Best of NFL News Part 2: EXIT STRATEGY for A.J. Brown after the Eagles make moves to REPLACE him, Aaron Rodgers playing games?

23:05Shannon Sharpe:One of the remaining unanswered questions for the NFL this offseason is whether Aaron Rodgers will be back with the Steelers this fall. The Steelers have indicated that they expect an answer before the draft gets underway on April 23rd. And it doesn't sound like he shared any hints with one of the team's top offensive players. Jalen Warren said he's not making any bets about whether Rodgers will play or retire at this point. You know, I'm not really expecting anything. Whatever happens, happens. I'm rocking with whoever that quarterback is at the quarterback position. But if he comes back, great.

23:40Shannon Sharpe:If he doesn't, then we'll miss it. Hey, I know Aaron Rodgers is loving this. I mean, any quarterback is loving this. We can have a team by the balls being what, 42? Wait, how old is he? Yeah, 42. Yeah, 42. That sounds about right, Ocho. Yeah, you know, and this lets people know, those in the chat that are watching, or those that are fans of the NFL game, on how important the quarterback position is. Because they understand how valuable Aaron Rodgers is. Even though he's not the same Aaron Rodgers of old. Yes. Because the other options that you do have aren't the answer. They don't have no options.

24:14I mean, that too. Well, Will Howard is there. I'm not sure Will Howard is the answer for the foreseeable future. but I mean Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers even though he's not the same one he still gives you your best chance to win I mean he just does that's why he can pull the shenanigans that he does and you know what I'll let y 'all know when I'm ready to come back knowing good and well you know you coming back why even why even play this game but even if he's not let them have an opportunity

24:43Shannon Sharpe:to go get somebody in free agency. Ain't nobody to get. There was somebody. Maybe they make a trade for somebody, Ocho. Nah. Because they're making a trade for somebody. They're making a trade for somebody. What about Kirk Cousins? Kirk Cousins was available. Where did Kirk go? Kirk signed somewhere, didn't he? To Vegas. To Las Vegas. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. He going to mentor Mendoza. Maybe. Hey. Hey, he could have mentored Will Howard. Listen, I don't know why Aaron Rodgers is playing these games, but it is what it is. He did it last year. He's doing it again this year.

25:21And he'll probably do it again next year as well if the Steelers don't find his successor. He's going to keep doing it.

25:28Shannon Sharpe:You know the one team that he didn't do it with? Green Bay? The Jets. The Jets said, no, we good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. AG wasn't playing that. No. Because he doesn't. AG wasn't playing that. They seen this for far too long. Even Green Bay. Green Bay said, nah. But he should have known. He saw it play out with Roger. I mean, with Brett Favre. Right. They got tired of playing Brett Favre's game. You thought, because he was a three-time league MVP, won a Super Bowl. You thought they weren't going to get tired of your shenanigans? Oh, yeah. It's like they drafted you to replace him. Why do you think they drafted Jordan Love?

26:06Shannon Sharpe:To sit on the bench for the next 10 years? Yeah, you're right. but listen, this is the hard part. This is the hard part for the Steelers. When Ben Roethlisberger was there, they didn't draft a Jordan Love. They didn't draft anyone even as close because they didn't want to piss Ben off. Now you're stuck in quarterback purgatory looking at somebody else where you have to rely on a 42-year-old, 43-year-old quarterback to let you know when he wants to come back and let you know if he's going to come back. And if he does come back, what you got him for another year and all you did was kick the can down the road.

26:36Shannon Sharpe:You're still having to address the issue, which is finding your long-term quarterback for the future. Yep. All you did was delay it. It's like, hey, man, look here, this tire. Well, we can patch it. They don't even patch tires anymore. But, hey, they put the little donut on. He the little donut. The donut tire, the little donut tire? Mm-hmm. They say drive at a slow rate of speed, and you probably got 50, 60 miles of distance in it. And then you see people driving around two, three weeks on that tire. And when it put him down outside the road, I don't know what happened. Well, what happened was this was a temporary fix.

27:14Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. No matter how great Aaron Rodgers was, and he was great. He was historically great. Historically, yeah. He is a temporary fix for the Pittsburgh Steelers. And if somebody sees him as anything other than that, they're sadly mistaken. If the Steelers, but I don't know why, and because I don't know why teams are so afraid, you got to, I mean, especially when the quarterback gets to like year 15, You know, Joe? Yeah. Come on now, man. We got to have, we got to start, you got to have, start having serious discussions. Right. About the future. There's really nothing to talk about. There's no discussion to be had.

27:47Shannon Sharpe:No, I'm talking about, I'm talking about as an organization, we got to have a serious discussion. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I ain't discussing it with you. Right. The hell? Hey. What decision, what decision your grandparents made that involved you? Not one, not one. Hey, this is what, hey, here's a list of what we think about buying, what you in on this? or here's what we think about putting in the house. Right. Wrong enough, don't make no... My grandfather used to always say, boy, don't brash you with a child. You tell the child what to do. Do. So, in a situation like that, I'm not informing Aaron Rodgers.

28:20Shannon Sharpe:Look, I would say, look. Now, I will say this so we don't get him all blindsided because, you know, the most sensitive players on the football field are the quarterbacks. It's a quarterback, always. Okay, we're in agreement. Always. We're looking to draft a quarterback. How high is to determine whether or not somebody falls? But I say within the first three rounds, we're going to take a quarterback. Boom, that's it. That's it. You're going to piss him off. That's all right. He'd be okay. He still want to cash them checks.

29:02Shannon Sharpe:Because guess what? But you don't imagine if Green Bay didn't have a Jordan Love, how pissed off they would be. Oof. Look at the teams that waited. Look at what Miami did because they didn't have a succession plan with Danny. Yeah. And they didn't have a succession plan. And so everybody doesn't have a Green Bay situation where you go Brad Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love. That's luck. But that's because choice. They didn't have a choice, Ocho. Brent kept jockeying them around. Aaron Rodgers, well, I'm thinking about retiring. I don't know. You know, I just want to be in a quiet, dark room. Right.

29:45Shannon Sharpe:And I just, you know. So the team didn't have a choice. They got tired of that. Yes. And that's the only position, depending on who you are, where you could play them damn games like that. Yeah, you ain't playing that game in no other position. They're getting you up out of there. I don't care how great you are other than that guy that position not a said guy, that guy because first of all you're going to be that guy to play those type of games no average guy ain't playing those type of games but to be that guy and you know you have the leeway you're an MVP or you've won MVPs or you're that level of quarterback you get a lot of leeway a lot of leeway that other players and other positions don't get.

30:31No.

30:32Shannon Sharpe:But I understood that. Mm-hmm. Who didn't know that? I didn't take advantage of it. No. I didn't take advantage of it. Quarterbacks have the privilege and the star players have the privileges, and I'm like you. I didn't take advantage of it. No. That's the whole part of being a leader is not take advantage of the privilege that you've been given.

30:55Oh, Aaron. Well, you know, you're coming back, man, because if he decides not to come back, oh, my goodness. Boy, they're going to be in a heap of trouble over there.

31:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, they're going to be in a heap of trouble. But it's their own fault. Because when they could have did something about this, they saw Ben wasn't the same guy. He had taken too much punishment. And he was starting to slow down. You saw it right before your eyes. But not to tick him off. Okay, he's still happy, but they ain't really replaced me. Now look at you.

31:35Dang.

31:36Shannon Sharpe:Pending all your hopes on a 42-year-old that probably by this is his last year. Yeah. Or you might try to keep hitting them one-for-ones because you have to think about it. No, I'm moving on after this year. I've got to find me a long-term fix, Ocho. Where's the long-term fix, huh? If I got to go into the draft, then draft one.

32:03Shannon Sharpe:Man. I got me. I feel you. I feel you. So what? Just keep going. So just keep going these one-year deals with Aaron Rodgers and not get in the future. And then when he decides to retire, what about, where am I? Hey, you find that successor now. You go into the draft, you can't. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, but ain't nothing. Franchise quarterback. Have we seen anything like that? Look. Mm-mm. Just because you don't think a guy right now looks like that, Ocho, I got to try. Right. You seen Aaron Rodgers at Cal? Yes. He looked like that. You seen Pat Mahomes at Texas Tech? He looked like that. Let me ask you a question.

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37:03Shannon Sharpe:Nah, it's a good thing he sat behind Britt. Exactly. And my homeboy. My homeboy, sometimes it's great to come in and get a bird's-eye view and see how people do think how that position is played, how you're supposed to play the position. And who knows? Maybe Aaron Rodgers is still that guy, but I think he benefited from having an opportunity to sit behind Brett Favre for three years and learn. I think Mahone boy had an opportunity to sit behind Alex Smith for a year and learn. Some guys, hey, they get to sit. Carson got to sit. Yeah, but they're making too much money now. They're not letting anybody sit.

37:41the rookies are making too much money especially if you draft them high anything pick one through five is not sitting we paying you what 30 35 40 million to hire you 40 plus million dollars they throwing your ass out there to the sharks you better figure it out because I'm paying you money not sit down and sit behind a veteran quarterback absolutely not

38:05Shannon Sharpe:yeah you're right you're right and it's ruining them because you saw the deal to Anthony Richardson Ooh, yeah. He was a top five pick. You said he was a project. And instead of developing in that project, building that project up with a strong foundation, you threw him out there. Yeah, there's no patience, huh? They want instant gratification. These owners and GMs want instant gratification and instant success right away, especially if we pick you high. You're the person supposed to change our franchise. That's why we went and got you. You are our answer. You are our future. You are our 10-year future.

38:41We don't have to work by any position. We're supposed to build around you. That's basically what it means.

38:48Shannon Sharpe:It does. But have you set me up for success? What do you look like from an offensive line standpoint? What do my receivers look like from a receiver standpoint? What is the system? Are the coaches, have you set me up for success with the structure in which I'm going to be in? Most of the time, no. Right. No. They just think guys are supposed to come in. Everybody ain't Andrew Reed. Everybody doesn't. Because in order to do some things, you have to have solid footing. Kyle Shanahan has that. How many quarterbacks do you think could have made that? And you give up all those draft picks for the number three pick in the draft, and he gone after a year.

39:34Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Trey Lance. Yeah. See, you got to have strong footing in order to do that. Right. I mean, think about it. You got Alex Smith. When's the playoff game? And then you're like, you know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We take it according. I mean, Alex Smith is playing well. But Andy just felt this offense could be so much more dynamic if I had a stronger armed quarterback. And those are the decisions that you have to make. See, it's not that it's a lot of times it's those decisions that really define GM, head coaches and things like that. It's the tough decision. Right. You win in Ocho, you're like, man, hey, we win in 10, 11 games a year.

40:24Shannon Sharpe:But there's something that's deep inside of you saying we can be so much more though. and seven AFC championship games later, five Super Bowl appearances later, three wins later, it's hard to argue. It's hard to argue. And so we'll see what they do, but I think they have to. I think the Steelers are going to have to get a quarterback. Now, maybe you're right. Maybe they believe in Will Howard, but they believe in Cody Pickett and they believe in Mason Rudolph okay

41:09Shannon Sharpe:with AJ Brown future uncertain the Philadelphia Eagles have added to their receiving core ahead of the 2026 draft Ocho the Eagles are sending Green Bay Packers a 2026 fifth round pick and a 2027 sixth round pick in exchange for Dante Wicks Wicks, who's going into the final year of his rookie contract, will reportedly sign a one-year contract extension for$12.5 million. Wicks, 25, was a fifth-round draft pick in 2023 draft. During his three seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Wicks has caught 108 passes on 180 targets, 1 ,328 yards, 11 touchdowns, and averages 12.3 yards per catch. I mean the writing is on the wall can we see it now?

41:58Huh?

42:00Shannon Sharpe:Maybe it's in hieroglyphics The writing is on the wall I mean it's been that way it's been that way and I said it last year I said it during the season I said it in the off season anytime we do talk about it you know the Eagles are planning to make a move and there's a certain situation that's going on and people are talking about integrity and talking about ethics and talk about this person. I mean, blah, blah, blah. Man, listen, nobody moves the needle or makes decisions outside of the GM and the owner. They are not influenced by anybody else. Nobody. Man, y 'all don't put that out there. You and Ocho talking about it.

42:37Shannon Sharpe:You and this person talking about it. Yes, the media. Man, you think them owners give a damn what the media say? They don't care. They don't care what me and Ocho or what anybody say. They're going to do what they're going to do. Always. Always. I mean, we talk about franchises. We talk about billion-dollar entities. You really think anyone outside of that has influence on their decision-making? Like, come on. Let's be serious, people. Come on, man. They don't even let the players that's playing for them influence what the hell they're doing. How are they going to let somebody outside the building that's not even inside the building influence it?

43:09Come on, man. But outside of that, I mean, it's been enough. I think it's time to move on. I think AJ doesn't want to be there. We've seen enough of that. He was frustrated this season. The second year in a row.

43:24Shannon Sharpe:He was frustrated even after he won the Super Bowl, and he was frustrated. So he's even frustrated, more frustrated now, because guess what? He see what those guys doing. He said, Chase, don't miss a beat. He said, JSN done come on now. Look at Puka. Man, Devontae Adams come over there to a whole new team and lead the league in touchdown passing. Somehow, all these great guys, these coordinators can find ways, and their quarterback can find ways. I call a play and they can get me the ball. Somehow here, we still haven't found a way to consistently get me the ball. Now, I ain't putting it on nobody.

43:57Shannon Sharpe:I'm not saying it's the coordinator. I'm not saying it's the quarterback. But all I do know is that I play a dependent position and I'm dependent on my quarterback and my coordinator putting me in the situation and the other guy throwing me the ball. And I be damned if we can't do that consistently. Yeah, I mean, I understand. He was, I mean, frustrated, frustrated. Yeah, for sure. The year before that, he was reading the book to keep himself calm, keep himself relaxed. This year, I mean, same thing again. So that's two years in a row. You think he ain't going to sit around for a third year of the same?

44:27Absolutely not.

44:28Shannon Sharpe:It got so bad. Absolutely not. The owner had a conversation with him. And people like to say that that got out. Had it not gotten out, how would you have known that Jeffrey Lurie and AJ had a conversation. Somebody always leaking it, huh? Of course. But it had gotten to the point that Mr. Lurie didn't felt some type of way about it. Probably said, you know what, AJ? Let's try to make the best of this situation what we have currently. I understand your frustrations. Howie's explained it to me, X, Y, and Z. He don't know no plays. But anyway, Howie's explained it to me. Yeah. And let's try to make the most of this season.

45:18Shannon Sharpe:And then after the year, we'll try to make a decision that works best for both of us. Yeah. I think this is the second move I think they've made at the receiver position, if I'm not mistaken.

45:33Even with A.J. Brown not there, I think they'll be able to make up for some of the production, maybe not all of it. but the Eagles will still be a dominant team. They still. In the NFC East. Wait, no. It is NFC East, ain't it? NFC East. Dallas, Washington and the Eagles. They still going to make their head. They still going to do what they want to do. But I mean, A.J. Brown he just needs a change of scenery. I said long ago before all the you know what was going on, I said it would be the Patriots. I said it would be variable because of the situation and the relationship that they had when he was in Tennessee.

46:15So it just made the most sense him going to New England. So, hey, we'll see what happens June 1st. Or is it June 20th?

46:23Shannon Sharpe:June 1st. Yeah, June 1st. That way you can spread it out over two years. And the cap here is not as significant as it is. Right. Yeah. So I look, I just think the thing is, Ocho, we've been talking about I just think everybody, everybody's just want to just move on, want a fresh start. It's okay. There are irreconcilable differences and we choose to part on amicable terms. Yeah. Not a bad thing. Irreconcilable differences and the split is amicable.

47:02I don't know.

47:03Shannon Sharpe:Them boys good though, man. Them boys are good. I ain't happy. Have you seen a situation? Oh, I'm telling you. How have we seen men and women in a situation? They got everything. Fly private and you got diamonds and you get cars, you get X, Y, Z, and I'm just not happy. Yeah, it happens. All that at the end of the day, what about my happiness? I mean, hey, no crying from the yacht, but hey, some people. Mm-hmm. It happens. you can get everything you ask for and it's still not enough fly eagles fly I don't know the rest of the song but I love that thing I just hope AJ gets somewhere he can be give him an opportunity to play like he thinks he can play and then go from there because right now he's not happy and I don't think he's the best he can be and it's hard to be when you don't know.

48:07Shannon Sharpe:I mean, you go from one game, you might catch nine. The next ball, you might get three balls thrown at you and catch one. Mm-hmm. It's hard to play like that.

48:20Shannon Sharpe:You know, in basketball, you're going to practice two hours out of the day. You got the rest of the day to yourself to chill. Game night, on the road. I don't give a damn what it is. We ain't got to stay in the hotel. You know what I mean? Yeah. You might got a little something come through you. Yeah, yeah. Oh, game? Before the game, Joe? Hey, man, you got to get it how you live. We in different cities almost every other night, man. God damn it. Joe, for real? Man, I'm just saying. Don't sit here and act like it ain't easy now. I ain't know, Joe. I ain't never did nothing like that, but go ahead.

48:52Shannon Sharpe:I'm just saying. I mean, maybe the night before the game, not the day of the game, Joe. You ain't trying to do nothing like that before the game. be the joker. I'm saying, if I'm in the city for only one night, you know what I mean? I ain't coming back. We only play this team one time and they building. Like Luce Madro say, if only for one night. Damn, Joe. Y 'all know. Now that I think about it, that is a whole lot of cities. 82 games. Man, listen, listen. They don't do no room check. They don't do none of that. Y 'all don't do no room check. Y 'all ain't got no curfew? Joe, y 'all ain't got no curfew?

49:30Shannon Sharpe:Man, hell no. Only person that's going to be room checking you is your damn girlfriend or your wife. That's it. Damn. Oh, Lord. Have mercy. I ain't know that joke. Man, they got security on the hall, right there by the elevator and the doors. Hey, you better be in your room by 11 o 'clock. Nah, I'm just keeping - They got coming by checking their rooms. Nah. You know guys might be in the room playing video games or playing cars or something like that. But ain't nobody, ain't no dope. Man, I got like, for instance, like it's cities that you go to, you know people. I ain't necessarily saying it's just females.

50:05Shannon Sharpe:I'm saying you might know some cats you went to school with, high school with, college with, and you know you only go, hey man, we go out, we get something to eat, let's go bowling, let's go do something. Like it's this. I ain't trying to see nobody I went to high school with. You get that thing. Hey, hold up. You ain't double back on nothing you went to high school with? No. Well, you know, everybody you go to high school with, I mean, after the year, by the time you made it, they done got kind of big, Joe. No, no, not early in your career, Ocho. You know what I'm saying? It may be something in high school, you know, you thought was nice, you ain't touching high school, so you like, hold on.

50:41Nah, Joe, everything nice in high school done got a little fluffy. They're a little bell pepper, Joe.

50:45Shannon Sharpe:That's 10 years. That's your 10-year reunion. That's 10 years, but two, three years removed from high school, man, please. Joe, think about this, Joe. Think about this. And I'm sure people in the chat could attest to this. Those that was fine as hell, they used to be, oh, they was them, you know, as far as female. They don't, it don't be that years down the line, Joe. I'm saying 10, 15 years down the line, they may not be like that. But you still, you still going to have, you going to have a few, Ocho, that going to really take care of themselves and keep themselves up. I don't know where y 'all, where y 'all from.

51:17Shannon Sharpe:You know what I mean? What y 'all got going, what school y 'all went to, but where I'm from. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just telling you, everybody get a little healthy, a little weight on them. Ain't nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, it's never what it used to be. That's not how I remember you in high school. You was that one. I couldn't wait to come out in the hallway and see you walk by because you was that one. You know, I mean... I get what you're saying, Ocho, but there is a few, bro. There is a few. Look, because you know, like in high school, they may be a little slim. You know what I mean?

51:56Shannon Sharpe:Two, three years out of high school, they didn't gain a little weight. Good weight. Right. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I feel you. I mean, I ain't really seen nothing like that, Joe. Most of the time, you graduate and have two, three kids, and they be a little bell pepper, Joe. Not all of them, Ocho. Yeah, I mean, maybe not where you from. I'm talking about down here in Miami. I'm in a conversation. And Joe, I hate to go against you, but Ocho right. Ocho right or different. Yeah, hey, I'm telling you. Look, two, three years out of high school, let's say you at Savannah State, you a junior in college.

52:29Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. You mean to tell me there ain't no girls in high school that you done seen or you be like, boy, look. I ain't backtracked in high school. You didn't? Nope. I mean, I ain't acting like I did. I'm just, you know, I'm just saying. Yeah, you did. I know you did. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I ain't acting like I did. I'm just saying. But, hey, hey, Ocho and Joe, I saw, hey, I saw big things in their future in high school. I'm talking about, you know, a job promotion. I saw big things on the horizon. Just saying. Hey, Joe, now you got me thinking. I'm trying to think who was that woman. Hey, Ocho, you from Florida, boy.

53:05I know y 'all got some, boy.

53:08Shannon Sharpe:No way. I'm trying to think who was the it person. Ocho, most of them was having babies. Joe, they was having babies. I mean, a lot of them had babies while we was in school. Yeah, it's space. I mean, the youngest was 13. She got pregnant at like 13. I think she had a kid at 14. She got pregnant in seventh grade, had the baby in eighth grade. Damn. So how old are you in the eighth grade? Eighth grade. 13, 14? Hey, I had some girls in my elementary who were pregnant in sixth grade. Damn. Yeah. Joe, wait. Joe, we. Oh, you know what? You out there in Arkansas. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Project girls. Yeah.

53:42Yeah.

53:43Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Joe. That was it. Y 'all ain't had no pretty girls in high school, bro. They were pretty in high school. Yeah. I went to college for four years. That was high school. That was four years ago. And you mean to tell me all the prettiness gone from... Yeah. I wasn't interested. You weren't interested then. Now you interested now. Hey, listen. They always interested after what they choose don't work out. Exactly. You want a guy to drink and smoke weed? you ain't want me. Now you want me two, three kids later? But hold up, hold up. You're a little more experienced now.

54:24Shannon Sharpe:You ain't trying to wipe you ain't trying to wipe for us. No, I'm good. What we trying to do, Joe? Man, let me tell y 'all something. At Little Rock Central, where I went to high school at, let me tell y 'all something. We had all the pretty girls at Central, bro. Like, if you went to another high school in Little Rock before our bell rang when school was out, you see dudes driving through there. You hear me? Damn! Yeah, dudes come through that. A lot of the girls that I went to high school with, especially the pretty ones, they probably dated somebody at a different school. You know what I mean?

54:57Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. But we had them, boy. We had them. You hear me? Well, we didn't. Damn. I mean, hey, Joe, I think we had them too, Joe. I mean, it's Miami, you know? I mean, it's a melting pot. Of course - That's what I'm saying. Everyone is gorgeous, but things change in a short amount of time from by the time you graduate to four years later. So, you ain't had like no little skinny girl in high school and then two, three years later she gained some good weight? Yeah, I'm saying, oh Joe, I mean Joe, me, my high school, my girlfriend in high school, when we broke up, I had my girlfriend in college, I ain't look back.

55:33Shannon Sharpe:I ain't mess with nobody from... Alright, okay. And now you got me thinking, I wonder where the people... I'm trying to think

55:46Shannon Sharpe:college is a different story college is something else boy

55:56Shannon Sharpe:I'm trying Joe you got me I tell the story yeah you got me thinking Joe what I got you thinking about now I'm trying to think back who was fine back in high school and I wonder where they at and what they doing now and what do they look like now? You ain't worried about nobody right now. You about to be worried about them when you got out of Oregon State. I'm just saying the fact they were on the topic, that's all. The fact they were on the topic is like it's Jogham and Mary. I'm like, damn, I wonder where so-and-so at from 1995, 1996. That's all. Hey. Man, I had this one boy. Hey, she went to a rival high school.

56:36Shannon Sharpe:Boy, she was so fine. Like that? What? What's her name, Unc? I ain't telling. We might be able to find her. I know where she is. My sister see her all the time. Oh, for real? Yeah. You looking for her? Okay, my bad. She still fine? He don't want to say, man, she pushing 60. That might be the one. Never mind. We broke up. What you did wrong? I ain't do nothing wrong. You just said y 'all broke up. where they had. Well, 98 % of the time, it's the man full. See, if I tell the story, everybody going to know who it is, and I don't want people to know who it is. I don't want to put up business out there.

57:22Okay, okay, okay, okay. My bad, my bad. Hold on, the people you went to high school going to know?

57:26Shannon Sharpe:Everybody going, yes! Oh, wait, hold on. Y 'all was together, and it was private? Hey, man, look here, man, you know what I'm saying? You know? Oh, you were creeped out? Y 'all said, I had padded feet. You could hear that. Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. You know, we quietly broke up. And, uh...

57:53Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I know, man. I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. Some of the best times of my life, bro. If I'm keeping it real with y 'all, I was at high school, bro. Oh, yeah. High school was fun, bro. College. College. When I got to college, I could see my dreams right in front of me. Meaning, like, the NBA, I was so focused that it wasn't nothing gonna throw me off my pivot. Same thing in high school, but in high school, I had so much fun because I went to high school with a lot of cats who I really grew up with. High school was fun, bro. You threw caution to the wind. Boy, I am so glad. There ain't no way I could have survived with social media now in high school.

58:33Shannon Sharpe:Man, what you talking about? With the access and overexposure? Man, what you talking about? No, sir. Hey, listen. Because when I was in high school, boy, you had to go home and check that call ID to see who calls you. You know what I'm saying? Yo, what you know about that call ID, Joe? Well, hey, Ocho, I should be, I go straight home and check it. Trying to see if this, hey, let me see if she hit me up or something. Let me see what's going on. Yeah. But that was a good old day. Yes, you fine, Ocho. Woo, you talking about, oh, I'm talking about stack. I'm talking about that girl has body, body.

59:05Shannon Sharpe:it. Because you know, when you're in high school, they fine for no reason. They ain't got to work out or nothing. God dang it!

59:17Shannon Sharpe:Hey, what's up? Right. Yeah, yeah, you with me for a minute.

59:26Shannon Sharpe:Man, let me stop. I get myself a drink. Let me get a little sweet, little sweet.

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