The Pomp And Joe Show
Kaboly thinks there's only a small chance that Aaron Rodgers doesn't return
04 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the chances Aaron Rodgers will return to the Steelers?
Where'd Bob go? Where'd Bob go? There he is. Nobody knows.
I heard he's going to personally thank the Barrett guy. That's what he was on the phone with.
Yeah, a tweet thanking him for our eighth place finish wasn't good enough. Bob's going to fly to New York and thank him in person. Good old R.J. Barrett.
Chapter 2: What factors could influence Aaron Rodgers' decision to retire?
Why are you so upset? I'm not upset, Bob. So a lot of people are around here. You just heard from somebody else who's upset about it. We played a win around here, and we won a Marconi.
Instead of looking how far you have to go, look behind you and see how far you've traveled. We've traveled from 16 to 8. Next year will be 4.
Next year we should be 1 on that trajectory, Bob, right? 16 to 8. Oh, no, you're right. 16 to 8 would be 8 to 4. I can never do math.
Why don't you just pull out the ratings, the Pittsburgh ratings? Don't you like guys kill on the ratings?
Yeah, but we're not allowed to say them, I don't think. Are we, Bob? Don't say them.
I don't know what they are. I think it's less stress when you don't know what they are.
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Chapter 3: Why is Malik Willis not a preferred choice for the Steelers' quarterback?
They are what they are. They're subjective in many ways. A lot of these things are.
Well, we get money based on what they are. True. At least I do. But you're so rich.
Yeah, I heard they went up since Bobcum.
they have can i send you down the hall to meet with a brain trust here and let them let them hear that what do you expect i mean he's bob listen all kidding aside he is bob so when i do a tweet of my story the other day and then bob retweets it that's a beautiful thing when bob joins the radio show even if it is once a week that's a beautiful thing too what are you trying to do
What did I tell you on Sunday, Bob, before the showdown? I said, Bob, what's your McCarthy interview? And you got him.
I said, you got him. He did get him, didn't he? Why don't we play that for the big boy? The question that lives in infamy and the answer that confirmed what everybody had been thinking. This is Bob at his very finest.
Can you recreate the magic that you guys had Green Bay?
That's the plan. I mean, that's the plan.
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Chapter 4: What does Mark Kaboly think about the Steelers' quarterback options?
I think it'd be awesome. I think it'd be a great chapter in our career.
Credit to you, big boy, for being more adamant than others that Aaron Rodgers is absolutely the plan.
Yeah, he's the plan.
You've been saying that for quite a while.
The problem is with Aaron is he's absolutely the plan until, you know, the sun doesn't come up right for him on one day and he decides differently. You know what I'm saying?
How good of a chance do you think that would happen that he says, no, you know what, I am done?
I would not totally rule it out, but I would say that there's a low percentage of him saying he's done. But I can't 100% say he'll be here and be their starting quarterback and even coming back. I can't say that for sure because it's Aaron Rodgers. I think it's definitely trending in that way. Obviously, we know what Mike McCarthy thinks since Bob got it out of him.
Bob, do you have a question for the big boy?
My question is, let's play a little game though. Let's say that he doesn't come back. Let's say somehow, you know, and like all of us, you get up there in age, you wake up one day and you say, you know what, my back's killing me. I don't know if I want to go through this whole torture. That's what happened today with my knee. I was like, oh, where'd that come from?
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Chapter 5: How important is the free agency market for the Steelers' quarterback search?
And I think that will happen. He will let them know before that. But I think what you do is, I mean, the market's awful. I mean, the free agency market's awful. If you want to really give up a pick or two, even if you can get Mac Jones, is that a plan? How about Malik Willis? I'm not a big Malik Willis fan, man. He has 150 career attempts.
What am I going to learn from that other than giving him $20 million a year, right? Yeah. I would go Mason will open battle, and if you're going by strictly who is the ā Better quarterback on week one, it would be Mason. If you want to give Will Howard a chance to... solidify his position for the future, you go with him. I think that's what would end up happening.
You'd bring somebody else in, you know. But, I mean, how many other people out there on the market? I'll tell you one guy who would be very good on the market right now would be Mason Rudolph, considering who's on the free agent market right now. If he was buying his way out there, that's the guy you'd want to bring in. That's a guy you'd want to bring in.
Chapter 6: What are the implications if Aaron Rodgers decides not to return?
I mean, you understand what I'm saying.
He has more of a track record than Malik Willis does.
He started 30 games. If you stripped every team of their quarterback and then you said you've got to choose between Malik Willis and Mason Rudolph, 25 of them would say Malik Willis. Forget the money. If you gave them a choice of Malik Willis and Mason Rudolph.
You would say that based on what?
Based on potential. Really? The potential I saw in Tennessee did not exist. I think it's a different story now that he's gone into sort of a different QB school now, and his last two performances were amazing. Don't you think we know what Mason Rudolph is by now?
I think we know that Mason Rudolph is a guy who, again, if you're going to look at experience, his last three games he started turned out to be all wins. He went into a playoff game and didn't cost them the game.
The last game he started was against the Bears. Yeah. And it didn't go particularly well. Okay.
It turns out that Bears team was pretty good.
And the one before that was the Bills playoff game, which didn't go particularly well.
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Chapter 7: How does the Steelers' quarterback situation impact their future plans?
I don't even know the... Do you sing Kabbalah at all?
Absolutely.
Can we get you to sing anything?
You know, I did that one time. It was really bad. And I left here and somebody, I forget who it was, looked at me and said, please don't ever do that again.
No, I want to hear that. Bob, do you want to hear him sing something? Something, yeah.
Sing like... Why don't you sing that where I sound like you were at a funeral?
That really low, deep roar. No, people don't like it. I sing enough. Sing a sitcom theme song. I'm not singing anything. Sing Welcome Back, Cotter. I don't know. Try it.
It just says Welcome Back. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. I'm not singing a Welcome Back, Cotter. Are you crazy? Come on. There are people out there on YouTube. I can't believe we're watching Three's Company and there's Larry Dallas.
What's his name, Bob?
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Chapter 8: What are the final thoughts on the Steelers' quarterback strategy?
You're not supposed to put that on there.
I never published it, but it's for my own personal... Laughter. No, where I can somehow use it against you if I need to.
Joe, you know why we moved up? Why? Now, the fans' Christmas chorus brings you Malsy the Snowman. Sing along, Mark. Let people hear it, Mark. Sing along. We don't know the words. He was made of snow, but the listeners know how he came to life one day. Where's Bob Solo? There must have been some magic in that oversized hat they found. For when they placed it on his head, Mosey danced around.
The key word there, and it's low-key really, is oversized. Isn't it, Bob? Yes.
Oversized.
Yeah, it was great writing, I thought.
Adapted for the screen. You put that up there pretty quickly, and we did it in one take, Mark. That was one take.
You know, during the opening lines of that, you could really hear Bob's bar tone voice.
They made it all come together. Yeah. Very talented. Go ahead, just try Welcome Back Harder real quick, or else we're not going to stop.
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