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Hey, you guys, this is Annie Agar, and I am so excited to bring you a new clip from my brand new podcast, The Offensive Line. Each week on the podcast, we're going to run through the weekly slate of NFL and college football matchups to make some picks, talk some s**t, and hopefully make you some money in the process. I'll be joined by current and former players, along with celebrity superfans, to unpack this week's lines, odds, and spreads with more banter and trash talk than your fantasy group chat. Here's a clip from The Offensive Line. Follow The Offensive Line on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
You guys, welcome in to the offensive line. We're here to make some picks, talk some s**t, and hopefully make some money. I'm Annie Agar with our guest co-host today, the Scott Hanson. Give it up, everyone. Scott, thank you for joining us. Let me explain the show. The show is very simple. I'm going to hand out new awards each week based on whatever social media is talking about in the football world. And then you and I, Scott, are going to go head-to-head on our picks.
We're still a few weeks away from the regular season. So today we're going to start with a little offseason recap and we're going to talk some AFC season long bets. So let's get into it. Up first, we have the Dumb and Dumber Award for the coach or player who will totally redeem themselves this year. The nominees are Russell Wilson or Justin Fields. It's got to be one of them, right?
Jim Harbaugh or Aaron Rodgers? This one is pretty clear to me. Jim Harbaugh, we just talked about Michigan. I'll get into that later. I have a lot to say about Jim Harbaugh. Aaron Rodgers also, we'll get into that later. But Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, I don't think they even know at this point. Mike Tomlin came out and said Russell Wilson was in pole position. But then...
The calf strain happened, giving Justin Fields an opportunity to show himself. And Mike Tomlin is not a coach to come out and do like coach talk, right? He came out this week and said, Justin Fields is using every opportunity that he's had. And that's got to mean something. I like Justin Fields. I think the Bears screwed him over. And I think he is going to do really well with the Steelers in terms of
I mean, look at their quarterback brand from last year. It's got to be better than that. So I'm going with Russell Wilson slash Justin Fields leaning towards Justin Fields. This one's called the Dumb and Dumber Award. Which is so ironically convenient for Justin Fields and Russell Wilson. You want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? It's Jim Harbaugh at a Wednesday media availability news conference.
Oh, and as I just said that, the lights went out in my studio here. Oh, they're back on. Here we go. I'll finish my thought. Jim Harbaugh at news conference is painfully awkward. He
He'll be asked a question about his third and long offense, and he'll say something that is just a complete non sequitur to whatever, wherever. I had a chance to talk to him with no cameras around for about an hour in right after he won the national title and had decided to go back to the NFL and got the charger job.
He is completely different when he's not in front of the cameras there because he does it so consistently. You think that's his personality, almost awkward or, you know, he's not that way. He is a sharp thinker. He is all about ball. He wins everywhere he goes. So if you're talking about someone who looks one way and then by the end, the beautiful dumb and dumber redemption story. Yeah. Give me Jim Harbaugh. This.
This is going to play very well into my rant that I go on later. So I'll just, I'll let you have it right now. Jim Harbaugh. Okay, well, we'll take it. We're going to move on to possibly my favorite segment. Every week we're going to do this, you guys. And I'll take nominations. So please enjoy. And now it's time for Real Men of Genius. Real Men of Genius. Every week I'll pick someone who has done something so stupid. Arthur Smith, I'm looking at you.
They can only be real men of genius. Real men of genius. Today, we salute you, Aaron Rodgers. No other quarterback could float running as a VP quite like you. And you don't even like politics.
And then start unneeded drama before the season has even started by ditching mandatory camp to ride camels. But thankfully, you didn't do anything recently, like shout at your own teammates at practice. So here's to you, Aaron. Go into the fridge and crack open a cold one. If you still believe in electricity, that is.
There is that Agar creativity that we have come to know and love and now expect on this podcast. Those were my favorite commercials. They were good. They were good. And we're going to do that weekly now because people continue to impress me with how stupid they can be. Let's talk about Aaron for a second. What do we think about the Jets this season? What is the outcome that...
is most gratifying for what they've done this offseason? What would be the positive outcome for the Jets? If Aaron Rodgers plays 17 games, the Jets are going to the playoffs. Man, if he plays more than four plays, that's a bonus. If he plays more than four plays, he will have given them more output than last year. But if he plays 17 games...
They're going to the playoffs. Their defense is top five, maybe top three. They have some weapons on the outside, and Aaron has not, no matter what else he's learned in his ayahuasca tour of the world...
He has not forgotten how to play football. And I think the arm strength is still there. And the mind is as quick as ever. I really, I'm in on the Jets, but he's still, he has to prove that he's not a brittle old man. Yep. And the only way to find that out
is to roll the football out there. I don't know how I feel about it. I want him to do well, but then I also, I'm just glad I don't have to deal with the drama in the offseason anymore, to be completely honest. I do not. I zig when the rest of the world zags. I find him to be a compelling individual. Have you met him before?
I have. I met him. Well, I met him several times, but I met him. I had an interaction with him at the White House of all places after your beloved Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl. When he was running for VP. You know what? I actually knew him the first time he actually got to the White House. It was during their media session with the president. And somehow I ended up with Rodgers. And I want to say maybe A.J. Hawk was with him.
They had kind of broken away from the pack and we were in this, you know, these rooms in the White House are crazy. They're huge. Ended up with these old, old paintings. And Rogers was admiring them the way, you know, a a toddler looks at the ice cream truck coming down the street, you know, like just wide eyed. And he's always been fancied himself as a Renaissance man, you know, a polyglot interested in everything.
And I've had some conversations with him. I don't have a problem with him as much as the football world does because of his eccentricities. I'm good with him. Good. I've heard he's a very nice guy. And I don't doubt it. I just think it's also fun to make fun of him. We'll see. But I agree with you. The Jets, they're scary. It's a scary division this year. Well, other than the Patriots. You can listen to the Offensive Line ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.