It might not have been a darkness retreat, however Aaron Rodgers and WFAN’s Gregg Giannotti had their correct cleanse Tuesday morning of their “most awkward, horrible” interview final 12 months.
Rodgers joined “Boomer & Gio” for a reside hit throughout Jets coaching camp and the trio seemingly buried the hatchet after final 12 months’s cringefest.
“Aaron, thanks. This was so significantly better than final 12 months. I couldn’t overlook about that interview final 12 months for like a full 12 months and I’m like cleansed now,” Giannotti mentioned after their almost 30-minute interview from the Jets’ facility in Florham Park, N.J. “I wanted this, so thanks.”
Giannotti and associate Boomer Esiason interviewed Rodgers final 12 months upfront of his first season with Gang Inexperienced and the phase went about in addition to the quarterback’s crew debut.
Rodgers arrived late to the interview attributable to visitors, which additionally had him in a foul temper.
That set the temper for a troublesome interview, with Rodgers unwilling to associate with questions in regards to the New Jersey mansion he bought.
The expertise left a poor style in Giannotti’s mouth, with the host lately labeling it the “most awkward, horrible 18 minutes” within the present’s seven-year historical past.
“I’d slightly you interview Aaron Rodgers than us after what occurred final 12 months,” Giannotti instructed fill-in host Jon “Stugotz” Weiner in late July.
“And I’m lifeless critical about that. I don’t want one other crack at that. I’m positive. Truthfully, you possibly can have that, I don’t have to interview him once more.”
He added: “I don’t assume he ever checked out us. Not one time … It was a mixture of all the things. It was him being upset, us freaking out when he wasn’t enjoying alongside. The entire thing was simply turds in a blender.”
Tuesday’s interview began on a “significantly better” foot, as famous by Esiason, since Rodgers confirmed up with a smile on his face after a peaceable commute.
“Final 12 months, you in all probability don’t bear in mind, we do, as a result of it’s ingrained in my reminiscence perpetually, you walked in, you had been in like two hours of visitors, there have been three jackknife tractor-trailers, you walked in and … you sat down and also you weren’t having it,” Giannotti mentioned. “So, at the moment, we received an enormous smile…
“I wasn’t (happy),” Rodgers mentioned, confirming his displeasure. “I’m telling you life, should you set it up the fitting means. Now, I don’t even get on the freeway anymore within the morning, I’ve a pleasant little drive, I can hearken to regardless of the hell I need and now I get in and am in a very good temper. Didn’t sit one rattling minute in visitors. You’re all the time shifting, good little aspect streets, you bought a cease signal once in a while, folks strolling canine on the market. Not simply on freeway (truck beep sounds twice), chaos. Yeah.”
With Rodgers in a very good temper, the present touched on quite a lot of matters, together with his much-publicized journey to Egypt, the upcoming autobiography from which The Submit has been sharing unique excerpts and whether or not he believes he wants preseason reps in his return from a torn Achilles.
Whereas Giannotti thanked Rodgers because the interview concluded, the four-time MVP acknowledged it took two to tango and produce horrible radio.
“Hear, it wasn’t you,” Rodgers mentioned. “It’s not you.”
Giannotti responded: “Effectively, a part of it was. It was all of us. It was a collective effort. We had been off our sport, it was horrible.”
