Rooting For Rodgers? (Hour 4)

All righty, we continue. This is Zach Yelb's show on CBS Sports Radio. Three minutes to go here in the first quarter of game five of the NBA Finals. Denver is up by two. 18 to 16 up against the Miami Heat. Nicole Jokic so far only with three. First quarter points is to assist as well. Contavious Caldwell-Pope and Jeff Green lead the Nuggets in scoring with four points apiece. And then for the Miami Heat, Jimmy Butler so far, all three from the field and no points. Max Troos has a pulse this evening with eight points.

And you do have early on Bam out of bio with six points as well. Right at the end of last hour, we brought up the conversation on how will Green Bay Packers fans be watching Aaron Rodgers this year? Because if you just say you don't care, I don't buy it. I think there has to be some emotion, whether you want to see him fail miserably or when you watch a guy for that long and a guy eventually going to wear a Hall of Fame jacket, won a Super Bowl for the franchise. There has to be some sort of emotional attachment.

And I don't think it's that easy to say just because he's out of sight, he's out of mind. And I wonder from afar, how many Packers fans this year are going to be going out of their way to watch the Jets? And when you do watch the Jets, will you be rooting for Aaron Rodgers? Now, I don't think this is comparable to the Brady situation because there was some drama, but the Patriots never drafted the replacement for Brady.

They got rid of Jimmy Garoppolo. I understand that, but a lot of Patriot fans looked at Brady like I did. This is the greatest player to ever play the game. This is the greatest player the franchise ever had.

He changed the franchise, won six championships. There was more of an attachment, I would say, that Patriot fans had to Brady than Packers fans had to Rodgers, especially when Rodgers, the last two to three years, it was clear that he was at odds with the organization because he got annoyed that they drafted Jordan Love. So I really do wonder with the drama being so prevalent the last few years, if Packer fans are just done with the guy, or if come the fall, when you get the first game of the season, it's like, all right, first game, or when you watch them on prime time, things like that, Rodgers with the Jets, if from afar, you'll be rooting for Aaron Rodgers. 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS, 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27.

Let's go to Boise, Idaho. Richard is first up in this hour on the Zach Gelb show, wants to talk about this conversation about Rodgers. Richard, what do you got? Hey, I'm a lifelong Packers fan. Love Aaron Rodgers, grateful he got us one Super Bowl, and he got all his MVPs, but he got his MVPs.

He's held us hostage the last couple of years, and I am glad he's gone. It's like, finally, the Jets took this headache off my shoulders. You know, I'm excited to see what Jordan Love can do, and, you know, it's just, with Aaron Rodgers, every single thing about the Packers was about Aaron Rodgers. It wasn't about the team, you know, every headline was Aaron Rodgers, and I was so sick of it the last couple years, so I will not be watching a single Jets game this year, don't care if he wins, hope they miss the playoffs, but I am all about Jordan Love. Let me ask you this, Richard, how old are you if you don't mind me asking?

I am 47. Okay, so you've seen more than one quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. Obviously, you got to see Rodgers very well. I remember Magic Green before Favre. That's the thing, like, I wonder if you're a younger fan, like, if you're someone that's 18, if you're someone that's 20 that really has only seen one quarterback, I wonder what the answer of that fan would be, and I appreciate the phone call, because, Hickey, if you've been around a while and you've seen multiple quarterbacks, like what Richard just said, right, he's seen more than just Rodgers and just Favre, I do think it makes it easier, but if, like, for example, Ryan Horvat, he's not the oldest guy in the world, I'm sure he remembers a little bit of Favre, but his main quarterback, his life has been Aaron Rodgers, and when I follow Ryan Horvat on social media, who's a Packers fan, he's like, oh, I'm rooting for Rodgers this year with the Jets.

That's what Ryan Horvat said, so I wonder if age plays a role in this as well. Well, I guess also too, it depends, I guess, how you view Aaron Rodgers, there's a thought that the organization kind of screwed him by not getting that another wide receiver and drafting Jordan Love, so you can absolutely look at Aaron Rodgers as a quote-unquote victim, if you will, and think, okay, you know what, the team didn't really do right by him, so now he's going somewhere else, and I don't really see him in a bad light, so I could point to other areas of the team that let him down, not just Aaron Rodgers. Now, the flip side, you could say, well, Aaron Rodgers didn't do enough with the talent, I view him more as a villain, and like we just heard, he held us hostage, us being the Packers and the fan base, and now you're relieved Aaron Rodgers is out there. Yeah, the great miscalculation from Brian Gudekunz, because it is a GM's job to draft eventual replacements, even if it's a franchise legend, he didn't calculate at all that Rodgers is going to win another MVP, let alone two MVPs, and you look back, you could say, yeah, they should have gotten another number one wide receiver, other years they could have patched up the defense, but you look at it recently with those MVP seasons, and I know Packers fans will tell me about the special teams and the problems with the special teams, but you look at those last two playoff performances for Aaron Rodgers, the offense let the team down. You look at the NFC title game, Brady was throwing interceptions left and right, and the Packers in the second half had the ball, how many times we've done this, right? They were down five, two times with the ball, three and out, three and out, and then at the end, everyone crushes the floor, because it was stupid taking that field goal there to make it a five-point game and give the ball back to Tom Brady, but the offense was stalling once again, and then you look at that game up against the 49ers in the second round, they scored one touchdown, one touchdown, so it's tough when you win back-to-back MVPs to move off of someone.

I know it's revisionist history to say, oh, they should have just moved off of him after the 49ers, but what also can make this easier is with the way that last year ended, it felt like it was time to go, and if Rogers didn't want to be there, which was clear, even though he signed an extension and he wasn't happy, then a split was needed, but even with that being said, I wonder if the Packer fan says, yeah, Bleep Rogers, or if they go, like Hickey kind of brought up, no, they defend Rogers, and they have an emotional attachment where they still want to see him do well for this season. Let's go to Matt in Wisconsin next up on the Zach Gelb show. Matt, what do you got? Matt, Brian, how are you guys? We're doing great.

What's shaking? Well, I was chiming in on that as a Packer fan as well, and just as old as Richard actually, actually a year older, so I saw everything with Brett Favre. This is Brett Favre 2.0, nothing more, nothing less.

He got tired of the organization, started talking about retirement or moving on, finally does so, and last time when that happened, the fan base was pretty mad at him and a good majority was rooting against him and went out of their way to watch Jets and then later Viking games. I'll be doing the same thing. And you'll be rooting against him is what you're saying?

Absolutely. Oh and 17, I want both years. Every year he's playing.

I love that answer, Richard. It's not just, oh yeah, I'll be rooting against him. I want him to go oh and 17.

Now I'll just go out on a limb here, Hickey. I don't think Rogers like Favre is going to wind up after the Jets on the Minnesota Vikings. This feels like this is Aaron Rogers' last stop with the JTS Jets, Jets, Jets.

Now you just rolled your eyes at me. You don't believe that? I mean I would think so too, but can we sit here and honestly predict and say we know exactly what Aaron Rogers is going to do? Now he's under contract for, he's not a free agent until 2025, right? Yes, this was, last year was year one of that three-year extension. This is going to be year two.

Kirk Cousins is on the move next year. I was just going to say. I think I'm with you, this is the last stop, but like are you saying 100% conviction? No, because I'm not predicting Aaron Rogers saying anything 100%.

Let me revise that. 99.9% that the Jets are his last stop. That would be quite the story, Ark. Going back to Minnesota, playing with Justin Jefferson. You heard about Justin Jefferson maybe leaving.

I think he'll stay if Aaron Rogers is coming to town. I would think that's a safe bet as well, but I'm not going to be sitting here telling you that I expect Aaron Rogers to wind up doing a skull chant and starting to wear the purple Vikings gear. Are you a fan of the skull chant, by the way?

Yes. Because right when I said that, you started to do the skull chant. It's sick. All in unison, it sounds very cool.

That was actually pretty good. They do in Minnesota a great job timing-wise. Maybe it was because I was living in Philadelphia when those fans went to the Rocky statue and started doing the skull chant on the Rocky statue before they just got destroyed in that game, in the NFC title game a bunch of years ago. I've never been a big fan of the skull chant. Nothing against the Minnesota Vikings organization. I like a lot of players on that team, but the skull chant has just never resonated with me. I love good choreography from fans.

They nail it. 8-5-5-2-1-2 for CBS. Let's go to Franco in San Diego next up on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, how's it going, Zach? Doing great.

What do you got for me? Well, I feel for the, for the Packers fans. Let me tell you, I'm a diehard diner fan. And I went through this when they cut Joe Montana. And quite frankly, most diner friends, you know, we were rooting for Joe the whole way around and straight up when they went head to head, I was rooting for Joe. You kind of want to see that guy kind of get over the hill and not exactly the same thing, but in a way it was because at the end of the day, the organization pushed both of them out. And as fans, you have an attachment. You've known these guys for 10, 15, 20 years. You want to see them succeed in their second phase. And I have a feeling that most true Green Bay fans will be wanting to see Aaron do well and cap off his career that way. Franco, appreciate the time. Thanks for making the call. 8-5-5-2-1-2 for CBS.

So you know what makes it so difficult? And like I said earlier, when Brady was playing against the Patriots, I wanted the Patriots to win. I'm a Patriot fan first, even though Tom Brady is my favorite football player and my favorite quarterback of all time. But the two names that we've mentioned in similar circumstances are Brady and Montana.

Now Rogers is easily going to get first ballot, going to don the, the gold jacket. He's only won one Super Bowl. He's only been to one Super Bowl.

Now don't get me wrong. He's still an all time great, but I think there's a different level of emotional attachment when you have a guy in Joe Montana that won four Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers and a guy like Tom Brady that won six for the New England Patriots. Even though one Super Bowl is extremely important and there is an emotional attachment that Packers fans have for Aaron Rogers, it's in a different playing field when we talk about Brady on Montana, which is how often those guys did win. Let me go to Kurt in Wisconsin next up on CBS Sports Radio.

Kurt, what do you got? Yeah, Aaron Rogers totally got screwed by the team and you hit it on the head when Gudekus didn't expect him to come out and win that MVP and he had A-gon headspace. And I'm going to watch every test game because Rogers is going to go down there and do a great job. So you'll be actively going out of your way to root for the Jets this year. Like, do you care what the Packers do this season? I do, but I have a feeling part of me hopes that love falls on his face. Why is that?

Just because it gives him vindication? All the Rogers fans say, yep, he told you he got clowns. Gotcha. You know, you sounds a lot like Kurt, but you know Bart Winkler, the radio host in Milwaukee? Yeah.

Oh yeah. You sound a lot like Bart Winkler and he can't stand Aaron Rogers, but you guys have very similar voices. Thank you very much. You're not Bart Winkler just to make sure, correct? No, I'm not.

Okay, there you go. Kurt, good stuff. Appreciate the phone call. Hickey, didn't that guy sound like Bart Winkler?

I 100% thought that was Bart Winkler. You paying attention here? Sorry, should I screen the phone calls?

Did you hear Kurt in Wisconsin? Not when he's on with you. No screen calls. Great. Okay. Well, that's not your fault.

We could probably use someone else to help you out around there, but that's above my pay grade. But the guy, Kurt, pull that phone call. I want to send that to Bart. That guy, Kurt, sounded like a spitting image of Bart Winkler. He knew he was, but said he wasn't Bart Winkler. Let's go to Trace in Green Bay next up on CBS Sports Radio.

Trace, go ahead. Hey Zach, so I heard you talk about Aaron Rodgers and saying you want to hear from perspective of like a 20 year old. I'm 24. I lived in near Green Bay my whole life, been a Packer fan. Know a little bit about Brett Favre, but pretty much just Aaron Rodgers. I appreciate everything he did for your organization. He obviously winning all the MVPs, but at the end of the day, I think it was time to move on.

I'm sick of the drama with it. I'll pay attention to the Jets games and just kind of see what's going on. But at the end of the day, we're Packers fans and I think that majority of us were ready to move on. I feel like it was 10 years ago where he said he was on the back nine of his career and he just keeps coming out. So I think it was time and you know, he went six and 10 as a starter his first year too.

So we got to be a little patient with Jordan Love, but it was time and if he does well in New York, good for him, but it ain't really going to mean much to me. Well, Trace, I really do appreciate the perspective. Thanks so much. That's exactly what I was looking for. So thank you for contributing to the conversation. I wanted to see if that answer be a little bit different. Someone in their forties and their fifties that have seen multiple quarterbacks, but when you get someone that's 24 years old, sure, you know who Brett Favre is, but for the most part, you only were able to watch Aaron Rodgers. And I would have thought, Hickey, that the answer from someone that's in their twenties, their early twenties, like Trace was, he said he was 24 years old. I would have thought that perspective would have been, yeah, it's going to be tough not to root for Aaron Rodgers, but that was the complete antithesis of the thought that I just gave you a few moments ago. I think it goes back to like not even age or more again, like how you view Aaron Rodgers the last three years, do you think he got screwed or do you think he was a guy that, you know, was done wrong by the organization or do you think he held them hostage and kind of hurt the organization? So I think it's, I would say it's more that than just, oh, I only watch Aaron Rodgers again, root for him. If you feel like he kind of screwed the team by being selfish and didn't get the most out of the talent, you're not exactly, I would say, heartbroken that he's now gone. If you're a Packers fan, are you rooting for Aaron Rodgers to do well this year?

And if you're not a Packers fan, do you think Packers fans should want to see Rodgers succeed in New York? 855-212-4CBS, 855-212-4227. We will take a time out. It is the Zach Gelb Show on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the Zach Gelb Show.

Oh yeah, it is the Zach Gelb Show coast to coast on CBS Sports Radio. We have a poll question out there, late conversation that we've just been having. Should the Packers fan be rooting for Aaron Rodgers this year?

Yes or no? 58.3% on the early returns say that no, the Packer fan should not be rooting for Aaron Rodgers this upcoming season. We've got a lot of reaction on the phone, so let's get back to them.

855-212-4CBS, 855-212-4227. Let's go back out to Green Bay. John is next up on the Zach Gelb Show on CBS Sports Radio. John, what's happening? Hey, how's it going? Doing great.

What do you got? Yeah, I'm 59. I went through the whole fire thing and everybody went crazy and bought a jersey when he went to Minnesota and I will never buy an importance jersey ever and that's going to be the same thing with Rodgers. I love them both. There's just no way that I could support a quarterback from another team. But let me ask you this, so I know that clearly Favre went to the Jets before he ended up going to Minnesota. When that's in your division, it's totally different because the Minnesota Vikings are your rival. When he's playing at a different conference, that still is a big deal to you in terms of if you watch Rodgers, you're not going to root for him, you're not going to cheer for him just because he's on another team even though he's at a conference and the Jets have done nothing against the Green Bay Packers.

Right. When he played for the Jets, they were one game from the playoffs that year. I think he got hurt at the end of the year, didn't he?

Yes. We're talking about Brett Favre, but I'm asking you about Rodgers. Rodgers is playing for the Jets this year. I understand your point. When Favre is playing for the Vikings, obviously you're not going to root for him, but Rodgers playing for the Jets, it doesn't mean okay.

You don't want to see him succeed at all. Well, I mean, I'm not going to bash him or anything like that because I have a jersey. I'll never get rid of the jersey ever, but I just can't support it, you know?

Gotcha. And it's totally a fine point because there are a lot of people, and I understand it, where you root for the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back of the jersey. And yes, we all love players.

There's all iconic players that play for your franchise, but sometimes it does feel like you're cheating. If you're watching Aaron Rodgers, who divorced your team, go play for another team, and then you're supporting him as well. I'm just going at it from being a Patriot fan.

And I know it's different. Rodgers, Hall of Famer, Rodgers won a Super Bowl, but Brady, he won six with the Patriots. He's the greatest quarterback, in my opinion, of all time and many others. And it was just so tough to watch someone for 20 years, and then he goes and plays for the other team. I'm not miserable when he lost on a Monday in Tampa Bay, but when he was going through that playoff run, yeah, there was a part of me that as long as he wasn't playing the Patriots, the Patriots didn't make the playoffs that year, I was like, yeah, let's go, Brady.

Let's go, PB12. And then, after he won one, I was like, okay, I need to see him go win another one in Tampa Bay. Let's go to Steve in Green Bay next up on CBS Sports Radio.

Steve, what do you got? I got where I really would like to see him lose, actually. I mean, he held the team hostage a lot lately. His salary kept them from being able to get some good players. He was a great player for us. I'm 64 years old, so I mean, I'm back to the Bart Starr era where that's truly a great quarterback. And Brett Favre, he wasn't in so much drama, and he was still about the whole team, but Aaron Rodgers has always been about the individual accolades, not about a team thing. It was like me, MVP, you know, being, you know, he's all about himself. So I'm not rooting for him. I hope he falls flat on his face.

And that's totally fine if that's the way you want to operate it, Steve. Thanks for the phone call now. Favre had a lot of drama towards the end, obviously, in Green Bay. And for Aaron Rodgers, Hickey, I wonder if it's just recent history. Rodgers in Green Bay, not until they drafted Jordan Love did I ever feel like there was a lot of drama coming from Aaron Rodgers.

It was really once they drafted Jordan Love where that's where the drama really took off. So whenever the last call just said, oh, I go back to Bart Starr, that was a real great quarterback. Aaron Rodgers is a real great quarterback. But yeah, I can understand from a Green Bay Packer fan perspective, if you just got tired of it and sick of it at the end, no matter whose side you were on, who you thought was in the wrong, who you thought were in the right, when it's each and every year, you got to go through this song and dance of when is Rodgers going to show up?

And all of it was voluntary things that he didn't have to show up for, but then he shows up for those things in New York and he's like, oh, these are the greatest six weeks I've had in a long time. Well, you created that drama towards the end in Green Bay, even though you didn't ask for it, the way that he handled the drafting of Jordan Love is really when the drama started with Aaron Rodgers. And as we know in this world, that recency bias does reign supreme. So even though it's only three years out of his long career, those three years are really the last thing memory people have because it's the most recent in the last three off seasons. Will Aaron return? Will he retire?

Does he want to be here? And even though it's only three years because you kind of live it every day, it feels a lot longer than that. And also a big difference, because I keep on comparing it to me with the way that I handle Brady's departure. When you have beef, when you have confrontation with a coach and a player or a front office and a player, winning cures all. The Packers were winning in the regular season, but they weren't winning in the post season. So if you're not winning in the post season and you have an older quarterback, even though you're still playing at a great level outside of this year and he had the thumb injury and all that, it is easier to say, I'm sick of the drama, let's end this stuff and let's just get what we could get for Aaron Rodgers. Especially when you can point the finger at Aaron Rodgers each of the last three years for why the season ended, right? Last year against, or how bad he played against Detroit, two years ago at home against the 49ers to score one offensive touchdown. And three years ago, if you want to talk about and get on the floor again for his play calling down the stretch in the fourth quarter, Tom Brady gave the Packers a gift of three interceptions and you couldn't capitalize with the MVP of the league at home in the NFC title game. So it also, again, doesn't help when you can easily point the finger and blame Aaron Rodgers as reason number one, why the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons all ended before they should, it all ended in disappointment. And it's weird because the ebbs and flows of this relationship for a while, we all looked at Rodgers, said the organization was screwing him over.

And then at the time, a lot of people are furious about them drafting Jordan Love, but towards the end, you can't just keep on blaming the special teams or the defense when your quarterback, your MVP quarterback against Tampa Bay, and then also the 49ers, and then even that last game of the season up against Detroit didn't live up to what you were paying him to do in the biggest spots. 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS, 8-5-5, 2-1-2, 42-27. Let's go to David in San Diego next up on the Zach Gelb show.

David, go ahead. Well, I couldn't disagree with you guys more. I've been a Packer fan since 66.

I've seen them all too. He blamed Rodgers for the losses. He had a broken thumb on his passing and three rookie receivers that led the league in drops. No one mentions that.

Makeshift O-line all year. No one mentions that. Defense, 27th against the run. No one mentions that. 21st against the pass.

No one mentions that. It's all Aaron Rodgers' fault. Go to the Brady game against Tampa? Who got burned for a touchdown at the half? Kevin King. And that was the deciding factor of that game. David, David, David, David. Oh, come on. In the second half, David, David, David, David, you talk, then I talk, and then you'll talk.

That's how this works. In the second half of that game, they had the ball twice down five. Three and out, three and out. Against who? Against Tampa Bay.

Top flight, stunning defense. Once again, three and out, three and out, down five. And Brady's never had three and out? Not with the game on the line. Not with the game on the line. And then when they were driving down eight, when they were driving down eight, when they were driving down eight, he sold again.

Did they not? Who got the call when the game was on the line, and we said, okay, the Packers stopped. And Brady wins the game. Who got the call? The guy who always got the call, starting with the talk roll all the way through the Super Bowl. Tom Brady. The Packers had a buck fifty left, and probably about the fifty, maybe forty-five, and had a shot to win it.

And what happened? And are you confident that Rodgers gets the job done there? If they get the ball back, does he get the job done?

You can't say without a doubt. Hang on, I'll show Rodgers with no time left, seventy yards out, win a game. Yeah, I'm not saying he's never had a clutch drive, but come on, the last few years he wasn't holding up his end to the bargain in those big games. Now let me ask you this, David, David, David, David, let me ask you this, David, David, David, David, David, David, David, David, David, David, David, let me ask you this, let me ask you this, what about the 49ers game when he had Allen Lazard wide open and he got greedy going to Devontae Adams, only scoring one touchdown of that game. Great performance, right? But, but, but you agree?

Didn't I hear you say you agree? Five starters out of offense, two starters out of defense. You take the Niners and take five starters out of offense, and two starters out of defense, give the Packers full strength, the Packers win going away. Hate to break it to you, hate to break it to you, and thanks for the phone call, David, Brady's won a lot of games with missing guys. He missed Gronk for an entire season, still won a Super Bowl, was down 28 to 3 in a Super Bowl, came back without Rob Gronkowski. Aaron Rodgers, a great quarterback, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer, but if you're just going to sit there towards the end when there are other excuses, but the things that you can't make excuses for, up against Tampa Bay, 3-and-out, 3-and-out, down 5. Driving, down 8, they stalled again in the red zone in that game up against Tampa. NFC championship game, the great quarterback, one touchdown drive. You don't have any excuses in those games. All the other years? Sure. God bless you.

You're probably right, you had a lot of merit. Those last three years on Rodgers in the big spot. Let's go to Brett in Wisconsin, next up on CBS Sports Radio. Brett, what do you got? Hey, how's it going tonight? Doing great, Brett. Well, good.

We're going to keep this one without screaming back and forth. I like that, Brett. I like your cool vibe.

Sounds good. But I'm in lacrosse, diehard Packer fan, born and raised. I bleed green and gold, and it dictates my mood. Is Spotted Cal your favorite beer, by the way, just wondering? It is good, but I also like to be a summer shandy. Ooh, I like a summer shandy too. But okay, Brett, what do you got?

I also have to disagree. I would say that I am going to follow Rodgers. I'm excited about getting a Jets-Rogers jersey.

Ooh. Now, that's an interesting point, Brett, because I still followed Brady when Brady went to Tampa Bay. I was still pulling for Tom Brady. I could not go the jersey route. You would never see me a Patriot fan wearing a Brady Buccaneers jersey. You're going to buy a Rodgers Jets jersey even as a Packer fan? Yep. Huh?

How about that? The pricing is amazing for Jets jerseys, by the way, compared to a Packers jersey. Second, I'm going to wear it proudly. I just got a new job today for a local news station, and we are taking eight of the Jets games on our station due to the fact of Aaron Rodgers. And I'm excited to wear the jersey out and basically taunt my own team of the Packers.

Well, that's the other thing, Brett. Just because you have a player that was very popular for a long time and now we don't know where his popularity is at, I will venture to say, even though I'm not a big ratings guy when it comes to TV, that the ratings for the games that are shown locally of Aaron Rodgers with the Jets are going to be through the roof. Because I do think this is split hickey where there's half the fan base that wants to see Aaron Rodgers fail miserably, and there's another half that's still going to root for Aaron Rodgers, but they'll all be watching. I don't think it's just, oh, I'm never going to be watching it. I'm just not going to care. And when you're polarizing like that, Rodgers divorce and Rodgers split was in Wisconsin, whether it's national games or you get a local games on those ratings, I would imagine it'd be enormous because you're going to be curious. You're always wondering what your ex is up to, especially when the breakup is that fresh, right?

Whether you're rooting for him against him, you're going to be watching either way. I'm curious. Why is Brett want to turn his own fans? It's a good question. I hung up on him.

So like, you could roof for again, again, it's obviously very split. You don't imagine the answer would be, I don't think I would troll my own fan base. He probably feels as if there is a lot of fans that have turned on Rogers and it's one of those, be careful what you wish for. And he's clearly a Roger supporter. So that's why he's going to talk to his own fans. That's the best stab I could think of that one. I guess, but then you're still losing in the sense that of Rogers is bawling out, let's say, and Jordan Love is struggling.

It's up. You sure listen to me. I said, I don't want to Rogers to go. Well, he's clearly at a point where he's saying bleep, the Packers. That's the point that Brett's at. I guess he's so annoyed.

And sometimes there's players that leave your organization and get traded where it makes you want to just give up on the team. It happens. Let's go to Adam in Wisconsin. Next up on CBS sports radio. Adam, what say you? Hey guys, how are we doing? Doing great. Adam, what do you got? Nothing. Um, so I'm on the side.

I, yes, I'm going to be like a last caller and move to Rogers with the jets. How old do you, by the way, Adam, if you don't mind me asking, uh, I am 35 going to be 36 on Friday. So you've seen far happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. So I think like all good things must come to an end. Right. And I think the way I wish I'm a diehard Rogers family carried himself towards the end of it. Yes.

Was it exhausting? Absolutely. Um, but I can't help but blame the front office for getting to the 49ers NFC championship game. You draft a backup running back and AJ Dylan in the second round, you draft it, uh, his replacement Jordan love. Um, why would you sign Rogers if you were trading Davante Adams?

Um, I'm all for it. If we were going to trade him, let's get the most for, you know, but I think a lot of that was so much of the attention was on Rogers that they almost, I don't want to say forgot about Adams, but they weren't able to get the Adams deal done. Cause you had the Rogers thing hanging over their head and then Adams eventually said, okay, I'm not getting treated with the respect that I should be. And I'm kind of sick of the drama as well.

So I'll go closer to home. And he left money on the table from all the reports that I've read. And he got more, he would've got more money with Green Bay than compared to what he got in, in Las Vegas. Yeah. And that's, yeah. I mean, he definitely did leave money on the table.

Now. I don't know if some of that is good to kids and it, and it not getting done the year prior, making them go out there on this final year of his deal and saying, Hey, you got to prove it one more year. Almost like those Davante Adams talks never should have got there.

He's you know, he's a top five wide receiver, top three, however you want to split it. Um, so I want to see Jordan loves, you know, I'm a season ticket. I'm on the wait list for the season tickets.

Excited to see where we go, but as well, I'm definitely gonna be rooting on the number eight for New York. Yeah. And Adam, I understand that cause I think it's tough. You love the player for that long. And then he's going somewhere else. It won't surprise me. As I've said with the way that I saw Brady leave, even though it's a little bit different where I wanted to see Tom Brady do well when he left the team, but there will be some in the fan base. And I think it is split that will say I was kind of sick of the drama and I'm ready to move on and I'm ready to move past it.

And I don't want to see the guy do well. Last one. Let's go right before we take the break, Josh and Youngstown next up on CBS sports radio. Josh, what do you got? Hey, how's it going?

Doing great, Josh, go ahead. Big time Browns fan, but I wanted to say, you know, if I was a Packers fan, I would not follow Rogers and root for him with the jets. First of all, he, he did the fan base dirty for the last five years. It was nothing like chaos and drama with him. And you never knew if he was going to stay or go. And, and, you know, he's, he's a me guy. He's not a team guy.

And those types of guys are cancers for an organization. Well, you could say that Josh, but you are a Browns fan. You would have loved to have Aaron Rogers the last 15 to 20 years. Cause if you would've got one Superbowl, I think you'd put up with all the drama that came with it towards the end.

Right? Hey, I'll take the team we got right now, my man. Okay. Well, remember then who you're supporting there to Sean Watson with all that accused of him off the field.

I read that the Aaron Rogers drama then the Deshaun Watson drama. But if you want the team that you have this, that's fine. And you know, I've, I've never rooted against the Browns.

Brown's kind of been those like lovable loser team that you want to see eventually turn it around, but um, yeah, to each its own. Do you hear that? That is the sound of BMW performance without a single piston or cylinder, a generation of all electric vehicles designed and built like no other. The BMW IX, I seven and I four revolutionize every drive into a thrilling opportunity to feel the pure rush of BMW 100% electric.

But isn't that what you would expect from the ultimate electric driving machine. Take advantage of exceptional lease and finance offers today. Hey, you're listening to the Zach Gelb show. Another day is in the books and we're taking stock of the sports world. It's time to find out who's up and who's down. Let's end the day right and hit the closing bell.

Only on the Zach Gelb show. Let's start things off. This is on Saturday evening. Yankees Red Sox. I was at this game at Yankee stadium. This is the legendary play by play man and John Sterling after a Justin Turner foul ball made its way into the broadcast booth. This courtesy of the Yankees radio network WFN. Now the three two swung on a pop foul back here. It really hit me.

I didn't know it was coming back that far. So once again, it'll be a three two and Holmes ready to deal a ground ball to third. Donaldson squares throws the first in time ball game over. Yankees win.

The Yankees win. You know, that foul ball actually hit me. It kind of glanced off my forehead.

So I took one for the team. OK, John, my best driver game is Kyle who wants to know if you're all right. Are you OK, John?

Yes, I am. OK, just a glance. Just a glancing blow. Just a glancing blow. Oh, my goodness gracious.

Eighty four years young for John Sterling. That's remarkable, Hickey, where he's like, ow, ow, and then right back into the play by play call. It was edited a little bit, but I listened to the entire thing. It was like the ball didn't even hit him. But you see the ball hit him on the video that they put out. That's wild. The video is amazing because foul ball and also you hear the boom boom. That is unbelievable.

I have never seen anything like that. That's true, like a one in a million sort of foul ball into the booth. Now, I was at the game and I saw the foul ball went high up there.

But you lose sight. I was like 10 rows off the plate. And then later I hear the audios going on. I go, oh, that must have been the ball late in the game.

I didn't know it went into the booth. So that's remarkable. Give a stock up to John Sterling.

Nick Taylor wins the Canadian Open, first Canadian to do so in 69 years. Give him a stock up. A stock down to this baby Gronk's dad who's trying to tell you that his kid's the next great superstar. Can we just let kids be kids? I think the kid's like 10 years old and you're trying to make him this big icon. I've always said, and we don't know if the kid's any good, I always felt weird when they want us to talk about Bronny James before he committed to USC or when they wanted us to talk about Arch Manning before he committed to Texas.

Can we try to let these kids actually be kids? So I'm giving a stock down to the father of baby Gronk. And finally, I'm going to go back to the positive. Amanda Nunez over the weekend won her fight.

And then afterwards she did retire from the UFC. So give a stock up to Amanda Nunez. All right. And that's the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. Sorry if we can't, if we did not get to you. 855-212-4CBS. We'll get to you tomorrow for sure. Just make sure you call early and we'll get to you.

855-212-4227. Big thank you to Hot Take Kiki, George Carl, Amman Green as well. You can always give me a follow interact with me on social media at Zach Gelb at CBS Sports Radio.

Should Packers fans be rooting for Aaron Rodgers this year? Right now, 68.5% do say no. Good participation on the phones today on social media as well. We'll be back tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.

Shane Beamer is scheduled to join us from South Carolina. We out. Bye-bye.

Peace. Do you hear that? That is the sound of BMW performance without a single piston or cylinder. A generation of all electric vehicles designed and built like no other. The BMW iX, i7 and i4 revolutionize every drive into a thrilling opportunity to feel the pure rush of BMW 100% electric. But isn't that what you'd expect from the ultimate electric driving machine? Take advantage of exceptional lease and finance offers today.