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 yr.
Rodgers joined “Boomer & Gio” for a reside hit throughout Jets coaching camp and the trio seemingly buried the hatchet after final yr’s cringefest.
“Aaron, thanks. This was so a lot better than final yr. I couldn’t neglect about that interview final yr for like a full yr 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 companion Boomer Esiason interviewed Rodgers final yr 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 as a consequence of site visitors, which additionally had him in a foul temper.
That set the temper for a troublesome interview, with Rodgers unwilling to go together with questions concerning the New Jersey mansion he bought.
The expertise left a poor style in Giannotti’s mouth, with the host just lately labeling it the “most awkward, horrible 18 minutes” within the present’s seven-year historical past.
“I’d quite you interview Aaron Rodgers than us after what occurred final yr,” Giannotti instructed fill-in host Jon “Stugotz” Weiner in late July.
“And I’m useless severe about that. I don’t want one other crack at that. I’m high-quality. Actually, you possibly can have that, I don’t must interview him once more.”
He added: “I don’t suppose he ever checked out us. Not one time … It was a mix of every little thing. It was him being upset, us freaking out when he wasn’t taking part in alongside. The entire thing was simply turds in a blender.”
Tuesday’s interview began on a “a lot better” foot, as famous by Esiason, since Rodgers confirmed up with a smile on his face after a peaceable commute.
“Final yr, you in all probability don’t bear in mind, we do, as a result of it’s ingrained in my reminiscence without end, you walked in, you had been in like two hours of site 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, in the present day, we received an enormous smile…
“I wasn’t (happy),” Rodgers mentioned, confirming his displeasure. “I’m telling you life, if you happen to set it up the suitable means. Now, I don’t even get on the freeway anymore within the morning, I’ve a pleasant little drive, I can take heed to regardless of the hell I would like and now I get in and am in a superb temper. Didn’t sit one rattling minute in site visitors. You’re all the time transferring, good little facet streets, you bought a cease signal once in a while, folks strolling canines on the market. Not simply on freeway (truck beep sounds twice), chaos. Yeah.”
With Rodgers in a superb temper, the present touched on a wide range of matters, together with his much-publicized journey to Egypt, the upcoming autobiography from which The Publish 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.”
