New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
12 Mar 2025
Who are the hosts of New Heights and what's the podcast about?
It's tons of fun to happen in Detroit, too. Yeah, exactly.
So we're cruising up there. We're like 30 minutes into our ride up there, and my guy pulls out a piece of paper, and he's like, all right, so here's the drop-back stuff.
No, no, no.
I haven't even had any red wine yet and we're just we're already into this here's this package I'm thinking about we'll go no huddle jump the ball and we'll do it and sure enough that's what we did a bunch especially in 2021 and and launched it all over the field and had a bunch of success but when I got you know here he was like man you know drop back pass has been something that you know we've always wanted to try and elevate you know just as that core system and I was like well
that's kind of all I did in Detroit. You know, like we didn't really run the ball or play action very often. It was just like, I'm in the gun and here we go. So it was like, oh, that's, that's the easy part for me. You know, like I've done this my whole career. So it was kind of a, it was a good marriage and it's, it's worked out well.
Let's talk about the decision to stay in L.A. Okay. There are a lot of rumors out there, you know, getting wooed from New York, Raiders, L.A., contract stuff. Yeah. What was ultimately the deciding factor to come back and re-sign with L.A.?
Yeah, I mean, I think it was kind of a joint process, right? Like, it wasn't just, I wasn't a free agent. You know, I still had two years left on my deal. And, you know, we kind of worked something out last year, kind of, you know, at the 11th hour to kind of figure it out right before training camp.
with the understanding that, okay, we're going to come back and readdress this if I want to play again the next year. Had a nice season and felt healthy, wanted to keep going. So it was like, all right, let's figure out how to get this done.
Obviously, there were some trade rumors and some things like that that transpired that was a little bit tough on your family just because you don't really know what's going to be next. I remember when I was getting traded from Detroit to
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