 Aiden O'Connell the Las Vegas Raiders quarterback and his receiver Jacobi Myers former Patriot joining us here on set How you guys doing good man? Appreciate you have thanks for joining. Thanks for coming by first of all Let's just get the pitch out of the way. What do we got? What do we what do we pitch in here? Yeah, we're here with Bonnie Bonnie's a great product obviously during Super Bowl week a lot of wings being eaten So Bonnie's here to clean up your mess and that simple is that all right? We could use those to clean up the mess in Fox I was gonna say well there we go. I said it's a new England sports show something got to become So we are in Boston, so we're uniquely interested in jacobi's perspective How's it going here in Vegas jacobi you like it? Yeah, I love it man It's great feel like I feel like a whole new world a whole new lease on life. Yeah, it's different man It's a lot different from them a new England winners for sure Okay Well not just the winners about the culture of the football and the team and yeah Do you enjoy it here more than your days in New England? It was different experiences, you know who I was at that point in my career I probably didn't get as much respect as I would out here. So I ain't a lot. I do honestly just it's different It's different. I'm I'm a different person here. So I appreciate the different person How as far as the respect thing like there I really had to prove who I was every day Like every single day I had to be better not just the same but better here I want to be better every single day. So it's different. Do you think they use you better here? You know put you in a better place to succeed here. Yeah Yeah, I mean not just to call people out or anybody under the bus But I was more of a focus here than I was there Whereas there I was more so doing what I had to do to survive and feed my family Aiden, what would you say his strength is as a receiver? Can you tell he's a former quarterback with the way he approaches the game and sees the field? Yeah, I think consistency reliability coach is always in the right spot Obviously just great at catching the ball in the fundamentals But in terms of understanding the game understanding what it takes I think his ability to work hard every day and come to practice with with an edge is really impressive to watch Why didn't it work in New England? At the end I'm talking right. I mean it seemed like you had a rapport with mac jones You're producing there and given where they ended up in terms of productivity from the position It's certainly seen that they had a need. Yeah, what happened? They they just wouldn't budge, you know, I mean at the end of the day He didn't want to move and I respect it like it's his job to do what's best for his team or what he thinks is best for the team It just didn't align with what I felt like I was worth how close was it it was How close was New England's offer to what I got a million? It was a million apart. Yeah, and they wouldn't come up. They wouldn't move If they had if they had come up that one extra million would you have stayed? I wouldn't have mine stand. I don't know honestly. I don't it would have been a different conversation I probably would have thought about it a little different But I did enjoy Boston like it was great the guys I was there That was a really like family members to me man. I really the receiver room tb I still talk to Troy all the time like that's my guy man So it was definitely a sting when I left but I understand the business side and you've tweeted this So, you know, you've talked about it the the contract they wouldn't gave give you they gave juju smith shuster And you saw how that worked out with him this year. Yeah Look it back on that. How do you how do you feel about all that? I mean juju at the end of the day He a man and I respect him and it has nothing to do with him. Obviously like he I think he's a good player I think football just caught up to him. You know, I don't know what his situation is but It's tough, but you feel vindicated That you were worth what you were asking for with the Patriots and they made a mistake I do as far as those lines. Yeah, like I do I feel like now you can see like if y'all just freed me a little bit and let me kind of go out there and Do other things or make plays and try to really gear towards me. It would have paid off How much of a draw for you in choosing the Raiders was josh Um, the relationship definitely helped helped me buy into it because I understood what I would have to do going into it You know, and then the offers probably weren't the greatest like I didn't have a bunch of other offers So if you take the comfortability I had with josh It was a clear favor at that point We're joined by Jacoby Myers former Patriots receiver and his quarterback aiden connell here with the vagus raiders are here with bounty Uh, what happened with josh this year? Do you think? You know, it's my first time in the nfl. So I had one coach in my whole time in college So I think I was spoiled with that but um, you know, I think it's it's hard You got to win games and we were close. We were in a lot of games But um, I think just the energy around the building with ap has really been awesome Yeah, what is it with antonio pierce like he heard almost immediately you guys universally in the locker room Like this is the guy after they made the move was the videos that you guys dancing around the like It felt like there was a party after josh lost the job. What why was there? Did he get bad at the end with him? I don't think necessarily anything like that I think it was just guys were frustrated more than anything. I think guys want to win and I think the leaders on our team, especially Um knew what it took to win and wanted to win bad And so um for us not to be winnings they knew something had to happen Okay, you we're getting the break sign But you go before you go. I know you get this all the time from boston people, but we just have to go back here Do you still think about the pass you threw back to chandler jones? Oh, yeah A couple years ago all the time like it low key hunt me but In a good way, you know, I mean, I know it won't happen again types of situations. So what were you thinking? I wasn't you know, I'm trying to win the game like those decisions be so split second Like it ain't too much thought that going to it just all right. We trying to win get the ball to the quarterback was there Was that anything you had worked on anything that you had for that situation or was that totally out of the blue? Oh, totally out of the blue totally out of the blue. I got the ball I said, I'm not supposed to have the ball here. You know what I mean? I look for mac. I see mac I don't see chan. I try to throw it to mac It's some other reasons why that didn't work out. But then it just didn't work somebody called it It's cool. Do you think bell check held that against you? No, I don't think so. I feel like I did a lot much I mean I did way more for that team than I did to hurt them if that makes sense There are people that have theorized that that was part of that. That's why we ask you I mean if he if he did I will understand why too, but I don't think he did So all of it was an extra million and you were still in new england Maybe it was a chance that I was still being there. Okay. They made a mistake on that one jacoi. Thank you for coming by We appreciate it guys. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm gonna take a quick break and be right back here from the Super Bowl