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Former NFL quarterback and current analyst Mark Sanchez joins the Dan Patrick Show to discuss expectations for Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Trey Hendrickson’s contract situation in Cincinnati and more. #DanPatrickShow #NBCSports #NFL
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more phone calls coming up talk some football mark Sanchez NFL and Fox analyst former NFL quarterback let me start with the Steelers best case scenario for Pittsburgh this year is going to be what in your opinion well I got to check in Dan 6’2 and a quarter 245 getting a little heavier aren’t we yeah twins will do that to you and I’ve beenating carry him i might as well you should see me all right i’ve been carrying them a lot what was your playing weight i was like 228 to 235 right in there so we’re good 10 pounds over yeah Brady still looks the same well I don’t want to sleep in a crypt and sell my soul to the devil and No I’m just kidding the dude’s in incredible shape um and hi to the Danets and you know what it’s really been i think it’s been celebrating my brackettology knowledge from the college basketball tournament and you know the parades and ribbon cutings and events i’m like America’s guest right now it’s incredible how much you know about college basketball a lot of good food um you know I might get gout the way I’m living like this this is nice you know no but for the Steelers shoot um it’s it’s such a unique situation right because they’re um they’re this bluecollar organization everything’s inhouse you know they they they they keep everything tight and they rarely go poach a superstar and add them to what they have going on it’s different you guys are talking about the sale of the Lakers and stuff well the Lakers are known to go grab a superstar and bring him under the Lakers banner and they’re still one of the most iconic brands around the world shhatil O’Neal um you know these different players that they brought lebron James um they made their name somewhere else so Aaron Rogers made his name somewhere else in a bluecollar city in Green Bay and then kind of outgrew that relationship I guess right they kind of parted mutually whatever goes to New York doesn’t work out perfectly tough media market and now he’s got to kind of be in this bluecollar town the only thing that bridges that gap because everybody’s so scared about that because there’s no numbers right now right nobody’s producing anything right now there’s no games so everybody’s just speculating like well can he fit in can he fit in culture fit culture fit he’s too counter culture he’s not one of us he’s not a Steeler you know and there’s a us versus them mentality when you’re with the Steelers look at the terrible towels look at all that right so they have that culture the only thing that bridges that gap is his production and if he produces the way he produced last year the last 10 games he was on a heater he single-handedly basically kept the Jets playoff hopes alive they lost about going back and watching some of their games they lost about three games just with special teams alone just field goal kicking specifically alone so those three games at the end of the year I mean I’m not like the president of Aaron Rogers fan club or anything but damn dude the guy played his ass off he threw for like 3,900 yards or just near uh whatever it was 28 touchdowns 11 picks the last 10 weeks was 18 touchdowns four picks i mean put it this way the Vikings would give if you could tell the Vikings right now JJ McCarthy is gonna have Aaron Rogers statline from last year 100% they would sign that deal in blood immediately immediately so I mean listen the guy did all that at 41 years old coming off of an Achilles with a defense that they thought was better and didn’t quite pan out a special teams that was rough you know to be nice about it i don’t I don’t dislike the move i think it’s I think it’s probably the right spot you’re always going to get a team that’s that’s tough hard-nosed bluecollar and they’re going to put you in good situations they’re going to handle all the media stuff they can handle some of the stuff you know yeah Aaron might say something here or there okay he’s a little different he’s not your average you know uh your candid line hey we got to bring our agame and we didn’t do that today that’s not his interview okay fine so what I think the culture of that place and his production most importantly can can bridge that gap and they can be successful yeah i think people have a problem with the person and not the player and that’s where I I always say to people you may not like that person but do you like the player because that’s that’s the bottom line the great equalizer is when you get on the field what can you do it’s like you know you may not like Shador Sanders personality but if he can play when he gets on the field that’s all that matters yes production breeds tolerance yes winning cures warts like that’s what happened that people allow a lot if their team’s winning i’m trying to understand what the Bengals are doing because it’s kind of counterculture that they’re all offense they’re going all in and we’re just going to score because it doesn’t seem like defense is a priority how does how does this work here’s my thing everybody seems to have to play by the same rules right everybody’s got the salary cap everybody has the same number of players that they can sign and certain teams just like we talked about culture whether it’s basketball or football the Steelers Lakers Bengals certain teams find themselves in these public kind of nasty negotiations and certain teams don’t the Bengals are notorious for this like it’s just always happen the Cowboys if Dak Prescott has a leaky faucet in his basement people find out about it it’s just kind of the way it is uh in New York you know no matter what you do trying to prove to your team that you know you’re this quarterback is about football and you’re trying to win games you go out to a dinner and happen to be with somebody famous well oh dude he’s just out on the town every night well is that the truth i don’t know so okay some of it’s regional coverage some of it’s the team some of it’s the organization the leadership and the culture within that place but let’s not forget Carson Palmer literally walked away from the game of football because he was so frustrated with this organization and they’ve notoriously underpaid some of their players or offered such low contracts that people are like “Dude I’m out of here.” Whether it’s Witworth and tackle or whoever you know guys are just like “Come on man.” Like and and everybody has to deal with it so I don’t understand but when we go back to production this guy’s producing better than anybody in the league the last couple years made a name for himself in New Orleans on his rookie contract played that contract out opposite of um Cam Jordan down there and gets a huge contract in Cincy and now it’s time for the next version of that contract the next iteration of that contract and it sounds like they’re upset over the length of the contract and the number but whatever it is I mean you can’t let you can’t let guys like that walk out of the building and um you know he’s not going to want to take too much less based on his production and if you’re going to pay all these other guys are you just going to score 50 points a game is it going to look like the old Big 12 you score 50 and give up 49 like I guess hold on your hat but this guy sure helps on defense and and gets your quarterback the ball back well your first round pick is not in camp either but you know an edge rusher as well so and it felt like you know what you get this guy who he was an underachiever in college but Stewart does have the potential hendrickson has proven that you know he’s he’s given you 17 and a half sacks and on average the last two years now you have some defense and you’ve got all of that offense i don’t care how much offense you got at some point you got to stop somebody and Cincinnati’s I mean this this philosophy is really counterculture um I also wanted to ask you about you start a rookie quarterback or that at what point do you get to now I’m going to put you in um how much damage can be done to a rookie quarterback when you get into a situation that maybe you shouldn’t be playing in yeah it’s a fragile psyche and um there’s there’s different ways to approach it obviously I have my own experience my experience is shaped off of the year before me being drafted when Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco make the playoffs as rookies before that it was rare for a rookie to just go out and start right carson Palmer waited behind Kita for a year you know and he was picked number one overall so that was kind of the mode before let him listen let him watch let him learn how do I come up with a pregame routine how do I how do I dress when we go on road trips uh what’s my routine at the hotel what do I eat all these kind of little things not just learning plays and positions and defensive fronts and blitzes you got a lot of other things to learn just an awareness thing so it depends on the player I think number one and then it depends largely on the supporting cast if you have the supporting cast that can carry the weight of a rookie when they don’t play as well as they should in certain situations and I was there I mean we were in a game against the Bills and I threw five interceptions and we almost kicked a game-winning field goal with Jay Feelely who’s now running for Congress apparently i got a message about that kind of crazy sorry but um we’re in the game with five turnovers i mean I’m not helping us win if anything they’re winning in spite of me so those kind of things are going to happen now if you have an established starter like a Russell Wilson or a Jameus Winston or whatever’s going on with the Giants and then they’re going to get their shot and if it doesn’t work out then you bring the rookie in to me that’s a little bit like free reps and less pressure and we’re not like trying for a playoff spot it’s almost like pickup basketball and there’s a very fine line i want you to go get the conditioning i want you to go get some shots off you’re going to get fouled a little harder than you probably should in a real game with true rules instead of people just calling their own fouls but I also don’t want you to develop a bunch of bad habits right i don’t want this to turn into an N1 mixtape where you’re just dribbling the ball all over the place thinking you’re the professor like it doesn’t work like that i want you to still play quarterback for our team and get some of these reps we’re going to watch all these reps after the year and then take the good from them keep moving on keep progressing so there’s different ways to approach it um but if you have the supporting cast that knows that’s mature enough to know and talented enough to know hey we’re going to have to pick up some slack for this guy who’s going to have a couple rough outings like some bad bad outings then okay and we’re not going to turn on him you can’t turn on him because as soon as you turn on him you lose the kid you know you got to remember these guys are 21 22 years old and the face of the franchise and they were just at a frat party you know going to invites and you know winning their bowl games and big man on campus and now you’re the face of a franchise you’re still 22 years old making all this money and you’re supposed to have the discernment and and uh you know intelligence of a Supreme Court justice and it’s just not reality you’re still a kid you just have a lot more money and a lot more access to really cool stuff and you got to be more mature than you’re really expected to be at that age so it’s uh it’s a tricky tricky situation i think it depends on the the player and the supporting cast what was that like you’ve thrown five interceptions what’s it like when that next play comes in and it’s a pass well yeah it’s it’s so funny i was of the mind that like just get me another quick completion even if it’s a called run and we have like a little bubble screen or something attached to the run just get me the ball in my hand so I could feel the little dimples on that Wilson ball on the Duke and just flick it to somebody quickly and get the taste out of my mouth and move on and then I would always revert back to a Pete Carroll story that he told me and um he’s like “You can’t be afraid to throw um the the next interception.” Like you got to keep fighting you got to keep chucking the ball not recklessly but you got to keep chucking the ball and he went to a speech or a event with Rick Barry i think you too literally that you weren’t afraid afraid to throw an interception that day no you can’t well very funny Dan no but he went to this talk with Rick Barry i’ll say it fast but I know we got to go but Rick Barry basically gives this speech and Pete’s a young coach and he runs over to him and he says “Rick Rick I just I love what you said i’m a big fan.” What do you do when you miss your first 10 shots and Rick Barry immediately like I mean he was known to be pretty brash and he was kind of a dick you know but he was a hell of a competitor and great basketball player but he he basically looked at him and said you know I’m a whatever percentage shooter like 40ome percent shooter he goes “If I miss my first 10 shots you better look out because the next 10 are going in.” You know what I mean like that was his mentality yeah so Pete used to give us that speech and remind us listen you go out and throw three picks in the first quarter well you’re a three to one touchdown to interception kind of guy that’s the kind of quarterbacks we groom here so if you throw three right away out of out of the gate the defense better watch out you know what I mean that day maybe not against Buffalo but it all evens out good to catch up with you i hope it’s a great summer and we’ll uh catch up with you soon again appreciate you guys thank you thank you that’s Mark Sanchez NFL and Fox analyst former NFL quarterback we’ll take a break last call for phone calls what we learn what’s in store tomorrow right after this