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Fred Toucher Jokes A.J. Hawk is the Unsung Hero of Pat McAfee’s Aaron Rodgers Interview

“I watched the thing twice, and the second time I watched it, I just wanted to pretend to be A.J. Hawk’s head.”

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Nearly 500,000 people tuned into The Pat McAfee Show Wednesday to hear what Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers would have to say about his future. Many were locked into the statements Rodgers was making, but 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Fred Toucher was focused on something else.

“I watched the interview, and I gotta give it to A.J. Hawk,” Toucher — who was absent from the show Thursday due to vocal rest, but called in anyway — said. “That guy is a presence. The way that he would slyly smile when he recognized names from the Packers.”

Co-host Rich Shertenlieb joked about the production value of the show, joking that “Pat McAfee is 100 miles away, and you can see his whole body, but then just from the chin to the forehead of A.J. Hawk”.

“Let’s take this caveman, and have him really get up in there, and have him say nothing the entire time,” Toucher continued. “I watched the thing twice, and the second time I watched it, I just wanted to pretend to be A.J. Hawk’s head. When he would make like a sly smile like ‘I recognize that name. I know that name, too’.”

When a producer joked that Hawk was “the color guy next to Bob Uecker in Major League” Toucher agreed saying “that’s exactly who he is, except he doesn’t say ‘Jesus Christ, these guys suck’.”

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Waddle & Silvy: Scott Hanson Told Us to Lose His Number

“We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”

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Aaron Rodgers took immense pride in the fact that he told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter to “lose his number” while discussing his future earlier this week on The Pat McAfee Show. ESPN 1000’s Waddle & Silvy said they’ve experienced similar treatment from guests on their radio show.

While discussing the Rodgers interview with McAfee, the pair admitted that NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson once told their producer to stop trying to book him for interviews on the program.

“I believe the presentation was ‘Do me a favor: lose my number after this interview’,” Tom Waddle said. “So he tried to do it politely. Scott Hanson did. Get out of here. That concept is foreign to me. How about ‘Hey, next time you text me, my schedule is full. I can’t do it, but thanks for thinking of me’. ‘Lose my number?’ You ain’t the President, for Christ’s sake. I’m saying that to anyone who would say that. ‘Lose my number?’ We’re all in the communication business. I just don’t know — why be rude like that to people? What does that accomplish? You know what it accomplished? We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”

Co-host Mark Silverman then mentioned that the show once tried to book Hansen and NFL Red Zone host Andrew Siciliano together in the same block, with the idea of doing a trivia game to see who the supreme Red Zone host was. Siciliano agreed, but Hansen declined.

The pair also confirmed that an NFL Network personality had told them to lose their number, but couldn’t remember if it was Rich Eisen or not.

Silverman later joked that maybe Hanson was getting a new phone with a new number, and was politely sharing with the producer that he could lose the current phone number because he would share his new number in short order.

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Seth Payne: Aaron Rodgers ‘Makes Gross Inaccuracies’ When Calling Out Media

“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations.”

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Aaron Rodgers is always mad at the media for the inaccurate things he says they report, but according to Sports Radio 610 morning man Seth Payne, no one is more inaccurate than the quarterback himself.

Friday morning, Payne and his partner Sean Pendergast played audio of Aaron Rodgers responding to a question about a list of players he provided to the Jets demanding they sign. Rodgers called the idea that he would make demands “so stupid” and chastised ESPN reporter Dianna Russini, who was the first to report it.

“Now to be clear, Dianna Russini didn’t say demands in her tweet. She said wishlist,” Pendergast clarified.

They also played a clip of Russini responding to Rodgers on NFL Live saying that she stands by her reporting and it is her job to reach out to confirm that it is true.

“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations,” Seth Payne said.

He added that if Rodgers is being serious, he is doing some serious nitpicking. He claims that he didn’t give the Jets a list, but that he spoke glowingly about former teammates and told the Jets executives that he met with who he enjoyed playing with during his career.

Payne joked that maybe he wrote down the names in a circle pattern so that it was not a list. Pendergast added that he could have had Fat Head stickers on his wall that he pointed to instead of writing anything at all.

In Payne’s mind, this is a case of Russini catching stray frustration. Neither in her initial tweet nor in any subsequent media appearance did she use the phrase “demands”.

“What he’s actually responding to in that instance is Pat McAfee is the one that described it as a list of demands,” Seth Payne said.

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Trey Wingo: ‘I Don’t Really Care’ What Was Said About My Aaron Rodgers Report

“I knew the information was good. It was just a matter of letting it play out.”

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Don’t expect Trey Wingo to apologize to anyone for tweeting that he heard Aaron Rodgers was headed to the New York Jets 48 hours before the Packers quarterback showed up on The Pat McAfee Show. Wingo says he knew he had good information.

Wingo now hosts the Half Forgotten History podcast and serves as a brand ambassador for Caesars. He told CBS Sports Radio’s Zach Gelb that he never let jokes or criticisms about why no announcement had been made bother him.

“Look, I’m sort of in a way where I don’t really care, you know? Say whatever you want. I knew the information was solid,” Wingo said on Thursday night. “The same sources that told me that if Randall Cobb doesn’t sign in 2021 he’s not going back there, it was the same person that told me all the other stuff that happened around the 2021 draft – same people, rather. So, I knew the information was good. It was just a matter of letting it play out.”

Rodgers has made a point of telling Pat McAfee over and over again that he keeps a tight circle and those people know not to betray his trust. No NFL insider on any network has the correct information.

Either Trey Wingo is part of the circle or there is someone in the circle that doesn’t mind betraying Aaron’s trust.

Wingo added that he expects the deal between the Packers and Jets to get done by next week.

“I think it’s gonna be faster than you think,” he said. “The same sources that were telling me what was gonna happen, were saying they were hearing Rodgers was gonna be in New York by next week.”

The Jets and Packers still have to work out the terms of compensation. Rodgers told McAfee this week that the Packers are digging in their heels on getting fair value in return. Time will tell if Wingo’s timetable is correct.

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