback get to like year 15. Ocho.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Come on now, man. We got to have, we got to, you got to have start having serious discussions right. About the future.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

There's really nothing to talk about. There's no discussion to be had starting.

[Host / Analyst]

No, I'm talking about, I'm talking about as an organization, we gotta have a serious discussion. I ain't discussing it with you right the hell. Hey, what is it? What decision your grandparents made that Involved you. This is what. Hey, here's the list of what we think about buying. What you in on this? Oh, here's what we think about putting in the house.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Right?

[Host / Analyst]

Grown ups don't make. No. My grandpa used to always say, boy, don't brash it with a child. You tell the child what to do, dude. So at a situation like that, I'm not informing Aaron Rodgers. Look, I would say.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Look,

[Host / Analyst]

now, I will say this so we don't get him all blindsided because, you know, the most sensitive. The most sensitive players on a football field.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Always.

[Host / Analyst]

Okay, we're in agreement.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Always.

[Host / Analyst]

We're looking to draft a quarterback. How high is to determine whether or not somebody falls. But I say within the first three rounds, we're going to take a quarterback. Boom. That's it. That's it.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You're gonna. You're gonna piss him off.

[Host / Analyst]

That's all right. He'd be okay. He still want to cash them checks? Because guess what? You don't imagine if Green. If. If Green Bay didn't have a Jordan. Love how pissed off they would be. Look at the teams that. That waited. Look at. Look at what Miami did. Because they didn't have a succession plan with Danny.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

And they didn't have a succession plan. And so everybody doesn't have a Green Bay situation. Where you go, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love that.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

That's. That's luck.

[Host / Analyst]

But that's because. Choice. They didn't have a choice. O Joe. Brett kept jocking them around. Aaron Rodgers. Well, I'm thinking about retiring. I don't know. You know, I just want to be in a quiet, dark room.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Right.

[Host / Analyst]

And I just, you know, so I. And so the team didn't have a choice.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

They got tired of that.

[Host / Analyst]

Yes.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

And that's the only position, depending on who you are, we could play them damn games like that.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah. You ain't. You ain't playing that game in no other position. They get you. They getting you up out of there. I don't care how great you are. Other than that guy.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

That position. Not he said guy. That guy. Cause first of all, you're gonna be that guy to play those type of games. No average guy ain't playing those type of games.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

No.

[Host / Analyst]

But to be that guy. You. And you know, you have the leeway. You are. You are mvp or you won mvp. So you're that level of quarterback. You get a lot of leeway. A lot of leeway that other players and other positions don't get. No, but you under. But. Oh, Joe, I understood that. I know that.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Like, I didn't take advantage of it. No, I didn't take advantage of it.

[Host / Analyst]

Quarterbacks have a privilege and the star players have a privileges. And I'm like you. I didn't take advantage of it. No. That's the whole point of being a leader is not take advantage of the privilege that you've been given.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, Aaron. Well, you know, you coming back, man, because if he decides not to come back, oh my goodness. Boy, they gonna, they gonna, they gonna be in a heap of trouble over there.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, they're gonna be in a heap of trouble. But it's their own fault because when they could have, when they could have did something about this, they saw Ben wasn't the same guy. He had taken too much punishment and he's, he was starting to slow down. You saw it right before your eyes. But they're not to take him off. Okay? He's still happy with it. Ain't really replace me now. Look at you.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Dang.

[Host / Analyst]

Pinning all your hopes on a 42 year old that probably by this is his last year.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, or you might try to keep hitting. You might try to keep hitting them one for ones because you have to think about it.

[Host / Analyst]

No, I'm moving on. I'm moving on after this year. I've got to find me a long term fix. Ojo, there's no.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Where's the long term fix, huh?

[Host / Analyst]

If I got to go into the draft and draft one.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Man, I got me. I feel you. I feel you.

[Host / Analyst]

So what? Just keep going. So just keep going. These one year deals with Aaron Rodgers and not getting the future and then when he, when he decides to retire. What about. Where am I?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, you, you, you, you find that successor now you go into the draft. You can't.

[Host / Analyst]

That's what I'm saying.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, but ain't nothing franchise quarterback, have we seen anything like that?

[Host / Analyst]

Look, just because you don't think a guy right now looks like that. Ocho, I got to try, right?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You seen Aaron Rodgers at Cal?

[Host / Analyst]

Yes, he looked like that.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You seen Pat Mahomes at Texas Tech? He looked like that.

[Host / Analyst]

Let me ask you a question. If they'd have brought Aaron Rodgers in right away immediately and played him, how you think he looking?

[Fan 1]

We're lost and kickoff's coming up. I don't want to miss the lineup. I'm gonna ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're trying to get to the stadium.

[Fan 2]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree at this here road. Nah, I'M just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[Fan 1]

How is their signal out here?

[Fan 2]

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[Fan 1]

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[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Nah, it's a good thing he sat behind Britt.

[Host / Analyst]

Exactly. And my homeboy, My homeboy was. Sometimes it's great to come in and get a bird's eye view and see how people do, think how, how, how that position is played, how you're supposed to play the position. And who know, maybe Aaron Rodgers is still that guy. But I think he benefited from having an opportunity to sit behind Brett Favre for three years and learn. I think my homeboy had an opportunity to sit behind Alex Smith for a year and learn. Some guys, hey, they get to sit. Carson got to sit.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, but they making too much money now. They letting they not. Oh, yeah, yeah, the rookies are making too much money, especially if you draft them high. Anything. Pick one through five is not sitting. We. We paying you what, 30, 35?

[Host / Analyst]

Probably 40 million high. You're probably 40. 40, 40 plus million dollars be guaranteed.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

They throwing your ass out there to the sharks. You better figure it out because I'm paying you money, not sit down and sit behind a veteran quarterback. Absolutely not.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. And it's ruining him because you saw what he did to Anthony Richardson.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Ooh, yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

He was a top five pick. You said he was a project. And instead of developing that project, building that project up with a strong foundation, you threw him out there.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, there's no patience, huh? They want instant gratification. These owners and GMs want instant gratification and instant success right away. Especially if we pick you high. You the person supposed to change our franchise. That's why we went and got you. You are answer. You are our Future. You are our ten year future. We don't have to worry about any position we're supposed to build around you. That's basically what it means.

[Host / Analyst]

It does. But have you set me up for success? What do you look like from an offensive line standpoint? What if my receivers look like from a receiver standpoint? What is the system or the coaches? Have you set me up for success? Success with the structure in which I'm going to be in most of the time? No.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Right.

[Co-host / Analyst]

No.

[Host / Analyst]

They just think guys are supposed to come in. Everybody, everybody. And Andrew Reed. Everybody doesn't. Everybody doesn't. Because in order to do things, some things you have to have solid footing. Kyle Shannon has. How many quarterbacks you think could have made that? And you give up all those draft picks for the number three pick in the draft and he gone after a year. Trey.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, Trey. Lance. Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

So you got to have strong footing in order to do that. Right? I mean, think about it. You take, you got Alex Smith wins the playoff game and then you like, you know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we, we take it a quarter. We, I mean, Alex Mitchell played well, but Andy just felt this offense could be so much more dynamic if I had a stronger arm quarterback. And those are the decisions that you have to make. See, it's not that. It's a lot of times it's the decision, those decisions that really define gm, head coaches and things like that. It's the tough decision, right? Cause you winning, Ocho, you like, man, hey, we winning. We winning 10, 11 games a year. But there's something that's deep inside of you saying we can be so much more, though. And seven AFC championship games later, five super bowl appearances later, three wins later, it's hard to argue. It's hard to argue. And so we'll see what they do. But I think they have to. I, I think, I think the Steelers are going to have to get a quarterback now. Maybe, maybe you're right. Maybe, maybe they believe in Will Howard, but they believe in Cody Pickett and they believed in Mason Rudolph. Okay. With AJ Brown future uncertain, the Philadelphia Eagles had added to their receiving corps ahead of the 2026 draft. Oo, the Eagles are sitting Green Bay Packers, a 2026 fifth round pick and a 2027 sixth round pick in exchange for Donary Dante Wicks. Wicks, who's signing, who's going into the final year of his rookie contract, will reportedly sign a one year contract extension for $12.5 million. Wicks, 25, with a fifth round draft pick in 2023 draft. During his three season with the Green Bay Packers, Wick has caught 108 passes on 180 targets, 1328 yards, 11 touchdowns, and averages 12.3 yards per catch.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I mean, the writing is on the wall. Can we see it now? Huh?

[Host / Analyst]

Maybe it's in hieroglyphics.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

The writing is on the wall. I mean, it's been that way. It's been that way. And I said it last year. I said it during the season. I said it in the off season. Anytime we do talk about it, you know, the Eagles are planning to make a move and there's a certain situation that's going on, and people are talking about integrity and talk about ethics and talk about this person. I mean, blah, blah, blah. And listen, nobody moves the needle or make decisions outside of the GM and the owner. They are not influenced by anybody else.

[Host / Analyst]

You and Ocho talking about it. You and this person talking about it. Yes. The media, man. You think the monos give a damn, but the media say they don't.

[Co-host / Analyst]

They don't care.

[Host / Analyst]

They don't care what me, Ocho, what anybody say they gonna do. What they gonna do?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Always. Always. I mean, we. I mean, we talk about franchise, we talk about billion dollar entities. You really think anyone outside of that has influence on their decision making? Like, come on, let's. Let's be serious people. Come on.

[Host / Analyst]

They don't even let the players that's playing for them influence what the hell they doing. How they gonna let somebody outside the building that's not even inside the building influence it?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Come on, now. But. But outside of that, you. I mean, it's been enough. I think it's time to move on. I think AJ doesn't want to be there. We've seen enough. Enough of that. He was frustrated this season.

[Host / Analyst]

The second year in a row he was frustrated even after he won the super bowl. And he was frustrated. So he's even frustrated, more frustrated now because guess what? He see what those guys doing?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

He said, chase, don't miss a beat. He said, JSN don't.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Come on.

[Host / Analyst]

Now look at Puka man, Devonte Adams come over there to a whole new team.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

And lead the league in touchdown passing.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

All.

[Host / Analyst]

Somehow, all these great guys, these coordinators can find ways, and their quarterback can find ways. I call a play and they can get me the ball. Somehow here. We still haven't found a way to consistently get me the ball. Now, I ain't putting it on nobody. I'm not saying it's the coordinator. I'm not saying it's quarterback, but all I do know is that I play a dependent position and I'm dependent on my quarterback and my coordinator putting me in the situation and the other guy throwing me the ball. And I bet damn if they can't do that consistently.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, I mean, I. I understand. Hey, he was. I mean, frustrated. Frustrated first, yeah, for sure. Before that, he was reading the book to keep himself calm.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Relaxed. So he didn't this year. I mean, same thing again. So that's two years in a row. You think he's gonna sit around for a third year of the same? Absolutely not.

[Host / Analyst]

It got so bad.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Absolutely not.

[Host / Analyst]

The owner had a conversation with him, and people like to say that, and that got out. Had it not gotten out, how would you have known that Jeffrey Lurie and AJ Had a conversation?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Somebody always leaking it, huh?

[Host / Analyst]

Of course. But it had gotten to the point that Mr. Lori didn't. It was. Didn't felt some type of way about it. Probably said, you know what, Aja, let's try to make the both the best of this situation. What we have currently. I understand your fresh frustrations. How he's explained it to me. X, Y and Z. You don't know no plays. But anyway, how. How he's explained it to me.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

And let's try to make the most of this season. And then after the year, we'll try to make a decision that works both. That works best for both of us.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah. I think this is the second move I think they've made at the receiver position, if I'm not mistaken. Even with AJ Brown not there, I think they'll be able to make up for some of the production, maybe not all of it, but the Eagles will still be a dominant team. They. They still in the. In the NFC East. Wait, no, that is nfc easy.

[Host / Analyst]

NFC East.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Dallas, Washington. And the Eagles.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Eagles. Yeah. They. They still. They still gonna make their head Giants. They still gonna do what they want to do. But I mean, A.J. brown and he just. He needs a new. A change of scenery. I said long ago, before, although, you know, what was going on, I said it would be the Patriots. I said it would be variable because of the situation in the. The relationship that in. In Tennessee. So it just made the most sense him going to New England. So, hey, we'll see what happens June 1st. Or is it June 20th?

[Host / Analyst]

June 1st.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, June 1st.

[Host / Analyst]

That way you can spread it out over two years.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

It's not as significant as it is.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Right.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah. So I. I Look, I. I just think the thing is, Ocho, you. We've been talking about it. I just think everybody. Everybody's just want to just move on. Want a fresh start.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Mm.

[Host / Analyst]

It's okay. There are irreconcilable differences, and we choose to par on amicable terms.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, not a bad thing.

[Host / Analyst]

Irreconcilable differences and. And the split is amicable.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I don't know. Them boys good, though, man. Them boys good.

[Host / Analyst]

I ain't happy. Have you seen the situation? Oh, Char telling you how. How have have we seen? Men and women in a situation? They got everything fly, private, and you got diamonds, and you get cars, you get xyz. And I'm just not happy.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, it happens, all that.

[Host / Analyst]

At the end of the day, what about my happiness? I'm. I mean, hey, no crying from the yacht, but, hey, some people,

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

It happens. You can get it. You can get everything you asked for, and it's still not enough.

[Host / Analyst]

Not enough.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Fly, eagles, fly. I don't know the rest of the song, but I love that.

[Host / Analyst]

I just. I just. I just won't look. I just hope AJ gets somewhere he could be. They give him an opportunity to play like he thinks he can play and then go. Go from there. Because right now, he's not happy.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

No.

[Host / Analyst]

And I don't think. I don't think he's the best he can be. It's. And it's hard to be when you don't know. I mean, you go from one game, you might catch nine the next ball, you might get three balls thrown at you and catch one. It's hard to play like that,

[Co-host / Analyst]

You know, in basketball. You're gonna practice two hours out today. You got the rest of the day to yourself to chill, gain night on the road. I don't give a damn what it is. We ain't got to stay in the hotel. You know what I mean? Yeah, bro. You might got a little something. Something come through.

[Host / Analyst]

You ain't.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, before the game, Joe.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, man, you gotta get it how you live on. We in different cities almost every other night, man.

[Host / Analyst]

Joe, for real, man.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I'm just saying. I. I ain't. Don't. Don't sit here and act like it ain't. You know, it ain't easy now, you know?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I mean, I ain't. I ain't no Joe. I ain't never did nothing like that. But go ahead.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I'm just saying, you know, hey, not today.

[Host / Analyst]

I mean, maybe the night before the game. Not the day of the game. Joe. You ain't trying to do nothing like that before the game.

[Co-host / Analyst]

In a joke, I'm saying, okay, if I'm in the city for only one night, you know what I mean? I ain't coming back. We only play this team one time in they building.

[Host / Analyst]

Well, you know, you know, like Luther Pedro say, if only for one night.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Damn, Joe. Y' all know, now that I think about it, I feel that is a whole lot of cities. 82 games, man.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Listen, listen. They don't do no room check. They don't do none of that.

[Host / Analyst]

Y' all do the room check.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I ain't got no curfew, Joe. Y' all ain't got no curfew.

[Co-host / Analyst]

The hell now Only person gonna be room checking you is your damn girlfriend or your wife. That's it.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Damn.

[Host / Analyst]

Oh, Lord have mercy.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I ain't know that joke, man.

[Host / Analyst]

They got security on the hall right there by the. By the elevator and the doors you got.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, you better be in your room by 11 o'. Clock.

[Co-host / Analyst]

No, I'm just keeping.

[Host / Analyst]

They got come out of coming by, checking their rooms. No, now, you know, guys might be in the room playing video games or playing cars or something like that, but ain't nobody. Ain't no. Ain't no dope, man.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I got like, for instance, like, it's cities that, you know, you go to, you know, people. I ain't necessarily saying it's just, you know, females. I'm saying you may know some cats you went to school with, high school with, college with. And you know, you only go, hey, man, we go out, we get something to eat, let's go bowling. Let's go do something. Like, it's this.

[Host / Analyst]

I ain't trying to see nobody went to high school with.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, hold up.

[Host / Analyst]

You ain't double back on nothing you

[Co-host / Analyst]

went to high school with?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

No, well, you know, everybody you go to high school with, but I mean, after year, by the time you made it, they done got kind of big. Joe.

[Co-host / Analyst]

No, no, not. Not early in your career, Ocho, you know what I'm saying? It may be something in high school, you know, you thought was nice. You ain't touching high school. So you like, hold on.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Nah, Joe. Everything nice in high school. And got a little fluffy. They a little bell pepper. Joe.

[Co-host / Analyst]

That's 10 years. That's your 10 year re union. That's. That's 10 years, but two, three years removed from high school, man, please.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Joe, think about this. Joe, think about this. And I'm sure people in the chat could attest to this. Those that was fine as hell. That used to be. Oh, they was. They was.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Them.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You know, as far as female, they don't. It don't. It don't be that years down the line, Joe.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I'm saying 10, 15 years down the line. They may not be like that, but you still. You still gonna have. You gonna have a few, Ocho, that's gonna really take care of themselves and keep themselves up. I don't know where y'. All. Where y' all from, you know? I mean, what y' all got going, what school y' all went to, but where I'm from.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, yeah. I'm just telling you, everybody get. You know, get a little healthy, little weight on them, you know, Ain't nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying it's never what it used to be. That's not how I remember you in high school, man. It was that one. Like, I couldn't wait to come out in the hallway and see you walk by, because you was that one.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You know, I mean,

[Co-host / Analyst]

I. I get. I get what you're saying, Ocho, but there is a few, bro. There's a few.

[Host / Analyst]

Look, look, you know.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Because, you know. You know, like, in high school, they may be a little slim, you know? I mean, two, three years out of high school, they didn't get a little weight.

[Host / Analyst]

Good weight, right?

[Co-host / Analyst]

You know what I'm talking about?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah, I feel you. I mean, I. I ain't really seen nothing like that, Joe. Most of the time you graduate. Then they had two, three kids, and, you know, they'd be a little bell pepper. Joe.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Not all of them.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I mean, yeah, maybe not. Where you from? I'm talking about down here.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Miami.

[Host / Analyst]

Conversation. And, Joe, I hate to go against you, but. Ocho, right? Ocho, right? Oh, different.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah. Hey, I'm telling you, look, two, three years out of high school. Let's say you at Savannah State, you a junior in college.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Co-host / Analyst]

You mean to tell me it ain't no girls in high school that you done seen? Or you be like, boy, look, I

[Host / Analyst]

ain't backtrack in high school. You didn't? Nope.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I mean, I ain't acting like I did.

[Host / Analyst]

I'm just, you know. I know you did.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I ain't acting like I did.

[Host / Analyst]

I'm just saying. But, hey, hey, o. Joe, I saw. Hey, I saw big things in their future in high school. I'm talking about, you know, a job promotion. I saw big things on the horizon. Just saying,

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

hey, Joe, now You got me thinking. I'm trying to think who was. Who.

[Colton Hood (NFL Prospect)]

Who was.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Oh, you. You from Florida, boy, I know y' all got some.

[Host / Analyst]

What? No, wait.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I'm trying to think who. Who was. Who was the it person?

[Host / Analyst]

Most of us having. Joe, they was having babies. I mean, a lot of them had babies while we was in school.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

I mean, the youngest was 13. She got pregnant at like, 13. I think she had a kid at 14. We didn't see. She got pregnant in seventh grade. Had the baby in eighth grade.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Damn.

[Host / Analyst]

How are you in the eighth grade? Eighth grade. 13, 13, 14, 13.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, I had some girls in my elementary. Pregnant, sixth grade, huh? Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Joe, wait. Joe, we. Oh, you know what? You out there in Arkansas. Okay.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah, yeah. Project girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

I'm like. I'm like. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Joe. That was it.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah. I ain't had no pretty girls in high school, bro.

[Host / Analyst]

They were pretty in high school.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

I went to college for four years. That was high school. That four years ago. And you mean.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Tell me all the prettiness gone.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah. Interested. You weren't interested then?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Host / Analyst]

Now you interested now.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, listen, they always interested after. After what they choose don't work out.

[Host / Analyst]

Exactly. You want to drink and smoke weed. You ain't want me.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, but look, now. You want me two, three kids later.

[Host / Analyst]

But hold on, hold up.

[Co-host / Analyst]

You're a little more experienced now.

[Host / Analyst]

What, you ain't trying.

[Co-host / Analyst]

What, you trying to wipe?

[Host / Analyst]

You ain't trying to.

[Co-host / Analyst]

You ain't trying to.

[Host / Analyst]

Microphone.

[Co-host / Analyst]

I don't want it.

[Host / Analyst]

No, I'm good.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

What we trying to do, Joe?

[Co-host / Analyst]

Man, let me tell y' all something. At Little Rock Central, where I went to high school at, Let me tell y' all something. We had all the pretty girls at Central, bro. Like, if you went to another high school in Little Rock before our bell rang when school was out, you see dudes driving through there.

[Host / Analyst]

You hear me? Damn.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah, dudes come through there. A lot of the girls that I went to high school with, especially the pretty ones, they probably dated somebody at a different school. You know what I mean? Yeah, but we had them, boy. We had them. You hear me?

[Host / Analyst]

Well, we didn't.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Damn. I mean. Hey, Joe, I think we. We had them, too, Joe. I mean, it's Miami, you know? I mean, it's a melting pot. Of course, everyone is gorgeous. But things change in a short amount. In a short amount of time from by the time you graduate to four years later.

[Co-host / Analyst]

So you ain't had, like, no little skinny girl in high school, and then two, three years later, she gained some good weight.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, I'm. I'm saying. Oh, Joe. I mean, Joe, me, my high school, my girlfriend, high school. When we broke up, I had my girlfriend in college. I ain't look back. I ain't messing with No. I ain't mess with nobody from.

[Co-host / Analyst]

All right, okay.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

And now you got me thinking. I wonder where the.

[Host / Analyst]

I'm trying to think college is a different story.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Call it something else, boy.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I'm trying

[Host / Analyst]

not to tell a story.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, yeah. Hey, college.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You got me thinking, Joe, what I

[Co-host / Analyst]

got you thinking about now?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

I'm trying. I'm trying to. I'm trying to think back who was fine back in high school, and I wonder where they at and what they doing now, and what do they look like now?

[Host / Analyst]

After all, you ain't worried about nobody right now. You might have been worried about them when you got out of college. When you got out or on the topic.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Huh? That's all. The fact that we on the topic, like it's jogging my memory. I'm like, damn. I wonder where so and so at from 1995, 1996.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

That's all.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey,

[Host / Analyst]

man, I had this one, boy. Hey. She went to a rival high school. Boy, she was so fine.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Ooh.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Like that.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

What. What's her name? Huh?

[Host / Analyst]

I ain't telling you.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

We might be able to find them.

[Host / Analyst]

I know where she is. My sister, see, all the time.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, for real?

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, he looking for her.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay, my bad. She's still fine.

[Co-host / Analyst]

He don't want to say, man, she pushing 60 here,

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

and that might be. That might be the one. Never mind.

[Host / Analyst]

We broke up.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

What you did wrong?

[Host / Analyst]

I ain't do nothing wrong.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

You just said y' all broke up. Well, 98 of the time, it's the.

[Host / Analyst]

Man, look here, see, if I. If I tell the story, everybody gonna know who it is, and I want people to know who it is. I don't want to put a business out there.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. My bad, my bad.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hold on. The people you went to high school

[Host / Analyst]

go know everybody go. Yes.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Oh, wait, hold on. Y' all was together and it was private.

[Host / Analyst]

Ain't no. Hey, no. Hey, man, look here, man. You know what I'm saying? You know.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Are you a creeper?

[Host / Analyst]

Y', all, man, don't. Y'.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

All.

[Host / Analyst]

I had padded feet. You could.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you.

[Host / Analyst]

You know, we. We quietly broke up at.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Yeah, I know, man. I ain't gonna lie. I Ain't gonna lie, some of the best times of my life, bro, if I'm keeping it real with y', all, was at high school, bro. Oh, yeah, high school was fun, bro. College, college. When I got to college, I could. I could see my dreams right in front of me. Meaning, like, the NBA. I was so focused that it wasn't nothing gonna throw me off my pivot. Same thing in high school, but in high school, I had so much fun because I went to high school with a lot of cats who I really grew up with. High school was fun, bro.

[Host / Analyst]

You threw caution to the wind. Boy, I am so glad. There ain't no way I could have survived with social media now in high school with this, man, what you talking about?

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Hey, with that. With the access and overexposure.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, what you talking about?

[Host / Analyst]

No, sir.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, listen. Cause when I was in high school, boy, you had to. You had to go check. You had to go home and check that call ID to see who calls you. You know what I'm saying?

[Host / Analyst]

Don't.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

What you know about that? What you know about that call id, Joe?

[Co-host / Analyst]

Well, hey, Ocho, I should be. I go straight home and check it. Trying to see. Try to see if this. Hey, let me see if she hit me up or something. Let me see what's going on.

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, but that was a good old day. Yes. You find Ocho. Whoa. You talk about. Oh, bye. I'm talking about Stack. I'm talking about the girl had body.

[Former NFL Player / Analyst]

Body it.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Hey, hey.

[Host / Analyst]

Because.

[Co-host / Analyst]

Because, you know, when you're in high school, they fine for no reason. They ain't got to work out or nothing.

[Host / Analyst]

God dang. Hey, what's up?

[Co-host / Analyst]

Right?

[Host / Analyst]

Yeah, yeah. You, you, you. You with me for a minute, man? Let me stop. I get myself. Let me get.